Introduction : from global to regional sustainability / Mitsuru Osaki and Norihito Tambo -- Sustainable land management / Masakazu Komatsuzaki, Hiroyuki Ohta, Ademola K. Braimoh, Anthony R. Chittenden, Yutaka Saito and Makoto Ogawa -- How to make food, biological and water resources sustainable / Fumitaka Shiotsu, Taiichiro Hattori, Shigenori Morita, Takashi S. Kohyama, Akihiko Ito, Noriyuki Kobayashi, Masahide Kaeriyama, Michio J. Kishi, Sei-Ichi Saitoh and Yasunori Sakurai -- Regional initiatives for self-sustaining models / Ken'ichi Nakagami, Kazuyuki Doi, Yoshito Yuyama, Hidetsugu Morimoto, Nobuyuki Tsuji, Toshiki Sato, Juzo Matsuda, Shiho Ishikawa, Marianne Karpenstein-Machan, Peter Schmuck, Ryoh Nakakubo, Søren Hermansen and B. Mohan Kumar -- Self-sustaining local and regional societies / Yoshiki Yamagata, Florian Kraxner, Kentaro Aoki, Noriyuki Tanaka, Kazuhiko Takeuchi, Makoto Inoue and Hiroyuki Matsuda -- Bridging between sustainability and governance / Nobuo Kurata, Yuka Motoda, Yasuhiko Kudo, Nobuyuki Tsuji, Hironori Kato, Hideaki Shiroyama and Seiichi Kagaya -- How to sustain social, cultural and human well-being / Osamu Saito, Richard Bawden, Tatsuji Sawa, Koji Yamasaki, Kiyoto Kurokawa, Takumi Kondo, Hong Park, Yoshifumi Miyazaki, Bum-Jin Park, Juyoung Lee, Tatsuo Omura, Fumikazu Yoshida and Motoyoshi Ikeda.

xxv, 477 p. : col. ill., charts, graphs, maps, tables ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
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