Events

Cultural Perception and Policy Engagement of Environmental Issues in Northeast Asia

2016-12-01
Special Event

International Symposium

Management of air pollution and natural resources is an urgent policy issue for the local and regional communities of Northeast Asia. This symposium aims to look at ways to problem solve by gaining an in-depth understanding of the issues, and through careful analysis of case studies and policy making.

Date: December 3~4
Time: 9:30am~5:30pm
Venue: 6F, Multimedia Education and 雷速体育_中国足彩网￥在线直播 Complex, Kawauchi North Campus (Map)

Saturday, December 3

9:30~9:35am
Opening Remarks

9:35~9:45am
Symposium outline

9:45am~12:30pm
Session A (lectures will be in English)
Environmental awareness and intervention in a contemporary cultural context.
- Chair: Hiroki Takakura - Center for Northeast Asian Studies, Tohoku University
[Lectures]

Movement and emotion among Eveny reindeer herders
-Piers Vitebsky - University of Cambridge, UK
The dependent resistance against the mining development：A case study on Shamanic activities around a copper-gold mining site in Mongolia
-Ippei Shimamura - The University of Shiga Prefecture, Japan
Supernatural sanctions, legal pluralism and political procedure
-Konstantinos Zorbas - Shandong University, China
Cultural perceptions and its re-embedded contexts from the toxic sea
-Shuji Iijima - Kyushu University, Japan

12:30~1:30pm
Lunch Break

1:30~5:30 pm
Session B (lectures will be in Japanese)
International cooperation in science: migratory birds and their habitat.
- Chair: Atsushi Ishii - CNEAS, Tohoku University
[Speakers:]

Mari Koyano - Hokkaido University
Yusuke Sawa - BirdLife International Tokyo
Hiroyoshi Higuchi - Keio University SFC
Noriyuki Ohtaishi and Yuka Taishi - The Hokkaido University Museum

Sunday, December 4

10:00am~12:45pm
Session C (lectures will be in English)
The development of the coal industry in China and its impact on CO2 emission.
-Chair: Jusen Asuka - CNEAS, Tohoku University
[Lectures]

The development of the coal industry in China and its impact on CO2 emission.
-Songli Zhu - Energy 雷速体育_中国足彩网￥在线直播 Institute of National Development and Reform Commission
Climate actions by Asian Development Bank.
-Xuedu Lu - Asian Development Bank, Philippines
Chinese emission trading system and establishing Northeast Asian carbon market.
-Jeongin Kim - Chung-Ang University, Korea
East Asia's transborder environmental issues: Encouraging regional cooperation or conflict.
-Christian Ploberger - Chinese Economic Association, UK/Europe

12:45~1:00pm
Closing Remarks

雷速体育_中国足彩网￥在线直播:

Jin Dan
Center for Northeast Asian Studies
Email: contasia@cneas.tohoku.ac.jp