David Pietz

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• Pietz, D. (2021). Water and Human Societies: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Palgrave McMillan.
• Kirby, W. C., Shih, J. C., Lin, M. H., & Pietz, D. A. (2020). State and Economy in Republican China: A Handbook for Scholars. Brill. doi:10.1163/9781684173433
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  This manual for students focuses on archival research in the economic and business history of the Republican era (1911-1949). Following a general discussion of archival research and research aids for the Republican period, the handbook introduces the collections of archives in the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China on Taiwan that contain materials in the areas of economics and business, with data on the history of the archives, descriptions of their holdings, and publications on their collections.
• Liu, T. J., Janku, A., & Pietz, D. (2018). Landscape change and resource utilization in East Asia: Perspectives from environmental history. Taylor and Francis. doi:10.4324/9781351182928
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  Covering the ancient period through to the 21st century, this book examines how landscapes have changed across East Asia over time. Featuring examples of a variety of landscapes, from the riverine and agricultural to the urban and aesthetic, this books thus presents a comprehensive review of East Asian environmental history. The eleven chapters, written by an international team of leading scholars, provide analysis of a wide range of spatial, temporal, and thematic considerations. Seeking to use the concept of landscape to evaluate the opportunities and constraints faced by East Asian communities, it also explores the relationship between landscape transformation and human agency. In so doing, it aims to survey the current methodology and scholarship in the field and demonstrate a new approach which encompasses socio-economic and cultural history, as well as GIS-based geographical studies. Providing an in-depth examination of landscape change across the sub-regions of China and Japan, this book will be useful to students and scholars of Asian History and Environmental Studies.
• 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. A. (2018). Engineering the State: The Huai River and reconstruction in nationalist China, 1927-37. Taylor and Francis. doi:10.4324/9781315811116
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  First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
• 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.
• Pietz, D. (2010). Researching the state and engineering on the North China Plain, 1949–1999. Water History, 2(1), 53-60. doi:10.1007/s12685-010-0017-0
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  This paper explores methodological and thematic approaches of an ongoing research project that focuses on how the government of the People’s Republic of China managed water resources after 1949. The project will formulate conclusions about the environmental consequences of different hydraulic engineering projects as China pursued different developmental paradigms. The state pursued Soviet-style central planning for much of the 1950s, Great Leap Forward decentralization and communalization between 1958 and 1961, a blend of state planning and mass mobilization during the 1960s and 1970s, and “market socialism” during the post-Mao era (1978–). The project will be organized around these four eras and it will examine the implications that each of these developmental approaches had on North China’s water resources. Comparative conclusions about the environmental consequences of these four developmental periods will be guided by several fundamental options that faced state and party leaders throughout the post-1949 period: (1) modern hydraulic engineering vs. traditional water conservancy and mass mobilization, (2) central vs. local planning, (3) international technical cooperation vs. self-reliance, and (4) economic development vs. environmental protection. The results of this study will suggest the potential environmental consequences of water policy choices that are made in China. Whether the issue is centralization versus decentralization, reliance on contemporary standards of hydraulic engineering versus traditional mass mobilization, or self-reliance versus international cooperation, an examination of the experience of water management in China since 1949 will point to the environmental consequences of hydraulic engineering choices.
• Pietz, D. (2000). China to substantially increase crude import dependence. Middle East Economic Survey, 43(Issue 15).
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  According to the Energy Security Analysis Inc report ″Fueling China: Oil and Gas Demand to 2010,″ China's consumption of refined products will grow by an average of 4.5%/yr from 2000 to 2010, while crude imports will climb by around 15%/yr to reach a peak of 1.9 million bpd by the end of 2010. Forecasts on crude distillation capacity, refinery utilization rates, product yields and supply and demand are discussed.
• Pietz, D. A. (2000). China's emerging gas industry: China's natural gas sector generating great expectations. Oil and Gas Journal, 98(Issue 23).
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  A discussion on the prospects for developing China's natural gas industry covers China's gas industry's other social ″obligations″, such as providing schooling, health care, and other social services; options for expanding its supply of natural gas; construction of long-haul natural gas pipelines, linking west and east of China; change in China's policy which traditionally limited natural gas use to fertilizer production, to bolster gas consumption; and assumptions about key economic, political, and demographic variable, to forecast China's gas demand.
• Pietz, D. A. (2000). China's oil products demand: Despite constraints, bullish for global crude. Oil and Gas Journal, 98(Issue 23).

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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