{"id":9696,"date":"2011-03-09T19:23:31","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T10:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/ipcr\/?p=9696"},"modified":"2020-03-14T09:55:06","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T00:55:06","slug":"fy2011iv-15soda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/ipcr\/en\/fy2011iv-15soda\/","title":{"rendered":"IV-8.”Spatiotemporal Analysis of Tropical Commodity Chains: Toward the Creation of Global Multidisciplinary Studies”(H23 FY2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"
This study examines the interrelationships between human and equatorial highbiomass environment, by analyzing biological resources that generate commodity chains at local\/regional\/global levels. Project members with different academic backgrounds will accumulate case studies on the flows of high-biomass products such as timber, mammal meat, bird\u2019s nest, rattan, gutta-percha, rubber, oil palm, and acacia, each of which will make clear equatorial resource utilization and its commoditization. Integrating these case studies, we will try to create a new multi-scale Area Studies methodology which deals with human-nature interactions.<\/p>\n
The purpose of this study is to construct new multidisciplinary global Area Studies by examining the process of equatorial biomass application from production to consumption at various spatiotemporal scales. Instead of conventional studies that focused on commodity chains from macro perspectives, our study is more multidimensional including perspectives of disturbance ecology, lifecycle assessment, anthropology, and Area Studies, in order to make clear the interactions between people and high-biomass environment in tropical regions.<\/p>\n
In this study, each member conducts case studies to analyze the commoditization of high-biomass generated products, setting up effective units of spatiotemporal scales based on the method of each academic discipline. Then accumulated case studies will be theoretically integrated by using methodologies employed in geography and historical science that may articulate studies with different time\/spatial scales. This will be an experimental attempt at creating a new type of integration between the humanities and science.<\/p>\n
Looking at the flow mechanisms of tropical high-biomass products and inter-regional relationships through commodity chains, we will try to deconstruct conventional Area Studies which are bound to a specific research site and present a new model of \u2018interdisciplinary and trans-regional\u2019 Area Studies with equatorial perspectives.<\/p>\n