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Abstract: East Asian societies continue to react to developments occurring in the Western part of the world as well as influence development elsewhere due to the global reach of East Asian economies and the increased political weight of East Asian societies. These systems have distinctive features often connected with local social and cultural traditions. However, these traditions are constantly being reinterpreted, and the changing meanings attached to them must be taken into account. Recent Social, Environmental, and Cultural Issues in East Asian Societies is an essential research book that explores v.

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. The politics of sanitation development and civil society in Cambodia and India
• Chapter 2. Eradication of schistosomiasis in Japan: lessons for the rest of East Asia
• Chapter 3. Narratives of child care in public policy in Japan: comprehensive support for child-rearing
• Chapter 4. Interpretation and reconstruction of environment, aesthetics, and politics in Japan
• Chapter 5. Government policy and the disintegration of village community life and individual identity in urbanising Japan
• Chapter 6. Landscapes and local identity: the eight views of Linfen
• Chapter 7. Landscapes and environmental change: famous views of Linfen
• Chapter 8. Terrains of myths and devotion: ritual interactions with the land at the K©þyasan Monastery in traditional Japan
• Chapter 9. Foreign aid and family at risk: role of foreign aid to Myanmar
• Chapter 10. Migrant care workers, skill regimes, and transnational subjects in East Asia
• Chapter 11. Politics matters: the attempts and failure of health finance reform in Hong Kkong
• Chapter 12. Changing employment trends, childcare patterns, and work-family reconciliation in Taiwan
• Chapter 13. Socio-cultural barriers of female ex-combatants' social re-integration in Sri Lanka
• Chapter 14. Food safety concerns in Tokushima: a reflective consumer approach
• Chapter 15. Social risk discourse and Japan: the state of reflexivity and individualization.

Author/Creator:

Merviö, Mika Markus , author

Contributors:

IGI Global , publisher, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Recent social, environmental, and cultural issues in East Asian societies [by Merviö, M.M.]

Subjects:

Environmental protection — East Asia

East Asia — Social conditions — 21st century

2000-2099

Social conditions

Environmental protection

East Asia

Asia — Orient

General Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from title screen (IGI Global, viewed 10/17/2019).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (298 pages

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

HN720.5.A8 M47 2019eb

ISBNs:

9781799818076 (print) [Invalid]
9781799818090 [Invalid]
1799818098 [Invalid]

Other Standard Numbers:

Digital Object Identifier: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1807-6

OCLC Numbers:

1122912807

Other Control Numbers:

slc22912807 (source: CaBNVSL)
[Unknown Type]: igi00234362