Télécharger le livre :  Insularity and Geographic Diversity of the Peripheral Japanese Islands

This book clarifies the geography of the peripheral Japanese islands from a variety of angles. The islands are distributed in the tropical and cool temperate zones, and the most distant inhabited islands are more than 1,000 km from the mainland. In the past, they were...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2022-06-06
Collection : International Perspectives in Geography
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Télécharger le livre :  Glaciers, Nature, Water, and Local Community in Mount Kenya

This book describes the challenges for the natural environments and local communities in the future. Among the high mountains of Africa, only Kilimanjaro, Mount Kenya, and the Rwenzori Mountains are still capped with glaciers. The retreating rate of these glaciers has...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2022-03-18
Collection : International Perspectives in Geography
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Télécharger le livre :  Regional Innovation and Networks in Japan

This book provides a novel perspective on networks and innovation in the field of economic geography and presents new findings through theoretical foundations and empirical analyses. The book focuses on various temporary systems in industrial agglomerations such as...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2021-05-29
Collection : International Perspectives in Geography
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Télécharger le livre :  Urban Food Deserts in Japan

This book introduces the Japanese urban food desert (FD). Currently, Japan has the most rapidly aging society in the world, with a shrinking population and food desert issues in connection with the isolation of the elderly people from their families and local...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2021-04-15
Collection : International Perspectives in Geography
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Télécharger le livre :  Ethnic Enclaves in Contemporary Japan

This book is the first work to comprehensively investigate the enclaves of non-Japanese residents in Japan. In a comparative study, it convincingly examines eight enclaves of five nationalities (Chinese, Korean, Filipino, Brazilian and Turkish) in twelve municipalities....
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2021-04-01
Collection : International Perspectives in Geography
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Télécharger le livre :  Community-Based Integrated Care and the Inclusive Society

This book discusses the building of comprehensive community support systems, which constitutes a key issue in social security reforms in Japan. The book comprises three parts: (I) Mapping Social Security in Japan, (II) Community-Based Integrated Care Systems in Japan,...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2021-03-09
Collection : International Perspectives in Geography
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Télécharger le livre :  Adaptive Fisheries Governance in Changing Coastal Regions in Japan

Japan’s fisheries sector is undergoing a major restructuring. The coastal ecological change and natural disasters such as tsunami demand that communities transform or organize resource governance anew. Under the national policy of decentralization to cope with the aging...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2021-03-09
Collection : International Perspectives in Geography
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Télécharger le livre :  Divided Tokyo

This book explores how and why Tokyo has been divided over time in terms of living conditions. First, recent urban discourses that explain the transformation of Tokyo’s urban structure are examined, along with social changes and the expansion of unequal residential...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2020-04-09
Collection : International Perspectives in Geography
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Télécharger le livre :  Nature, Culture, and Food in Monsoon Asia

The giant Asian monsoon has formed a diverse climate and natural environment.The Asian monsoon climate manifests itself in manifold ways depending not just on the latitude or altitude of an area but also on physical conditions such as topography and vegetation and even...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2020-02-04
Collection : International Perspectives in Geography
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Télécharger le livre :  Anthropogenic Soils in Japan

This book enhances the discussion of anthropized soils with photographs of soil profiles and provides general information about soils in Japan, using data on their physical and chemical properties. Soils targeted in this book have wide spectra in anthropized influences...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2018-10-11
Collection : International Perspectives in Geography
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Télécharger le livre :  Tokyo as a Global City

This book examines Tokyo’s changes, current challenges, and future trends through a new kind of regional geography and serves as an important source of comprehensive information about the past, present, and future perspectives of Tokyo as a global city. Regional...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2018-03-28
Collection : International Perspectives in Geography
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Télécharger le livre :  Japanese Advance into the Pacific Ocean

This book asserts that the albatross was the reason for the advance of the Japanese into the isolated islands in the Pacific after the abolition of the Japanese “closed-door” policy that had been in effect from the seventeenth century to the latter part of the...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2017-09-12
Collection : International Perspectives in Geography
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Télécharger le livre :  Himalayan Nature and Tibetan Buddhist Culture in Arunachal Pradesh, India

This is the first book to systematically describe the formation and historical changes of the Monpa people’s area (Monyul) through its nature, society, culture, religion, agriculture and historically deep ties with Bhutan, Tibet and the Tibetan Buddhist faith. The state...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2015-06-01
Collection : International Perspectives in Geography
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Télécharger le livre :  Environmental Change and the Social Response in the Amur River Basin

This book features research on historical land use and land cover in the Amur River Basin, which are important not only for residents there but also for those affected by its material and water cycles. Land use and land cover are affected by natural and human...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2014-12-02
Collection : International Perspectives in Geography
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Télécharger le livre :  Geography Education in Japan

In a globalized market where the emerging workforce will increasingly travel within their nations and abroad for work opportunities, it is valuable to learn about the international education system and practices, to assess the competition. For example, annual comparison...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2014-12-01
Collection : International Perspectives in Geography
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Télécharger le livre :  The Agglomeration of the Animation Industry in East Asia

This book will be of interest to scholars and students of Asian studies, cultural industries, economic geography, and related areas of study. It discusses the results of a microscopic survey focusing on topics such as how animation studios form business relationships...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2014-08-06
Collection : International Perspectives in Geography
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Télécharger le livre :  Traditional Wisdom and Modern Knowledge for the Earth's Future

The title of this book, Traditional Wisdom and Modern Knowledge for the Earth’s Future, is from the theme of the 2013 Kyoto Regional Conference of the International Geographical Union. Over the past few decades, globalization has strengthened connections among countries...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2014-07-08
Collection : International Perspectives in Geography
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Télécharger le livre :  Geography of Religion in Japan

This book discusses modern aspects of Japanese religion in terms of cultural geography. To understand the function of religion, it is essential to examine it in the context of local societies. One of the distinguishing characteristics of Japanese religion is its...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2013-12-09
Collection : International Perspectives in Geography
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