Ya-Wen Ku

During the second half of the 1990s, I came across “environmental history” on a postgraduate course. It was my first time hearing this term, which caught my attention immediately. I noticed that the demand for interdisciplinary approaches of environmental history suits a person just like me, who “ignores his/her proper occupation” and likes to take various courses at university. Since then, I groped in the dark to find the meanings of all the words I got in the class: “environmental history is not about the history of the environment, but about the interaction between humans and the environment,” reviewing all the subjects of concern from the perspective of environmental history. I am an active member of the Environmental History research group of the Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica. 

Email: yawenku@gate.sinica.edu.tw

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