アジア・中東・アフリカ・ラテンアメリカ・オセアニア — 全 下位分類

This book provides a comprehensive picture of sustainable development in Northeast India, focusing on historical context, traditional knowledge systems, and contemporary challenges. As a region characterized by unique environmental and geographical peculiarities, Northeast India presents both opportunities and constraints in achieving sustainable growth. This book presents a multidimensional exploration of sustainable development in Northeast India, bridging indigenous traditions with contemporary challenges. It begins with the foundations of sustainability, highlighting theoretical perspectives, traditional agricultural practices, sacred groves, and community philosophies that shape resilience across the region.

The second section delves into environmental, economic, and social dimensions, examining climate change impacts, ecosystem services, livelihood diversification, skill development, vocational education, and women's empowerment. Case studies on tea plantation workers, MGNREGA, and cross-border trade illustrate how sustainability intersects with equity, employment, and regional policy.

The final section expands to education, health, and inclusive development, addressing disparities in healthcare, educational vulnerability during the pandemic, poverty among the self-employed, and pathways through financial inclusion and access to credit. Together, these chapters provide a holistic view of the region's progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals. By engaging with sustainability through a regional lens, this book fosters transparency and public awareness, promotes innovation and adaptation, ensures inclusivity and equity, and contributes valuable insights to global knowledge frameworks.

This collection provides a holistic understanding of sustainable development in Northeast India, addressing key challenges and proposing practical solutions. Beyond merely describing sustainability challenges, this book offers policy-driven solutions that can inform decision-making at the regional and national levels. Designed to be an invaluable resource for policymakers, researchers, academics, and students, it aims to shape discourse on sustainable development, environmental conservation, and socio-economic advancement in the region.

This work considers animal welfare from a broad and especially humanitarian perspective, with a particular focus on the world's major animal producer - China.

Leading Chinese academics provide information regarding both all the major animal species used for livestock production, pigs, poultry, cattle and sheep, as well as less well understood types of farmed animals, rabbits, goats and aquaculture species. As such, the present book provides a novel perspective on the welfare of farmed animal species across the country. In addition, there are chapters on the future developments in animal welfare and the current state of laws that include animal welfare considerations.

There is growing interest in farm animal welfare in China, mainly under the guise of improved animal husbandry. This unique collection is topical and has been carefully compiled. It will be of interest to anyone concerned with the welfare of animals, including students and veterinarians, as well as animal scientists and professionals in the international and Chinese meat and livestock industry. This volume opens a window onto a vast and complex animal production network in the world's largest producer of farmed animals.

This volume offers a critical examination of how widening age asymmetries across diverse Asian societies shape the representational economies through which older adults are constructed, mediated, and understood. Foregrounding the intersection of gender and age, it analyses the discursive positioning of older women in multimodal media environments and situates such portrayals within broader configurations of kinship, intergenerational obligation, and socio-emotional labour. The essays assembled here draw on textual, visual, and audiovisual materials from China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, South Korea, and Taiwan to interrogate emergent narratives of ageing and to map shifting cultural, familial, and institutional expectations surrounding later life

By engaging with demographic change, transformations in family structures, and evolving regimes of care, the collection elucidates the rearticulation of filial responsibility, economic dependency, and affective interdependence in rapidly ageing societies. It further considers how contemporary multimedia reframes the experience of decline, loss, and grief, and how these representational practices mediate broader ideological debates about the status, agency, and social value of older adults. Collectively, the contributions provide a theoretically grounded and empirically rich account of the cultural imaginaries through which ageing is negotiated in Asia, highlighting the profound reconfigurations of social relations and life-course expectations unfolding across the region.

How and why do archaeologists start a project? Where do they begin? What do they do?

This book presents a case study from the ongoing Stann Creek Regional Archaeology Project (SCRAP) in Belize, Central America. The authors explore their long-term archaeology research project involving foreign researchers working together with local Maya villagers.

Archaeologists Meaghan M. Peuramaki-Brown, Shawn G. Morton, and Jillian M. Jordan deviate from popular narratives surrounding the civilization by studying a small, relatively short-lived (ca. 700-900 AD) Ancestral Maya town along the eastern frontier, focusing on the educational processes involved in archaeological thought and practice. They examine the culture of archaeology in Belize and the Maya Peoples involved in engaging and transforming this culture and the resulting research. They liken the building of their research project to the construction of a traditional Mopan Maya house or nah. Each chapter is linked to a stage of house construction and correlated elements of the project's development and ends with the creation of a home or otoch.

Through this framing of SCRAP's story within a central aspect of a present-day Mopan Maya community, this book attempts to turn archaeology from the study of the past to a conversation with the present.

This book offers a thoughtful, original critique of how contemporary development practices govern life under global capitalism.

Drawing on Heideggerian historical ontology and decolonial thought, it rethinks the foundations of biopolitical critique and explores how development discourse operates in both international policy and resistance movements. It is essential reading for scholars and students of international relations, critical development studies and European political thought seeking new ways to understand, and challenge, the politics of life in the global order.

This handbook explores Japanese architecture and the built environment from diverse disciplinary and methodological perspectives, tracing the influences that have shaped modern Japanese architecture and urbanism.

Divided into four thematic parts-translations, materializations, meditations, and characterizations-the handbook takes the reader on a stroll through developments of Japanese architecture and the transnational exchanges that have shaped conceptions and production of Japanese architecture. It examines translations of domestic and international ideas and evolving building cultures. The book also considers the media through which Japanese architecture is formulated and disseminated, and the discursive constructions that operate in dialogue with built constructions.

This book will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of Japanese, Asian, and Modern Architecture.

This book examines how the South Indian region of Karnataka influenced trade from the first century BCE to the fifteenth century CE. In the process, it analyzes the reasons for the emergence of a trade relationship between Karnataka's ports and trade centres with other Indian Ocean World trade centres, including in the Persian Gulf and Red Sea regions. Beginning with the study of the Indo-Roman trade, the book then examines the role of the state in enhancing the trade between Karnataka and other parts of the world. This volume considers such varied topics as the roles Jews and Arabs played in Karnataka, the trade in areca nut, and the relationship between the ports and the hinterland.

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

This book reveals how communities protect themselves when external support is absent.

Drawing on participatory research from Cameroon's conflict zones, the authors document the remarkable agency and creativity of conflict-affected civilians employing non-violent methods to protect one another from violence. With international and national NGOs under strict government controls in the Anglophone regions, local communities have developed their own innovative self-protection strategies that offer sustainable pathways through conflict.

This important study shifts unarmed civilian protection discourse away from externally-led interventions towards genuinely civilian-centred approaches, offering crucial insights for practitioners, policy makers and scholars working in conflict-affected contexts worldwide.

This book traces Sri Lanka's engagement with international financial actors from a unique vantage point: as a small country in the global South that previously attempted to achieve self-sufficiency, Sri Lanka's experience exposes the contradictions within the international financial system. The authors reveal the IMF's shifting attitude towards Sri Lanka, while exposing the barriers that hinder its own free-market vision for growth.

Exploring the intersection of international and national processes, this timely study critiques mainstream development thinking and champions more critical approaches. Essential for scholars and practitioners navigating today's mounting debt crises and the search for genuine alternatives.