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This book, first published in 1995, is about the underside of Japan's economic miracle. It is an account of people who have been forgotten in Japan's push to industrialise in the post-war era: the coal-miners of Chikuho on Japan's southernmost island. The dirty and neglected character of Chikuho is in stark contrast with Japan's prevailing image as an international leader in technology and an affluent, socially cohesive country. As coal industries in industrialised nations around the world are closed down, regions like Chikuho embody the concept of underdevelopment within highly developed societies. Matthew Allen challenges the concepts of industrial harmony, economic foresight, cultural homogeneity and caring political management that dominate much of the literature on Japan. He describes how the people of the coalfields see themselves, providing insights into an aspect of Japanese society that is rarely encountered.
Coal mines and mining --- Coal mining --- Collieries --- Energy industries --- Mines and mineral resources --- Chikuho-machi (Japan) --- Economic conditions. --- Social conditions. --- Social life and customs. --- E-books --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology
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Dynamics of Coupled Structures, Volume 4: Proceedings of the 41st IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2023, the fourth volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings and case studies on fundamental and applied aspects of the Dynamics of Coupled Structures, including papers on: Real-Time/Hybrid Substructuring Transfer Path Analysis Frequency Based Substructuring The Substructuring Benchmark Challenge New Challenges & Approaches in Substructuring.
Structural dynamics --- Statics. --- Buildings --- Aerospace engineering. --- Astronautics. --- Vehicles. --- Civil engineering. --- Building materials. --- Mechanical Statics and Structures. --- Building Construction and Design. --- Aerospace Technology and Astronautics. --- Vehicle Engineering. --- Civil Engineering. --- Structural Materials. --- Design and construction.
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This Pivot offers a comprehensive cross-country study of the effects of large-scale resource extraction in Asia Pacific, considering how large-scale extractive industries engender contentious social, political and economic questions. Addressing the strong association in Melanesia between extractive resource industries and a spectrum of violence ranging from interpersonal to collective forms, it questions whether islands are particularly potent spaces for the contentious politics that attend enclave economies. The book brings island studies literature into a closer conversation with political and economic geography, demonstrating that islands provide rich spaces for the investigation of the socio-spatial relations at the heart of human geography’s theoretical cannon. The book also has a real-world policy edge, as the sustained and growing dominance of extractive industries, in concert with the highly contentious politics that they engender, places them at the centre of efforts to understand state formation, political reordering and the on-going negotiation of political settlements of various types throughout post-colonial Melanesia. It considers how extractive resource industries can shape processes of state formation, shedding new light on Melanesia’s resource curse.
Social sciences. --- Environmental policy. --- Environmental sociology. --- Environmental sciences --- Environmentalism --- Sociology --- Environment and state --- Environmental control --- Environmental management --- Environmental protection --- Environmental quality --- State and environment --- Environmental auditing --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Social aspects --- Government policy --- Natural resources. --- Environmental Sociology. --- Natural Resource and Energy Economics. --- Environmental Politics. --- National resources --- Natural resources --- Resources, Natural --- Resource-based communities --- Resource curse --- Economic aspects
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This Pivot offers a comprehensive cross-country study of the effects of large-scale resource extraction in Asia Pacific, considering how large-scale extractive industries engender contentious social, political and economic questions. Addressing the strong association in Melanesia between extractive resource industries and a spectrum of violence ranging from interpersonal to collective forms, it questions whether islands are particularly potent spaces for the contentious politics that attend enclave economies. The book brings island studies literature into a closer conversation with political and economic geography, demonstrating that islands provide rich spaces for the investigation of the socio-spatial relations at the heart of human geography’s theoretical cannon. The book also has a real-world policy edge, as the sustained and growing dominance of extractive industries, in concert with the highly contentious politics that they engender, places them at the centre of efforts to understand state formation, political reordering and the on-going negotiation of political settlements of various types throughout post-colonial Melanesia. It considers how extractive resource industries can shape processes of state formation, shedding new light on Melanesia’s resource curse.
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New Directions for Corporate Governance: A Comparative Capitalisms Perspective compares different corporate-governance systems and evaluates those systems in terms of different aspects of organizational performance not just shareholder returns.
Corporate governance. --- Comparative economics. --- Corporate governance --- Comparative economics
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Popular culture --- Japon --- Culture. --- Culture populaire.
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