Human Insecurity in East Asia by Michio Umegaki

Tables and Figures vii

Contributors x

Acknowledgements xii

Abbreviations xiv

Introduction - East Asia in a human security perspective Michio Umegaki 1

Part I Living with human insecurity 19

1 Embracing human insecurity: Agent Orange-Dioxin and the legacies of the war in Viet Nam Michio Umegaki Vu Le Thao Chi Tran Duc Phan 21

2 The ageing community: Human insecurity in a "developed" society Satoshi Watanabe 47

3 Choice of their own, choice from their need: People on the move in rural northeast Thailand Atsushi Watabe Chaicharn Wongsamun 72

4 Rural changes and ageing in human insecurity in northern Thailand Liwa Pardthaisong-Chaipanich 100

Part II Intervening in Human insecurity 119

5 Landlessness and development: Policy purposes and policy outcomes in Southeast Asia Lynn Thiesmeyer 121

6 Policy coordination beyond borders: Japan-China environmental policy practices in Shenyang and Chengdu, China Wang Xue-ping Yoshika Sekine 144

7 ASEAN migrant workers: From poverty to human-security-based competitiveness Patcharawalai Wongboonsin 165

8 Pesticide dependence in agriculture: Policy for productivity and policy for security in Viet Nam Tran Duc Vien Pharm Van Hoi 191

9 Creating a Community: Ageing in urban Japan Daisuke Watanabe 211

10 Human security practices in a highland minority project Lynn Thiesmeyer Seewigaa Kittiyoungkun 232

Epilogue - Research in human insecurity Michio Umegaki 260

Index 269