Page 22 - Changing Living Spaces

Satosthi Murayama

Table 2 Continued from the previous page
Elements Part I Part II Part III
of Living Chapter 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Total
Spaces i) natural events 1 1 1 3
7) Disasters ii) extreme weather events 1 1 0
iii) anthropogenic
environmental disasters
iv) historical records
v) mitigation 1 1 1 1 3 1
vi) resilience and recovery 1 1 2
Total 4 1 2 1 4 1 10
3
i) food security
8) Foods ii) food and technology 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 7 1
iii) animal husbandry/
pastoralism
iv) land and sea nomadism 0
v) material circulation (land 1 1 1 3
and sea links)
Total 4 3 1 7 14
1
i) biological waste
9) Waste ii) chemical and hazardous 0
wastes
iii) waste management
iv) material circulation 1 1 1 1 2
v) consumption behaviour 1 1
Total 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 1 5 5
i) gender/sexuality/social
10) Humans capital 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 7 2
ii) population/family
iii) ethnicity
iv) nature views/religion/
ethics 1 1 2
v) ecological footprint 1 1 2
vi) education 1 1
Total 7 7 5 19

Perhaps the logic of exclusion is almost absent from this list. Each
chapter of this book may deal with only one item, or it may deal with sev-
eral. To determine which are addressed in each chapter, the authors were
asked to check off each relevant item. The number ‘1’ was included so that
each column can be summed. As table 2 shows, there are relatively few
chapters on animals, microorganisms, air, or waste. However, it can be
observed that this book has developed discussions by combining the ele-
ments of Living Spaces in a comprehensive manner.
Identifying the individual elements is not the only goal of this ap-
proach. LiSa can also clarify various issues related to the individual ele-
ments or combinations of elements. In setting the three components of

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