Island Futures Conservation and Development Across the Asia-Pacific
Islands face one of the most pressing issues of our time: how to balance ecological integrity with economic development and collective quality of life, including the need for social and conservation space. Islands are sites of rich and varied human and ec
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Editor-in-Chief: Ken-ichi Abe Series Editors: Takakazu Yumoto Makoto Taniguchi Daniel Niles
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The Pacific Region. Islands treated in the volume are highlighted.
Godfrey Baldacchino • Daniel Niles Editors
Island Futures Conservation and Development Across the Asia-Pacific Region
Editors Godfrey Baldacchino, Ph.D. Professor University of Prince Edward Island 550 University Avenue Charlottetown, PE C1A 4P3 Canada
Daniel Niles, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Research Institute for Humanity and Nature 457-4 Motoyama, Kamigamo Kita-ku, Kyoto 603-8047 Japan
ISBN 978-4-431-53988-9 e-ISBN 978-4-431-53989-6 DOI 10.1007/978-4-431-53989-6 Springer Tokyo Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 20119310862011 © Springer 2011 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Global Environmental Studies: Foreword to the Series
How should human beings and societies address contemporary environmental problems? Until recently, environmental research was largely undertaken within the separate disciplines of the natural sciences. Only recently has modern science begun to examine the whole: the fascinating forces and cycles that constitute the biophysical world, linking deep internal Earth phenomena with those of the surface and atmosphere. As environmental scientists, our current challenge is to describe how human action intersects with Earth processes at different spatial and temporal scales. Identifying solutions to environmental problems, however, will require a deeper level of analysis, one that explicates the cultural base of individual and collective practices that affect Earth processes, and that allows contemplation of what is, and what ought to be. It is with this very integrative and comprehensive intent that we at the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature have identified the need for global environmental studies. This volume introduces the Global Environmental Studies book series, which was created to publish works at or affiliated with the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN). Located in Kyoto, Japan, RIHN is a national research institute, one of six that comprise the National Institutes for the Humanities. RIHN takes a broad view of environmental studies, and the books published within this series will indicate the full breadth of its research. It is particularly appropriate that this first volume in the series
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