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「地球研ニュース」 No.68
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巻頭対談
自然も、音楽も、人の営みも、
ハーモニーがあってこそ美しい
森 悠子 ＋ 阿部健一
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イベントの報告
一年でいちばん熱い日
第7回 地球研オープンハウスを開催しました
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先端技術と向き合う〈第2回〉
人工光合成がある社会
植物からの独立がもたらす人と自然の新たな共存のかたち
熊澤輝一 ＋ 遠山真理
正岡重行
◆連載 百聞一見 フィールドからの体験レポート
里山の生きもの調査 別れを機に思うこと
原口 岳
図書館ワーク
梶田諒介
◆晴れときどき書評
可能性の海へ 石川智士・渡辺一生編『地域が生まれる、資源が育てる──エリアケイパビリティーの実践』
王 智弘
◆わたしと地球研 ………… リーダーのまなざし⑧
気候と歴史の関係を問い直す
中塚 武
◆表紙は語る
マンホールチルドレン
岸本紗也加articl
Political Participation by African Peasants as Development Actors of Integrated Water Resource Management
Get PDFapplication/pdfThis paper is aimed at verifying the change of historical phases to overcome modernization, through the process of African peasants’ participation in policy-making of integrated water resource management. To do that, it is important to criticize modern values like “rationality” and “efficiency” in order to explain why African peasants were marginalized from the political power during the colonization and authoritarian regime. And modern phenomena will be compared with postmodern one in regard to the social status of peasants, their availability of new technology and their rights to water. They overcome the dualistic system between modern administrative and traditional society. Some of them manage new technology according to their life style and treat easily it as their daily routine to increase agricultural production. Their application of new technology does not bring them a huge scale of colonial plantation but their life restructuration as social and economic actors. We will see also them using cross-national knowledge and technology to make decision of water resource as political actors. That is a new style of Nation-State under the influence of transnational elements. Without political participation of peasants as stakeholders, we will not be able to keep sustainable water resource management.articl
Assessing the Impact of Improved Sanitation on the Health and Happiness of a West African Local Population: Concepts and Research Methodology
Get PDFapplication/pdfWorldwide, nearly 90% of child deaths due to diarrhea have been attributed to unsafe water, inadequate sanitation, and poor hygiene. Furthermore, in developing countries, 2.5 billion people still lack access to improved sanitation facilities. In a collaborative project between Japan and Burkina Faso (Améli-Eaur Project, 2010–2015), we have installed composting toilets in pilot households in three rural villages near Ouagadougou, the capital city of Burkina Faso. For local farmers, we have promoted a breakthrough agro-sanitation business model that involves using fertilizer in human excreta form to grow vegetables for sale in the local market. In the next step, we intend to assess the composting toilet’s impact on the local population’s health and quality of life (QOL). We will conduct a comparison survey of households and villages where composting toilets have and have not been installed. The survey will cover the following three topics: (1) Lifestyle and Water Use; (2) Health and Nutrition; and (3) Happiness and Well-Being. We hope to demonstrate that improvements in health and QOL are crucial to the success and sustainability of composting toilet sanitation programs implemented in local West African communities.articl
