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9781925608991

Human Survivability Studies A New Paradigm for Solving Global Issues

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  • ISBN13:

    9781925608991

  • ISBN10:

    1925608999

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2018-04-16
  • Publisher: Trans Pacific Press
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Summary

The challenges we face today are growing conspicuously broad in scale and complex in nature. Human Survivability Studies is a new transdisciplinary field born from the growing awareness of the urgent need to tackle the large-scale environmental and social issues at crisis point in the world today. Based at Kyoto University, the recently established Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies in Human Survivability is seeking to develop leaders able to challenge global problems on a number of fronts. Each of the twenty chapters in this volume, written by academics from the Graduate School, looks at critical issues facing humanity from a different perspective, discussing new ideas and scientific methods that will form the basis of human survivability. The aim here is to outline the framework behind the ideas, methodology, and practice of this new scientific paradigm that incorporates knowledge from both the social and natural sciences. [Subject: Environmental Studies, Comparative Studies, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences]

Table of Contents

Table of Content
Figures 
Tables 
Photographs 
Contributors 
Explanation of the Network Analysis 
Introduction Shuichi Kawai and Koichiro Oshima 

Part I: The Foundations of Human Survivability Studies
Introduction to Part I 
1 Questioning the Basic Nature of Human Beings
2 ‘Spaceship Earth’
3 Lessons from the History of Life 
4 What Can We Learn from ‘History’? 

Part II: Human Survivability Studies Methodology
Introduction to Part II 
5 From a Social Science Perspective 
6 From a Natural Science Perspective 
7 From an Informatics Perspective 

Part III: Contemporary Problems and Human Survivability Studies
Introduction to Part III 
8 Environmental Destruction, Disaster and Climate Change 
9 Ethnic, Cultural, Religious and International Conflicts 
10 Poverty and Educational Inequality as a Contemporary Global Issue 
11 The Threat of Infectious Disease to Humans
12 The Population Problem and the Food Problem 
13 The Origin and Nature of Resources and Energy 

Part IV: Human Survivability Studies in Practice
Introduction to Part IV 
14 International Development 
15 The Role of International Organizations
16 Risk Management 

Part V: Human Survivability Studies and Exploring the Future
Introduction to Part V 
17 Coexistence with Nature 
18 Resolving Conflicts and Achieving Peace
19 Green Growth/Green Economy 
20 Science and Trans-science 
Epilogue 

Notes 
Glossary 
Bibliography 
Index 

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