【Event Report】Sustainability Week 2011
GLP Sapporo Open workshop: Vulnerability, Resilience and Sustainability of Asian Land System Date: Nov. 5th 2011 Venue: Hokkaido University Centennial Hall
The Hokkaido University campus is home to the Sapporo Nodal Office of the Global Land Project (GLP), where research on the vulnerability, resilience and sustainability of the land system in relation to land-use and land-cover change is conducted within the international research network's framework. In this workshop, lectures on the results of research regarding land-use and land-cover change in Asia (including the outcomes of joint research conducted by Nepal's Tribhuvan University and Hokkaido University) will be given as part of the Sapporo Nodal Office's activities. Related ideas and views will also be exchanged.
Presentation titles:
Hideaki Shibata (Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere, HU): Roles of GLP and GLP Sapporo Nodal Office
Noriyuki Tanaka (Center for Sustainability Science, HU): Research and Education at CENSUS, HU
Narendra Raj Khanal (Central Department of Geography, TU): Land system vulnerability: a case study of Chure Hills in Nepal
Pramod Kumar Jha (Central Department of Botany, TU): Forest and biodiversity in Nepal: Challenges and opportunities
Narendra Man Shakya (Civil Engineering Department, Institute of Engineering, TU): Downstream low land water uses: A case study of Koshi River basin, Nepal
Yukio Himiyama (Hokkaido University of Education, Asahikawa Campus): Highlands and lowlands - some observations of their relations in the context of GLP in Asia
Meng Guo (Graduate School of Agriculture, HU): The effects of sand dust storms on greenhouse gases
Takashi Kimura (Graduate School of Agriculture, HU): Channel Processes following heavy rainfall event in a mountain stream of the Saru River Basin, Hokkaido, Japan
Yadu Nath Pokhrel (Post Doctoral Fellow, HU): Study of the Global Terrestrial Water Cycle Using a Land Surface Model with Representations of Human Impacts HU: Hokkaido University, TU: Tribhuvan University
Public Forum, "Glacier Changes and Disaster; Himalayan perspectives on global warming" Date: Nov. 6th 2011 Venue: Hokkaido University Conference Hall
To what extent have the Himalayan glaciers already melted? What impacts have glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs, believed to stem from the melting of glaciers) exerted on people living in the Himalayas and on trekkers who come from around the world to climb the area's mountains? Just how high is the risk of GLOFs, which are often reported on TV, in newspapers and by other media? In this session, faculty members from Tribhuvan University and Hokkaido University will provide easy-to-understand answers to these questions.
Speakers: Prof. Dr. Narendra Raj Khanal (Central Department of Geography, Tribhuvan University), Prof. Dr. Teiji Watanabe (Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University)
