ISBN:
9781351378376
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (442 pages)
Parallel Title:
Print version Furukawa, Ryuzo Lifestyle and Nature
DDC:
304.2
Keywords:
Sustainable living
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1: Environmental Degradation and the Need to Change Our Lifestyles -- 1.1 What Are the Current Issues? -- 1.2 The Two Limits -- 1.3 Environmental Degradation (Expansion of Human Activity) -- 1.4 Our Decreasing Appetite for Material Consumption -- 1.4.1 The Limits of the Consumer Society -- 1.4.2 Two Reasons We Feel a Sense of Stagnation -- 1.4.3 The Murkiness of the Path Forward -- 1.4.4 A Change in How Things Are Valued -- 1.4.5 The Concept of Consumption -- 1.5 The Lifestyle Changes We Must Make -- 1.5.1 Breaking Away, Expanding Unsustainably -- 1.5.2 Thinking about a Sustainable Society -- 1.5.3 The Signs Are Already Here -- 2: Nature Technology Creation System -- 2.1 The Two Doors to Technology -- 2.2 Considering Natural Advantage -- 2.3 Nature's Unique Closed-Loop Society -- 2.4 Nature Achieves a Perfect Cycle with Minimal Energy Input -- 2.5 Nature Boasts the Perfect Cycle Yet Is Self-serving -- 2.6 Nature Technology: A New System of Manufacturing -- 2.7 Can We Learn from Nature? -- 2.8 Nature Drives Perfect Cycles with a Minimal Input of Energy -- 2.9 The Success of the Industrial Revolution Was Based on the Principle of Humanity's Separation from Nature -- 2.10 A Philosophy of Unity with Nature -- 2.11 Iki, the Spirit of Edo -- 2.12 The Japanese Industrial Revolution -- 2.13 The Four Elements of Technology We Can Learn from Iki -- 2.14 A Waterless Bath Learning from Foam -- 3: How Japan Found a Way of Life Producing Spiritual Affluence from Limited Resources -- 3.1 A Way of Life That Depends on Nature -- 3.2 A Way of Life Attuned to Nature -- 3.3 Craftsmanship as a Way of Life -- 3.4 Togetherness as a Way of Life -- 3.5 A Way of Life in Which People Fulfill Responsibilities -- 3.6 Living as Part of a Natural Cycle
Abstract:
3.7 The Disappearance of Spiritual Affluence -- 4: Lifestyle Design by Backcasting -- 4.1 The Necessity of Lifestyle Innovation -- 4.2 How to Design Lifestyles by Backcasting -- 4.3 Lifestyle Design Case Studies -- 4.4 Lifestyle Evaluation -- 4.5 Lifestyle Factors Desired by Japanese Local Area Under the Environmental Constraints of the Year 2030 -- 4.6 How to Advance Lifestyle Change -- 4.7 What Will Be the Motivation for Changing Lifestyles? -- 4.8 Implementing New Lifestyles in Regional Communities -- 5: Extracting Technologies from Future Lifestyles -- 5.1 Spiritually Affluent Lifestyles -- 5.2 The Concept of the Missing Link -- 5.2.1 Research on the Missing Link -- 5.3 Studying the Indications -- 5.4 Studying Indicators -- 5.5 Structure of Indicators -- 6: Matching Lifestyle to Technology -- 6.1 Use of the Simplest Method -- 6.2 Why Expand and Dig into Each Lifestyle? -- 6.3 Expanding Lifestyles: Method of Conceptualization -- 6.3.1 Finding the Key Concept behind a Whole Lifestyle (Going Back to the Abstract) -- 6.3.1.1 Conceptualization of the Utility Pole Lifestyle -- 6.3.1.2 Conceptualization of the Microbe Lifestyle -- 6.3.2 Create New Lifestyles with the Same Concept (Returning to the Concrete) -- 6.3.3 Matching Redesigned Lifestyles and Technology -- 6.3.4 Broadening Lifestyles Even Further (Focusing on Key Technologies and Illustrations) -- 6.4 Digging Deep into Lifestyles: Method of Action Decomposition Tree That Introduces Ontology Engineering -- 6.4.1 Creating an Action Decomposition Tree -- 6.4.1.1 Making an action decomposition tree for the Utility Pole Lifestyle -- 6.4.1.2 Making an action decomposition tree for the Microbe Lifestyle -- 6.4.2 Technology Matching on the Functions of the Action Decomposition Tree -- 6.5 The Limitless Business Seeds That Lie in Lifestyles -- 7: Bio-TRIZ -- 7.1 Introduction
Abstract:
7.2 Current Conditions Regarding Patents for Biomimetics -- 7.3 The Job of a Bio-TRIZ Database -- 7.3.1 Extracting Issues from Existing Technology and Materials -- 7.3.2 Seeking Out Biofunctions to Resolve Problems -- 7.3.3 Extracting and Generalizing the Principles of the Biofunctions Discovered -- 7.3.4 Creating Materials and Studying How to Optimize Them -- 7.4 Examples of Solutions to Technological Contradictions -- 7.5 Applying Bio-TRIZ to Needs-Oriented Manufacturing -- 7.6 Problem-Oriented Approach and Function-Oriented Approach -- 7.7 Conclusion -- 8: Creating a Fountain of Future Lifestyle Ideas: Project Implementation -- 8.1 Creating a Fountain of Ideas for Future Lifestyles: Project Implementation -- 8.2 Toyooka City -- 8.2.1 Launch of Toyooka Lifestyle Design Project -- 8.2.2 Enjoying Nakasuji's Foods in Season Event -- 8.2.3 Implementation of a Lifestyle Using Snow Cellars in Nakasuji District, Toyooka City -- 8.2.4 Integrated Studies at Nakasuji's Elementary School -- 8.3 Kitakami City -- 8.3.1 Lifestyle Design in Kitakami City -- 8.3.2 Private Sector Designed Lifestyles for Limited Areas -- 8.3.3 Implementing Lifestyles in Kitakami City -- 8.3.4 Designing Lifestyles Based on Regional Resources -- 8.4 Other Case Studies -- 8.5 The Spread of Lifestyle Reforms and the Challenges Involved -- 9: Creating Local Flavor and Passing It Down -- 9.1 Local Flavor and Value Systems in Japan's Prewar Way of Life -- 9.2 Local Flavor Comes from the Natural Environment and Local Resources -- 9.3 A Growing Trend of "Passing Things Down" -- 9.4 Passing Down Local Flavor: A Case Study from Shinmei, Ago, Shima City, Mie Prefecture -- 9.5 How to Bring Back Local Flavor -- 10: Developing Needs-Oriented Technologies with Bio-TRIZ: An Example of a New Lifestyle in Kitakami Achieved through Japanese Umbrellas -- 10.1 Introduction
Abstract:
10.2 Supporting Lifestyle Design by Taking a Needs-Oriented Approach -- 10.3 Designing and Developing Japanese Umbrellas from the Perspective of Material Engineering -- 10.4 Designing and Developing Japanese Umbrellas from the Perspective of Mechanical Engineering -- 10.5 Revitalizing the Regions with New Technologies -- 10.6 Community Development Project: A Circus of Japanese Umbrellas -- 10.7 Conclusion -- 11: Trends and Characteristics of Biomimetic Technology: Towards Social Implementation -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.1.1 Ecosystem Service and Biomimetic -- 11.1.2 Current Status and Challenges for Biomimetic -- 11.1.3 Approach of Biomimetics in Japan -- 11.2 A Comparative View of Research and Patents in Biomimetics and Other Themes -- 11.2.1 Background -- 11.2.2 Methodology -- 11.2.3 Comparisons of the Themes -- 11.2.4 Trends in Individual Countries and Regions -- 11.2.5 Summary of Inter-regional Comparisons -- 11.3 Research and Patents in Japan: Characteristics and Future Development -- 11.3.1 Annual Trends in Application Fields and Mimetic Targets -- 11.3.2 Trends in Patent Applicants -- 11.3.3 Application Fields in Temporal Sequences -- 11.4 Summary -- 12: Nature Technology as a Contributor to Sustainable Social Innovation -- 12.1 Lifestyle-Responsible Technology -- 12.1.1 Air Conditioners Inspired by Soil -- 12.1.2 Micro Wind Power Inspired by Dragonflies -- 12.1.3 In-Home Farms Inspired by Microbial Biodiversity -- 12.1.4 New Viewpoints towards Nature Technology -- 12.2 A Basic Workflow for Deriving Technology from Backcasted Lifestyles -- 12.2.1 Extrapolating Technical Elements -- 12.2.2 Learning from Nature -- 12.2.3 Use of a Standardized Lifestyle Vocabulary -- 12.3 Finding Technology Elements from Backcast Lifestyles -- 12.4 Observing Lifestyles from Actions
Abstract:
12.5 The Functions and Elements Sought Therein are Then Used to Search for Technology Seeds in Nature -- 12.6 Towards a Ubiquity of Nature Technology -- 12.6.1 Teeny-Tiny Wind Turbines -- 12.6.2 Kitakami's Japanese Umbrellas -- Index
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