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International Conference on Science and Technology for Sustainability 2011
-Building up Regional to Global Sustainability: Asia vision-

* You can see slides of these presentations by clicking each name of lecturers
Day One (Wednesday, September 14)
9:30Opening Remarks
Seigo Hirowatari (President, Science Council of Japan)
Narifumi Tachimoto (Director-General, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Japan)
9:40Keynote Speech

[Chair]
Tetsuzo Yasunari (Professor, Hydrospheric Atmospheric Research Center(HyARC), Nagoya University, Japan)

[Speaker]
Deliang Chen (Executive Director, International Council for Science(ICSU))
“Visioning: Towards a new initiative on Earth system research for global sustainability”
Session 1 : Reports on Asian Environmental Issues
10:40

[Co-Chair]
Kenichi Abe (Professor, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Japan)
Satoshi Yokoyama (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Japan)

[Speaker]
Xiuqun Yang (Professor, Institute for Climate and Global Change Research, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, China)
“Decadal change in East Asian monsoon climate system: Natural variability vs anthropogenic forcing”

Batjargal Zamba (Visiting Researcher, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Japan)
“The emerging challenges for Mongolia associated with tripled stresses due to the global warming, globalization and possible “resource curse””
12:00Lunch
13:30

[Speaker]
Amita Baviskar (Associate Professor, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi University Enclave, India)
“Integrating Sustainability and Social Justice: Land Use Changes in India”

Bounthong Bouahom (Director General, National Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute(NAFRI), Laos)
“Poverty, Growth and Environment: Where is the balance”

Budi Indra Setiawan (Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Bogor Agricultural University, Indonesia)
“Selaras Principle For Sustainable Biomass Productions In Indonesia”

Doanh Quoc Le (Director General, Northern Mountainous Agriculture and Forestry Science Institute, Vietnam)
“Balancing food security and environmental conservation in the uplands: Vietnamese experience”

Joon Kim (Professor, Seoul National University, Korea)
“Bottlenecks to Sustainability in Asia: FLUXNET Perspectives”

Gin-Rong Liu (Vice President, National Central University, Taiwan)
“Dynamic climate adaptation – A research approach in Taiwan”

Arun Agrawal (Professor and Associate Dean, School of Natural Resources & Environment, University of Michigan, USA)
“Commons, Conservation, and Livelihoods”
Day Two (Thursday, September 15)
Session2-1 : Critical Environmental Issues: Water Resources and Management
9:30

[Co-Chair]
Taikan Oki (Professor, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Makoto Taniguchi (Program Director, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Japan

[Speaker]
Taikan Oki (Professor, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan)
“Water Footprinting for Sustainable Development and Wise Management of Global Water”

Jun Xia (Professor, Center for Water Resources Reserch, Chinese Academy of Science, China)
“Water Resource Vulnerability & Adaptation Management to Changing Environment in North China”

Falk Schmidt (Academic Officer, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Germany)
“A global crisis and local realities - Governing water in the 21st Century -”
12:00Lunch
Session2-2 : Critical Environmental Issues: Land Use, Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity
13:00

[Co-Chair]
Takashi Kohyama (Professor, Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Japan)
Tohru Nakashizuka (Professor, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Japan)
Yukio Himiyama (Professor, Institute of Geography, Hokkaido University of Education, Japan)

[Speaker]
Eduardo Sonnewend Brondizio (Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology and Environmental Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington, USA)
“Searching for Regional Sustainability in an Interlinked World: Reflections from the Amazon”

Tetsukazu Yahara (Professor, Department of Bioligy, Faculty of Sciences, Kyushu University, Japan)
“Evolutionary and historical thinking on human-nature interactions as a basis of sustainability science”

Xiubin Li (Professor, Institute of Geographical Science and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
“Land use transitions and their implications for ecosystem services”
Session2-3 : Critical Environmental Issues: Urbanization and Vulnerability
15:45

[Co-Chair]
Yoshitsugu Hayashi (Professor, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Japan)
Kohei Okamoto (Professor, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Japan)

[Speaker]
Yoshitsugu Hayashi (Professor, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Japan)
“Sustainability of Asia: Economic Development, Urbanization, Lowering Birth Rate/Aging and Climate Change”

David John Banister (Professor, Transport Studies at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, England)
“Urbanisation, Vulnerability and Sustainability in Asian Cities: A Transport Perspective”

Jian Zhou (Associate Professor, Institute of Energy, Environment and Economy, Tshnghua University, China)
”Strategy of Low-Carbon Development in China’s 12th FYP and Low-Carbon City Construction in China”

Kuniyoshi Takeuchi (Director, Global Center of Excellence for Water Hazard and Risk Management Center (ICHARM), Japan)
“Disaster Risk Management and Sustainability: Challenges of IRDR”
Day Three (Friday, September 16)
Session3 : International Initiatives for Global Sustainability
9:30

[Co-Chair]
Akimasa Sumi (Professor, Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Yukio Himiyama (Professor, Institute of Geography, Hokkaido University of Education, Japan)

[Speaker]
Sybil P. Seitzinger (Executive Director, International Geosphere-Bioshere Program (IGBP))
“IGBP and Earth System Science for Global Sustainability: Connecting Regional to Global”

Pavel Kabat (Professor, Wageningen University and Reseach Center and Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences, The Nertherlands)
“The state and prospects of water resources in Asia: a case for a new sustainability approach?”

Anantha Kumar Duraiappah (Executive Director, International Human Dimensions Programme(IHDP))
“The Green Economy: The Emperor’s New Clothes”

Hassan Virji (Executive Director, International START Secretariat)
“A Perspective on Sustainability science and Transformative Change”
12:00Lunch
13:30

Concluding Session
[Co-Chair]
Tetsuzo Yasunari (Professor, Hydrosphere Atmospheric Research Center(HyARC), Nagoya University, Japan)

Pavel Kabat (Professor, Wageningen University and Reseach Center and Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences, The Nertherlands)
“The state and prospects of water resources in Asia: a case for a new sustainability approach?”

[Speaker]
Takeshi Nakatsuka (Professor, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Japan)
“Clinical and basic environmental studies in Nagoya University– a medical approach to solve environmental problems”

Shohei Yonemoto (Professor, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Japan)
“Environmental Research, Epistemic Community and International Relations”
15:30Closing Remarks
Hideaki Karaki (Vice President, Science Council of Japan)
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