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- Written and discussed by world eminent researchers
- Easy and clear descriptions for broad range of readers
- Rich perspectives on the environment such as civilization and ethics
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace (BRIEFSSECUR, volume 32)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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A Sustainable Relationship Between Nature and Humans
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International Conflict Concerning Environmental Damage and Its Causes
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Ecological Balance and Conflicts in the 21st Century
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About this book
In the Part I titled “A Sustainable Relationship between Nature and Humans”, we discuss what will become of fossil fuels and petroleum, and what kind of indicators should be used to monitor the energy expended by human society. We then discuss environmental impacts caused by different civilizations and values on Nature and ethics, based on the perspective of environmental archaeology and on the discussions by Kunio Yanagita, the father of Japanese folklore study.
The Part II is titled and shows “International Conflict Concerning Environmental Damage and Its Causes”. The Asian dust (Kosa) is a typical example of transboundary conflicts between nations. Another example can be found in the EU’s attempt to put in place a common motorway toll system across EU countries having different geographical and economic conditions. Finally, Part III covers the opinions and further debates on sustainable future earth based on the lectures in Parts I and II.
We hope that great insights in this book will come across to readers, and be of help in steering the world towards a sustainable society in harmony with biosystems on earth.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Masafumi Morisugi (Japan) Born in 1970. Professor at Meijo University, Japan. Doctor of Engineering and Master of Economics (Nagoya University), a visiting scholar at Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, Germany in year of 2017. Various activities around environmental economics and policies. His current research interests include evaluation several economic damages due toglobal warming, sand beach erosion, flood increasing, effects on skiing sites and health damages as heat stress and stroke. These topics have been conducted in such research projects as “The Social Implementation Program on Climate Change Adaptation Technology (SI-CAT)”, and several Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan. The results are published in such a book as Resilience and Urban Disasters: Surviving Cities (New Horizons in Regional Science) (K. Borsekova and P. Nijkamp Ed., Edward Elgar, 2019).
Sho-ichi Iwamatsu (Japan) Born in 1971. Associate Professor of the Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University. Dr. Iwamatsu graduated from the faculty of engineering, Kyushu University in 1994, and received his doctoral degree (Engineering) from the same university in 2000. He started to work as Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University in 2002 and has held his current position since 2005. His research field is synthetic organic chemistry and current research interests include resource utilization and material transformation for sustainable cities and communities. He has authored various articles including Open-Cage Fullerenes: Synthesis, Structure, and Molecular Encapsulation (Synlett, Thieme, 2005), Endohedral Fullerenes with Neutral Atoms and Molecule In Strained Hydrocarbons: Beyond the Van't Hoff and Le Bel Hypothesis (H. Dodziuk Ed., WILEY-VCH, 2009).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Balancing Nature and Civilization - Alternative Sustainability Perspectives from Philosophy to Practice
Editors: Yoshitsugu Hayashi, Masafumi Morisugi, Sho-ichi Iwamatsu
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39059-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-39058-7Published: 20 February 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-39059-4Published: 19 February 2020
Series ISSN: 2193-3162
Series E-ISSN: 2193-3170
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 119
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 50 illustrations in colour
Topics: Civil Engineering, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Ethics, Ecosystems