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I have been studying fossilized pollen. Pollen is so tiny that it cannot be observed with the naked eye, but it has a chemically strong membrane. When pollen accumulates on the bed of a lake or wetland, it will survive there for tens of thousands of years without decaying. My research concerns extracting fossilized pollen from earth to reconstruct a past environment, as well as understanding how forests or the climate changed. Today I would like to discuss how sustainability and the results of pollen analysis are related.
Yoshinori Yasuda, Director, Research Center for Pan-Pacific Civilizations, Ritsumeikan University, Japan; Professor Emeritus, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Japan.
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Yasuda, Y. (2020). Sustainability from the Perspective of Environmental Archaeology. 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_4
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