Description
Book SynopsisThe 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.
Table of Contents
- 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 75
- 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
