https://blogarchiv.tropentag.de/taxonomy/term/235/0 en https://blogarchiv.tropentag.de/node/137 <b><a href="http://www.tropentag.de">Tropentag 2011</a> will have a focus on development on the margin. Watching <a href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/03/japan_earthquake_aftermath.html">the images</a> and <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2011/mar/14/japan-tsunami-amateur-footage-video?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3486 ">the video from Japan</a> calls for a re-definition of our perspective on <i>margin</i>. There is no nation more modern and more organised than Japan, nevertheless <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/mar/18/japan-horror-thin-edge-climate-change">the thinness of the edge</a> on which modernity lives was revealed in the most striking way. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tropentag/5539164752/" title="JAPAN-QUAKE by tropentag, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5259/5539164752_63ff18cdd3.jpg" width="500" height="437" alt="JAPAN-QUAKE" /></a> Photo: Yomiuri Shimbun/AFP/Getty Images <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tropentag/5538596771/" title="JAPAN-QUAKE by tropentag, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5092/5538596771_ee5d145a6f.jpg" width="500" height="324" alt="JAPAN-QUAKE" /></a> Photo: Kyodo/Reuters <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tropentag/5538596441/" title="JAPAN-QUAKE/LEAKAGE by tropentag, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5298/5538596441_ae1a329c3d.jpg" width="500" height="432" alt="JAPAN-QUAKE/LEAKAGE" /></a> Photo: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters </b><p><a href="https://blogarchiv.tropentag.de/node/137" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Management of natural resources climate change earthquake energy Japan nuclear tsunami Sat, 19 Mar 2011 04:12:43 +0000 De-Registered User 137 at https://blogarchiv.tropentag.de