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Environmental Change and Society: Focusing on the Management and its Future of Agricultural Reservoirs in Japan

摘要

Global environmental changes such as climate change, are having a profound impact on local areas. From a local perspective, however, climate change is just one factor transforming the area; these changes occur within the interplay of multifaceted elements such as society, economy, and ecosystems. This lecture introduces a framework that depicts local change as fluctuations within the Earth sphere - the human sphere and the biosphere. Using examples such as Japanese agricultural water reservoir management, it explains approaches for identifying issues and challenges arising from these changes. We will then explore sustainable relationships between the environment and society.

簡介

Dr Fujioka is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University since April 2017. He received Ph.D. in environmental policy from Kyoto University in 2009. After graduating, he worked as a Research Fellow at the Faculty of Agriculture, Kindai University and worked as Assistant Professor at the Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Tohoku University. He is a specialist of geography and area studies especially in southern Africa, Siberia and rural area in Japan. He has been conducting some research projects focusing on landscape formation, forest management, biodiversity conservation, and water environment changes.

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