Sustainability in contemporary rural Japan : challenges and opportunities /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
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| Series: | Routledge studies in Asia and the environment ;
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Table of Contents:
- 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.