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DESCRIPTION:Geography and the Environment Colloquium Series:&nbsp\;Dai Yama
 moto\, Colgate University Department of\nGeography and Asian Studies Progr
 am (Co-sponsored by East Asia Program). For more information\, please cont
 act nkoch@syr.edu.Life environmentalism: Indigenous policy\nand theory res
 ponses to environmental challenges in JapanAbstractLife environmentalism (
 seikatsu kankyo shugi 生活環境主義) is a set of \ntheories and policy approaches
  to resolve local environmental problems\, \nwhich originally emerged in t
 he 1980s in Japan. Some of its main tenets \nresemble the claims of contem
 porary Anglo-American social science \nstudies\, and may no longer appear 
 as novel. Nevertheless\, I will \ndemonstrate that we can still learn usef
 ul lessons about what it means \nto build theories and policies by taking 
 historical geographical \ncontexts seriously\, as well as about our deep-r
 ooted assumptions about \nsocio-environmental problems and solutions. 
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SUMMARY:Geography and the Environment Colloquium Series: Dai Yamamoto
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Geography and the Environment Colloquium Se
 ries:&nbsp\;Dai Yamamoto\, Colgate University Department of\nGeography and
  Asian Studies Program (Co-sponsored by East Asia Program). For more infor
 mation\, please contact <a href="mailto:nkoch@syr.edu">nkoch@syr.edu</a>.<
 /p><p><b>Life environmentalism: Indigenous policy\nand theory responses to
  environmental challenges in Japan</b></p><p><strong>Abstract</strong></p>
 <p>Life environmentalism (seikatsu kankyo shugi 生活環境主義) is a set of \ntheo
 ries and policy approaches to resolve local environmental problems\, \nwhi
 ch originally emerged in the 1980s in Japan. Some of its main tenets \nres
 emble the claims of contemporary Anglo-American social science \nstudies\,
  and may no longer appear as novel. Nevertheless\, I will \ndemonstrate th
 at we can still learn useful lessons about what it means \nto build theori
 es and policies by taking historical geographical \ncontexts seriously\, a
 s well as about our deep-rooted assumptions about \nsocio-environmental pr
 oblems and solutions. </p>
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