Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2014

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[U-08_2AM2] How JpGU will manage environment and hazard?

Fri. May 2, 2014 11:00 AM - 12:45 PM Main Hall (1F)

Convener:*Jun Matsumoto(Deaprtment of Geography, Tokyo Metropolitan University), Toshihiko Sugai(Department of Natural Environmental Studies, Institute of Environmental Studies, Graduate School of Frontier Science, The University of Tokyo), Masahito Ishihara(Education unit for Adaptation to Extreme Weather Conditons and Resilient Society, Kyoto University), Mamoru Koarai(Geographic Information Analysis Research Division, Geography and Crustal Dynamics Research Center, Geographical Survey Institute), Chair:Masahito Ishihara(Education unit for Adaptation to Extreme Weather Conditons and Resilient Society, Kyoto University)

12:30 PM - 12:45 PM

★ [U08-14] The Mission of Human Geoscience in the Study of Disasters and Global Environmental Problems

*Yukio HIMIYAMA1 (1.Hokkaido University of Education)

Keywords:human geoscience, Great East Japan Disaster, global environmental problem, sustainability, disaster

The Human Geoscience Section of JpGU has been emphasizing the importance of studying increasing disasters and global environmental problems together in an integrative way, and has worked together with the Human Geoscience Committee of the Science Council of Japan to organize various meetings and issued proposals related with global environmental problems and hazards/disasters. The lecture reviews these activities and their achievements, the harsh reality of the still continuing Great East Japan Disaster, and the worsening global environmental problems and the efforts to combat them, and discusses the missions of human geoscience now and towards future.