03107nam a2200385 a 4500 ebr10397576 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 090106s2009 ja a sb 001 0 eng 2009000016 9789280811643 (pbk.) 9280811649 (pbk.) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)649915275 ae----- HC460.5.Z9 B38 2009eb 363.3095 22 Human insecurity in East Asia [electronic resource] / edited by Michio Umegaki, Lynn Thiesmeyer and Atsushi Watabe. Tokyo ; New York : United Nations University Press, c2009. xv, 285 p. : ill. Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction : East Asia in a human security perspective / Michio Umegaki -- pt. 1. Living with human insecurity. Embracing human insecurity : Agent Orange-Dioxin and the legacies of the war in Viet Nam / Michio Umegaki, Vu Le Thao Chi, and Tran Duc Phan -- The ageing community : human insecurity in a "developed" society / Sutoshi Watanabe -- Choice of their own, choice from their need : people on the move in rural northeast Thailand / Atsushi Watabe and Chaicharn Wongsamun -- Rural changes and ageing in human insecurity in northern Thailand / Liwa Pardthaisong-Chaipanich -- pt. 2. Intervening in human insecurity. Landlessness and development : policy purposes and policy outcomes in Southeast Asia / Lynn Thiesmeyer -- Policy coordination beyond borders : Japan-China environmental policy practices in Shenyang and Chengdu, China / Wang Xue-ping and Yoshika Sekine -- ASEAN migrant workers : from poverty to human-security-based competitiveness / Patcharawalai Wongboonsin -- Pesticide dependence in agriculture : policy for productivity and policy for security in Viet Nam / Tran Duc Vien and Pham Van Hoi -- Creating a community : ageing in urban Japan / Daisike Watanabe -- Human security practices in a highland minority project / Lynn Theismeyer and Seewigaa Kittiyoungkun -- Epilogue : research in human insecurity / Michio Umegaki. Threats to human security do not necessarily take cataclysmic forms such as war or natural disaster, nor does human insecurity exist solely within a suspended living environment like refugee camps. This publication explores less obvious threats to human security and how people and communities face them.--Publisher's description. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Basic needs East Asia. Risk management East Asia. East Asia Social conditions 21st century. Electronic books. local Umegaki, Michio. Thiesmeyer, Lynn. Watabe, Atsushi. ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10397576 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 192564 192564