Recent Social Environmental And Cultural Issues In East Asian Societies

Author : Merviö, Mika Markus
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781799818090

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Recent Social, Environmental, and Cultural Issues in East Asian Societies by Merviö, Mika Markus Pdf

East Asian societies continue to react to developments occurring in the Western part of the world as well as influence development elsewhere due to the global reach of East Asian economies and the increased political weight of East Asian societies. These systems have distinctive features often connected with local social and cultural traditions. However, these traditions are constantly being reinterpreted, and the changing meanings attached to them must be taken into account. Recent Social, Environmental, and Cultural Issues in East Asian Societies is an essential research book that explores various social, environmental, and cultural issues challenging modern East Asian cultures and their implications on society. Featuring a wide range of topics such as local identity, social risk, and government policy, this book is ideal for researchers, policymakers, sociologists, managers, anthropologists, politicians, diplomats, academicians, and students.

Author : Merviö, Mika Markus
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781466650329

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Contemporary Social Issues in East Asian Societies: Examining the Spectrum of Public and Private Spheres by Merviö, Mika Markus Pdf

While the balance between private and public sectors are based primarily on the experiences of the wealthy societies in Western Europe and North America, the global reach and increased political weight of East Asian economies is bound to influence other societies as well. Contemporary Social Issues in East Asian Societies: Examining the Spectrum of Public and Private Spheres focuses on modern highly developed East Asian societies and their social issues, particularly ones that are related to family, institution, and health. By examining the modernized global society and its connectedness, this book is a vital resource for researchers, students, and academicians interested in the distinctive features connected with local, social and cultural traditions of East Asian society.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004253049

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Nature, Environment and Culture in East Asia by Anonim Pdf

Since in the current global environmental and climate crisis East Asia will play a major role in negotiating solutions, it is vital to understand East Asian cultural variations in approaching and solving environmental challenges in the past, present, and future. The interdisciplinary volume Nature, Environment and Culture in East Asia. The Challenge of Climate Change, edited by Carmen Meinert, explores how cultural patterns and ideas have shaped a specific understanding of nature, how local and regional cultures develop(ed) coping strategies to adapt to environmental and climatic changes in the past and in the present and how various institutions and representatives might introduce their ideas and agendas in future environmental and climate policies on national levels and in international negotiating systems.

Author : Paul G. Harris,Graeme Lang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317685715

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Routledge Handbook of Environment and Society in Asia by Paul G. Harris,Graeme Lang Pdf

Nowhere is the connection between society and the environment more evident and potentially more harmful for the future of the world than in Asia. In recent decades, rapid development of Asian countries with very large populations has led to an unprecedented increase in environmental problems such as air and water pollution, solid and hazardous wastes, deforestation, depletion of natural resources and extinction of native species. This handbook provides a comprehensive survey of the cultural, social and policy contexts of environmental change across East Asia. The team of international experts critically examine a wide range of environmental problems related to energy, climate change, air, land, water, fisheries, forests and wildlife. The editors conclude that, with nearly half of the human population of the planet, and several rapidly growing economies, most notably China, Asian societies will determine much of the future of human impacts on the regional and global environments. As climate change-related threats to society increase, the book strongly argues for increased environmental consciousness and action in Asian societies. This handbook is a very valuable companion for students, scholars, policy makers and researchers working on environmental issues in Asia.

Author : University of Alberta. Research Institute for Comparative Literature and Cross-Cultural Studies
Publisher : Research Institute for Comparative Literature
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0921490097

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East Asian Cultural and Historical Perspectives by University of Alberta. Research Institute for Comparative Literature and Cross-Cultural Studies Pdf

Author : Jeffrey Broadbent,Vicky Brockman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780387096261

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East Asian Social Movements by Jeffrey Broadbent,Vicky Brockman Pdf

In the study of civil society and social movements, most cases are based in Western Europe and North America. These two areas of the world have similar histories and political ideals and structures in common which in turn, affect the structure of its civil society. In studying civil society in Asia, a different understanding of history, politics, and society is needed. The region’s long traditions of centralized, authoritarian states buttressed by Confucian and in some cases Communist ideologies may render this concept irrelevant. The chapters in this international volume cover most of the areas and countries traditionally defined as belonging to East Asia: Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore and China. The case studies included in this volume confront the utility of using the Western concept of civil society, represented in its most active form – social movements – to think about East Asia popular politics. Along with providing an array of important case studies of social movements in East Asia, the introduction, chapters and conclusion in the book take up three major theoretical questions: the effect of the East Asian cultural, social and institutional context upon the mobilization, activities and outcomes of social movements in that region, the role of social movements in larger transformative processes, utility of Western social movement concepts in explaining social movements in East Asia. This book will be of interest to two major groups of readers, those who study East Asia and those who pursue social movements and civil society, as well as politics more generally.

Author : Frank N. Pieke,Koichi Iwabuchi
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520299863

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Global East Asia by Frank N. Pieke,Koichi Iwabuchi Pdf

"Drawing on work in a range of disciplines-including history, anthropology, demography, development, environmental studies, political studies, health, sociology and the arts-this work approaches East Asia from new perspectives.The book looks at contemporary Japan and Korea and focuses on many facets of Chinese culture, artistic production, economic development, digital issues, education and international collaboration" -

Author : Xinmin Liu,Peter I-min Huang
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781793647603

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Embodied Memories, Embedded Healing by Xinmin Liu,Peter I-min Huang Pdf

Embodied Memories, Embedded Healing critically engages with the major East Asian cultural knowledge, beliefs, and practices that influence environmental consciousness in the twenty-first century. This volume examines key thinkers and aspects of Daoist, Confucianist, Buddhist, indigenous, animistic, and neo-Confucianist thought. With a particular focus on animistic perspectives on environmental healing and environmental consciousness, the contributors also engage with media studies (eco-cinema), food studies, critical animal studies, biotechnology, and the material sciences.

Author : Mika Markus Mervio
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : East Asia
ISBN : 1466650338

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Contemporary Social Issues in East Asian Societies by Mika Markus Mervio Pdf

"This book focuses on modern highly developed East Asian societies and their social issues, particularly ones that are related to family, institution, and health"--

Author : Victor T. King
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136106187

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Environmental Challenges in South-East Asia by Victor T. King Pdf

This volume discusses environmental change, natural resource exploitation and the prospect for ecological sustainability in Southeast Asia. The contributors including sociologists, geographers, anthropologists, economists, political economists and historians, presents the findings of recent archival and field research mainly from ongoing programmes of team research based in European universities and institutes. Among the themes discussed are European and indigenous perceptions of the environment; historical processes of environmental change; the politics of resource use; ecotourism and development; deforestation and smallholding land-use strategies; migration and environmental degradation; disease environment and human geography; demography, sustainability and resource exploitation.

Author : Zhidong Hao,Sheying Chen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781461422242

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Social Issues in China by Zhidong Hao,Sheying Chen Pdf

Since 1978, the opening up and reform in China has brought tremendous economic and social changes. While China’s economic progress has been commendable, the social problems that go with economic changes have raised serious concerns. Some of those concerns are related to gender, ethnic, labor, and environmental issues. This book is about what has happened in these arenas in China since the opening up and reform in 1978. The study of gender, ethnicity, labor, and environment touches on some of the fundamental problems of modernization, especially the development of individuals and groups. So even though gender, ethnicity, labor, and environment seem to be separate issues, they are in fact related in some fundamental ways. That’s what this book will explore as well. To understand is one thing and to do is another. This book also incorporates studies of NGO practices to see how NGOs have helped in transforming gender, ethnic, labor, and environment interplay. Our study of NGOs in helping improve such interplay sheds light on how specifically civil society can prod the state to transform social relations for the better. This book is an attempt to assess the changes, both positive and negative, in gender, ethnic, ethnic, and environmental relations in China especially in the past 30 years of opening up and reform, especially regarding national identity formation. ​

Author : Iwo Amelung,Moritz Bälz,Heike Holbig,Matthias Schumann,Cornelia Storz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351255530

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Protecting the Weak in East Asia by Iwo Amelung,Moritz Bälz,Heike Holbig,Matthias Schumann,Cornelia Storz Pdf

This book investigates public claims for the protection of weak groups and interests in Japan and China from the nineteenth century to the present day. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it engages with ongoing global debates relevant to both Western and non-Western societies whilst also providing an historically informed analysis of contemporary issues. Using case studies on disaster victims, employee well-being, cultural heritage and animal welfare, this book analytically distinguishes between framing, mobilisation and institutionalisation processes. It examines these processes at the intersections of international and domestic spheres and, in doing so, demonstrates how drives for protection are formulated, contested and played out in practice. Ultimately however, this book argues that claims for protection do not necessarily translate into effective measures, but may in fact entail ambiguous or negative outcomes for the protected ‘weak’. Protecting the Weak in East Asia makes a significant contribution to the empirical and theoretical research into the transformation of East Asian societies. As such, it will appeal to students and scholars of Asian history, Asian culture and society and East Asian Studies more broadly.

Author : John Fien,Helen Sykes,David Yencken
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134626182

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Environment, Education and Society in the Asia-Pacific by John Fien,Helen Sykes,David Yencken Pdf

This important book explores the interaction of global environmental discourses and local traditions and practices in twelve countries in the Asia-Pacific region. Based upon two parallel groups of studies, reviewing cultural influences in individual countries, and the attitudes of young people across the region, it has important implications for environmental policy and education.

Author : Ts'ui-jung Liu,James Beattie
Publisher : Springer
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 50,8 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 : Karl L. Hutterer,A. Terry Rambo,George Lovelace
Publisher : U OF M CENTER FOR SOUTH EAST ASIAN STUDI
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780891480396

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Cultural Values and Human Ecology in Southeast Asia by Karl L. Hutterer,A. Terry Rambo,George Lovelace Pdf

Ecologists have long based their conceptual frameworks in the natural sciences. Recently, however, they have acknowledged that ecosystems cannot be understood without taking into account human interventions that may have taken place for thousands of years. And for their part, social scientists have recognized that human behavior must be understood in the environment in which it is acted out. Researchers have thus begun to develop the area of “human ecology.” Yet human ecology needs suitable conceptual frameworks to tie the human and natural together. In response, Cultural Values and Human Ecology uses the framework of cultural values to collect a set of highly diverse contributions to the field of human ecology. Values represent an important and essential aspect of the intellectual organization of a society, integrated into and ordained by the over-arching cosmological system, and constituting the meaningful basis for action, in terms of concreteness and abstraction of content as well as mutability and permanence. Because of this balance, values lend themselves to the kinds of analyses of ecological relationships conducted here, those that demand a reasonable amount of specificity as well as historical stability. The contributions to Cultural Values and Human Ecology are exceedingly diverse. They include abstract theoretical discussions and specific case studies, ranging across the landscape of Southeast Asia from the islands to southern China. They deal with hunting-gathering populations as well as peasants operating within contemporary nation-states, and they are the work of natural scientists, social scientists, and humanists of Western and Asian origin. Diversity in the backgrounds of the authors contributes most to the varied approaches to the theme of this volume, because differences in cultural background and academic tradition will lead to different research interests and to differences in the empirical approaches chosen to pursue given problems.