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Traditional Wisdom and Modern Knowledge for the Earth’s Future

Lectures Given at the Plenary Sessions of the International Geographical Union Kyoto Regional Conference, 2013

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  1. Kohei Okamoto

    1. Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

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  2. Yoshitaka Ishikawa

    1. Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

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  • Introduces international front-line debates on environmental issues
  • Presents lessons learned from The Great East Japan Earthquake

Part of the book series: International Perspectives in Geography (IPG, volume 1)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Why There Were Not Originally in the Japanese Language Equivalents to the Words ‘Environment’ and ‘Nature’

    • Minoru Senda
    Pages 1-21

  3. The Tradition Wisdom of the Chinese Calendar and Urban Development in Ancient China

    • Ge Jianxiong
    Pages 23-33

  4. A Better Future for Humanity: A Viewpoint From Geography

    • Jean-Robert Pitte
    Pages 35-50

  5. Biodiversity, Native Domestic Animals, and Livelihood in Monsoon Asia: Pig Pastoralism in the Bengal Delta of Bangladesh

    • Kazunobu Ikeya
    Pages 51-77

  6. Plural Knowledges and Modernity: Social Difference and Geographical Explanations

    • Sarah A. Radcliffe
    Pages 79-102

  7. No Going Back: The Political Ethics of Ecological Novelty

    • Paul Robbins
    Pages 103-118

  8. The 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster

    • Kenji Satake
    Pages 119-133

  9. East Japan Mega Earthquake and Dual Reconstruction Scheme-Regional and National Planning of Post-Disaster and Pre-Disaster Recovery

    • Itsuki Nakabayashi
    Pages 135-163

  10. Developing Resilient Infrastructure as a Basis for Restoration from the Great East Japan Earthquake

    • Mikiko Ishikawa
    Pages 165-208

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 209-212
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The title of this book, Traditional Wisdom and Modern Knowledge for the Earth’s Future, is from the theme of the 2013 Kyoto Regional Conference of the International Geographical Union. Over the past few decades, globalization has strengthened connections among countries and regions of the world and has greatly changed existing geographies. However, this trend has also fostered various problems on a regional or global scale, such as economic imbalance, social fragmentation, political conflicts, and environmental crises. While acknowledging the world’s diversity, geography as a discipline must endeavor to resolve these problems by devising plans for cooperation and symbiotic existence of the different peoples of the world. An old Japanese proverb, On-ko chi-shin, taken from a Chinese one, Wengu Zhixin, says that only by exploring the old can one understand the new. People should first understand how traditional ideas, linked to interaction between society/culture and the environment, were formed in different countries and regions. Traditional wisdom, in harmony with the environment, remains prevalent. This book examines how we can mold the earth’s future through such traditional wisdom and modern knowledge from the nine keynote speeches of the Kyoto Regional Conference focusing on three topics: traditional wisdom, the environment, and the Great East Japan Earthquake.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

    Kohei Okamoto

  • Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

    Yoshitaka Ishikawa

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