Environmental constraints are becoming increasingly severe, and now more than ever it is time that we confront head-on the change from an "underground resources" type of civilization to one with a new way of life and technology that embraces a sense of nature. To do so, we need to understand the process of the civilization change. We must change our way of thinking to backcasting in order to design future lifestyles and learn from the elderly who lived with nature under severe environmental constraints more than 70 years ago. We must also learn from nature directly, the only sustainable society on earth.

This book introduces Bio-TRIZ and ontology engineering to match and find technologies needed for spiritually affluent lifestyles. It provides many examples of Japanese cities that conducted lifestyle design projects based on nature technology. The book is a great reference for graduate-level students of environmental studies and engineering and for researchers in innovation, social science, engineering, and public policy, especially those with an interest in lifestyle change for a sustainable society.

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Yes, you can access Lifestyle and Nature by Ryuzo Furukawa, Yuko Suto, Emile H. Ishida, Takeshi Yamauchi in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Sciences biologiques & Conservation et Protection de l'Envronnement. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher

Jenny Stanford Publishing

Year

2019

ISBN

9781351378369

Edition

Topic

Sciences biologiques

Subtopic

Conservation et Protection de l'Envronnement

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Environmental Degradation and the Need to Change Our Lifestyles
2 Nature Technology Creation System
3 How Japan Found a Way of Life Producing Spiritual Affluence from Limited Resources
4 Lifestyle Design by Backcasting
5 Extracting Technologies from Future Lifestyles
6 Matching Lifestyle to Technology
7 Bio-TRIZ
8 Creating a Fountain of Future Lifestyle Ideas: Project Implementation
9 Creating Local Flavor and Passing It Down
10 Developing Needs-Oriented Technologies with Bio-TRIZ: An Example of a New Lifestyle in Kitakami Achieved through Japanese Umbrellas
11 Trends and Characteristics of Biomimetic Technology: Towards Social Implementation
12 Nature Technology as a Contributor to Sustainable Social Innovation
Index