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The 5th GPSS-GLI International Symposium

Program and CVs

Program at a Glance

Keynote Speech

“The Future of Sustainability Science in a “post‐truth” world”

Associate Prof. Barry Ness

Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies

Scheduled sessions

<< Friday, December 2>>

Session 1: The Value of Grey ‐ Food security and sustainable agriculture in Asian cities

Food security issues will be discussed with the case study of Tokyo, which is the largest metropolitan area in the world.

Tokyo is preparing for Tokyo Olympic Games in 2020. The city plan concepts incorporate urban agriculture. “Value of gray”

may be discussed in the context of urban landscape planning.

This session is coordinated by Prof. Yokohari and Assistant Prof. Tanaka (UTokyo).

Session 2: Aging Society and Sustainability

This session is to share knowledge and experience of aging society challenges. Scholars and practitioners who are involved

in research and education programs on aging or related topics are invited. The session aims to situate aging society as an

emerging sustainability challenge and discuss possible responses through social designs.

This session is coordinated by Project Researcher Kudo (UTokyo), Prof. Nagao (UNU‐IAS).

<< Saturday, December 3>>

Session 3: Review of the 2016 BJ Program on "Naval Architecture and Offshore Engineering" *

This session will discuss the new horizon of joint education at a global scale with making use of ICT technologies combined

with conventional face‐to‐face settings. Taking up an on‐going collaborative program “Brazil‐Japan Collaborative Courses

on Naval Architecture and Offshore Engineering”, this session will look into its potentials and challenges to be overcome.

This session is coordinated by Prof. T. Sato (UTokyo).

Session 4: How university works: A trans‐disciplinary education program for building collaborative urban local

watershed governance in Kamakura.

This session will discuss the ideal framework of an on‐going field‐based planning program named “Urban Watershed

Design Studio.” The fundamental key question will be “How can the educational programs offered by universities

contribute to the activities of the local communities to help them to achieve a sustainable local society?” We will work

from this question by engaging watershed design. Kamakura city, Japan, is chosen for our initial field site because

Kamakura is a city within a small and well‐defined watershed boundary that enables us to walk around easily, and it has

diversified elements for which a watershed‐design approach is well suited, such as vulnerability to natural hazards (e.g.

flooding, slope failure, and tsunami) and a unique landscape with rich natural heritage and a long history. The main topics

which are expected to be discussed will be the ideal shape of the program, how the program’s framework and activities

can incorporate local values and visions in collaborating with local society, how we can extract “local knowledge” from the

program, and so on, for us to be able to further enhance and make a better field‐based program.

This session is coordinated by Associate Prof. Fukunaga and Prof. Tokunaga (U Tokyo)

Session 5: Establishing linkage between Agriculture, Nutrition and Health for Sustainable Society

Agricultural technological development typified the Green Revolution contribute to alleviate poverty through increasing

agricultural productivity. However, it is recognized that double burden which is the coexistence of undernutrition along

with overweight and obesity, or diet‐related noncommunicable diseases, within individuals, households and populations,

and across the lifecourse in developing countries due to the rapid change of people’s lifestyle. Required strategies of

establishing or enhancing linkage between agriculture, health and nutrition will be discussed in order to contribute build

sustainable society in this session.

This session is coordinated by Project Associate Prof. Matsuda and Project Assistant Prof. Sekiyama (UTokyo).

Synthesis session: Framing Sustainability Challenges

This session invites speakers from all sessions to discuss about framings of sustainability challenges in different research

and education projects. This session aims to contribute in facilitating conceptual discussions on how researchers and

practitioners could handle multiple framings of problem or topic in different case settings.

This session is coordinated by Associate Prof. Onuki, Project Researcher Kudo (UTokyo).

<< December 2‐3 >>

Poster Session

The poster session in the symposium will provide an interactive forum for presenters and participants to share and explore

opportunities for mutual collaboration in enhancing the academic field of sustainability science. All posters are peer‐

reviewed and the Best Poster Award will be awarded to the best and high quality poster. Poster viewing session will be

held on Saturday, December 3.

This session is coordinated by Project Researcher Chen (UTokyo).

<< Sunday, December 4 >>

Special Roundtable: Establishing New Collaborative Scheme for Hands‐on Education Program *

GPSS‐GLI organizes hands‐on field programs (Global Field Exercise and Resilience Exercise) under close cooperation with

its partner universities across the world. This session will explore how we enhance the educational effects of these

collaborative programs by looking into the possibility of introducing new components such as shared preliminary lectures

by making use of information and communication technologies, etc. Topics of our common interest such as “how to

evaluate performance of participants”, “how to improve the program itself”, will also be discussed in this session.

This session is coordinated by Associate Prof. Onuki and Project Associate Prof Matsuda (UTokyo).

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Friday, December 2 Venue

09:30 Hall Open

10:00‐11:45 Opening Plenary Room 5

Welcome addresses

Invited Speech

Keynote Speech

11:45‐13:00 Lunch break

13:00‐16:30 Session 1: Food Security and Urban Agriculture Room 1+2

15:20‐17:30 Session 2: Aging Society and Sustainability Room 3+4

18:00‐ Symposium Reception 1F Dining hall

Saturday, December 3

07:30‐09:00 Session 3: Review of the 2016 BJ Program on "Naval Architecture

and Offshore Engineering" *

Room 201,

Future Center

09:30 Hall Open

10:00‐12:00 Session 4: Building a trans‐disciplinary sustainability education

programs toward collaborative urban watershed governance Room 3+4

12:00‐13:00 Lunch break

12:00‐13:20 Poster Session: core time (12:40‐13:20) Foyer

13:30‐16:30 Session 5: Establishing linkage between Agriculture, Nutrition

and Health for Sustainable Society Room 3+4

16:40‐17:25 Synthesis Session Room 5

17:25‐17:50 Closing Ceremony Room 5

Sunday, December 4

10:00‐12:00 Special Roundtable: Establishing New Collaborative Scheme for

Hands‐on Education Program *

Room 205, Future

Center

NOTE: Sessions with * marks are by invitation only

The 5th GPSS-GLI International Symposium Opening Plenary

Opening Address

Takashi Mino,

Dean and Professor, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences

Coordinator, Graduate Program in Sustainability Science – Global Leadership Initiative,

The University of Tokyo

Welcome Address

Atsushi Tsuda,

Chairperson, Kashiwa Campus Joint Academic Management Council

Director and Professor, Atmosphere and Oceans Research Institute (AORI),


Invited Speech

Takaaki Kajita

Director and Professor, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR),


Keynote Presentation

Barry Ness

Associate Professor, Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS)

MC: John Freeman

Professor, Graduate Program in Sustainability Science – Global Leadership Initiative,


The 5th GPSS-GLI International Symposium Keynote Speech

The Future of Sustainability Science in a “post-truth” world

Barry Ness

The Oxford dictionaries recently named “post-truth” as the word of the year for 2016. They define the term as “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” Although now over a decade old, use of the term has recently gained new life with June’s European Union referendum in the United Kingdom (Brexit vote) and the circumstances leading to the recent election of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States. More importantly, however, the term denotes a more alarming trend: the rise of a post-truth politics fuelled by the prominence of social media as the dominant news source, and helping to foster a growing citizenry distrust of the facts offered by established societal institutions.

Simultaneously, sustainability science has evolved as an alternative academic field to address our pressing sustainability challenges. It is characterized by researchers in the field employing problem-driven and solution-oriented approaches that seek solutions to foster sustainable societies where these efforts often incorporate knowledge creation processes from both in- and outside of academia. What, however, are the implications of a post-truth era on established research for our most urgent sustainability challenges? More specifically, what are the consequences of post-truth for current trends and future developments in the field of sustainability science? The keynote presentation addresses and reflects on the possible repercussions of an emotion-charged, post-truth world on the field of sustainability science. Both the potential opportunities and related constraints for the field will be addressed. Furthermore, the presentation will suggest possible future developmental pathways for the field with emphasis placed both on the impacts on sustainability research and how we educate the next generations of engaged, socially-conscious sustainability scientists.

Keywords: Post-truth; sustainability science; emotions; research objectivity; sustainability education; framing

The 5th GPSS-GLI International Symposium Session 1

SESSION TITLE The Value of Grey

Food security and sustainable agriculture in Asian cities

TIME & VENUE December 2, 13:00-16:30 Room 1+2

COORDINATER (S) - Makoto YOKOHARI, Professor, School of Engineering, UTokyo - Toshinori TANAKA, Project Assistant Professor, GPSS-GLI, UTokyo

CONCEPT

Modern urban planning, initiated in Western Europe and North America at the dawn of the 20th century, framed the concept of “city” as an area where no agricultural land uses should be included. In Japan, however, the demarcation between the city and countryside was ambiguously “grey” in comparison to that of Western cities. This ambiguous mixture of urban and rural land uses characterized both the fringe and the interior of Japanese cities as well. Edo, the former name of Tokyo, was already the largest city in the world in the 18th century with more than one million people; but at the same time, welcomed and was quite compatible a vast amount of agricultural land that covered more than 40% of the city.

Detesting an ambiguous “grey” mixture and adoring homogeneity and clear “black-and-white” separation of land were the precepts of modern urban planning; that is how modern urban planners framed the problem of building sustainable cities. According to such an urban planning concept, the Japanese mixed land use has long been regarded as a premodern and deniable use of land. One key feature of the 1939 Comprehensive Parks and Open Space Plan of Tokyo was developing a greenbelt surrounding Tokyo to clearly differentiate the central core of the city with its urban land uses from the surrounding countryside with its rural land uses. The City Planning Act in 1968 also aimed at achieving a clear separation of urban and rural land uses by designating Urbanization Promotion Areas (UPA) and Urbanization Control Areas (UCA) in each local municipality.

Cities are regarded as an entity that never creates but merely absorbs natural resources, especially food. The threat of natural disasters in Western European and North American cities is extremely low in comparison to Asian cities, and thus systems to transport food can be expected to operate with virtually little or no disruption. Cities in Asia, including those in Japan, are not afforded this luxury. They frequently suffer from sudden disruptions in transportation infrastructure caused by earthquakes, tropical hurricanes, and other natural disasters that are part of everyday life. Such a situation should therefore motivate Asian cities to maintain a redundant food supply system that can supply food even in emergencies when logistics are disrupted for an inordinate period of time, by planning for both internal and external food supplies. Agricultural land in the city—the land likely perceived as


an ambiguous “grey” mixture from the non-Asian perspective—should therefore be regarded as a reasonable and prudent land use rooted in the Asian environment. Agricultural lands also provide ecological services and are thus a crucial element for creating a sustainable city. One conventional framing of modern civilization is its “digital approach”, which tries to deductively identify fundamental elements in a “black or white” manner and then inductively synthesize such elements to re-build the entity. From such a two-value approach the multi-value approach of “grey” has been regarded as an incomplete stage that should further be analytically identified as an entity composed of black or white elements. However, the land use mixture identified in Asian cities conveys the need for a new framing that restores and nurtures the value of grey, especially when planning for the sustainable future of the city and its surrounding region by respecting their vernacular landscapes.

SPEAKERS & TITLES

Malone-Lee Lai Choo: A methodological approach to assessing food security and sustainability

Osamu Saito: Non-market food provision and sharing in Japan’s socio-ecological production landscapes: Quantifying the contribution by urban agriculture and urban-ruralinkage

Ken Sasaki: Urban agriculture in Nerima City, Tokyo Giles Bruno Sioen: Food resilience from the “grey” zone of megacities: Post-disaster

potential of urban agriculture in Nerima, Tokyo Toru Terada: Emerging new lifestyles in Japanese urban-rural ‘grey’ environment Toshinori Tanaka: Why Japan’s urban areas adopt mixed land use?: case study of

Tokyo from historical perspective Makoto Yokohari: The value of grey

AGENDA

13:00-13:15 Introduction：Prof Makoto Yokohari (School of Engineering) 13:15-13:45 Keynote 1：Prof Malone-Lee Lai Choo (NUS) 13:45-14:15 Keynote 2：Dr Osamu Saito (UNU) 14:15-14:45 Keynote 3 : Mr Ken Sasaki (Nerima Ward) 14:45-15:00 Student Presentation 1：Mr Giles Sioen (GPSS-GLI)

[15:00-15:20 Break] 15:20-15:35 Student Presentation 2：GFE Chiang Mai unit (GPSS-GLI) 15:35-15:50 Dr Toru Terada (Dept of Natural Environmental Studies, GSFS) 15:50-16:05 Dr Toshinori Tanaka (GPSS-GLI) 16:05-16:30 Overall Discussion

MC：Toshinori Tanaka (GPSS-GLI)


Session 1 The Value of Grey - Food security and sustainable agriculture in Asian cities -

Presentation Abstract

<< List of contents >> 1. Malone-Lee: A methodological approach to assessing food security and sustainability 2. Osamu Saito: Non-market food provision and sharing in Japan’s socio-ecological production landscapes: Quantifying the contribution by urban agriculture and urban-ruralinkage 3. Ken Sasaki: Urban agriculture in Nerima City, Tokyo 4. Giles Bruno Sioen: Food resilience from the “grey” zone of megacities: Post-disaster potential of urban agriculture in Nerima, Tokyo 5. Toru Terada: Emerging new lifestyles in Japanese urban-rural ‘grey’ environment 6. Toshinori Tanaka: Why Japan’s urban areas adopt mixed land use: Case study of Tokyo from historical perspective 7. Makoto Yokohari: The value of grey << Abstract >> 1. A methodological approach to assessing food security and sustainability Lai Choo MALONE-LEE It is increasingly acknowledged that the academic discourse on food and urban agriculture must extend beyond the traditional domains of production and consumption to include social and economic issues such as nutrition, education and awareness building, in conjunction with the consideration of global supply chain efficiencies and links to city land, water, energy and natural resources management. This presentation discusses food sustainability with reference to a methodological framework that will help cities to evaluate their present state of food security and the potential policy responses that could be engendered. 2. Non-market food provision and sharing in Japan’s socio-ecological production landscapes: Quantifying the contribution by urban agriculture and urban-ruralinkage Osamu SAITO Socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes (SEPLS) are characterized by a dynamic mosaic of different ecosystem types that maintain relatively high biodiversity and produce a bundle of ecosystem services. One unique characteristic of SEPLS is the sharing of provisioning services within and beyond communities, such as forest, agricultural and marine products. Conventional ecosystem assessments based on statistical data often ignore the benefits of these non-market provisioning services. This study quantifies the contribution of the sharing of food provisioning services in Japan in terms of their amount and variety, and it analyzes the relationship between such sharing practices and landscape types by using an online web survey.


In both mountainous and flat agricultural areas, 16% of the total food amount came from non-market sources, compared to 10% in urbanized areas. The average number of food varieties was consistent across land areas. Farmland and forests had significant positive correlations with most non-market food items in terms of amount, but not necessarily with regard to variety of food types. Greater amounts of built-up area in the landscape were associated with a lesser amount of non-market food provision, but this negative correlation was not detected with regard to variety of non-market foods except for vegetables. The study also investigated transaction of non-market food across scales including interlinkage between rural community to urban area. Food sharing culture can contribute to enhancing resilience against future socio-economic changes and natural disasters. This study provides baseline information for monitoring the hidden flow of food provision and its multiple functions. 3. Urban Agriculture in Nerima City, Tokyo Ken SASAKI Nerima City is one of the leading municipalities in the field of Urban Agriculture in Tokyo. It is located half an hour away from central Tokyo and has 720,000 residents. The whole area of Nerima City is designated as Urbanization area. In other words, all farmland in this city is supposed to be turned into the housing land. Even under the development pressure, we have farmland in our city area. More than 400 family-run professional farmers are proactively managing their business and maintaining their farmland in this residential city. Agricultural activities in the residential area are making good harmony for the residents. Urban Agriculture is getting a lot of attention not only for the quality of life, but also in the field of city planning. Nerima City is planning to hold an International Conference on Urban Agriculture in 2019. We realized the Urban Agriculture in Nerima City is unique when compared with foreign cities. Furthermore, we are planning to provide the vegetables for 2020 Tokyo Olympic & Paralympic Games. We believe the Urban Agriculture has a lot of potential. 4. Food resilience from the “grey” zone of megacities: Post-disaster potential of urban agriculture in Nerima, Tokyo Giles Bruno SIOEN Tokyo’s metropolitan area is by far the most earthquake-exposed community of the world. However, its food provisioning systems are vulnerable to large earthquakes due to the density of its residential areas built during the rapid population increase of the sixties. Moreover, while post-disaster studies point to the importance of nutritious diets to avoid vitamin deficiencies and cardio vascular diseases, conventional emergency foods are heavy in carbohydrates.


This study examines the food provisioning potential of urban agriculture (UA) in Tokyo. Despite being a megacity, Tokyo contains a mixture of both urban and rural land uses. This “grey” mixture of high urban density and rural food provisioning functions is an opportunity to develop a resilient system. Fresh and diverse vegetables from Tokyo’s many existing small-scale UA fields could be the solution to supplying short- and long-term nutrition in the aftermath of natural disasters. Yet earthquakes occur regardless of season, and vegetable crop availability will therefore vary by season. This study examines the hypothesis that depending on the season, Tokyo’s existing UA can contribute significantly to the nutritional intake of neighboring residents in the aftermath of a large earthquake. UA fields were identified in Nerima ward, and a Thiessen Voronoi analysis was conducted to partition the ward area based on their locations. For each field, 1) the neighboring population, 2) seasonal vegetable production per field, and 3) nutritional equivalent of the vegetables were estimated based on statistical data. By comparing the available nutrition with the recommended intake per age group, we could determine the nutritional self-sufficiency of Nerima ward across four seasonal scenarios. This study shows that depending on the season, field, and population density, a significant number of urban residents can access food-provisioning functions from UA at the time of a large earthquake. 5. Emerging new lifestyles in Japanese urban-rural ‘grey’ environment Toru TERADA Urban-rural land use mixture is one of characteristics of Japanese cities. Such ‘grey’ environment has been understood as a failure of modern city planning. However, what did actually happen was that the residents started doing grass roots activities such as urban farming or urban forest management and those activities became part of their lifestyle. The social significance of present situation can be explained from two points: 1) those activities are sympathized with currently-proposed innovative ‘grey’ working styles (e.g. half-farmer half-X) as alternative of conventional white-collar works, and 2) those activities can increase locally-produced food and energy and it may contribute to enhancing environmental sustainability as a consequence. This lecture introduces the following three points. 6. Why Japan’s urban areas adopt mixed land use: case study of Tokyo from historical perspective Toshinori TANAKA Because of the warm and wet climate in Japan, wooden buildings are preferred because of their high hygroscopic nature, airy characteristic and high availability of timber. Edo, the former name of Tokyo which had the world’s largest population in 18th century, faced with 90 massive fires during 260 years. Well-known Great Fire of Meireki in 1657 killed more than 100,000


people. Cities made of timber and paper were very vulnerable to fires (Interestingly enough, firemen’s main role in Edo era was to demolish the wooden houses to stop the spread of fire). The Tokugawa Government established vacant grounds called Hiyoke-ti and boulevards called Hiro-koji, which works as firebreaks after the Great Fire of Meireki. These open spaces were not simply left vacant, but utilized as hippodromes, gardens and other temporary uses. Also, the government incentivized Daimyos, feudal lords in Edo era who had to stay in Edo to prevent their revolts, to establish their second residences so that they can utilize these houses for emergencies. These spare residences normally had large gardens or agricultural plots within the properties. Due to the characteristics of the material and frequent disasters incentivized the mixed and temporal land use in Japan. 7. The Value of Grey Makoto YOKOHARI Modern urban planning, initiated in Western Europe and North America at the dawn of the 20th century, framed the concept of “city” as an area where no agricultural land uses should be included. In Japan, however, the demarcation between the city and countryside was ambiguously “grey” in comparison to that of Western cities. This ambiguous mixture of urban and rural land uses characterized both the fringe and the interior of Japanese cities as well. Edo, the former name of Tokyo, was already the largest city in the world in the 18th century with more than one million people; but at the same time, welcomed and was quite compatible a vast amount of agricultural land that covered more than 40% of the city. Detesting an ambiguous “grey” mixture and adoring homogeneity and clear “black-and-white” separation of land were the precepts of modern urban planning; that is how modern urban planners framed the problem of building sustainable cities. According to such an urban planning concept, the Japanese mixed land use has long been regarded as a premodern and deniable use of land. One key feature of the 1939 Comprehensive Parks and Open Space Plan of Tokyo was developing a greenbelt surrounding Tokyo to clearly differentiate the central core of the city with its urban land uses from the surrounding countryside with its rural land uses. The City Planning Act in 1968 also aimed at achieving a clear separation of urban and rural land uses by designating Urbanization Promotion Areas (UPA) and Urbanization Control Areas (UCA) in each local municipality. Cities are regarded as an entity that never creates but merely absorbs natural resources, especially food. The threat of natural disasters in Western European and North American cities is extremely low in comparison to Asian cities, and thus systems to transport food can be expected to operate with virtually little or no disruption. Cities in Asia, including those in Japan, are not afforded this luxury. They frequently suffer from sudden disruptions in transportation infrastructure caused by earthquakes, tropical hurricanes, and other natural disasters that are part of everyday life.


SESSION TITLE Aging Society and Sustainability

TIME & VENUE December 2, 15:20-17:30, Room 3+4

COORDINATER (S) - Dr. Shogo KUDO, Project Researcher, Graduate Program in Sustainability Science,


- Prof. Masafumi NAGAO, Visiting Professor, the Institute of Advanced Studies of

Sustainability, United Nations University)

CONCEPT

Population aging is one of the major demographic transitions that have been causing a series of substantial changes in our societies. As population aging is the consequence of past socioeconomic development efforts, it is difficult to imagine its natural reduction. In fact, UNFPA states that “aging as a triumph of development” by referring the past increases in longevity as one of the humanity’s greatest achievements. Today, by knowing that our societies are transforming to aging phase, a state in which the composition of older adults among all age groups becomes considerably higher than the composition in the past, it is imperative to recognize aging as social phenomenon and create adaptation strategies through reassessing people’s awareness to aging, reexamining the required social designs, and rearranging resource allocations.

Scholars and practitioners who are engaged with aging society challenges through research, education, and community projects are invited to the Aging Society and Sustainability session. By compiling their views, the session examines existing framings to topics and challenges related to aging society.

The session starts from reviewing the demographic changes of the world, sub-regions, and countries to confirm aging as a global phenomenon that the majority of the countries are going to experience in this century. Then, the session aims to set the common understanding about the possible linkage between aging and other global sustainability topics such as climate change, energy and resource management, gender, rural development, and rapid urbanization. Secondly, the session presents case studies related to aging society from Japan, Malaysia, and the United States. This is to share the knowledge and experiences in analyzing challenges and implementing social designs to adapt aging society particularly at the regional and communal scales. Lastly, the session aims to suggest possible educational and research collaborations to address aging society, particularly in Asia where rapid


aging is predicted in coming decades. Through this process, the session proposes topics for future collaborative projects.

PRESENTERS Session presenters

Prof. Suriati Ghazali (Universiti Sains Malaysia) Associate Prof. Takeshi Akiba (Akita International University) Assistant Prof. Jacklyn Kohon (Akita International University) Mr. Yoshitaka Ohara (HABATAKU.Inc, Co-founder, Ho Chi Min, Vietnam

Office) Session participants

Prof. Yoshitaka Kumagai (Akita International University) Mr. Shunsuke Ushida (HABATAKU.Inc, Co-founder) Mr. Ryu Yanagisawa (Officer, Gojome town, Akita)

ADENDA

15:20-15:35: Introduction to the session by session chairs 15:35-15:55: Presentation by Professor. Suriati Ghazali (Universiti Sains Malaysia, Department of Human Geography)

15:55-16:15: Presentation by Associate Professor. Takeshi Akiba (Akita International

University)

16:15-16:35: Presentation by Assistant Professor. Jacklyn Kohon (Akita International University) 16:35-16:55: Presesntation by Mr. Yoshitaka Ohara (HABATAKU.Inc, Co-founder, Ho Chi Min, Vietnam Office) 16:55-17:30: Discussion and session synthesis


SESSION TITLE Review of the 2016 BJ Program on "Naval Architecture and Offshore Engineering"

TIME & VENUE December 3, 07:30-08:30 Future Center, Room201

COORDINATER (S) - Toru SATO, Professor, Dept of Ocean Technology, Policy and Enviroment, UTokyo

CONCEPT

In this session, after finishing the 2016 April Semester and in the middle of the 2016 September Semester, we will review the 2016 BJ Collaborative Program on "Naval Architecture and Offshore Engineering" to improve the remote-lecture courses and the internship programs for the future.

AGENDA & SPEAKERS

7:30 Opening words : Prof. Toru Sato (UTokyo) 7:35 Presentation "Statistics of 2016 April Courses and Internships" (5 min each)

a. Statistics of Courses : Dr. Georgios Fytianos (UTokyo) b. Results of Students' Questionnaire: Dr. Ryota Wada (UTokyo) c. Review of Internship in UFPE : Prof Armand Hideki Shinohara (UFPE) d. Review of Internship in NMRI : Dr. Marcio Yamamoto (UTokyo) e. Review of Internship in Oshima Shipyard : Prof Tomoaki Utsunomiya (KyusyuU)

8:00 Discussion on Remote Lecturers a. How to improve the course qualities

i. To be more interactive (difference from video lectures) ii. General or specific? (How to announce the course characters to the students) iii. Skill of English

b. How to increase the number of students i. Announcement methods

c. How to improve the technical issues i. Software issue (MORA system) ii. Hardware issue (Internet connection)

8:45 Discussion on Internships a. Contents, term length, security (emergency call, guidance), and more

8:55 Closing remarks : Prof Julio R Meneghini (USP)

( This session is by invitation only )


SESSION TITLE How university works: A trans-disciplinary education program for building

collaborative urban local watershed governance in Kamakura.

TIME & VENUE December 3, 10:00-12:00 Room 3 & 4

COORDINATER (S) - Mayumi Fukunaga, Associate Professor, Department of Socio-Cultural Environmental Studies, The University of Tokyo - Tomochika Tokunaga, Professor, Department of Environment Systems, The University of Tokyo

CONCEPT

The question how we can achieve a sustainable local society always begins with some fundamental philosophical questions. For each local community what does sustainability itself mean? How can a community shape its vision and who can shape it? To date a diverse academic literature and numerous practical efforts suggest to us that, for reaching answers, we need to build adaptive, transparent, participatory environmental governance processes and discursive consensus arenas. In turn, these must be established through multiple levels and scales of collaboration and participation, both vertically and horizontally, and involving researchers in different disciplines, local knowledge holders and resource users, policymakers and institutions, civil organizations, and of course residents. All of which invite how we in the university can contribute through offering an educational program and can contribute to cultivating human resources capable of knowledge translation, stakeholder facilitation, the practice of process and governance building, empowered through broader trans-disciplinary perspectives for producing and managing those collaborations. With the above in mind, this session will discuss how our Graduate School of Frontier Science (GSFS), new educational field-based research program, “Urban Watershed Design Studio,” can be developed and work as a process for building collaborative practices for local urban watershed governance. Our site is Nameri-gawa watershed in Kamakura, an old historical and sightseeing city. In Kamakura, there has been a need to establish effective local watershed management because of the increase of risk of natural hazards (e.g. flooding, slope failure, and tsunami), as well as social and cultural vulnerability. However, the physical and social invisibility – not only of these natural hazards but also of community members being able to develop sustainable environmental governance – has made it difficult to reveal residents’ potential needs


and achieve local participation in environmental governance. In the session, our discussion will be based on the recent results from a watershed-conditions assessment, on a similar case study of local collaborative watershed governance in Fukuoka, and on the experiences and insights from another trans-disciplinary educational program in GSFS, the “Landscape Design Studio.”

FACILITATOR (S): SPEAKER (S) and PANELIST (S)

Mayumi Fukunaga, Associate Professor, Department of Socio-Cultural Environmental Studies, The University of Tokyo Tomochika Tokunaga, Professor, Department of Environment Systems, The University of Tokyo Chanwit Apibanborirak, Master Course Student, Department of Environment Systems, The University of Tokyo Sampei Yamashita, Professor, Center for Landscape Research, Kyushu Sangyo University Toru Terada Assistant Professor, Department of Natural Environmental Studies, The University of Tokyo Maiko Sakamoto, Associate Professor, Department of International Studies, The University of Tokyo

AGENDA

10:00 – 10:10 Session introduction: What is our target? Tomochika Tokunaga

10:10 – 10:40 Spatially distributed water management in an urban river watershed: practice, research and education Sampei Yamashita 10:40 – 11:00 Understanding and evaluation of the flooding condition using various geographical condition

Chanwit Apibanborirak 11:00 – 11:10 Comment from the supervising professor Tomochika Tokunaga 11:10 – 11:25 Issues and prospects for the urban watershed design program (tentative) Toru Terada and Mayumi Fukunaga 11:25 -12:00 General discussion: Possibility of field-based design program for trans-disciplinary and community cooperative sustainability education


SESSION TITLE

Establishing a Link Between Agriculture, Nutrition and Health for a Sustainable Society

TIME & VENUE 13:30-16:30, December 3 Room 3+4

COORDINATER (S)

- Hirotaka Matsuda, Project Associate Professor,

Graduate Program in Sustainability Science - Global Leadership Initiative (GPSS-GLI), Graduate School of Frontier Sciences (GSFS) Institutes for Advanced Study (UTIAS), Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science (IR3S), The University of Tokyo

- Makiko Sekiyama, Project Assistant Professor, Graduate Program in Sustainability Science - Global Leadership Initiative (GPSS-GLI), Graduate School of Frontier Sciences (GSFS), The University of Tokyo

CONCEPT

Food Security is a concern since sustainability of the society is considered to be threatened by: impacts of climate change on agriculture, rapid population growth centered in developing countries, soaring food prices and so on. Satisfying basic needs of food intake and calorie intake have been emphasized in several international conventions. Traditionally, the main concern of agriculture has been the increment of agricultural productivity. Thus, for this matter agricultural technological development typified the Green Revolution and contributed to alleviate poverty by increasing agricultural productivity. However, now food systems are burdened by the coexistence of undernutrition with obesity, or diet-related noncommunicable diseases, within individuals, households, and populations in developing countries due to the rapid change of people’s lifestyles. This implies that we may not attain health or a good nutritional status, key components for human wellbeing, only by improving food security even if agricultural production may respond to the market. Likewise, traditional policies or strategies for agriculture, nutrition, and health may be insufficient. In other words, transformation of perceptions and values must be considered. Establishing a linkage between agriculture, nutrition, and health is one of the main issues that international agriculture and food policy should focus on to solve this issue. The required strategies for establishing or enhancing a link between agriculture, health, and nutrition needed to build a sustainable society will be discussed in this session.


FACILITATORS &

PRESENTERS /PANELISTS

Hirotaka Matsuda, Project Associate Professor

Graduate Program in Sustainability Science - Global Leadership Initiative (GPSS-GLI), Graduate School of Frontier Sciences (GSFS) Institutes for Advanced Study (UTIAS), Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science (IR3S), The University of Tokyo

Makiko Sekiyama, Project Assistant Professor Graduate Program in Sustainability Science - Global Leadership Initiative (GPSS-GLI), Graduate School of Frontier Sciences (GSFS), The University of Tokyo

Tai Tue Nguyen, Lecturer VNU Key Laboratory of Geoenvironment and Climate change response, Vietnam National University Hanoi, Vietnam

Dr. Rimbawan, Head of Department Department of Community Nutrition, Faculty of Human Ecology, Bogor Agricultural University (IPB), Indonesia

Geoffrey Kironchi, Head of Department Department of Land Resource Management & Agricultural Technology, College of Agriculture & Veterinary Sciences, University of Nairobi, Kenya

Kazuaki Tsuchiya, Assistant Professor

Landscape Ecology and Planning Laboratory, Department of Ecosystem Studies, The University of Tokyo

Chiashin Chen, Project Researcher

Graduate Program in Sustainability Science - Global Leadership Initiative (GPSS-GLI), Graduate School of Frontier Sciences (GSFS), The University of Tokyo

Geetha Mohan, Project Assistant Professor

Institutes for Advanced Study (UTIAS), Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science (IR3S), The University of Tokyo

Eri Aoki, Project Research Associate

Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University

AGENDA

Opening Remarks Hirotaka Matsuda

Presentation Hirotaka Matsuda Makiko Sekiyama Tai Tue Nguyen Geoffrey Kironch

Round Table Discussion


Relationship between land-use change and double burden of undernutrition and overweight in Vietnamese population

Nguyen Tai Tue, Tran Dang Quy, Mai Trong Nhuan

Vietnam National University Hanoi, 334 Nguyen Trai, Thanh Xuan, Hanoi, Vietnam

Tel: +84-43-5587-060, Fax: +84-43-7547-724, E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract

Since Doi Moi Revolution in 1986, Vietnam witnesses a rapid urbanization and industrialization that leads to intensify land-use change, converting agricultural and fertilizable lands into the urban and industrial parks. The national population increased from 66 million in 2000 to 91.7 million in 2015, with a decrease of its inhabitants living in rural areas from 80.5 to 66%. Parallel with socio-economic development, the agricultural production has been significantly increased and directly contributed to alleviate poverty in rural and mountain areas. In other sides, the dietary pattern and lifestyle of the Vietnamese population are quickly shifting from rich in starchy staples to the high amounts of proteins and lipids (i.e., meats, milk, cheese and high fat foods). In present study, we present the relationship between land-use change and food security, especially focusing on the coexistence of undernutrition (underweight) and overweight in Vietnamese population. The presentation will also emphasize on the importance of linkage between agriculture, nutrition and health in order to enhance the societal sustainability.

Keywords: Land-use change, double burden, overweight, undernutrition, Vietnam

The 5th GPSS-GLI International Symposium

Session 5

Capturing the Nutritional and Agricultural Challenges Faced in Indonesia

Rimbawan, Purnawati H. Rachman

Bogor Agricultural University (IPB), Kampus IPB Dramaga, Bogor 16680, Indonesia

Tel: +62-251-8625-066, Fax: +62-251-8622-276, E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract

As most developing countries, Indonesia is facing nutrition transition which follows the epidemiologic change from infectious diseases to non communicable diseases throughout the nation. While under nutrition remains a problem, with a stable 30.0%-37.2% of stunting among under five year old children, over nutrition have increased significantly, especially among adult women, reaching 32.9%, indicating a double burden of malnutrition (DBM). The increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity in Indonesia do not only occur among the highest wealth quintile, but has spread even among the medium-low socio economic population which are mostly due to high intake of energy and fat-dense foods accompanied by low energy expenditure. The two components of the food system leading to this DBM includes 1) food availability and access and 2) food consumption. Despite Indonesia’s stable domestic agricultural production, providing 2,582 kcal/person/day, 13% of the population does not receive the minimum required calories for an average person (1,820 kcal/person/day, based on FAO). It’s agriculture production, however, is vulnerable to climate disturbances. Indonesia scores moderately in food security, where the greatest threats to Indonesia are 1) food quality, shown by the lack of diet diversity and high-quality protein, describing the increase of over nutrition; 2) vulnerable to fluctuations in global food prices, and 3) limited expenditure on agricultural resource and development, serving the lowest investment in the sector, less than 0.5%. Hence, multi sectoral approach and advancements must be in place in order to address the nutritional problems occurring in Indonesia.

Keywords: food system, double burden of malnutrition, multi sectoral approach, Indonesia

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The 5th GPSS-GLI International Symposium Synthesis Session

SESSION TITLE Synthesis session: Framing in Sustainability Research and Education

TIME & VENUE December 3, 16:40-17:25 Room 5

COORDINATER (S) - Motoharu ONUKI, Associate Professor, Graduate Program in Sustainability Science – Global Leadership Initiative, The University of Tokyo (Main session coordinator)

- Barry NESS, Associate Professor, LUCSUS - Shogo KUDO, Project Researcher, Graduate Program in Sustainability Science –

Global Leadership Initiative, The University of Tokyo

CONCEPT

This session is organized to synthesize the discussions in each session group under the symposium theme, Framing in Sustainability Research and Education. The session starts from the introductory by the main coordinator to set the session objectives and expectations. Then, reporters from five topical sessions will be invited to give brief summaries of their session outputs. Based on the shared contents from the topical sessions, the coordinators will invite comments and reflections from the floor. Lastly, session coordinators share their insights on the theme of symposium. The main session coordinator will close the session with sharing future directions of sustainability research and education by reflecting the comments and discussions from this session.

FACILITATOR (S): PRESENTER (S)/

Session facilitators: - Motoharu ONUKI, Associate Professor, Graduate Program in Sustainability Science – Global Leadership Initiative, The University of Tokyo (Main session coordinator) - Barry NESS, Associate Professor, LUCSUS - Shogo KUDO, Project Researcher, Graduate Program in Sustainability Science – Global Leadership Initiative, The University of Tokyo Presenters: Reporter from each session is invited to provide a brief summary of their session outputs within 3~4 minutes with using maximum of 3 slides. They are also requested to remain at the stage to respond to comments from the floor during the session.

PROGRAM (Timetable)

16:40-16:45: Opening of the session by session chairs 16:45-17:05: Report from session 1 to 5 by reporter from each session 17:05-17:25: Synthesis discussion facilitated by session chairs

The 5th GPSS-GLI International Symposium Poster Session

SESSION TITLE Poster Session

TIME & VENUE December 2-3, Foyer Poster presentation (core time): December 3, 12:45-13:25

COORDINATER (S) - Chiashin CHEN, Project Researcher, GPSS-GLI, UTokyo

CONCEPT

This year, 13 posters were selected and will be exhibited throughout the two-day program of GPSS-GLI International Symposium. <Poster Presentations> In the core time (12:45-13:25 on December 3), poster presenters will stand by their own posters and will give presentation. A list of posters with its presentation time are shown in the below table. <Vote for Best Poster> All symposium participants are encouraged to vote for best posters. Voting sheet and box are available from lunchtime of December 2 to lunchtime of December 3. <Best Poster Award> Best Poster Award will be given to the most excellent posters. The Award ceremony will be held in the closing session of the symposium.

# Name Affiliation Group

1 Akampumuza Precious GPSS-GLI, The University of Tokyo A

2 Dennis O. Olila.

Department of Land Resource Management & Agricultural

Technology, University of Nairobi A

3 Giles sioen GPSS-GLI, The University of Tokyo A

4 Grandi-Nagashiro Cecilia GPSS-GLI, The University of Tokyo A

5 Katie Skilington GPSS-GLI, The University of Tokyo A

6 Milad Shadman, Segen

F.Estefen

COPPE/Federal University of Rio de JaneiroCOPPE/Federal

University of Rio de Janeiro B

7 Nazifa Zabeen Siddiqua

Researcher, Centre for Sustainable Asian Cities, School of

Design and Environment National University of Singapore B

8 Phao Thao Nguyen VNU University of Science, Vietnam B

9 Raiza Oliveira Pereira da Silva

UFPE – Federal University of Pernambuco, Center of

Technology and Geoscience, B

10 Ratnayakage Sameera

Maduranga Samarasekara GPSS-GLI, The University of Tokyo C

11 Yangqing Chen GPSS-GLI, The University of Tokyo C

12 Yuka Shimamura GPSS-GLI, The University of Tokyo C

13 Yuki Yoshida GPSS-GLI, The University of Tokyo C

＊Presentation Times Group A 12:45 - 12:55 Group B 12:55 - 13:05 Group C 13:05 - 13:15

The 5th GPSS-GLI International Symposium Special Round Table

SESSION TITLE

Establishing New Collaborative Scheme for Hands-on Education Program

TIME & VENUE Time: 10:00-12:00, 4 December, 2016 Venue: Room #205, Future Center, The University of Tokyo

COORDINATER (S) - Motoharu Onuki, Associate Professor, GPSS-GLI, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo

- - Hirotaka Matsuda, Project Associate Professor, GPSS-GLI, Graduate School of

Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo -

CONCEPT

Experiential courses, including fieldwork courses, are able to be considered as one of significant education curriculums for sustainability science education since it provides opportunities to acquire the skills related to sustainability, rather than simply gaining book knowledge of the subject matter. GPSS-GLI organizes hands-on field programs, Global Field Exercise (GFE) and Resilience Exercise (RE), under close cooperation with its partner universities across the world. This session will explore how we enhance the educational effects of these collaborative programs by looking into the possibility of introducing new components such as shared preliminary lectures by making use of information and communication technologies, etc. Topics of our common interest such as “how to evaluate performance of participants”, how to improve the program itself”, will also be discussed in this session.

The 5th GPSS-GLI International Symposium Special Round Table

FACILITATOR (S): PRESENTER (S)/ SPEAKER (S)/ PANELIST (S), ETC

Motoharu Onuki, Associate Professor, GPSS-GLI, The University of Tokyo Hirotaka Matsuda, Project Associate Professor, GPSS-GLI, The University of Tokyo Makoto Tamura, Associate Professor, Institute for Global Change Adaptation Science

(ICAS), Ibaraki University Dr. Rimbawan, Head of Department, Department of Community Nutrition, Faculty of

Human Ecology, Bogor Agricultural University (IPB), Indonesia Dr. Geoffrey Kironchi, Head of Department of Land Resource Management and

Agricultural Technology, University of Nairobi Dr. Tai Tue Nguyen, Lecturer, Vietnam National University Dr. Kristoffer Berse, Assistant Professor, University of the Philippines’ National College

of Public Administration Governance Dr. Phung Kim Le, Associate Professor, Vice Dean in charge of R&D and External

Relations, Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology

Dr. Nguyen Hang Thi An, Academic staff, R&D Promotion Department, Vietnam Japan University

Dr. Suriati Ghazali, Professor (Geography Section) School of Humanities, Universiti Sains Malaysia

Dr. Ryota Wada, Assistant Professor, Ocean Industrial Science, Technology and Environmental Relations, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo

AGENDA

10:00-10:05 Opening 10:05-10:25 Presentation from GPSS-GLI 1: Pre-lecture through internet 10:25-10:35 Presentation from GPSS-GLI 2: Plan of GFE Akita 10:35-10:45 Presentation from GPSS-GLI 3: Plan of GFE Vietnam 10:45-11:10 Presentation from participants 11:10-12:00 Discussion

The 5th GPSS-GLI International Symposium CVs

Barry Ness

Associate Professor, Director of PhD Studies Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS), Sweden [email protected]

Research keywords: Sustainability science, transdisciplinarity, education, sustainability assessment

Barry’s current research interests concentrate on participatory (transdisciplinarity) methods for sustainability and pedagogical approaches in sustainability education. Amongst other areas, his past research has focused on land grabbing in Africa, and sustainable production chains in Latin America. Barry’s PhD research centered on comprehending the different tools and approaches for assessing sustainability significantly through the case of the Swedish sugar system.

Chanwit Apibanborirak

First Year Graduate Student Dept. of Environment Systems, UTokyo [email protected]

Research keywords: Supercritical water, zeolite, H-ZSM-5, stability, dealumination

Research interests: Nanostructured materials synthesis Stability of zeolite in supercritical water Liquid-phase upgrading process for biofuel production

Chiahsin Chen

Projected Researcher GPSS-GLI, UTokyo [email protected], [email protected]

Research keywords: Science and technology policy, science communication, public communication of science & technology (PCST), community health, stakeholder collaboration

My research and education programs encompassed interdisciplinary areas, including environmental governance, biotechnology governance, public engagement in science and technology (S&T), medical humanity projects in higher education and stakeholder collaboration for sustainable development.


Eri Aoki

Project Research Associate Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University [email protected]

Research keywords: Environmental behavior, environmental psychology, environmental engineering, sustainability science, trans-disciplinary

She is a researcher with doctorate in environmental engineering, with strong background in the pro-environmental behaviors, stakeholder communication on climate change risk management and other sustainability issues. She has experienced in conducting survey, workshop, and dialogues with local stakeholders in trans-disciplinary research and environmental education/activities. She has also been involved in Future Earth Global hub-Japan for SDGs, capacity building, and early career involvement.

Geoffrey Kironchi

Associate Professor & Head of Department Dept. of Land Resource Management & Agricultural Technology, College of Agriculture & Veterinary Sciences, University of Nairobi [email protected]

Research keywords: Agroecosystems, watershed management, resilience to climate change, wastewater use, food security & improved livelihood

Research interests: Sustainable soil resource and watershed management, environment and climate change, especially in arid and semi-arid agroecosystems to enhance food security, improved livelihoods and resilience to climate change. Rainwater harvesting and wastewater use for agriculture in urban and peri-urban areas and how it impacts on public and environmental health.

Giles Bruno Sioen

Doctoral Student & Teaching Assistant GPSS-GLI, UTokyo [email protected]

Research keywords: Food provisioning, resilience, earthquake, disaster planning, self-sufficiency

Giles’ research focuses on sustainability in urban planning and design, more specifically, on vegetable self-sufficiency in megacities facing large earthquakes. He hypothesized that Urban Agriculture production can play a significant role for disaster preparedness and meet the needs of the affected both on short-term food security, as well as during the long-term recovery process. Remote sensing techniques and quantifications of the spatial analysis lead to policy implications for cities facing similar natural disasters.


Hirotaka Matsuda

Project Associate Professor GPSS-GLI and UTIAS-IR3S, UTokyo [email protected]

Research keywords: Food security, agricultural productivity, agricultural R&D, Sub-Sahara Africa

Educated and trained as an agricultural and development economist at Hokkaido University, Dr.Matsuda engages in research and education about food security in relation to economic development and role of agricultural research and development (agricultural R&D), especially focusing on rural economy in Asia and Africa.

Jacklyn Kohon

Assistant Professor, Urban Sociology Global Studies Program, Akita International University [email protected]

Research keywords: Social sustainability, urban planning, aging society, public health

My research often involves the intersection of urban planning and public health. Before coming to Akita, I worked as a researcher at Portland State University’s (PSU) Institute on Aging. I completed my PhD at PSU in Urban Studies & Planning, focusing on social sustainability in urban planning projects in Portland, Copenhagen, and Nagoya. I am interested in studying challenges and opportunities of shrinking cities and regions in Japan, including needs of older adult populations, community revitalization efforts, and changes in the chonaikai system.

Kazuaki Tsuchiya

Assistant Professor Landscape Ecology and Planning Laboratory, Dept. of Ecosystem Studies, UTokyo [email protected]

Research keywords: Urban ecology, social-ecological system, rural-urban linkage, ecosystem services, human-nature interaction

Originally trained as an ecologist/geographer, with doctoral degrees in agriculture, Kazuaki Tsuchiya is an Assistant Professor at Landscape Ecology and Planning Laboratory of the University of Tokyo. Dr. Tsuchiya’s research interest bears on the study of environmental and health consequences of, and institutional contexts of, the linkages between urban lifestyles and local/global ecosystems.


Ken Sasaki

Officer Urban Agriculture Section, Nerima City, Tokyo [email protected]

Research keywords: Urban agriculture, agriculture promotion, local government, local administration, public evolvement

He has a background in Agricultural Economics at Hokkaido University, and his team realized the uniqueness of Urban Agriculture (UA) in Nerima City from comparison between Nerima City as a typical Japanese UA city and foreign cities. Recognized as one of the leading municipalities in the field of UA in Tokyo region, Nerima City is planning to hold an International Conference on Urban Agriculture in 2019. Nerima’s Urban Agricultural Section support local professional farmers and provide the opportunity to enjoy the UA activities to the residents.

Kristoffer B. Berse

Assistant Professor National College of Public Administration and Governance, University of the Philippines [email protected]

Research keywords:Disasters and climate change, inter-local cooperation, risk perception and resilience, policy mobilities, institutional reform

Kris has a multidisciplinary academic and research interest, having earned his PhD (Urban Engineering) and Master of Environment Studies degrees from the University of Tokyo and his BA degree (Public Administration) from the University of the Philippines, where he is currently affiliated as Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Program Coordinator. He has several years of professional experience encompassing teaching, research, capacity building, and knowledge management in areas broadly crisscrossing disaster risk management, climate change adaptation, urban sustainability, and inter-local cooperation. He has served as consultant for a number of organizations including the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) in Geneva and Bangkok, Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), World Bank, Climate Change Commission, Save the Children, and The Asia Foundation, to name a few. He has published and presented papers in various forms and fora in and outside the Philippines.


Lai Choo Malong-Lee

Director Centre for Sustainable Asian Cities, National University of Singapore [email protected]

Research keywords: Urban sustainability, resource management, urban regeneration, density thresholds

Prof. Malone-Lee is a specialist on urban issues, with specific interest in sustainability and its nexus with development, economic growth and city culture. She has been investigating planning strategies for sustainable growth, focusing on the thematic issues of city densification, urban regeneration, livability and wellbeing, with particular interest on pragmatic and culturally-responsive urban applications to the dense cities in Asia. She believes that regenerative processes and ecological resource management are fundamental for our cities’ future. She is an advisor or a board member to various organizations including Singapore’s National Parks Board, etc.

Maiko Sakamoto

Associate Professor Dept. of International Studies, UTokyo [email protected]

Research keywords: Development studies, community development, resources management, conflict management

I have studied conflict management focusing on structure of conflicts from a theoretical aspect. Recently, I’m interested in how such the perspective can be used for managing on-going real conflicts taken place in the community level. Usually such conflicts are less technical nor political than those happening between organizations or nations. More abstract sense of values will play a key role, such as mutual trust, sense of belonging, and attachment. It is not easy to incorporate those values into the conflict management framework but essential if we look at conflicts in communities.

Makiko Sekiyama

Project Assistant Professor GPSS-GLI, UTokyo [email protected]

Research keywords: Health, nutrition, child, Indonesia

Research interests: Human ecology, international health, international nutrition, environmental health

Career summary: 2004 Assistant Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, the University of Tokyo 2005 Ph.D. Health Science, the University of Tokyo 2005-2012 Project Assistant Professor, Transdisciplinary Initiative for Global Sustainability (TIGS),

Integrates Research System for Sustainability Science (IR3S), the University of Tokyo 2013-present Project Assistant Professor, GPSS-GLI, the University of Tokyo


Makoto Tamura

Associate Professor Institute for Global Change Adaptation Science (ICAS), Ibaraki University [email protected]

Research keywords: Climate change, adaptation, vulnerability, sustainability education

His research interest is the impact assessment and countermeasures for climate change, the interrelationship between economic activity and environment, and sustainability education. Main publications; “Sustainability Science in Post-earthquake Society” (Co-edits, Kokusai-bunken-sha, 2014), “Introduction to sustainability science” (Co-edits, Shin-yo-sha, 2008), “Multiple Calibration Decomposition Analysis: Energy Use and Carbon Dioxide Emissions in the Japanese Economy, 1970-1995” (co-work, Energy Policy, 2007), “What Causes the Change in Energy Demand in the Economy?”(co-work, Energy Economics, 2010).

Makoto Yokohari

Professor Dept. of Urban Engineering, School of Engineering, UTokyo [email protected]

Research keywords: Landscape planning, ecological planning, environmental planning, urban agriculture

Prof. Makoto Yokohari specializes in landscape and regional planning, and his current academic interests include sustainable urban and regional planning with urban agriculture. His academic publications include over 120 reviewed papers and 30 book articles. His recent publication, Sustainable Landscape Planning in Selected Urban Regions, addresses diverse environmental, social and planning issues in today’s urban regions from interdisciplinary perspectives.

Masafumi Nagao

Visiting Professor and Program Adviser United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS); Professor Emeritus, Hiroshima University [email protected]

Prof. Nagao was a Project Professor of GPSS-GLI from July 2013 to March 2015, and then continues as an invited part-time lecturer who specializes in program evaluation, development cooperation and education for sustainable development in Africa. Current research interest is in platform approach to promotion of stakeholder collaboration toward a sustainable society. Serving since 2008 as Coordinator of UNU Project on Education for Sustainable Development in Africa (ESDA) for supporting field-based and problem-solving-oriented graduate level education programs in integrated rural development, sustainable urban development and mining mineral resources development and management, conducted jointly by eight leading African universities.


Mayumi Fukunaga

Associate Professor Dept. of Socio-cultural Environmental Studies, UTokyo [email protected]

Research interests: Watershed governance, environmental justice and community socio-cultural empowerment in the disaster areas, place and memory, and re-conceptualization of “nature” in the era of post-industrial society

Miguel Esteban

Project Associate Professor GPSS-GLI, UTokyo [email protected]

Research keywords: Resilience, natural hazards, renewable energy, energy transition, grid simulation

Miguel Esteban’s research deals with the effect that natural disasters will have on various components of the socio-economic make-up of different countries. He is involved in the estimation of the different destructive components of various types of disasters that originate from the sea, namely tropical cyclones and tsunamis. Furthermore, his research deals on the effect that climate change will have on natural disasters, and in particular tropical cyclones, which are expected to increase in intensity in the future. Also, he conducts research on renewable energy policy, including ocean energy, solar and wind power.

Motoharu Onuki

Associate Professor GPSS-GLI, UTokyo [email protected]

Research keywords: Sustainability education, environmental education, water environmental engineering

Dr. Onuki took PhD at Department of Urban Engineering, the University of Tokyo, where he majored urban environmental engineering, sanitary engineering, environmental microbiology and molecular biology. After graduation, he also studies and practice environmental education and sustainability education, including summer school type educational program for sustainability: Intensive Program on Sustainability (IPoS). When he was in Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science (IR3S), he was assigned to establish sustainability science master’s degree program and started Graduate Program in Sustainability Science (GPSS) in Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, the University of Tokyo. GPSS has been extended and now is Graduate Program in Sustainability Science –Global Leadership Initiative (GPSS-GLI). Recently, he is also studying disaster recovery and resilient society, “science, technology and society”, and negotiation and consensus building.


Osamu Saito

Academic Director/Academic Programme Officer United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS) [email protected]

Research keywords: Natural capital, ecosystem services, biodiversity, ecosystem management, sustainability science

As an expert in the field of biodiversity and ecosystem services, Dr. Saito has been working on the interlinkages between ecological, human and social systems through sustainability science approaches. His research experiences include socio-ecological studies on the ecosystem services provided by traditional rural production landscapes (Satoyama) in both Japan and other Asian countries. Moreover, at UNU he has been actively promoting various activities for Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) for the last five years. He has been a managing editor of the Sustainability Science journal published by Springer since 2011.

Rimbawan

Head of the Department Dept. of Community Nutrition, Bogor Agricultural University (IPB) [email protected]

Research keywords: Nutrients metabolism, nutritional evaluation of foods, nutrigenomics, indigenous food

Research interests: Glycemic index measurement Functional food/nutraceuticals Bioavailability of nutrients and biochemical nutritional assessment Indigenous crop for strengthening food security

Career Summary: 1985 Graduated in Chemistry, Universitas Indonesia 1992 Doctor of Nutritional Biochemistry, School of Agriculture, University of Nottingham, England 1992-present Lecturer, Dept. of Community Nutrition, Faculty of Human Ecology, IPB 2013-present Head of the Department, Dept. of Community Nutrition, Faculty of Human Ecology, IPB


Sampei Yamashita

Professor Dept. of Civil and Urban Design Engineering, Kyushu Sangyo University [email protected]

Research keywords: Rainwater harvesting, spatially-distributed water management practices, craftspeople

Research interests: Photo-Projective Method, landscape planning and management Smart adaptation activities and measures against urban flood disasters Comprehensive flood control involving citizens in a Japanese watershed Cultural landscapes of Japanese pottery villages and potters’ attitudes toward tradition Community spaces in the minds of traditional craftsmen in a pottery village of Japan

Shigeru Tabeta

Professor Dept. of Environment Systems, UTokyo; Head of GPSS-GLI, UTokyo [email protected]

Research keywords: Marine environment, ocean engineering, ecosystem modelling, coastal management, coastal fishery

My academic interests are the analysis and assessment of impacts of human activities on marine environment as well as the development of technologies to preserve/restore/manage the environment. Recent research topics include modelling of marine ecosystem, environmental impact assessment of ocean and coastal development, management of coastal fishery, and so on.

Shogo Kudo

Project Researcher GPSS-GLI, UTokyo [email protected]

Research keywords: Aging, shrinking society, rural community, placemaking, sustainability

His research projects include Akita Age Lab which is a platform project of research, education, and social implementation initiatives targeting aging society challenges. His core interest through this project is in contextualizing placemaking activities that lead local residents to envision and design a sustainable rural community in the time of aging and shrinking society. He applies qualitative research methods in his research and one of his recent projects, MONOGATARI (story-telling) workshop, employs photography as the intergenerational communication method.


Suriati Ghazali

Professor School of Humanities, Universiti Sains Malaysia [email protected], [email protected]

Research keywords: Livelihood strategies, socioeconomic changes, women, elderly, poverty

Research interests: Human geography, social and cultural geographies Rural-urban linkages, livelihood strategies, poverty and gender/women issues Population and aging issues, qualitative methods

Tai Tue Nguyen

Lecturer Key Laboratory of Geoenvironment and Climate change response, VN University of Science, Vietnam National University Hanoi [email protected], [email protected]

Research keywords: Agriculture production, ecosystem services, food security, resilience, health

My research interest is to analyze ecosystem functioning and services in rural areas, including to examine (1) the relationship between natural capitals and food security; (2) the linkage between land-use change (urbanization) and food security; (3) the resilience of rural population to climate change and (4) to build urban and rural models to adapt with climate change.

Takashi Mino

Dean and Professor Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, and Coordinator of GPSS-GLI, UTokyo [email protected]

Research keywords: Sustainability education, sustainability science, environmental microbiology, wastewater engineering

Bachelor, Master’s and Doctoral degrees from Department of Urban Engineering, the University of Tokyo. Worked as Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Professor in the same Department until becoming Professor at Graduate School of Frontier Science (GSFS) in 1999. Originally interested in microbial ecology of biological wastewater treatment, especially, biological phosphate removal from wastewater and mathematical modeling of biological wastewater process. His recent interests as well as responsibilities include the development of pedagogy and curriculum for sustainability education at higher education level.


Takeshi Akiba

Deputy Director / Associate Professor Institute for Asian Studies and Regional Collaboration, Akita International University [email protected]

Research keywords: Foreign care workers, aging society, immigration law and policy

My research interest is in Japanese immigration policy and citizenship. At the institute, I have headed a research project on the potentials for foreign nurses and care workers in Akita, in the context of aging society and shortage of care workers across this country.

Tomochika Tokunaga

Professor Dept. of Environment Systems, UTokyo [email protected]

Research keywords: Groundwater, usage of subsurface-space, energy resources development, coupling processes in geosphere environment

Research interests: Poroelasticity and its application to geological engineering problem Submarine groundwater discharge and its impact on coastal environment Assessment of long-term stability of geological environment for evaluating the safety of waste

disposal program

Toru Sato

Professor Dept. of Ocean Technology, Policy, and Environment, UTokyo [email protected]

Research keywords: Methane hydrate, carbon capture and storage (CCS), Brazil-Japan collaborative education program on naval architecture and offshore engineering

Research interests: Methane hydrate development Environmental impact assessment of CO2 sub-sea storage


Toru Terada

Lecturer Dept. of Natural Environmental Studies, UTokyo [email protected]

Research keywords: Landscape planning, urban planning, urban forestry, urban agriculture, land use policy

His academic interests include developing planning theory for restoring peri-urban "urban-rural" landscapes in Japan and its comparison to other nations from both biophysical and socio-cultural points of view. "Satoyama" (a Japanese term meaning coppiced woodland) is regarded as a key for restoring urban-rural landscapes. Therefore he has been conducting research on how to revitalize satoyama in a modern way, in particular from the point of view of wood energy utilization. Urban agriculture is another key topic, and he is interested in evaluating urban farmland and vacant lots as places for food provisioning and community bonding.

Toshinori Tanaka

Project Assistant Professor GPSS-GLI, UTokyo [email protected]

Research keywords: Environmental law and policy, governance theory, nature and culture conservation, world heritage convention, sustainable tourism

He received his B.A. in history from Osaka University, and his Master’s and Ph.D. in environmental policy from Kyoto University. After graduation, he worked as an Assistant Professor at Graduate School of Law in Hokkaido University before joining the University of Tokyo. He is a specialist in nature/culture conservation policy and the sustainable tourism applying the governance theory in public policy.

Yoshitaka Ohara

Co-founder Habataku Inc. [email protected]

Research keywords: Leadership training for youth, aging society, sustainable social system design

The future world is a dynamic one, and demands a new generation of “glocal” leaders; leaders who have the ability to understand social changes on a global scale, establish strong relationships within their local communities, and co-create new value in society with diverse people. To better succeed in such a dynamic world, we train individuals to go beyond their comfort zones to collaborate with those around them, enhance their creative potential, and learn to “think and act” with both a global and local perspective in mind.


Global Field Exercise (GFE) Chiang Mai Unit

Ying Palopakon (GLE coordinator) Yang Jiaqi (PhD student) Akane Bessho, Mayuko Takeda, Sasiwimon Khlongakkhara (Master’s students) GPSS-GLI, UTokyo [email protected]

Research keywords: Global Field Exercise, Chiang Mai, sustainable food system, urban agriculture

Global Field Exercises are designed to serve as an experiential learning platform for students to enhance their leadership, critical thinking and organizing skills outside the confines of the university. In February 2017, The GFE Chiang Mai unit will join intensive workshops and lectures in Chiang Mai. Collaborating with students from Chiang Mai University and Chulalongkorn University, the team will investigate ongoing problems of the local agriculture system, particularly on organic vegetable farming, to understand challenges organic farmers in Chiang Mai have faced. Also, the team will take this opportunity to learn about diverse demands coming from various groups of people living there. The field research will be done through group discussions and face-to-face interviews with the stakeholders in the local vegetables supply chain.

From left: Akane, Mayuko, Ying, Sasiwimon, and Yang

Documents

Program and CVs - GPSS-GLI › pdf › Program_and_CVs.pdfNorth American cities is extremely low in comparison to Asian cities, and thus systems to transport food can be expected to