Island Civilizations

Implications for the Future of the Earth
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-981-9235-88-9
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Springer Earth System Sciences

This book is a compilation of results from sessions of the 3rd International Symposium in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, in March 2019, which was hosted by the Museum of Natural and Environmental History, Shizuoka, and Mt. Fuji World Heritage Centre, Shizuoka. The book is the first-ever comparative study of island civilizations in the Pan-Pacific region. The world’s leading professionals illustrate the history of the natural environment, culture, and society in the region from various points of view, including natural disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanism; ecosystems and biodiversity; and changes in lifestyles. In addition, the book provides a new approach for actions to build sustainable culture and society through discussions of the history of environment and civilization in the Pan-Pacific islands from an interdisciplinary point of view.  When and how did people immigrate and develop cultures on remote islands? What was, and will be, the fate of the environment and civilization in the islands? Answers to such questions furnish hints to sustainable civilizations in the Anthropocene, during which humankind has been changing the earth’s environment.

This book is composed of a total of 19 chapters, which is related to six specific topics. [1] Chronological approaches of environmental history, [2] Natural disasters and their consequences, [3] Evolution of biodiversity and culture, [4] Changes in livelihoods, [5] Management and utilization of community resources and [6] Implications to future society. The envisaged main readers are researchers including undergraduate and graduate students in a broad range of fields that includes the earth sciences, biology, ecology, archaeology, and anthropology.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sugawara, Daisuke

Yamada, Kazuyoshi

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Biodiversität
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Naturgewalten & Katastrophen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.- Time lag in the sea: Holocene marine reservoir effects revealed the Oki Islands, Japan.- Tephrochronological Framework of Japan over the Past 50,000 Years: A Review with Special Reference to Radiocarbon Calibration.- Paleo-earthquake events detected in varved lacustrine sediments in NE Japan.- Using marine terrace boulders as proxy for paleotsunamis in eastern Taiwan, implications of tsunami risk in the western Pacific.- Environmental impacts on the vegetation of the Juan Fernández (Robinson Crusoe) Archipelago.

Über Autor(innen)

Daisuke Sugawara is the Associate Professor of the International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University. His carrier was started at the Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University in 2006. He was working at the International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University from 2012 to 2015. After that, he moved to the Museum of natural and environmental history, Shizuoka and dedicated much on researches and curation. He came back to Tohoku University in March 2020. His research interests are: geological records of paleotsunamis and numerical modeling of sediment transport. He has published many papers in the field of sedimentological study of past tsunamigenic earthquakes, such as the 2011 Tohoku earthquake.

Kazuyoshi Yamada Kazuyoshi Yamada is the Professor of Waseda University and the visiting professor of the Museum of natural and environmental history, Shizuoka. His carrier was started at the Graduate School of Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University in 2002. He was working at Faculty of Human Sciences, Waseda University from 2012 to 2014. After that, he moved to the Museum of natural and environmental history, Shizuoka and dedicated much on researches and curation. He came back to Waseda University in April 2020. His research interests are paleo environmental variability reconstruction using lacustrine annual laminated (varved) sediments in mid- and low latitude areas. He has published more than 80 papers about paleoclimatology, paleolimnology as well as environmental history.