Venue: RIHN＋online
Date: ３～5pm Sep 30th, 2025 (JST)
✽ Prof. HENS Kristien (Professor, University of Antwerp, Department of philosophy)
“Attuning to the Abyss: Art–Science Collaborations for Non-Extractive Knowledge
of the Deep Sea”

✽ Prof. HUNKELER Daniel (Professor, University of Neuchâte, Centre for Hydrogeology and Geothermics）
“From Science to Practice: Overcoming Barriers in Sustainable Groundwater Management ”
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Venue: Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan　+ online
Date: 1:00-5:40　pm (JST) February 9th, 2024

Objective:
Groundwater is one of major water resources for agriculture, industry, and drinking water, and also important part of environment and culture based on diverse values. About 70 percent of global freshwater consumption is for agriculture and more than half of them is groundwater, therefore groundwater is strongly connected with food production. Groundwater depletion in local scale is connected with global economy through global food trade. Groundwater is also connected with energy. About 60 percent of costs for water allocations including groundwater pumping is from energy sector, and geothermal energy and heat pump are developing as renewable energy for sustainable society. Furthermore, groundwater is deeply connected to human wellbeing as culture diversity. In this symposium, we will discuss how global and local issues on groundwater are related in society, and what can we suggest for sustainable groundwater with transdisciplinary way in global and local scales.

1:00-1:10 pm　Opening remark
1:10-1:50 pm　Makoto Taniguchi (RIHN, Japan)
1:50-1:30 pm　Tom Gleeson (Univ. Victoria, Canada)
2:30-3:10 pm　Yoshihide Wada (KAUST, Saudi Arabia)
3:10-3:30 pm　break
3:30-4:10 pm　Fumi Sugita (Chiba Univ. Commerce, Japan)
4:10-4:50 pm　Kevin Hiscock (Univ. East Anglia, UK)
4:50-5:30 pm　Discussion
5:30-5:40 pm　Closing remark

Sponsorships : IAH Japan, JAGH, JAHS, RIHN