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Traditional Wisdom and Modern Knowledge for the Earth's Future - Lectures Given at the Plenary Sessions of the International Geographical Union Kyoto Regional Conference, 2013 (Hardcover, 2014)
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Traditional Wisdom and Modern Knowledge for the Earth's Future - Lectures Given at the Plenary Sessions of the International Geographical Union Kyoto Regional Conference, 2013 (Hardcover, 2014)
Series: International Perspectives in Geography, 1
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The title of this book, "Traditional Wisdom and Modern Knowledge
for the Earth s Future," is from the theme of the 2013 Kyoto
Regional Conference of the International Geographical Union. Over
the past few decades, globalization has strengthened connections
among countries and regions of the world and has greatly changed
existing geographies. However, this trend has also fostered various
problems on a regional or global scale, such as economic imbalance,
social fragmentation, political conflicts, and environmental
crises. While acknowledging the world s diversity, geography as a
discipline must endeavor to resolve these problems by devising
plans for cooperation and symbiotic existence of the different
peoples of the world. An old Japanese proverb, "On-ko chi-shin,"
taken from a Chinese one, "Wengu Zhixin," says that only by
exploring the old can one understand the new. People should first
understand how traditional ideas, linked to interaction between
society/culture and the environment, were formed in different
countries and regions. Traditional wisdom, in harmony with the
environment, remains prevalent. This book examines how we can mold
the earth s future through such traditional wisdom and modern
knowledge from the nine keynote speeches of the Kyoto Regional
Conference focusing on three topics: traditional wisdom, the
environment, and the Great East Japan Earthquake."
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