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OverviewThe challenges we face today are growing conspicuously broad in scale and complex in nature. Human Survivability Studies is a new transdisciplinary field born from the growing awareness of the urgent need to tackle the large-scale environmental and social issues at crisis point in the world today. Based at Kyoto University, the recently established Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies in Human Survivability is seeking to develop leaders able to challenge global problems on a number of fronts. Each of the twenty chapters in this volume, written by academics from the Graduate School, looks at critical issues facing humanity from a different perspective, discussing new ideas and scientific methods that will form the basis of human survivability. The aim here is to outline the framework behind the ideas, methodology, and practice of this new scientific paradigm that incorporates knowledge from both the social and natural sciences. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Masakazu Fujita , Eriko Kawai , Shuichi KawaiPublisher: Kyoto University Press and Trans Pacific Press Imprint: Kyoto University Press and Trans Pacific Press Dimensions: Width: 21.80cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 14.20cm Weight: 0.635kg ISBN: 9781925608991ISBN 10: 1925608999 Pages: 364 Publication Date: 30 March 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsFigures Tables Photographs Contributors Explanation of the Network Analysis Introduction Shuichi Kawai and Koichiro Oshima Part I: The Foundations of Human Survivability Studies Introduction to Part I 1 Questioning the Basic Nature of Human Beings 2 'Spaceship Earth' 3 Lessons from the History of Life 4 What Can We Learn from 'History'? Part II: Human Survivability Studies Methodology Introduction to Part II 75 5 From a Social Science Perspective 6 From a Natural Science Perspective 7 From an Informatics Perspective Part III: Contemporary Problems and Human Survivability Studies Introduction to Part III 8 Environmental Destruction, Disaster and Climate Change 9 Ethnic, Cultural, Religious and International Conflicts 10 Poverty and Educational Inequality as a Contemporary Global Issue 11 The Threat of Infectious Disease to Humans 12 The Population Problem and the Food Problem 13 The Origin and Nature of Resources and Energy Part IV: Human Survivability Studies in Practice Introduction to Part IV 14 International Development 15 The Role of International Organizations 16 Risk Management Part V: Human Survivability Studies and Exploring the Future Introduction to Part V 17 Coexistence with Nature 18 Resolving Conflicts and Achieving Peace 19 Green Growth/Green Economy 20 Science and Trans-science Epilogue Notes Glossary Bibliography IndexReviewsAuthor InformationShuichi Kawai is Professor Emeritus at Kyoto University. He graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture, Kyoto University, in 1971 and received his PhD from the same university in 1980. He became Professor at Kyoto University in 1995. He retired from Kyoto University in 2013 and has served as Chairman of the Japan Wood Research Society and Vice Chairman of the Society of Materials Science, Japan. He specializes in forestry, wood science, wood material science and cultural heritage conservation. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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