Sustainability: The Concept of Designing the Future (Global Focus on Knowledge)
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From the Perspective of Policy Studies—Contemporary Society and Governance
From the Perspective of Urban Planning—Differences in Ideas between Asia and Europe
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#4 Cities and Natural Disasters
Overview: Cities are essentially areas organized so that people can carry out socio-economic activities rationally and efficiently. Urban planning is the practice of controlling land use and placement of amenities to maximize the population’s rationality and efficiency within the city’s natural and social environment. That is, urban planning is essentially indivisible from the city’s natural feat…
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#7 Cities and Ecosystems
Overview: Cities are essentially areas organized so that people can carry out socio-economic activities rationally and efficiently. Urban planning is the practice of controlling land use and placement of amenities to maximize the population’s rationality and efficiency within the city’s natural and social environment. That is, urban planning is essentially indivisible from the city’s natural feat…
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From the Perspectives of Metabolism of Substance and Energy
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#5 Urban Activity and the Dilemma of Environmental Burden
Keisuke Hanaki (Faculty of Engineering) 11/13Overview: Urban activity poses a dilemma—on the one hand it places a burden on the environment, and on the other it is necessary to sustain our livelihood. What we need is to create sustainable cities with a low environmental burden and high quality of life. Cities in rapidly growing developing countries and those in Japan with a dwindling population …
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#6 Reducing Net Consumption Vs. Energy
Keisuke Hanaki (Faculty of Engineering) 11/13Overview: Urban activity poses a dilemma—on the one hand it places a burden on the environment, and on the other it is necessary to sustain our livelihood. What we need is to create sustainable cities with a low environmental burden and high quality of life. Cities in rapidly growing developing countries and those in Japan with a dwindling population …
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Sustainability in Developing Countries
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#8 Sustainability in Least Developed Countries: The Case of Niger
Overview: We consider what the concept of sustainability means to people in developing countries, home to more than 70 percent of the global population. In terms of balance between the development and the environment, the general understanding is that developing countries would prioritize the development over the environment. Yet in reality, the approach and response to sustainability varies amon…
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#9 Sustainability in Emerging CountriesMarkets: The Case of South Africa
Overview: We consider what the concept of sustainability means to people in developing countries, home to more than 70 percent of the global population. In terms of balance between the development and the environment, the general understanding is that developing countries would prioritize the development over the environment. Yet in reality, the approach and response to sustainability varies amon…
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Future Earth—A Framework for Integrating Global Environmental Research
From the Perspective of Environmental Ethics—“Value” and “the Richness of the Environment”in Sustainability
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#12 Issues on Social Justice and “Value” in Sustainability
Overview: The pursuit of only material sustainability can lead to social unfairness, which does not allow us to overcome the problem of scientific uncertainty. Also, even sufficient consideration of economic and administrative approach to sustainability does not ensure a society’s persistence without the spiritual fulfillment of the leader. Sustainability efforts must represent “values” that give…
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#13 Re-creating Traditional Value and Fostering Leadership in Sustainability
Overview: The pursuit of only material sustainability can lead to social unfairness, which does not allow us to overcome the problem of scientific uncertainty. Also, even sufficient consideration of economic and administrative approach to sustainability does not ensure a society’s persistence without the spiritual fulfillment of the leader. Sustainability efforts must represent “values” that give…
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