Everyday Life-Environmentalism: Community Sustainability and Resilience in Asia

This book provides one of the first systematic introductions to the Japanese concept of life-environmentalism, Seikatsu-Kankyo Shugi. This concept emerged in the 1980s as a shared research framework among Japanese social scientists studying the adverse consequences of postwar industrialization on everyday life in communities.

Life-environmentalism offers a lens through which the agency of small communities in sustaining their everyday life and living environment can be understood. The book p...