Traditional Wisdom and Modern Knowledge for the Earth's Future : Lectures Given at the Plenary Sessions of the International Geographical Union Kyoto Regional Conference, 2013 - Okamoto, Kohei; Ishikawa, Yoshitaka; SpringerLink (Online service) (Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2014)
Traditional Wisdom -- Traditional Wisdom in Urban Development in Ancient China -- Clash of Civilizations is not a Fatality: Viewpoint of Geography -- Were There in the Japanese Language Originally Equivalents to the Words "Environment" and "Nature"? -- The Environment -- Nature and Society in Protected Areas: Can Development, Conservation, and Local Livelihoods Co-exist? -- Plural Knowledges and Modernity: Social Difference and Geographical Explanations -- No Going Back: The Political Implications of Ecological Novelty -- The Great East Japan Earthquake -- The 2011 Tohoku Disaster: Unexpected Earthquake and Forgotten Tsunami -- The Ecological Infra-structure as a Basis of the Reconstruction Plan for the Great East Japan Earthquake -- National Reconstruction Ground Design as Dual Recovery Strategy of Post-Disaster and Pre-Disaster Recoveries in Japan.
Keywords: Geography; Regional planning; Urban planning; Natural disasters; Sustainable development; Geography, general; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Natural Hazards; Sustainable Development