Sustainability Science by United Nations University Press
Sustainability Science: A Multidisciplinary Approach
Edited by Hiroshi Komiyama, Kazuhiko Takeuchi, Hideaki Shiroyama and Takashi Mino
Sustainability science is a new academic discipline that has emerged in response to threats to the sustainability of the global environment. The purpose of this discipline is to help build a sustainable society by developing solutions to climate change, the exhaustion of resources, ecological destruction and other environmental crises that threaten the future of humanity.
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Climate Change and Global Sustainability: A Holistic Approach
Edited by Akimasa Sumi, Nobuo Mimura and Toshihiko Masui
Climate change owing to global warming is a paramount concern for society in the twentyfirst century, and it is not an issue that can be solved by individual academic or scientific disciplines working in isolation. Because climate change involves a wide range of interlinked problems, solutions must be pursued in an interdisciplinary manner. This book adopts just such a holistic approach in examining various aspects of global warming, and offers readers a comprehensive overview.
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Establishing a Resource-Circulating Society in Asia: Challenges and Opportunities
Edited by Tohru Morioka, Ke isuke Hanaki and Yuichi Moriguchi
This book addresses the wide range of issues associated with sustainable resource-circulating societies. It has a particular focus on Asia, where both population growth and economic growth are increasingly prominent in the global context.
The authors examine theories and visions pertinent to resource-circulating societies, as well as relevant practices and initiatives at all levels—national, local and industrial—and through urban–rural linkages. They also propose an integrative approach combining the concepts of a resource-circulating society and a low-carbon society, both of which constitute fundamental components of a sustainable society.
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Designing Our Future: Perspectives on Bioproduction, Ecosystems and Humanity
Edited by Mitsuru Osaki, Ademola Braimoh and Ken’ichi Nakagami
This volume focuses primarily on society at the local and regional levels and on a scenario in which human beings coexist harmoniously with nature. This ideal society is examined in terms of the relationship between villages or towns and their natural environment and how these villages and towns can achieve local or regional independence in the face of pressures toward centralization and globalization.
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Achieving Global Sustainability: Policy Recommendations
Edited by Takamitsu Sawa, Susumu Iai and Seiji Ikkatai
The problem of global sustainability is indisputably the most serious issue facing humanity
today. One of the biggest factors in the deterioration of global sustainability is climate change, which has been exacerbated by the entire range of human activities and is inextricably related to modern civilization. Solving this difficult problem requires a drastic redesign of society from all aspects—technological, economic and social. This book looks at how to achieve a more secure level of global sustainability and gathers a variety of recommendations.
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