David Pietz

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Scholarly Contributions

Books

• Pietz, D. (2021). Water and Human Societies: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Palgrave McMillan.
• Pietz, D. (2016). Landscape Changes and Resource Utilization in East Asia: Perspectives from Environmental History. Routledge.
• Pietz, D. (2018). Landscape Change and Resource Utilization in East Asia: Perspectives from Environmental History. Routledge.
• Pietz, D. (2015). The Yellow River: The Problem of Water in Modern China. Harvard University Press.

Chapters

• Pietz, D. (2016). The Geography and Environment of China. In Sage Handbook of Contemporary China. Sage.
• Pietz, D. (2016). Writing the 20th Century History of Water on the North China Plain. In Landscape Changes and Resource Utilization in East Asia: Perspectives from Environmental History. Routledge.
• Pietz, D. (2018). “The Geography and Environment of China". In The Sage Handbook of Contemporary China(pp 67-92). Sage.
• Pietz, D. (2018). “Writing the 20th Century History of Water on the North China Plain”. In Landscape Changes and Resource Utilization in East Asia: Perspectives from Environmental History(pp 29-36). Routledge.

Journals/Publications

• Pietz, D. (2020). “The Yellow River, the Chinese State, and the Ecology of North China,” (Oxford: Oxford University Press). Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History, 20+.
• Pietz, D. (2017). “China’s Water Challenges: National and Global Implications". Education About Asia, 8-15.

Presentations

• Pietz, D. (2021). “The History of the IWHA”. 'World Water Day Workshop on Water, Wastewater and Environment,”. Hellenic Open University (Greece): International Water Association.
• Pietz, D. (2021, September). “Extinction and Conservation on the Yangtze”. Association for East Asian Environmental History. Kyoto: Association for East Asian Environmental History.
• Pietz, D. (2016, January). Making the Mountains Bow and the Rivers Yield: Engineering China’s Yellow River. Honors SmartTalk Lecture Series. Student Union Memorial Center: UA Honors College.
• Pietz, D. (2016, March). Managing Scarcity: Water and Culture in Modern China. UC Berkeley Center for Chinese Studies Colloquium Series. UC Berkeley Center for Chinese Studies Colloquium: UC Berkeley Center for Chinese Studie.
• Pietz, D. (2016, May). The Baiji: Writing the History of Extinction on the Yangtze River. Workshop on Water, Culture, and Society in Global Historical Perspective. Ohio State University: Ohio State University Dept of History.
• Pietz, D. (2015, 06-25-2015). Writing the History of China's Water Management. International Water History Association. Netherlands.
• Pietz, D. (2015, 10-25-2015). Writing the History of Water on the North China Plain. Association for East Asian Environmental History. Japan.
• Pietz, D. (2014, December). Managing Scarcity: The Yellow River and the North China Plain. Udall Center for Public Policy.

Reviews

• Pietz, D. (2016. Coping with Calamity: Environmental Change and Peasant Response in Central China, 1736-1949.
• Pietz, D. (2016. Dams and Development in China: The Moral Economy of Water and Power.
• Pietz, D. (2016. Review of Coping with Calamity: Environmental Change and Peasant Response in Central China, 1736-1949(p. 3).
• Pietz, D. (2016. Review of Dams and Development in China: The Moral Economy of Water.

Others

• Pietz, D. (2015, August). “The Yellow River: A History of China’s Water Crisis”. ChinaDialogue. https://www.chinadialogue.net/books/8134-The-Yellow-River-a-history-of-China-s-water-crisis/en
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