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Indigenous environmental worldviews, ethics and environmental sustainability: the critical connections

Research Project

Project/Area Number 17K00687
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Environmental policy and social systems
Research InstitutionKeio University

Principal Investigator

Choy Yee Keong  慶應義塾大学, 経済学部(三田), 訪問研究員 (30750418)

Project Period (FY) 2017-04-01 – 2020-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2019)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥900,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
KeywordsEnvironmental ethics / Environmental worldviews / Sustainability / Indigenous worldviews / Environmental value / United Nations / Stockholm Conference / Environmental depletion / 倫理学 / 哲学 / 環境政策 / 環境対応 / 国際貢献
Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research contributes significantly to our understanding of the inextricable links between environmental beliefs, value judgements and environmental protection in our individualistic age of capitalism. It asserts that the global environment would not be what it is today had it embraced a moral and ethical engagement with nature when optimizing its economic use. It also provides a cogent explanation of why international and regional environmental treaties, laws, regulations, conventions and conferences created and relentlessly adopted for the past few decades since Stockholm have, paradoxically, not been able to prevent or even slow down the rapid acceleration of worldwide environmental decline-which includes, inter alia, ecological impoverishment, biodiversity degradation and greenhouse gases emissions. Addressing these problems necessarily involves man’s conscious recognition of the exigency need to move away from anthropocentrism to ecocentrism.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

This research establishes an encyclopedic perspective for the understanding of the dynamic implications of environmental stewardship premised on ecocentrism in mitigating the perversity of the tragedies of the commons confronting humanity today.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2019 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2018 Research-status Report
  • 2017 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (17 results)

All 2020 2019 2018 2017

All Journal Article (1 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 1 results) Presentation (13 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 8 results,  Invited: 6 results) Book (3 results)

  • [Journal Article] The Ocean Carbon Sink and Climate Change: A Scientific and Ethical Assessment.2019

    • Author(s)
      Choy Yee Keong
    • Journal Title

      International Journal of Environmental Science and Development

      Volume: 10(8) Issue: 8 Pages: 246-251

    • DOI

      10.18178/ijesd.2019.10.8.1181

    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Presentation] Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Climate Change: Is Taiwan Ready to Adapt?2019

    • Author(s)
      Choy Yee Keong
    • Organizer
      National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (Taiwan Tech) Public Lecture
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Global Warming: the 1.5°C Danger Zone and its Implications for Green Transformation in Malaysia2019

    • Author(s)
      Choy Yee Keong
    • Organizer
      National University of Malaysia LESTARI Invited Lecture
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Sustainable Development and Global Environmental Aspirations in the Age of Neoliberalism: The Challenge2019

    • Author(s)
      Choy Yee Keong
    • Organizer
      Fujian Normal University School of Geographical Sciences Invited Lecture
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Entropy, Urban Metabolism and Sustainable Urban Future: The Nexus2019

    • Author(s)
      Choy Yee Keong
    • Organizer
      Jeffrey Sachs Center on Sustainable Development (Sunway University) Invited Lecture laysia
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Climate Change, Policy-driven Green Transformation and Human-driven Green Orientation: The Nexus2019

    • Author(s)
      Choy Yee Keong
    • Organizer
      International Symposium jointly organized by Fujian Normal University, People’s Republic of China and Ryugoku University, Japan
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Global Warming: the 1.5°C Danger Zone and its Implications for Green Transformation in Malaysia2019

    • Author(s)
      Choy Yee Keong
    • Organizer
      Institute for Environment and Development (LESTARI), National University of Malaysia (UKM), Malaysia
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Behind the Veil of Sustainable Development: the Reality (the Case of Southeast Asia)2018

    • Author(s)
      Choy Yee Keong
    • Organizer
      11th International Conference on Business, Education, Humanities and Social Sciences Studies (BEHSSS-18-Istanbul)
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] From the Holocene to the Human-induced Anthropocen: Re-conceptualizing Environmental Value Orientations.2018

    • Author(s)
      Choy Yee Keong
    • Organizer
      5th ASM International Congress on Social Science
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] From Stockholm Declaration to the Millennium Development Goals: the United Nations’ journey to environmental sustainability 40 years later2017

    • Author(s)
      Choy Yee Keong
    • Organizer
      The Tenth International Conference on Development (New Series)
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Protected areas and biodiversity protection: the African conservation paradox2017

    • Author(s)
      Choy Yee Keong
    • Organizer
      European Conference on Sustainability, Energy & the Environment
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), nature conservation and biodiversity protection: the Asian green imperialism2017

    • Author(s)
      Choy Yee Keong
    • Organizer
      European Center of Sustainable Development 5th International Conference on Sustainable Development )
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Human values and global environmental change in the Anthroprocene: the challenges of environmental philosophy2017

    • Author(s)
      Choy Yee Keong
    • Organizer
      European Conference on Ethics, Religion & Philosophy
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Humanity in the age of Anthropocene: the crisis of ethical thinking and the indigenous worldview2017

    • Author(s)
      Choy Yee Keong
    • Organizer
      Fifteenth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Book] Global Environmental Sustainability: Case Studies and Analysis of the United Nations’ Journey to Sustainable Development2020

    • Author(s)
      Choy Yee Keong
    • Total Pages
      300
    • Publisher
      Elsevier
    • ISBN
      9780128224199
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] 「環境経済学の 政策デザイン」2019

    • Author(s)
      「大沼あゆみ・細田衛士編著 細田衛士、一ノ瀬 大輔 、斉藤崇、井上恵美子、樽井 礼、坂上 紳、新熊 隆嘉、山本 雅資、大沼 あゆみ、チョイ・イー・ケエヨン」
    • Total Pages
      272
    • Publisher
      慶應義塾大学出版会
    • ISBN
      9784766426007
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] From Stockholm Declaration to Millennium Development Goals. The United Nations Journey to Environmental Sustainability. In: Developmental State And Millennium Development Goals: Country Experiences2018

    • Author(s)
      Choy Yee Keong (Kartik Roy and Sandip Kar, editors)
    • Total Pages
      360
    • Publisher
      New Jersey. London: World Scientific Publishing
    • ISBN
      9789813235274
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report

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Published: 2017-04-28   Modified: 2021-02-19  

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