著者

YUMOTO Takakazu

出版者

首都大学東京小笠原研究委員会

雑誌

小笠原研究 (ISSN:03868176)

巻号頁・発行日

no.37, pp.97-102, 2011

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Islands have been blessed by their unique biota, culture, and language, depending on affluent ecosystem services and subsistence economy. Island life was one of the good examples of a sustainable way of life. But globalization destroyed its subsistence economy and made their lives unsustainable. Trans-disciplinary research is needed to restore and reconstruct island lives as well as ecosystems, in order to utilize the rich biodiversity and cultural diversity of islands for green development as ecotourism, sustainable forestry and fishery, and handicrafts. Local knowledge of islands is a treasure box for future sustainable lives with "low environmental loads and high quality of live".