Coming to terms with nature
Development dilemmas on the Ogasawara Islands
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6194754 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nanyan Guo (corresponding author), Gavan Mccormack |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 177-193 |
| Publication date | 2001-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Japan Forum (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0955-5803 • E-ISSN: 1469-932X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09555800120081385 |
| OpenAlex | W2021075808 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
Japan's Ogasawara (or Bonin) Islands are a site from which to observe the changing Japanese balance between bio-diversity and single-minded development, between the desire to save native species and the desire to satisfy human convenience, and between the modesty and creativity of local peoples and the arrogance and insensitivity bred of massive public works funding. This paper looks at the history of natural environment, the process of human settlement and depletion of bio-diversity, the present state of nature, the planned airport, local alternative proposals and recent shifts in bureaucratic thinking about it. The Ogasawara Islands are peripheral and economically 'backward', but they are now at the forefront of the struggle to re-negotiate the balance between humanity and nature in Japan
Archaeology · Biology · Bureaucracy · Business · Creativity · Environmental ethics · Geography · Humanity · Negotiation · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Coastal and Marine Management · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · International Maritime Law Issues · Law
| Highly cited | No |
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