Human insecurity in East Asia /
Human insecurity in East Asia /
edited by Michio Umegaki, Lynn Thiesmeyer and Atsushi Watabe.
- Tokyo ; New York : United Nations University Press, ©2009.
- 1 online resource (xv, 285 pages) : illustrations
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : East Asia in a human security perspective / Michio Umegaki -- pt. 1. Living with human insecurity. Embracing human insecurity : Agent Orange-Dioxin and the legacies of the war in Viet Nam / Michio Umegaki, Vu Le Thao Chi, and Tran Duc Phan -- The ageing community : human insecurity in a "developed" society / Sutoshi Watanabe -- Choice of their own, choice from their need : people on the move in rural northeast Thailand / Atsushi Watabe and Chaicharn Wongsamun -- Rural changes and ageing in human insecurity in northern Thailand / Liwa Pardthaisong-Chaipanich -- pt. 2. Intervening in human insecurity. Landlessness and development : policy purposes and policy outcomes in Southeast Asia / Lynn Thiesmeyer -- Policy coordination beyond borders : Japan-China environmental policy practices in Shenyang and Chengdu, China / Wang Xue-ping and Yoshika Sekine -- ASEAN migrant workers : from poverty to human-security-based competitiveness / Patcharawalai Wongboonsin -- Pesticide dependence in agriculture : policy for productivity and policy for security in Viet Nam / Tran Duc Vien and Pham Van Hoi -- Creating a community : ageing in urban Japan / Daisike Watanabe -- Human security practices in a highland minority project / Lynn Theismeyer and Seewigaa Kittiyoungkun -- Epilogue : research in human insecurity / Michio Umegaki.
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Threats to human security do not necessarily take cataclysmic forms such as war or natural disaster, nor does human insecurity exist solely within a suspended living environment like refugee camps. This publication explores less obvious threats to human security and how people and communities face them.--Publisher's description.
Electronic reproduction.
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HathiTrust Digital Library,
2010.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
9789280871333 (electronic bk.) 9280871331 (electronic bk.) (pbk.) (pbk.)
2000-2099
Basic needs--East Asia.
Risk management--East Asia.
Climatic changes.
Disasters.
International cooperation.
Social change.
Environmental Health--trends
Climate Change
Disasters
International Cooperation
Public Policy
Social Change
Climat--Changements.
Catastrophes.
Coopération internationale.
Changement social.
climate change.
disasters.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Political Freedom & Security--Law Enforcement.
Basic needs.
Risk management.
Social conditions.
East Asia--Social conditions--21st century.
East Asia.
Far East
Extrême-Orient.
East Asia.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
HC460.5.Z9 / B38 2009eb
363.3095
2009 K-998 WA 30.5 / H918 2009
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : East Asia in a human security perspective / Michio Umegaki -- pt. 1. Living with human insecurity. Embracing human insecurity : Agent Orange-Dioxin and the legacies of the war in Viet Nam / Michio Umegaki, Vu Le Thao Chi, and Tran Duc Phan -- The ageing community : human insecurity in a "developed" society / Sutoshi Watanabe -- Choice of their own, choice from their need : people on the move in rural northeast Thailand / Atsushi Watabe and Chaicharn Wongsamun -- Rural changes and ageing in human insecurity in northern Thailand / Liwa Pardthaisong-Chaipanich -- pt. 2. Intervening in human insecurity. Landlessness and development : policy purposes and policy outcomes in Southeast Asia / Lynn Thiesmeyer -- Policy coordination beyond borders : Japan-China environmental policy practices in Shenyang and Chengdu, China / Wang Xue-ping and Yoshika Sekine -- ASEAN migrant workers : from poverty to human-security-based competitiveness / Patcharawalai Wongboonsin -- Pesticide dependence in agriculture : policy for productivity and policy for security in Viet Nam / Tran Duc Vien and Pham Van Hoi -- Creating a community : ageing in urban Japan / Daisike Watanabe -- Human security practices in a highland minority project / Lynn Theismeyer and Seewigaa Kittiyoungkun -- Epilogue : research in human insecurity / Michio Umegaki.
Use copy
Threats to human security do not necessarily take cataclysmic forms such as war or natural disaster, nor does human insecurity exist solely within a suspended living environment like refugee camps. This publication explores less obvious threats to human security and how people and communities face them.--Publisher's description.
Electronic reproduction.
[S.l.] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2010.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
9789280871333 (electronic bk.) 9280871331 (electronic bk.) (pbk.) (pbk.)
2000-2099
Basic needs--East Asia.
Risk management--East Asia.
Climatic changes.
Disasters.
International cooperation.
Social change.
Environmental Health--trends
Climate Change
Disasters
International Cooperation
Public Policy
Social Change
Climat--Changements.
Catastrophes.
Coopération internationale.
Changement social.
climate change.
disasters.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Political Freedom & Security--Law Enforcement.
Basic needs.
Risk management.
Social conditions.
East Asia--Social conditions--21st century.
East Asia.
Far East
Extrême-Orient.
East Asia.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
HC460.5.Z9 / B38 2009eb
363.3095
2009 K-998 WA 30.5 / H918 2009