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Télécharger le livre :  Climatological Study of Urban Climate and Heat and Cold Mortalities in Japan
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Climatological Study of Urban Climate and Heat and Cold Mortalities in Japan


Fumiaki Fujibe


This book describes observed features of urban climate and its long-term variations as well as the relationship of climate to heat stroke in Japan, based on observational data and statistical analyses. Consisting of three parts, the book is a valuable resource for...

Parution : 2023-09-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Diversity of Urban Inclusivity
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Diversity of Urban Inclusivity


Taku Fukumoto , Geerhardt Kornatowski , Toshio Mizuuchi


This book explores, situates, and discusses the contours of urban inclusivity amidst and beyond the well-researched neoliberal turn in urban governance. While it is generally accepted that urban social issues are susceptible to global woes, these perceptions draw only...

Parution : 2023-03-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Management Geography
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Management Geography


Rolf D. Schlunze , Atsushi Taira


Management geography explores the spatial characteristics of management-related issues, especially of firms. This book discusses management geography in Japan and other Asian countries from Asian perspectives. The field has made significant contributions to the global...

Parution : 2022-09-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Insularity and Geographic Diversity of the Peripheral Japanese Islands
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Insularity and Geographic Diversity of the Peripheral Japanese Islands


Akitoshi Hiraoka , Hisamitsu Miyauchi , Takehisa Sukeshige , Satoshi Suyama


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...

Parution : 2022-06-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Glaciers, Nature, Water, and Local Community in Mount Kenya
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Glaciers, Nature, Water, and Local Community in Mount Kenya


Kazuharu Mizuno , Yuya Otani


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...

Parution : 2022-03-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Regional Innovation and Networks in Japan
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Regional Innovation and Networks in Japan


Yutaka Yokura


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...

Parution : 2021-05-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Urban Food Deserts in Japan
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Urban Food Deserts in Japan


Collectif


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...

Parution : 2021-04-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Ethnic Enclaves in Contemporary Japan
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Ethnic Enclaves in Contemporary Japan


Yoshitaka Ishikawa


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....

Parution : 2021-04-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Community-Based Integrated Care and the Inclusive Society
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Community-Based Integrated Care and the Inclusive Society


Teruo Hatakeyama , Hitoshi Miyazawa


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,...

Parution : 2021-03-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Adaptive Fisheries Governance in Changing Coastal Regions in Japan
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Adaptive Fisheries Governance in Changing Coastal Regions in Japan


Akiko Ikeguchi , Seishiro Sakita , Takafumi Yokoyama


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...

Parution : 2021-03-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Divided Tokyo
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Divided Tokyo


Tomoko Kubo


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...

Parution : 2020-04-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Nature, Culture, and Food in Monsoon Asia
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Nature, Culture, and Food in Monsoon Asia


Hitoshi Araki , Jun Matsumoto , Satoshi Yokoyama


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...

Parution : 2020-02-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Anthropogenic Soils in Japan
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Anthropogenic Soils in Japan


Masayuki Kawahigashi , Makiko Watanabe


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...

Parution : 2018-10-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Tokyo as a Global City
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Tokyo as a Global City


Toshio Kikuchi , Toshihiko Sugai


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...

Parution : 2018-03-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Japanese Advance into the Pacific Ocean
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Japanese Advance into the Pacific Ocean


Akitoshi Hiraoka


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...

Parution : 2017-09-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Himalayan Nature and Tibetan Buddhist Culture in Arunachal Pradesh, India
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Himalayan Nature and Tibetan Buddhist Culture in Arunachal Pradesh, India


Kazuharu Mizuno , Lobsang Tenpa


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...

Parution : 2015-06-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Environmental Change and the Social Response in the Amur River Basin
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Environmental Change and the Social Response in the Amur River Basin


Shigeko Haruyama , Takayuki Shiraiwa


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...

Parution : 2014-12-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Geography Education in Japan
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Geography Education in Japan


Collectif


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...

Parution : 2014-12-01
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Télécharger le livre :  The Agglomeration of the Animation Industry in East Asia
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The Agglomeration of the Animation Industry in East Asia


Kenta Yamamoto


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...

Parution : 2014-08-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Traditional Wisdom and Modern Knowledge for the Earth's Future
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Traditional Wisdom and Modern Knowledge for the Earth's Future


Yoshitaka Ishikawa , Kohei Okamoto


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...

Parution : 2014-07-08
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