Human Survivability Studies: A New Paradigm for Solving Global Issues (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781925608144)

Fujita Masakatsu is a Japanese scholar specializing in philosophy. He is Professor Emeritus at Kyoto University and his research focuses on German philosophy, particularly the work of Hegel and Schelling, the history of thought, and the history of Japanese philosophy. Kawai Eriko is Professor at the Shishu-Kan Graduate School, Kyoto University. She specializes in asset management, English education, and global human resource development. She obtained a BA from Harvard University in the United States in 1981 and an MBA from INSEAD in France in 1985. After that, she worked as a consultant at McKinsey's Paris office, as fund manager at the investment bank SG Warburg in London, and as an economist in Paris. She took up her professorial position at Kyoto University in 2012. Kawai Shuichi is Professor Emeritus at Kyoto University. He graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture, Kyoto University in 1971 and received his PhD from the same university in 1980. He became Professor at Kyoto University in 1995. He retired from Kyoto University in 2013 and has served as Chairman of the Japan Wood Research Society and Vice Chairman of the Society of Materials Science, Japan. He specializes in forestry, wood science, wood material science, and cultural heritage conservation.