International workshop
“Environmental Governance in China”

RIHN Initiative for Chinese Environmental Issues (RIHN-China) will hold an international workshop, “Environmental Governance in China” on 18 March and 19 March.

We are looking forward to seeing you at the workshop.

Date:	18-19 March, 2010
Place:	Lecture Hall. RIHN ( Access)
Title:	Environmental Governance in China
Language:	English, Chinese and Japanese (Simultaneous Interpretation Provided)
Organizer:	RIHN Initiative for Chinese Environmental Issues
Co-organizer:	The International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)
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Background and Objectives:

In the past 30 years China’s economy has grown at about 10% per year, and China has become a global giant. Such rapid industrialization and economic growth, however, also has costs. China now confronts unprecedented pollution of its air, water and soils and is increasingly vulnerable to modern environmental problems such as water shortage, desertification, and global warming. Environmental regulations have had some positive or mitigative effect since they were first adopted by the state in the 1980s. If China’s environmental problems are viewed in the context of its modern society, however, they cannot be addressed simply by technical means; lasting solutions require consideration of contemporary Chinese economic, political, social and cultural systems.

This workshop calls together an international and multidisciplinary group of academics to describe and debate the scope and scale of China’s environmental challenges, and the state of its environmental governance at local, regional and central scales.

Topics

• History of environmental policies in China
• Effect of different levels of government in implementation of environmental policies, with special emphasis on “grain for green”, “environmental migration”, and water saving policies
• Future perspectives on sustainable use of natural resources, such as land and water

Program:

March 18, 2010
10:30 - 10:50	Opening Address Tomoya Akimichi (Deputy Director-General, RIHN) Objectives of the Workshop Jumpei Kubota (RIHN-China)
10:50 - 12:10	Session 1 “Ecological Migration” and “Grain for Green” Environmental-sociological Study of Ecological Migration in Ejina Region Sain (Beijing Normal University) Grain for Green: The Achievement and Some Issues Left Yoshiki Seki (Takushoku University)
12:10 - 13:30	Lunch
13:30 - 15:30	Session 2 Water Issues and Watershed Governance Issues and Perspectives for Institutional Arrangements of Basin Governance in China Kenji Otsuka (Institute of Developing Economies) The Amur-Okhotsk Ecosystem and China: Domestic Policy and International Cooperation on the Management of Wetland and Forest in China Yasunori Hanamatsu (RIHN) Relationship between Socio-economic Growth and Water Demand in Yellow River Basin, China - Considering Appropriate Water Use – Akio Onishi (Nagoya University)
15:30 - 15:50	Coffee Break
15:50 - 17:50	Session 3 Role of Local Governments on Implementations of Environmental Policies The Role of Local Government in Implementing National Government Policies: A Case Study in Zhangye City in Gansu Province Tomoko Nakamura (Tohoku University) Social Conditions for Environmental Governance in Local Cities in China Anxin Zhu (Nanjing University) Water Pollution caused by Floating Populations in the Suburbs of Shanghai -A Case Study in the Qingdong Area Zhen Zhang (Fudan University)
18:30 -	Reception
March 19, 2010
9:20 - 11:20	Session 4 Environmental Education and Communications Linking Environmental Governance and Environmental Learning and Knowledge Ilan Chabay (Chalmers University of Technology) How the Youth's Understanding of Science and Environment Affect Their Environmental Attitude Jin Wang (Sun Yat-Sen University) Designing Cross Scale Linkages in Environmental Governance - Opportunities and Challenges of Stakeholder Participation in Fisheries Management as a Case Christian Stöhr (Chalmers University of Technology)
11:20 - 11:30	Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30	General Discussion Ilan Chabay & Jumpei Kubota

Contact:

KUBOTA Jumpei （Associate Professor, RIHN）

Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN)

zip code: 603-8047

457-4, Motoyama Kamigamo, Kita-ku, Kyoto City, Japan

tel: +81-75-707-2391　fax: +81-75-707-2509

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