We cannot fight against this environmental crisis with superficial efforts. Carefully planned policies with concrete action plans are necessary to ensure a satisfactory lifestyle. Our future is being jeopardized unless we change our present social and economic system which supports mass production, mass consumption, and mass disposal as a means of efficiency and material affluence.
In order that future generations may continue living in an affluent society, JAES 21 is dedicated to investigating new ways to build an equitable and sustainable society (Junkan-Shakai) during this era known as the “Century of the Environment”.