• ISBN13: 9783032015976
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: N/A
• Publisher: Springer
• Publisher Imprint: Springer
• Publication Date: October 2, 2025
• Pages: 211
• Original Price: USD 59.99
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 481 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Agriculture / General

Dr. Tsunashima Hiroyuki is a researcher affiliated with Urban Resilience Research Center, Osaka Metropolitan University, and a member of the board of directors in the Japanese Society of People-Plant Relationships. He has conducted an action research project toward agriculture-related job creation for the people facing poverty or social exclusion in urban settings for more than 10 years. Since before, he was involved in grass-roots activities to support homeless people in Osaka. And besides, based on his own fieldwork conducted from 2002 to 2006, he published his doctoral thesis titled "An Alternative Way of Agricultural Development by the Koya People in Andhra Pradesh, India" (Rubi Enterprise: Dhaka, 2012). Presently (as of 2025), he has launched a new research project to phenomenologically review horticultural therapy, which may have influenced practitioners' perspective, not only enhanced clients' well-being. He also pays close attention to the lack of political awareness that may lead to eugenic ideas and ultranationalism in the context of organic farming.