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International Symposium on Future Asia
“Bridging Science, Technology and Society: Practices of Transdisciplinary Implementation on Sustainability and Environmental Change in Future Asia”
| Organizers: | GEC-Japan Platform Japan National Committee for IGBP/WCRP/DIVERSITAS Science Council of Japan Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN) |
| Dates: | 13 (Thu)- 14 (Fri) December 2012 |
| Venue: | RIHN Lecture Hall, Kyoto, Japan ( Access) |
| Program： | PDF file |
| Materials： |
Panel 1 Panel 2.1 Panel 2.2 |
Panel 3 Panel 4 Panel 5 |
| Participation List： | PDF file | |
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Objectives:
New strategies on global environmental change and sustainability have been continuously discussed during last years through initiatives of ICSU (International Council for Science), Belmont Forum, national science councils and at venues like Planet under Pressure Conference and Rio+20. Due to aggravating complexities of these problems and elusive separation (/interaction) between the attitudes of science and society towards these transitions, innovative and potential research frameworks like co-design and co-produce, top-down framing and bottom-up processing, and transdisciplinary practices have been under close scrutiny for better understanding and realization of sustainability models with global environmental and societal change. In the meantime, the need for regional strategies and young scientists' involvement in these processes has never been this articulate that there is an urgent call from both decision making bodies and scientific communities to promote discussions on regional differences in terms of perspectives, science practices and implementations, and inclusion of young researchers as well as other stakeholders of sustainability research. Asia Vision is one of these attempts initiated by GEC (Global Environmental Change)- Japan Platform to enhance linkages and collaboration on transdisciplinarity approaches to sustainability research in Japan and Asia in its larger context.
In this symposium, one-year experience of the newly launched GEC-Japan will be introduced and discussed in order to exchange ideas and get attention on our call for establishment of a rather extensive networking framework of the Asia Vision initiative with the new GEC-Japan/Asia Platform. This Future Asia Symposium will be one crucial occasion with participation of the leading figures, on environmental change research and science-society interaction with transdisciplinary background, in order to discuss and compare regional as well as global environmental change and sustainability research experiences and direct our attention towards regional potentials for transdisciplinary and global sustainability solutions. We also plan to discuss further processes and Asian particularities of transdisciplinary global sustainability research by reflecting on the recent developments on the Future Earth and Belmont Forum initiatives. Our target audience is researchers, students and other groups who are interested in discussing their regional (or Asia focused) as well as country-based collaborative research initiatives and willing to contribute to further activities of the GEC-Japan/Asia Platform and Asia Vision.
For this reason, we are inviting experts with wide spectrum of research interest ranging from social and natural sciences to humanities with an interest in environmental change and sustainability as well as with an understanding and expertise of working within interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary frameworks. Discussions and main findings of the symposium will be compiled in an edited volume to contribute to the international and regional development of environmental change and sustainability research and lead to further discussions and collaboration through GEC-Japan/Asia Platform.
| Symposium Program: |
| Day I (13 December 2012, Thursday) 09:00 - 17:15 |
| Opening (09:00 - 09:20)
Welcome Remarks (RIHN) Narufumi Tachimoto |
| Panel 1: Missing questions (09:20 - 10:50) Purpose: Figuring out the missing questions in sustainability and environmental change research Moderator: (RIHN&GEC-Japan/Asia) Aysun Uyar |
| Panel 2.1: Sub-regional potentials and initiatives (11:05 - 12:35) Purpose: Elaborating sub-regional potentials and country experiences Moderator: (Science Council of Asia & University of Tsukuba)) Cindy Yoshiko Shirata |
| Panel 2.2: Country-based initiatives: The case of Japan (13:45 - 15:30) Purpose: Presenting recent research initiatives on sustainability and environmental change in Japan Moderator: (International Social Science Council) Mathieu Denis Science |
| Panel 3: Feedback from Future Earth and Belmont Forum initiatives (16:00 - 17:30) Purpose: Follow-up of recent discussions on Future Earth and Belmont Forum initiatives Moderator: (Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research) Linda Anne Stevenson |
| Day II (14 December 2012, Friday) 09:00 - 14:00 |
| Panel 4: Regional diversity of transdisciplinary initiatives (09:00 - 10:30) Purpose: Sharing experiences of regional and international transdisciplinary platforms Moderator: (Monsoon Asia Integrated Regional Study) Ai Likun |
| Panel 5: Is there any Asian type of “Science-Society Interface”? Vision(s) from Asia for sustainability and environmental change research (11:00 - 13:00) Purpose: General discussion and future interface of the GEC-Japan/Asia Platform Moderator: (RIHN&GEC-Japan/Asia) Makoto Taniguchi Closing Remarks (RIHN) Yo-ichiro Sato Lunch (13:00 - 14:00) |
| End of Symposium (14:00) |
