Oct 18 (Tue)

9:00 Openning
9:10 Key note address

(T. Nakashizuka)

Session 1: Forest utilization and its impacts on Biodiversity (Chair: K. Niiyama)

9:30

Shunichi Makino (FFPRI):

Forest utilization and its impacts on Biodiversity

Naoki Agetsuma (Hokkaido Univ):

Human and wildlife conflicts caused by forest change -A negative impact of monotonous land use-

Yuji Isagi (Hiroshima Univ), Ryunosuke Tateno (RIHN), Yu Matsuki (Hiroshima University), Akira Hirao (Hokkaido University):

Effect of forest change on genetic and reproductive traits of tree populations in different landscape components

Martin Hermy (Kuleuven University, Belgium):

Legacies of the past effects forest biodiversity for ever?

11:10 Tea Break

Session 2: Sustainable forest use and local society (Chair: W. Fujita)

11:30

Asako Miyamoto, Makoto Sano, Hiroshi Tanaka, and Shun’ichi Makino (FFPRI):

Drivers of forest change and biodiversity in a temperate forest, central Japan

David Sprague (National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences):

Climbing uphill to make a living: traditional land use extent and topography in Yakushima Island, Japan.

Masahiro Ichikawa (RIHN):

Landuse by native people in Sarawak, East Malaysia: an evaluation from viewpoint of biodiversity conservation

Dimbab Ngidang (Universiti Malaysia Sarawak):

Iban cultural landscape and land development in the East Malaysian state of Sarawak

Peter Lagan (Sabah Forestry Department):

Sustainable forest management through forest stewardship in Borneo

13:10 Lunch

Session 3: Sustainable use and conservation of biodiversity (Chair: A. Onuma?)

14:40

Chair: A. Onuma
Peter Lagan (Sabah Forestry Department):

Sustainable use of tropical forest by reduced impact logging in Deramakot Forest Reserve, Sabah, Malaysia

Kuniyasu Momose (Ehime Univ):

Under what conditions can biodiversity resource use be sustainable? A theory and an example in Borneo

Amos Zemel (Ben Gurion University of the Negev):

Resource exploitation, biodiversity loss and ecological events

Ken-ichi Akao (Waseda Univ):

Emergence of finite time extinction in resource economics

16:20 Break

16:40 Discussion

18:00 Closing