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What has become of the global environment? A very important factor in the development of people’s awareness of the global environment was the emergence in the later 1960s of the concept of Spaceship Earth.
Yoshitsugu Hayashi, Chair of the Symposium; Professor and Director, Center for Sustainable Development and Global Smart Cities, Chubu University, Japan; Professor Emeritus and former Dean, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Japan. Email: y-hayashi@isc.chubu.ac.jp.
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Hayashi, Y. (2020). Introduction: Can We Design the Future of Human Life and the Environment?. In: Hayashi, Y., Morisugi, M., Iwamatsu, Si. (eds) Balancing Nature and Civilization - Alternative Sustainability Perspectives from Philosophy to Practice. SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace, vol 32. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39059-4_1
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