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FY 2010 (FR4)

Events
27th January 2011 Second Call for Papers/Posters

The Vulnerability and Social-Ecological Resilience Project of the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature has extended the deadline for abstract to 15 February 2011. Notification of acceptance for abstract submitted after 31 January 2011 is also extended to 28 February 2011. For more details, please visit our symposium web site.

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19th January 2011 Annual Report of FY2010 Viewable Online

The FY2010 Annual Report of the Vulnerability and Social-Ecological Resilience Project [Project E-04-FR4] has been uploaded to the project's web site. Interested readers may view and download individual article or full report here.

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4th December 2010 Successful Resilience Session at JASID Annual Meeting 2010

Four project’s members, i.e. Chieko UMETSU, Takeshi SAKURAI, Thamana LEKPRICHAKUL and Shuhei SHIMADA, presented their papers under an organized session on "Resilience of Social-Ecological and Poverty Reduction" at the Japan Association of International Development (JASID) Annual Meeting 2010. The conference was held at Waseda University, Tokyo, between December 4-5 . A large group of audiences of approximately 80 persons attended the session in a lively discussion atmosphere, particularly on the roles of resilience on developments.

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22nd November 2010 Call for Papers/Posters

The Vulnerability and Social-Ecological Resilience Project of the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature is organizing an International Symposium on "Building Social-Ecological Resilience in a Changing World" on June 18-20, 2011 to be held at the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan. Deadline for submission of abstract is 31 January 2011. For details, please click here.

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2nd November 2010 GLP 2010 Conference Participations

GLP_Partcipants
GLP Meeting 2010's Participants from the Social-Ecological Resilience Project

Four members of the Social-Ecological Resilience Project, i.e. (from right to left) Tom Evans, Hidetoshi Miyazaki, Kume Takeshi, and Thamana Lekprichakul, presented their studies on issues relating to social-ecological resilience at the GLP Open Science Meeting 2010 at the Arizona State University between October 17-19, 2010. To view abstracts of all four presentations, please click here.

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16th September 2010 The 32nd Resilience Seminar
Takashi Kurosaki, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University

Title: Vulnerability and Resilience of Canal-Irrigated Agriculture against Floods: The Case of Pakistan

Friday, October 22nd, 2010; 16:00-17:30
RIHN Lecture Hall
Held in Japanese

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31st August 2010 Dr. Takashi Kume, a senior researcher of the Resilience Project, received a research award for young scholars at the Japan Society of Irrigation, Drainage and Rural Engineering's 2010 Annual Meeting.

Congratulations to Dr. Kume!

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8th June 2010 The 44th RIHN Seminar and the 31st Resilience Seminar
Tom P. Evans, RIHN Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Geography, Indiana University

Title: Food Security, Climate Variability and Land Use in Zambia : Methods for Spatial Analysis and Modeling Vulnerability and Resilience of Smallholder Systems

Thursday, June 17th, 2010, 13:30-15:00
RIHN Lecture Hall
Held in English

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2nd April 2010 The 30th Resilience Seminar
Masaaki Hirai (Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University)

Title: Resilience of Ecological Resource and Livelihood: A case of the Sereer in Senegal

Apr. 10th, 2010, 16:00-17:30
RIHN Lecture Hall
Held in Japanese

(2 April 2010, Uploaded)

FY 2009 (FR3)

Events
8th December 2009 International Workshop on The Indian Ocean Tsunami: 5 Years Later

The Social-Ecological Resilience Project is organizing an international workshop on "The Indian Ocean Tsunami: 5 Years Later" at the Allson Hotel, Singapore from March 1-3, 2010. The workshop aims at assessing the vulnerability and resilience of the Tsunami affected coastal regions. For more details, please click here.

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4th December 2009 Core members meeting held at the Faculty of Agriculture, Kyoto University

Working Paper on Social-Ecological Resilience Series No 2009-009 has been published.

30th October 2009 The 29th Resilience Seminar
Yoshitake Shinbo (Managing Director, Technical Support Office for Rural Development in Kinki District, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Japan)

Title: Agriculture and Rural Community of Africa as Object of Technical Cooperation

October 30th, 2009, 17:00-18:00
RIHN Lecture Hall
Held in Japanese

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13th October 2009 Elinor Ostrom Won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences!

Professor Elinor Ostrom of Indiana University has become the first female to win the Nobel Prize in economics. The prize is shared by professor Oliver Williamson of UC Berkeley. They won the award for their seminal work in the field of economic governance.

We feel particularly close to Professor Ostrom because of our common interest in resilience research and her past connection with our project. On July 3rd, 2006, the Resilience Project together with the Society of Commons Studies and Biwa-Yodo Watershed Project invited professor Ostrom to give a lecture on "Developing Methods for Institutional Analysis" at the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature.

Ostrom's lecture at RIHN
Professor Ostrom was giving a lecture at RIHN

Attendants
The lecture was well attended by
scholars from various institutes and general public.

Congratulations to professor Ostrom and professor Williamson!!!

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28th August 2009 The 2nd Lusaka Workshop on Social-Ecological Resilience Was a Success.

The RIHN's Resilience Project together with Zambia Agriculture Research Institute (ZARI) jointly organized the second Resilience Workshop on the 28th August 2009 at Mika Lodge, Zambia. More than 50 participants from various countries such as Japan, USA, Kenya, Zimbabwe and Zambia attended the workshop in a lively and insightful discussion atmosphere. The workshop was privileged to have Dr. Elizabeth Colson, a UC Berkeley's emerita professor who has studied Zambia's Tonga since 1950s, in attendance to provide comments.

 Photo of the 2nd Lusaka Workshop's Participants
Participants of the Second Lusaka Workshop on Social-Ecological Resilience
(Emerita Professor Elizabeth Colson is sitting in the front row)

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28th August 2009

The 2nd Lusaka Workshop on Social-Ecological Resilience
Date: Friday August 28, 2009, 8:30-17:30
Venue: Mika Lodge, Lusaka, Zambia

Organized by: Resilience Project, RIHN and Zambia Agricultural Research Institute (ZARI)

For further information and program, please click here.
(If you are unable to view the file, your may need to have Acrobat Reader version 9.0 or above. You may download it here.)

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11th August 2009 The Resilience Alliance's workbook for an assessment of social-ecological resilience has been translated into Japanese by the team at the RIHN's Resilience Project. The Resilience Project has made the final draft version of the workbook available for downloading to solicit feedback from the community.

resilience workbook

7th August 2009 Core members meeting held at RIHN.

Working Paper on Social-Ecological Resilience Series No 2009-008 has been published.

3rd August 2009

The 28th Resilience Seminar
Dr. Tom Evans (Associate Professor, Indiana Universoity, Indiana, USA)

Titel: A Spatial Structure for the Institutional Analysis of Common Pool Resource Systems

August 3rd, 2009, 15:00-16:00
RIHN Seminar Room 3,4
Held in English

(24 July 2009, Uploaded)

20th July 2009

Dr. C.R. Ranganathan (Department of Physical Sciences and Information Technology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University), an invited research fellow, and his wife, Geetha, returned to India.

Ranganathan 2009

13th July 2009

Dr. Tom Evans (Department of Geography, Indiana University), a project member, arrived at RIHN.

Tom2009

8th July 2009 The 27th Resilience Seminar
Dr. C.R. Ranganathan (Professor, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India)

Title: Quantifying the impact of climatic change on yields and yield variability of major crops and optimal land allocation for maximizing food production in different agro-climatic zones of Tamil Nadu, India: An Econometric Approach

July 8th, 2009, 15:00-16:00
RIHN Seminar Room 3, 4
Held in English

(25 June 2009, Uploaded)

27-30 Apr 2009

Seven project members participated in the IHDP Open Meeting 2009, the 7th International Science Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change at the World Conference Center, UN Campus, Bonn, Germany under the theme “Social Challenges of Global Change”. Six oral presentations and one poster presentation were made.

The following two sessions were organized by the Resilience Project:

Participants of 7th OM

19 Apr 2009 Dr. C.R. Ranganathan (Department of Physical Sciences and Information Technology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University) arrived at RIHN as an invited research fellow.
Apr 2009 Working Paper on Social-Ecological Resilience Series No 2009-007 has been published.
11 Apr 2009 Core member meeting, RIHN.

FY 2008 (FR2)

Events
Feb 2009 Resilience Project Report FY2008 has been published.
20-21 Feb 2009 Resilience Project 7th Workshop, Shirahama, Wakayama Prefecture.
10th February 2009 The 26th Resilience Seminar
Dr. Yoichi Mine (Associate Professor, Global Collaboration Center (GLOCOL), Osaka University)

Title: Human Security in Africa: Between Normalcy and Emergency

February 10th, 15:00-16:30
RIHN Lecture Hall
Held in Japanese

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Jan 2009 Working Paper on Social-Ecological Resilience Series No 2008-005 and 008-06 have been published.
5th December 2008 The 25th Resilience Seminar
Dr. Mitsuru Tsubo (Associate Professor, Arid Land Research Center, Tottori University)

Title : Combating Drought in South Africa, and Southern Africa

December 5th, 16:00-17:00
RIHN Lecture Hall
Held in Japanese

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1st Sep. 2008 On 18th July, Prof. Shimada, Theme III Leader, received “Daido Insurance Co. Area Study Award” for his book publication. Congratulations.
2nd Aug. 2008 The invited research fellow, Dr. Chileshe Mulenga returns to University of Zambia.
1st Aug. 2008 The invited research fellow, Dr. Tom P. Evans returns to Indiana University.
28th and 29th June, 2008 Project Workshop and Core member meeting (at RIHN)

Workshop

17th July, 2008 The 24th Resilience Seminar
Dr. Tom Evans (RIHN invited researcher; Department of Geography, Indiana University)

Title : Modeling Household-Level Deforestation and Reforestation with
Agent-Based Approaches: Case Studies from Laos PDR, United States and

June 17th, 15:00-17:00
RIHN Lecture Hall
Held in English

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18th June, 2008 The 23rd Resilience Seminar
Dr. Chileshe L. Mulenga (RIHN invited researcher; Institute of Economic and Social Research, University of Zambia)

"Resilience of Rural Households and Communities to HIV/AIDS and Recurrent Droughts: Case of People around Mwami Adventist Hospital, Chipata, Zambia"

June 18th, 15:00-16:15
RIHN Lecture Hall
Held in English

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June 2008 Working Paper on Social-Ecological Resilience Series No. 2008-004 has been published.
24th May, 2008 Core member meeting at RIHN
12 May, 2008 Mini Seminar on Agent-Based Model
Dr. Tom Evans , Department of Geography, Indiana University (RIHN invited researcher)

"The history and trends of agent-based models and their applications to resource management"

RIHN Seminar Room 3 & 4, 13:30-15:30 (in English)

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5th May, 2008 The invited research fellow, Dr. Lawrence S Flint returns to ENDA.
Apr, 2008 Dr. Chileshe Mulenga (Institute of Economic and Social Research, University of Zambia) arrives at RIHN as an invited research fellow.
Apr. 2008 Book publications by project members (in Japanese)
Apr, 2008 Dr. Tom P. Evans (Department of Geography, Indiana University) arrives at RIHN as an invited research fellow.
Mar, 2008 Resilience Project Report FY2007 has been published.
17 Mar, 2008 Working Paper on Social-Ecological Resilience Series No. 2008-001, No. 2008-002, No. 2008-003 has been published.
8 Mar, 2008 Resilience Project Otaru Workshop
11 April, 2008 The 22nd Resilience Seminar
Dr. Lawrence Flint (RIHN Visiting Fellow and ENDA)

"Socio-ecological Resilience in an Arena of Rapid Environmental Change: Climate Variability and Adaptation in the Upper Zambezi Valley Floodplain"

RIHN Lecture Hall, 15:00-16:15 (in English)

FY 2007 (FR1)

Events
Feb, 2008 Dr. Lawrence S Flint (ENDA) arrives at RIHN as an invited research fellow.

15 February, 2008

 

The 21st Resilience Seminar
Chihiro Ito (Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University)
"Labour Migration as Livelihood Strategy: A Case Study in Southern
Province, Zambia"

Tetsuya Nakamura (Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University)
"The Livelihood of Tonga Peasant Farmers in Mountainous Area, Southern Zambia"

RIHN Seminar room 1-2, 15:00-16:30 (in Japanese)

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22 November, 2007

 

The 20th Resilience Seminar
Vulnerability and Resilience of Rural Society in Zambia: from the View Point of Land Tenure and Food Security
Prof. Gear Kajoba, University of Zambia
RIHN Seminar room 3-4, 15:00-16:30 (in English)

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30 July, 2007 The 19th Resilience Seminar
Living with the Bible: The Growth of Independent Churches in Southern Africa
Kenji Yoshida (National Museum of Ethnology)
RIHN Lecture Hall, 15:30-16:45
20 June, 2007 The 18th Resilience Seminar
Synthesis of soil management options for better targeting of technologies and ecological resilience under variable environmental conditions
Mr. Moses MWALE (Zambia Agricultural Research Institute)
23 May, 2007 RIHN seminar by Tom P. Evans and Jacqui Bauer
11-12 May, 2007 The 2nd workshop (Hamamatsu)
23 Apr, 2007 The 17th Resilience Seminar
Carrying Capacity of Land and Environment of Africa
Shigeru Araki, Professor, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University
Topics
Dec, 2007 Professor Gear Kajoba returns to UNZA from RIHN.
17 Dec, 2007 Core member meeting (RIHN)

17 November, 2007

Dr. Takeshi Sakurai, Theme II Leader talked on "Resource Management and Resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa" at the Institute of Developing Economies Open Seminar "Emerging Issues of Development Assistance in Africa", The 2nd Workshop "Combating Dissertification, Climate Change in Africa"

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1 Oct, 2007 Professor Gear Kajoba, University of Zambia (UNZA), arrives at RIHN as an invited researcher.
3 Sep, 2007 Lusaka Workshop was held at Lusaka, Zambia.
19 Jul, 2007 Core member meeting (RIHN)
23 June 2007 Mr. Moses Mwale, an invited research fellow, returns to ZARI from RIHN.
20 June, 2007 Core member meeting (RIHN)
25 May, 2007 Project leader, Chieko UMETSU give a talk about resilience of rural villager in developing countries at the 19th RIHN public seminar. (in Japanese)
23 Apr, 2007 Core member meeting (RIHN)
Apr, 2007 Mr. Moses Mwale from ZARI arrives at RIHN as an invited research fellow.
Apr, 2007 Our project has been at a Full-Research stage.

Activities in Pre-Research Year (FY2006)

  • Mar. 2007 The MOU with Zambia Agricultural Research Institute (ZARI) was signed.
  • Apr. 2006 Pre-research Program of RIHN
  • Apr. 2005 Feasibility Study of RIHN
  • Apr. 2004 Incubation Study had started.

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