Social Fairness in a Post-Pandemic World

Hikari Ishido is Professor of International Economics at the Graduate School of Global and Transdisciplinary Studies, Chiba University; director of Chiba University Bangkok Campus (in Thailand); and director general of the APEC Study Center Japan. Jiro Mizushima is Professor of History of European Politics and Comparative European Politics at the Graduate School of Social Sciences, Chiba University, Japan. He heads the University’s flagship research project “New Frontiers of Studies on Fair Society: Values and Public Vision in the age after COVID-19.” Masaya Kobayashi is Professor of Political Philosophy, Public Philosophy, Positive Psychology, and Comparative Politics at the Graduate School of Social Sciences, Chiba University, Japan. He heads Chiba University’s Research Center on Public Affairs and represents multiple academic networks related to his specializations above. Xiaofang Zhang is Assistant Professor from China at Chiba University, Japan.. She specializes in environmental policy and conducts multiple research projects under the University’s flagship research project “New Frontiers of Studies on Fair Society: Values and Public Vision in the age after COVID-19.”

Chapter 1 Introduction Multi-layered and multi-dimensional viewpoints towards a Fair Society.- Part I Global perspective.- Chapter 2 Fairness in the Global Allocation System for the COVID-19 Vaccine COVAX: Limits to Affected Parties' Participation in Decision-Making.- Chapter 3 Environment and Economy after COVID-19: Focusing on Global Warming Issues.- Chapter 4 An Investigation Through Philosophy and Case Studies on Regional Integration, Migrants and Refugees, and the COVID-19 Crisis.- Chapter 5 Challenges and Possibilities for Global Economic Cooperation after COVID-19 - Focus on East Asia.- Part II Regional Focus.- Chapter 6 Social Justice and the Response to the COVID-19 Crisis in European Countries.- Chapter 7 Well-being and Fairness in the COVID-19 Crisis in Japan: Insights from Positive Political Psychology.- Chapter 8 COVID-19 Policy Response and Citizens' Well-Being in Australia.- Chapter 9 Mexico facing the COVID-19pandemic: ineffective societal and governmental responses in a country with a high level of socioeconomic inequality and a precarious health system.- Chapter 10 APEC's Response to the COVID-19 Crisis and Social Justice.- Part III Thematic issues.- Chapter 11 COVID-19 and its impact on Women and Gender.- Chapter 12 Modern Japanese Literature and Infectious Diseases: Representations of Infectious Diseases and Social Justice in Literary Works.- Interim Conclusion.