場所

総合地球環境学研究所 セミナー室3・4 及びオンライン

日時

2026年7月7日（火）13:30～15:00

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プログラム

• 13:30～14:30 Prof. Thomas Harter (Professor and Specialist in Cooperativ Extension, Department of Land, air and Water Resources, University of California DAVIS)
• タイトル “Legal Control of Groundwater Pumping That Impacts Stream Ecosystems: Integrated and Transdisciplinary Hydrologic Science at the Cutting Edge of California’s New Groundwater Law”
• Abstract The reduction and depletion of stream flow and lake levels due to groundwater pumping is an underappreciated impact of groundwater pumping with often devastating effects on ecosystems. California’s new groundwater law is one of few state and international water laws that explicitly attempt to protect “interconnected surface waters”. In this talk, I explore both, the scientific complexity of the groundwater-surface water-ecosystem connection and the complexity of the societal, legal, and administrative structures that have evolved around protecting groundwater-dependent ecosystems, using a case study from California. We have developed a novel integrated hydrologic modeling approach to provide decision-support to local, regional, and state regulatory agencies as they parties including environmental NGOs, tribal representatives, domestic well users, communities, and agricultural pumpers. Developing the decision-support tool has been a two-step process: development of a trusted baseline model capable of reproducing and explaining experienced hydrologic history, and development of future model scenarios to inform decision-making. I show how contributions of the community’s various actors, through their interactions with the model, affect the design of the model and how this community-engagement shapes planning and management design decisions. Clear, open, transparent, consistent, and educational communication with strong integrity is critically important to this process, between scientists and community/actors and between opposed factions of actors. A trusted hydrological model can disassemble some barriers to consensus building. But value-decisions remain as relevant to management design as scientifically based information.
• 14:30～15:00 質疑応答・ディスカッション
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場所

総合地球環境学研究所 講演室 及びオンライン

日時

2026年1月13日（火）16:00～17:30

プログラム

• 16:00～16:40 Prof. Anik Bhaduri (Director, Sustainable Water Future Programme, Future Earth)
• タイトル “Transforming Water Security Decisions: How Green–Grey Investment Pathways Shape Cognition, Behaviour, and Governance in Socio-Ecological Systems”
• Abstract Water security challenges are intensifying under climate change, land-use pressure, and rising human exposure, revealing the limits of traditional, infrastructure-centric solutions. This presentation argues that water security outcomes depend not only on what we invest in, but critically on how green and grey investments are sequenced over time and space. Using a dynamic socio-ecological systems (SES) perspective, the talk shows how investment pathways shape cognition, behaviour, and governance by influencing how risks are perceived, learned from, and acted upon. Evidence from the Upper São Francisco (Velhas) Basin demonstrates that front-loaded upstream green investments can reduce downstream risks, lower long-term reliance on grey infrastructure, and improve system-wide learning. The analysis reframes water systems as non-equilibrium, learning systems requiring adaptive, path-dependent decision-making rather than static project selection.
• 16:40～17:30 質疑応答・ディスカッション

日時

2025年11月13日（木）10:00～12:00

プログラム

• 10:00～10:40  Prof. Naoko Ellis (Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of British Columbia)
• 10:00～10:40  Prof. Derek Gladwin (Associate Professor, Language & Literacy Education, University of British Columbia)
• タイトル “Relational Approaches to Energy Transition and the Practice of Energy Literacy”
• Abstract The energy transition represents not merely a technical shift from fossil fuels to renewable sources, but also a profound sociocultural transformation that reconfigures values, identities, and collective worldviews. This talk advances a relational approach to energy transition through the framework of energy literacy, conceived as the integration of knowing, being, and doing in the pursuit of sustainable futures. Drawing on examples from the United Kingdom, Japan, and Canada, this talk examines how sustainability emerges through relational and affective practices that reconfigure how energy is conceptualized and experienced, while also informing how it may be enacted across interconnected ecological and cultural systems.

概要

2023年9月25日に開催のシンポジウム「社会正義と地球環境 -包摂的な未来社会に向けて-」の動画を限定公開します。

問い合わせ先

総合地球環境学研究所　三浦（earth-human.rihn[a]chikyu.ac.jp）※[a]は＠に変えてください

開催日

2023年9月25日（月）

場所

総合地球環境学研究所

詳細

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