Lifestyle and Nature

Chapter 1

Environmental Degradation and the Need to Change Our Lifestyles

Emile H. Ishida

Pages: 1-44

Chapter 2

Nature Technology Creation System

Emile H. Ishida

Pages: 45-88

Chapter 3

How Japan Found aWay of Life Producing Spiritual Affluence from Limited Resources

Ryuzo Furukawa

Pages: 89-128

Chapter 4

Lifestyle Design by Backcasting

Ryuzo Furukawa

Pages: 129-160

Chapter 5

Extracting Technologies from Future Lifestyles

Emile H. Ishida and Ryuzo Furukawa

Pages: 161-188

Chapter 6

Matching Lifestyle to Technology

Yuko Suto and Ryuzo Furukawa

Pages: 189-226

Chapter 7

Bio-TRIZ

Takeshi Yamauchi, Hidetoshi Kobayashi, and Toru Kobayashi

Pages: 227-254

Chapter 8

Creating a Fountain of Future Lifestyle Ideas: Project Implementation

Ryuzo Furukawa and Masae Mitsuhashi

Pages: 255-288

Chapter 9

Creating Local Flavor and Passing It Down

Ryuzo Furukawa

Pages: 289-316

Chapter 10

Developing Needs-Oriented Technologies with Bio-TRIZ: An Example of a New Lifestyle in Kitakami Achieved through Japanese Umbrellas

Takeshi Yamauchi, Hidetoshi Kobayashi, and Toru Kobayashi

Pages: 317-338

Chapter 11

Trends and Characteristics of Biomimetic Technology: Towards Social Implementation

Yoshinori Fujihira, Yuta Uchiyama, and Ryo Kohsaka

Pages: 339-374

Chapter 12

Nature Technology as a Contributor to Sustainable Social Innovation

Yuko Suto, Ryuzo Furukawa, Takeshi Yamauchi, Hidetoshi Kobayashi, Toru Kobayashi, and Emile H. Ishida

Pages: 375-410