In recent decades there has been a growing awareness of how intricate the interactions are between human beings and the environment. Fortunately, progress has been made in understanding this relationship, and new technologies have been effective in addressing environmental problems. However belatedly, there has been an acknowledgment of the incompatibility of the world's finite resources with humankind's increasingly greater needs for them, and of how such a challenge demands broadened collaboration among engineers, social scientists, politicians and financial powers. Global agreement that the essential issues of the twenty-first century cannot be solved by any one discipline has led to the concept of sustainability. The transdisciplinary contributions selected for inclusion in this book address these concerns with an overview of the diverse fields of study related to sustainability. This collection of work is intended to pave the way for further collaboration among scientists and nations as well.
Author(s): So Kazama, Ayumu Sato, Seiki Kawagoe (auth.), Akimasa Sumi, Kensuke Fukushi, Ai Hiramatsu (eds.)
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer Japan
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 336
Tags: Climate Change; Environment, general; Meteorology/Climatology; Geography (general); Economic Policy
Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Evaluating the Cost of Flood Damage Based on Changes in Extreme Rainfall in Japan....Pages 3-17
Impact of Global Warming on Agricultural Product Markets: Stochastic World Food Model Analysis....Pages 19-35
Impacts of Climate Change on Lakes and Reservoirs Dynamics and Restoration Policies....Pages 37-55
Study of Fishery Ground Around Indonesia Archipelago Using Remote Sensing Data....Pages 57-69
Global Warming and Trans-Boundary Movement of Waterborne Microbial Pathogens....Pages 71-82
Front Matter....Pages 84-84
Designing Post-Kyoto Institutions: From the Reduction Rate to the Emissions Amount....Pages 85-96
Mitigation Prospects and Challenges for India in Responding to Climate Change....Pages 97-113
Challenges to Substantial and Sustained Reductions in Greenhouse Gases: Opportunities for the United States from the Bottom-Up....Pages 115-130
Scope and Roles of Adaptation to Climate Change....Pages 131-140
Adaptation of Fishing Communities in the Philippines to Climate Change....Pages 141-153
Front Matter....Pages 156-156
Economy and Environment: How to Get What We Want....Pages 157-166
A Mapping of Global Warming Research Based on IPCC AR4....Pages 167-186
Science and Climate Change Policy Making: A Comparative Network Perspective....Pages 187-214
Environmental Communication Aimed at Household Energy Conservation....Pages 215-231
Bridging the Gulf Between Science and Society: Imperatives for Minimizing Societal Disruption from Climate Change in the Pacific....Pages 233-248
Science, Culture, Education, and Social–Ecological Systems: A Study of Transdisciplinary Literacies in Student Discourse During a Place-Based and Culture-Based Polynesian Voyaging Program....Pages 249-265
Front Matter....Pages 268-268
Adaptive Governance: Proposals for Climate Change Science, Policy and Decision Making....Pages 269-284
Environmental Technology Policy in the US, from the 1970s into the Twenty-First Century....Pages 285-292
The Development and Diffusion Processes of Sustainable Technologies and Implications for Public Policy: A Case Study in Japan....Pages 293-308
Democratic Turn of Resource Governance in Japan: Prewar and Postwar Efforts for Integration in Resource Policy....Pages 309-316
Front Matter....Pages 268-268
Considering the “Social Adaptation” of an Infrastructure and the Consequence of Its Impact on Sustainability....Pages 317-329
Back Matter....Pages 383-387
