Balancing Nature and Civilization - Alternative Sustainability Perspectives from Philosophy to Practice

1.Introduction: Can We Design the Future of Human Life and the Environment?.- Part I A Sustainable Relationship between Nature and Humans.- 2.The Fate of Twentieth-Century Civilization - A Discussion of "Post-oil Strategies".- 3.Sustainable Use of Energy.- 4.Sustainability from the Perspective of Environmental Archaeology.- 5.Re-evaluating the Traditional Japanese Perspective on Nature and Ethics.- Part II: International Conflict Concerning Environmental Damage and Its Causes.- 6. Kosa (Asian Dust Particles) and Air Pollution in Asia.-  7. Environmental Charges Levied on Heavy Goods Vehicles in the EU.- Part III: Ecological Balance and Conflicts in the 21st Century.-  8.Panel Discussion.

Yoshitsugu Hayashi (Japan), born in 1951, Professor Emeritus, Nagoya University; and Director, International Research Center for Sustainable Development and Global Smart Cities, Chubu University; Distinguished Visiting Professor, Tsinghua University, China. He is a Full Member of the Club of Rome and President of the Japan Chapter, and also has been President of WCTRS (World Conference on Transport Research Society) till May 2019. His major fields of research are analysis and modelling of transport - land use interactions and the countermeasure policy to overcome negative impacts of urbanization and motorization. The results are published in such books as Land Use, Transport and The Environment (Kluwer,1996), Urban Transport and the Environment - An International Perspective (Elsevier, 2004), Intercity Transport and Climate Change - Strategies for Reducing the Carbon Footprint (Springer, 2014), the Japanese Edition of Factor 5 (Akashi-shoten, 2014) originally authored by Ernst Ulrich von Weizsaecker et al., section author of Come on: Capitalism, Short-termism, Population and the Destruction of the Planet (Club of Rome Report, Springer, 2018) edited by Weizsaecker and Wijkman. Applications to practice include his proposition of rail transit oriented urban reform to overcome Bangkok's hyper congestion as the leader of JICA project in mid-90's, which became the trigger to reverse the budget of road vs. rail from 1:99 in 90's to 82:14 in Transport 2020 Plan. He is also now JICA/JST research project leader of "Smart Transport Strategy for THAILAND 4.0".
Masafumi Morisugi (Japan) Born in 1970. Professor at Meijo University, Japan. Doctor of Engineering and Master of Economics (Nagoya University), a visiting scholar at Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, Germany in year of 2017. Various activities around environmental economics and policies. His current research interests include evaluation several economic damages due toglobal warming, sand beach