Universality and Diversity in Sustainability: Sea resource use (whaling) in Japan and Australia

可持续性的普遍性和多样性：日本和澳大利亚的海洋资源利用（捕鲸）

基本信息

批准号：
22401007
负责人：
KATO Kumi
金额：
$ 3.33万
依托单位：
Wakayama University
依托单位国家：
日本
项目类别：
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
财政年份：
2010
资助国家：
日本
起止时间：
2010 至 2012
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

This study attempted to examine universality and diversity within the sustainability concept through the analysis of sea resource use (whaling) though a comparative analysis of political and social conflicts and abrasion between Japan and Australia as whaling and non-whaling nations. Fieldwork and media analysis was the main method for this investigation. It was evident that the two nations differ on two, not limited to the purpose of the harvest (oil/meat). Whaling defined firstly international relations: for Australia, maintaining ties with Britain and other English speaking nations was vital, whereas, for Japan, whaling was proven to be a means to gaining international credibility after its defeat in WW2. Whaling also shaped environmental idea, as whales represented a vast, deep world unknown and inaccessible to humans. It is today’s tendency that media makes up a sense of ‘universality’in the environmental thinking. At the same time, many of the cultures born out of interaction between the natural world, and thus created identity of a place or region are being lost due to rapid environmental changes such as climate change and species loss. The universality of sustainability today is the ‘ethics in theanthropocene’, that is the question how we should take responsibility for the anthropogenic impacts on the environment; and the diversity within sustainability concept is the way we understand, and act on from various standpoints. The advancement of the sustainability concept relies on the mutuality of the two.

本研究试图通过对海洋资源利用（捕鲸）的分析，通过对日本和澳大利亚作为捕鲸国和非捕鲸国之间的政治和社会冲突和磨损进行比较分析，来检验可持续性概念的普遍性和多样性。这项调查的主要方法显然有两个，不仅限于捕鲸的目的（石油/肉类）：对于澳大利亚来说，与英国和其他英语国家保持联系。至关重要，而对于日本来说，在二战中战败后，捕鲸业被证明是获得国际信誉的一种手段，因为鲸鱼代表着人类未知且无法进入的广阔而深邃的世界。这是当今媒体的趋势。环境思维中的“普遍性”意识同时，由于气候变化等快速的环境变化，许多诞生于自然世界之间相互作用的文化以及由此产生的地方或地区特征正在消失。和物种丧失。当今可持续发展的普遍性是“人类世的伦理”，这是我们应该如何对人类对环境造成的影响负责的问题；而可持续发展概念的多样性是我们从不同立场理解和采取行动的方式。可持续发展概念的实现依赖于两者的相互作用。