Title:	Climate Change, Energy Use, and Sustainability
Authors:	Yoshitsugu Hayashi Tetsuzo Yasunari Hiroshi Kanzawa Hirokazu Kato Hans Günter Brauch,
Keywords:	Sustainability
Issue Date:	2016
Publisher:	Springer
Description:	This book is a concise record of an international conference: Climate Change, Resource-Energy Use and Sustainability of the Earth and Human Society—Having Experienced the Disasters Caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake. The conference was held at Nagoya University on February 29, 2012, one year after the devastation caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent nuclear power plant accident, and at a time when people in Japan were very concerned about how to secure energy sources. The conference raised a fundamental question of what viewpoint on climate change issues human society and global community should have, and was aimed at presenting a general road map to solve the issues, rather than trying to seek direct solutions. The conference brought together world-renowned researchers and was hosted by Nagoya University Global Center of Excellence (GCOE) Program “From Earth System Science to Basic and Clinical Environmental Studies” and Chunichi Shimbun, a daily newspaper publisher. This book is basically an English translation of the Japanese version published by Akashi-shoten in March 2013. Part I of this book is a collection of presentations delivered by four scholars. The presenter of Chap. 1 is Dr. Syukuro Manabe, a senior scientist at Princeton University. He pioneered the use of computers to simulate and study global climate change and natural climate variation, and was one of the first to be inducted into The Earth Hall of Fame Kyoto along with Dr. Brundtland and Dr. Maathai. He has studied the basic principle of global water circulation and discovered that CO2, emitted through human economic activities, induces global warming and causes droughts, heavy rains, and floods. To overcome the problem, he explains the importance of collaboration among various academic disciplines which are involved in processes ranging from diagnosis to treatment of the problem. The presenter of Chap. 2 is Dr. Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Co-President of the Club of Rome. In the 1992 report of the Club of Rome, The First Global Revolution, he proposed the Factor Four concept to double wealth while halving consumption of resources. He has been a world leader not only in academic research on sustainability but also in its politics and philosophy. He explains that an increase in resource efficiency is required in the manufacture of individual industrial products, and further proposed the Factor Five concept, which features the redesign of whole technological and socioeconomic systems such as transportation systems, tax systems, etc. He argues that fundamental to our well-being is not just efficiency based on market fundamentalism in which only the stronger can survive, but human sufficiency.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/54119
ISBN:	978-3-319-40590-2
Appears in Collections:	Population Studies

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