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Creating a Fountain of Future Lifestyle Ideas: Project Implementation
Published in Ryuzo Furukawa, Lifestyle and Nature, 2019
Ryuzo Furukawa, Masae Mitsuhashi
This project is aimed at designing future lifestyles through the following process. First, organize a forum of local government officials or representatives from the private sector to share understanding towards global environmental constraints (population, global warming, energy, resources, water, food, biodiversity, etc.) predicted in 2030 based on data published by national or international institutions. After confirming the data, half a day should be spent in sharing opinions on the social situation in 2030. This should not be about predicting the future but about how certain conditions would bring about certain changes in society. This would make it easier to envisage life in 2030. The next step would then be to consider what aspects of current lifestyles would be impossible to maintain or would be problematic in that social context, and then work backwards to identify solutions to such problems and envisage a lifestyle that would be spiritually affluent (backcasting). In designing such a lifestyle, we would refer to the results of 90-year-old hearing about the way of life before the war to highlight the special features of the region (values that need to be preserved). The problems revealed through this process would then be relevant to future global environmental constraints, and the envisaged lifestyle would be a lifestyle that would be spiritually affluent despite such constraints. A lifestyle that ignores global environmental constraints will not reflect any of the new values created through this process. The envisaged lifestyle should provide solutions to the problems that are likely to occur in the future.
Modelling areas for sustainable forest management in a mining and human dominated landscape: A Geographical Information System (GIS)- Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) approach
Published in Annals of GIS, 2022
Xavier Takam Tiamgne, Felix Kanungwe Kalaba, Vincent Raphael Nyirenda, Darius Phiri
The concept of sustainability from an ecological perspective establishes a connection between human needs and the ecosystems (Ramachandra, Setturu, and Vinay 2018). In meeting the human needs, transformation of ecosystems for production of goods and services should not compromise the carrying capacity of the affected ecosystems (Mukoni 2015). Forests constitute an important part of the terrestrial ecosystems by providing several goods and services, such as food, biodiversity, medicine, recreation and watershed for life sustenance, and provision of livelihoods to local communities (Mehring and Stoll-Kleemann 2008; Gabay and Rekola 2019). More than half of the earth’s population live around the forests and are supported by forest ecosystems (Shvidenko, Barber, and Persson 2005). About 1.6 billion people around the world depend on forests and their products for livelihoods and approximately 350 million people rely on forests only for their environmental incomes and subsistence (Mayers and Vermeulen 2002).