Human insecurity in East Asia [electronic resource] / edited by Michio Umegaki, Lynn Thiesmeyer and Atsushi Watabe.

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9789280871333

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Umegaki, Michio.

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1 online resource (xv, 285 pages) : illustrations

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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Subject Term:

Basic needs -- East Asia.

Risk management -- East Asia.

Geographic Term:

East Asia -- Social conditions -- 21st century.

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Publication Date:

2009

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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. Often threats to human security are as subtle as a slow-rising tide, whose calamitous nature remains unknown till it breaks as a monstrous flood. The essays in this volume call attention to these less obvious threats to human security and how people and communities face them. Woven from the first-hand observations of life at various sites in East Asia, the narratives in these essays illuminate how uncanny the threats to human security can be.