Human insecurity in East Asia

Human insecurity in East Asia

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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 t...

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Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Umegaki, Michio, Thiesmeyer, Lynn, Watabe, Atsushi
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Tokyo ; New York : United Nations University Press, c2009.
Subjects:
Basic needs > East Asia.
Risk management > East Asia.
East Asia > Social conditions > 21st century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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