Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction

2. Theorizing everyday life : the life-environmentalist way

Part I. Development impulse and everyday-life organizations

3. Local rules : sustaining local everyday life with aqua-tourism / Takehito Noda

4. Coexistence without consensus : the role of a life organization in mediating between fishermen and surfers in a coastal community / Shusuke Murata

5. When civil society falls short : rural community response to a resort development project / Daisaku Yamamoto and Yumiko Yamamoto

Part II. Governing everyday-life spaces

6. From dichotomous interpretations to spectrum thinking : formation of a community organization in a nuclear host locality / Atsushi Yamamuro

7. “Public” (gong) as village norm : urbanization and community response in China / Meifang Yan

8. Multilayered commons space : dry riverbed use in a local community in Ibaraki, Japan / Takaaki Isogawa

Part III. Living with disasters

9. Why do victims of tsunami return to the coast? / Kyoko Ueda and Hiroyuki Torigoe

10. The roots of resilience : forest commons and the cultivation and disappearance of livelihood security in a nuclear disaster-afflicted community / Hiroyuki Kaneko

11. Apparitions and the recovery of livelihoods after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami disaster / Kiyoshi Kanebishi

Part IV. Historic Environment and Urban Communities

12. Living traditional culture : Gujo Dance in Hachiman Town, Gujo City, Gifu Prefecture, Japan / Shigekazu Adachi

13. Embracing the enemy’s legacy : historical environmental preservation in Daegu, South Korea / Rie Matsui

14. Boxing camp as a community school : local boxers in Metro Manila, Philippines / Tomonori Ishioka

Part V. Critical reflections and prospects

15. Empirically speaking : life-environmentalism, environmental justice and feminist political ecology / Daisaku Yamamoto, Sophia Ferrero, and Keegan Kessler

16. Life-environmentalism, critiques, and prospects : focusing on the experientialist approach / Yasushi Arakawa

17. The future of life-environmentalism : a sympathetic critique / Masaharu Matsumura

Part VI. Translated excerpts from sociological theory of environmental problems (1989)

18. Original introduction of life-environmentalism (1989) / Hiroyuki Torigoe