Overview
- Highlights the sharing of lessons learnt in East and Southeast Asia
- Provides insights into both community-based adaptation strategies and scientific based adaption
- Offers the latest research findings on how to fil the knowledge gap between countries in Asia including Japan
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Climate Studies (BRIEFSCLIMATE)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Agriculture and Natural Resource Management
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Disater Risk Reduction and Human Resource Development
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Conclusion
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About this book
This Open Access book’s main focus is agriculture and natural resource management, disaster risk reduction, and human resource development in the countries of East and Southeast Asia and Japan.
Asia is one of the regions which is the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. More than sixty percent of the world’s people live in the region, making it the growth center of the world. Asia is vast and includes various countries and regions, this book is focused on East and Southeast Asia including Japan. It is essential to share the knowledge and experiences for adapting climate change among these areas.
In order to tackle these issues, the book aims to:
- Promote inter-local lessons learnt sharing climate change adaptations; "agriculture and natural resource management" and "disaster risk reduction and human resource development"
- Provides insights into new adaptation measures and research approaches that can consider the regional natureof Southeast Asia
- Share practical adaptation options permeated by society in each country/region
This book will be of interest to researchers and students examining climate change impacts in East and Southeast Asia.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Professor ITO Tetsuji is a professor of social psychology at college of Humanities and Social Sciences, and vice-director of Global and Local environment Co-creation Institute (GLEC), Ibaraki University in Japan. He received the M.A. and Ph.D degree in Graduate School of Literature, Nagoya University. He had an experience of staying in Hanoi more than one year in total as a researcher and now one of the lecturers of MCCD in Vietnam Japan University. He is interested in the human conflicts in a society. Active fieldwork and connecting keypersons are his main methodology to approach the human nature.
Dr. TAMURA Makoto is an associate professor at the Global and Local Environment Co-creation Institute (GLEC), Ibaraki University in Japan and a core member of MCCD in Vietnam-Japan University. He received the M.A. and Ph.D degrees in Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo. His research interest is the impact assessment and countermeasures for climate change, andthe interrelationship between economic activity and environment.Dr. KOTERA Akihiko is a lecturer at the Global and Local Environment Co-creation Institute (GLEC), Ibaraki University in Japan. He received the M.A. and the Ph.D. in Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University. He specializes in Agro-Environmental Informatics and his main area of interest is the climate change impacts in Southeast Asia, especially Vietnam.
Dr. ISHIKAWA-ISHIWATA Yuki is an assistant professor at the Global and Local Environment Co-creation Institute (GLEC), Ibaraki University in Japan, and a core member of MCCD in Vietnam-Japan University. She received the M.A. degrees in Graduate School of Engineering (currently, Graduate School of Science and Engineering), Soka University, and Ph.D. degrees in Graduate School of Science and Engineering in Ishinomaki Senshu University. Her research interest is the impact of climate change on the dynamics of the ecosystem and agriculture.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Interlocal Adaptations to Climate Change in East and Southeast Asia
Book Subtitle: Sharing Lessons of Agriculture, Disaster Risk Reduction, and Resource Management
Editors: Tetsuji Ito, Makoto Tamura, Akihiko Kotera, Yuki Ishikawa-Ishiwata
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Climate Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81207-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-81206-5Published: 20 January 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-81207-2Published: 19 January 2022
Series ISSN: 2213-784X
Series E-ISSN: 2213-7858
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 164
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Climate, general, Natural Hazards, Environmental Management, Sustainable Development, Agriculture, Environmental Policy