Author Biography
Philip C. Brown is a professor of history at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA, where he teaches a variety of courses on pre‐modern and modern Japanese and East Asian History. His most recent book, Cultivating Commons: Joint Ownership of Arable Land in Early Modern Japan, explores a distinctive approach to managing micro‐climatic, micro‐topographical, and flood/landslide hazard risk in about a third of Japanese villages. One of his current projects focuses on Japanese efforts to ameliorate flood risk over three political regimes, ca. 1750–2010.
