Modernization In Asia The Environment Resources Social Mobilization And Traditional Landscapes Across Time And Space In Asia

Author : Satoshi Abe,Tai Wei Lim,Saeed Rezaei,Yoshihisa Godo,Ka Shing Ng,Elim Yee Lam Wong,Koki Shimizu,Kenneth Wong
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811243912

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Modernization In Asia: The Environment/resources, Social Mobilization, And Traditional Landscapes Across Time And Space In Asia by Satoshi Abe,Tai Wei Lim,Saeed Rezaei,Yoshihisa Godo,Ka Shing Ng,Elim Yee Lam Wong,Koki Shimizu,Kenneth Wong Pdf

This book explores the unfolding of modernity in the greater Asia that uniquely takes shape at different times and places, with a particular attention to a common thread that has been at heart of the development: religion. The status of religion has been relegated in the Western modernity to such that its effects be restricted within the private realm and not be exerted in the public or one's rationality. This edited volume sheds light on the multifarious forces of religion both in the past and present that have impacted on the essential aspects of modern society — aspects in which one does not usually have recourse to religion in the West — from science and technology, politics, and to identity in Asia. Interdisciplinary approaches in the volume allow one to broadly examine religious practices within Asian contexts, thus enabling to reevaluate the concept, scope, and gamut of so-called religion.

Author : Satoshi Abe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Asia
ISBN : 9811243905

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Modernization in Asia by Satoshi Abe Pdf

"This book explores the unfolding of modernity in the greater Asia that uniquely takes shape at different times and places, with a particular attention to a common thread that has been at heart of the development: religion. The status of religion has been relegated in the Western modernity to such that its effects be restricted within the private realm and not be exerted in the public or one's rationality. This edited volume sheds light on the multifarious forces of religion both in the past and present that have impacted on the essential aspects of modern society - aspects in which one does not usually have recourse to religion in the West - from science and technology, politics, and to identity in Asia. Interdisciplinary approaches in the volume allow one to broadly examine religious practices within Asian contexts, thus enabling to reevaluate the concept, scope, and gamut of so-called religion"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Ts'ui-jung Liu,Andrea Janku,David Pietz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351182904

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Landscape Change and Resource Utilization in East Asia by Ts'ui-jung Liu,Andrea Janku,David Pietz Pdf

Covering the ancient period through to the 21st century, this book examines how landscapes have changed across East Asia over time. Featuring examples of a variety of landscapes, from the riverine and agricultural to the urban and aesthetic, this books thus presents a comprehensive review of East Asian environmental history. The eleven chapters, written by an international team of leading scholars, provide analysis of a wide range of spatial, temporal, and thematic considerations. Seeking to use the concept of landscape to evaluate the opportunities and constraints faced by East Asian communities, it also explores the relationship between landscape transformation and human agency. In so doing, it aims to survey the current methodology and scholarship in the field and demonstrate a new approach which encompasses socio-economic and cultural history, as well as GIS-based geographical studies. Providing an in-depth examination of landscape change across the sub-regions of China and Japan, this book will be useful to students and scholars of Asian History and Environmental Studies.

Author : Ts'ui-jung Liu,James Beattie
Publisher : Springer
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137572318

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Environment, Modernization and Development in East Asia by Ts'ui-jung Liu,James Beattie Pdf

Environment, Modernization and Development in East Asia critically examines modernization's long-term environmental history. It suggests new frameworks for understanding as inter-related processes environmental, social, and economic change across China and Japan.

Author : Haruka Yanagisawa
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9789971698539

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Community, Commons and Natural Resource Management in Asia by Haruka Yanagisawa Pdf

Managing the commons—natural resources held in common by particular communities—is a complex challenge. How have Asian societies handled resources of this sort in the face of increasing marketization and quickly growing demand for resources? And how have resource management regimes changed over time, with state formation, modernization, development, and globalization? Community, Commons and Natural Resource Management in Asia brings clarity, detail, and historical understanding to these questions across a variety of Asian societies and ecological settings. Case studies drawn from Japan, Korea, Thailand, India, and Bhutan examine fisheries, forests, and other environmental resources held in common. There is a tendency to imagine that traditional communities had socially equitable and environmentally friendly systems for managing the commons, but natural resources in Asia were often under free-access regimes. Resource management developed in response to social and economic pressures, and the state has been at various times both a beneficial and a negative influence on the development of community-level systems of managing the commons. The chapters in this volume show that a simple modernist framework cannot adequately capture this process, and the institutional changes it involved.

Author : United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789210578004

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Transformations for Sustainable Development by United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific Pdf

This report is a combined effort by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations University (UNU), and the Institute for Global and Environmental Strategies (IGES), and is being published as governments and other stakeholders prepare to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – a plan for people, planet, prosperity, peace, and partnership. While “transformation” has become a buzz-word during the formulation of this agenda, how to make it happen has not been addressed properly. This report underlines that the Sustainable Development Goals will only be achieved when key Asia-Pacific megatrends are managed in a way that creates opportunities for achieving sustainable development outcomes. It supports national and regional efforts to implement the 2030 Agenda. Regional megatrends such as urbanization, trade and economic integration and rising consumption and changing consumption patterns are already shaping the future patterns of resource use, and defining who will be the ‘winners’ and who will be the ‘losers’. The report examines the four critical determinants of the relationship between the economy, people and nature explored in this publication as targets for a fundamental transformation – social justice, resource efficiency, investment flows and economic structures.

Author : Prasenjit Duara
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107082250

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The Crisis of Global Modernity by Prasenjit Duara Pdf

Drawing on historical sociology, transnational histories and Asian traditions, Duara seeks answers to the pressing global issue of environmental sustainability.

Author : Association of Academies of Sciences in Asia
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642166693

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Towards a Sustainable Asia by Association of Academies of Sciences in Asia Pdf

This series of books are the output of the research project called "Sustainable Development in Asia (SDA)", which was initiated by the Association of Academies of Sciences in Asia (AASA). They are comprised of one synthesis report, which entitled "Towards a Sustainable Asia: Green Transition and Innovation", and four thematic reports on natural resources, energy, the environment and climate change, and culture from particular perspectives of agriculture. They aim to: 1) investigate common sustainability issues faced by all Asian countries, including population increase, poverty alleviation, pollution control, ecological restoration, as well as regional problems, such as water shortage in West and Central Asia, energy security in Northeast Asia, development model & transformation in East Asia; 2) analyze and summarize of best practices towards sustainable development in Asia; 3) bring forward suggestions and policy options for promoting green transition, system innovation and sustainable development of Asia. With best practice guidelines for a sustainable Asia, this series of reports, for the first time systematically address the common challenges and regional problems in regard to Asia’s natural resources use, pollution reduction and climate protection, sustainable energy development, and innovations for environment-friendly and culture-compatible agriculture. They will provide handy and useful information to researchers, government policy makers and the general public who have concerns about Asia’s sustainable development. AASA is a scientific and technological organization in Asia, established in 2000, comprising of 26 member academies all over Asia. Its vision is to provide a forum for the discussion of all issues relevant to science and technology development and its application on national level within Asia.

Author : H. D. Evers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:521954277

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Modernization in South-East Asia by H. D. Evers Pdf

Author : John Connell,Eric Waddell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006-12-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134138913

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Environment, Development and Change in Rural Asia-Pacific by John Connell,Eric Waddell Pdf

This volume examines the economic, political, social and environmental challenges facing rural communities in the Asia-Pacific region, as global issues intersect with local contexts. Such challenges, from climatic change and volcanic eruption to population growth and violent civil unrest, have stimulated local resilience amongst communities and led to evolving regional institutions and environment management practices, changing social relationships and producing new forms of stratification. Bringing together case studies from across mainland Southeast Asia and the Island Pacific, an expert team of international contributors reveal how communities at the periphery take charge of their lives, champion the virtues of their own local systems of production and consumption, and engage in the complexities of new structures of development that demand a response to the vacillations of global politics, economy and society. Inherent in this is the recognition that 'development' as we have come to know it is far from over. Each chapter emphasizes the growing recognition that ecological and environmental issues are key to any understanding and analysis of structures of sustainable development. Providing diverse multidisciplinary theoretical and empirical perspectives, Environment, Development and Change in Rural Asia-Pacific makes an important contribution to the revitalization of development studies and as such will be essential reading for scholars in the field, as well as those with an interest in Asia-Pacific studies, economic geography and political economy.

Author : International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781552502303

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Communities, Livelihoods and Natural Resources by International Development Research Centre (Canada) Pdf

This book synthesizes results from a 7-year programme of applied research on community-based approaches to natural resource management in Asia. By presenting field reports of innovative approaches to poverty reduction and sustainable resource use, it provides practitioners with models of ""good practice"" in participatory, community-based resource management, and it demonstrates how site-based research contributes to broader learning in the field of natural resource management and policy. There are 11 case studies featured, from some of the most marginal areas of rural China, Mongolia, Laos, V.

Author : Association of Academies of Sciences in Asia
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642166723

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Towards a Sustainable Asia by Association of Academies of Sciences in Asia Pdf

This series of books are the output of the research project called "Sustainable Development in Asia (SDA)", which was initiated by the Association of Academies of Sciences in Asia (AASA). They are comprised of one synthesis report, which entitled "Towards a Sustainable Asia: Green Transition and Innovation", and four thematic reports on natural resources, energy, the environment and climate change, and culture from particular perspectives of agriculture. They aim to: 1) investigate common sustainability issues faced by all Asian countries, including population increase, poverty alleviation, pollution control, ecological restoration, as well as regional problems, such as water shortage in West and Central Asia, energy security in Northeast Asia, development model & transformation in East Asia; 2) analyze and summarize of best practices towards sustainable development in Asia; 3) bring forward suggestions and policy options for promoting green transition, system innovation and sustainable development of Asia. With best practice guidelines for a sustainable Asia, this series of reports, for the first time systematically address the common challenges and regional problems in regard to Asia’s natural resources use, pollution reduction and climate protection, sustainable energy development, and innovations for environment-friendly and culture-compatible agriculture. They will provide handy and useful information to researchers, government policy makers and the general public who have concerns about Asia’s sustainable development. AASA is a scientific and technological organization in Asia, established in 2000, comprising of 26 member academies all over Asia. Its vision is to provide a forum for the discussion of all issues relevant to science and technology development and its application on national level within Asia.

Author : Isaiah "Ike" Wilson III,James J.F. Forrest
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136639487

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Handbook of Defence Politics by Isaiah "Ike" Wilson III,James J.F. Forrest Pdf

Issues of defence politics and policy have long been at the forefront of political agendas and defining of international affairs. However, the dramatic changes to the global system that have taken place since the end of the Cold War and parrticularly since the terror attacks on the USA on 11 September 2001 have amplified the world's attention toward political and policy issues of national, regional and global security. The focus of this volume is on examining the fundamental causes of, and defence policy responses to this new 'post-9/11' security environment. Edited by Isaiah (Ike) Wilson III and James J. F. Forest of the US Military Academy, West Point, USA, this volume is international in scope, with pieces written by experts in the field, offering a collection of up-to-date and balanced insights on key contemporary issues of concern to defence policymakers. The book will be an invaluable reference tool for academics and students, researchers in international relations, policymakers, media professionals and government officials.

Author : Guo Xiumei,Marinova Dora
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789813236011

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Sustainability and Development in Asia and the Pacific by Guo Xiumei,Marinova Dora Pdf

The UN Sustainable Development Goals provide a common global agenda for development. However, the emerging policy issues vary greatly across the world. With 32 contributors, this volume provides a timely, research-based overview for the need for policy interventions to improve the sustainability and development models of the ten selected countries in Asia and the Pacific. The volume is firmly positioned at the cusp between research, policy and practice.

Author : Jacques Hersh,Johannes Dragsbaek Schmidt,Niels Fold
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317882886

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Social Change in South East Asia by Jacques Hersh,Johannes Dragsbaek Schmidt,Niels Fold Pdf

Provides a comprehensive and in-depth examination of the ongoing process of development and societal transformation in a dynamic region of the Third World. Written by a team of specialists from the fields of development studies, sociology and political economy, the book looks at some of the fundamental problems facing South East Asia by addressing the following issues: the social constellations; class, culture and political legitimation; and industrialisation and labour regulation.