Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Tokyo ; New York : United Nations University Press, c2009.

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Additional Authors

• Umegaki, Michio
• Thiesmeyer, Lynn
• Watabe, Atsushi

Description

xv, 285 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

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 them.--Publisher's description.

Subject

• 2000-2099
• Social Change
• Public Policy
• International Cooperation
• Disasters
• Climate Change
• Environmental Health > trends
• Basic needs > East Asia
• Risk management > East Asia
• Asia, Eastern
• East Asia > Social conditions > 21st century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- East Asia in a human security perspective / Michio Umegaki -- pt. I. Living with human insecurity -- 1. Embracing human insecurity: Agent Orange -- Dioxin and the legacies of the war in Viet Nam / Michio Umegaki, Vu Le Thao Chi and Tran Due Phan -- 2. The ageing community: Human insecurity in a "developed" society / Satoshi Watanabe -- 3. Choice of their own, choice from their need: People on the move in rural northeast Thailand / Atsushi Watabe and Chaicharn Wongsamun -- 4. Rural changes and ageing in human insecurity in northern Thailand / Liwa Pardthaisong-Chaipanich -- pt. II. Intervening in human insecurity -- 5. Landlessness and development: Policy purposes and policy outcomes in Southeast Asia / Lynn Thiesmeyer.

ISBN

• 9789280811643 (pbk.)
• 9280811649 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2009000016

OCLC

• 294886492
• SCSB-11385117

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library