Sustainability in Food and Water An Asian Perspective
The need to put into perspective the ever-mounting body of new information, beyond the frames of disciplines, on environmental security of food and water issues in Asia provided the impetus for the development of this book. It combines presentations from
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ALLIANCE FOR GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY BOOKSERIES SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: TOOLS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
VOLUME 18 Series Editor
Dr. Joanne M. Kauffman 6–8, rue du Général Camou 75007 Paris France [email protected]
Series Advisory Board Professor Dr. Peter Edwards Swiss Federal Institute of Technology – Zurich, Switzerland Dr. John H. Gibbons President, Resource Strategies, The Plains, VA, USA Professor David H. Marks Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Professor Mario Molina University of California, San Diego, USA Professor Greg Morrison Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Dr. Rajendra Pachauri Director, The Energy Resources Institute (TERI), India Professor Akimasa Sumi University of Tokyo, Japan Professor Kazuhiko Takeuchi University of Tokyo, Japan
Aims and Scope of the Series The aim of this series is to provide timely accounts by authoritative scholars of the results of cutting edge research into emerging barriers to sustainable development, and methodologies and tools to help governments, industry, and civil society overcome them. The work presented in the series will draw mainly on results of the research being carried out in the Alliance for Global Sustainability (AGS). The level of presentation is for graduate students in natural, social and engineering sciences as well as policy and decision-makers around the world in government, industry and civil society.
Kensuke Fukushi • Khondoker Mahbub Hassan Ryo Honda • Akimasa Sumi Editors
Sustainability in Food and Water An Asian Perspective
Editors Kensuke Fukushi University of Tokyo Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science (IR3S) Transdisciplinary Initiative for Global Sustainability (TIGS) Hongo 7-3-1 113-8654 Tokyo Bunkyo-ku Japan [email protected]
Khondoker Mahbub Hassan University of Tokyo Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science (IR3S) Transdisciplinary Initiative for Global Sustainability (TIGS) Hongo 7-3-1 113-8654 Tokyo Bunkyo-ku Japan [email protected]
Ryo Honda University of Tokyo Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science (IR3S) Transdisciplinary Initiative for Global Sustainability (TIGS) Hongo 7-3-1 113-8654 Tokyo Bunkyo-ku Japan [email protected]
Akimasa Sumi University of Tokyo Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science (IR3S) Transdisciplinary Initiative for Global Sustainability (TIGS) Hongo 7-3-1 113-8654 Tokyo Bunkyo-ku Japan [email protected]
ISSN 1571-4780 ISBN 978-90-481-9913-6 e-ISBN 978-90-481-9914-3 DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-9914-3 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2010934369 © Springer Science +Business Media B.V. 2010 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclu
