Sustainability in contemporary rural Japan : challenges and opportunities /


edited by Stephanie Assmann.
Bok Engelsk 1989
Utgitt
Paris : OECD , 1989
Omfang
xxv, 171 pages ;
Opplysninger
Acknowledgements -- Introduction / Stephanie Assmann -- Challenges in rural areas -- Social sustainability in post-3.11 coastal Japan : the significance of social capital / ALYNE E. DELANEY -- Local schools in remote areas : challenges for youth, parents and community / JOHANNES WILHELM -- The Heisei municipal mergers : measures of sustainability, equality and identity / ANTHONY S. RAUSCH -- Agriculture in Japan : free trade and the need for reform / STEPHANIE ASSMANN -- Case studies -- Employment in rural areas -- Social enterprise businesses in rural community development in Hokkaido / ROSARIO LARATTA -- Working for others in Kawakami : contradictive expectations, tensions, and negotiating power relations / MENG LIANG -- Sustainability across generations : life reform, lifestyle migration and u-turn movements -- Young urban migrants in the Japanese countryside between self-realization and slow life? : the quest for subjective well-being and post-materialism / SUSANNE KLIEN -- The turn that isn't a return : alternative spaces and livelihoods in out-of-the-way Japanese places / ANDREA GEVURTZ ARAI -- Islands for life : artistic responses to remote social polarisation and population decline in Japan / ADRIAN FAVELL -- Reforming life as mothers and wives in rural Japan : the post-wwii life reform (seikatsu kaizen) initiative in Hamlet M, Tochigi prefecture / NORIKO YAMAGUCHI -- Brand management and tourism -- Tourism as a future for local rail services? : an analysis of debates in Akita prefecture / PETER ACKERMANN -- Hokkaido's overlapping protected areas and regional revitalization : the case study of Toya-usu geopark in Shikotsu-toya national park / THOMAS E. JONES -- Contributors -- Index.
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ISBN
1138476978. - 9781138476974

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