China Studies Research Centre and Centre for the Study of the Inland, La Trobe University
12:00pm – 2:00pm Tuesday 13 August 2019
Borchardt Library Research Commons 2.10, La Trobe University
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The steel industry has historically held a central place in the development of all modern industrial economies. Mainly underpinning the rise of East Asia in the postwar world, the rise of resource import-dependent steel industries in Japan, Korea and China has developed alongside the emergence of export-oriented mining industries in Australia, Brazil, Canada, India and South Africa, etc. This presentation will address the global environmental history of the steel industry from four aspects: the development of the iron and steel industry in postwar East Asia; East Asia’s iron ore and coal imports and the environmental impacts of resource extraction on the producing areas; the environmental consequences of iron processing in East Asia; and East Asia’s Steel product export and its recycling in the consuming areas.
About the Speaker
Bao Maohong is a Professor in Department of History, Peking University and Director of the Center for World Environmental History of Peking University. His areas of specialization are environmental history, Asia-Pacific studies, and modern world history. His publications include, Forest and Development: Deforestation in the Philippines, 1946-1995 (China Environmental Science Press, 2008), China’s Environmental Governance and Environmental Cooperation in Northeast Asia (Haru Press, 2009), The Origins of Environmental History and Its Development (Peking University Press, 2012). He is now working on the project “Economic development and environmental governance in Post-WWII East Asia”.