Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2014

Session information

Poster

Symbol H (Human Geosciences) » H-GG Geography

[H-GG21_29PO1] Use and management of natural resources and environment

Tue. Apr 29, 2014 6:15 PM - 7:30 PM Poster (3F)

Convener:*Ueda Gen(Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Tohoku University), Yoshinori OTSUKI(Institute of Geography, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University)

In this session, issues on natural resource use and management from all over the world are discussed based on findings from local-scale fieldwork. Taking human ecological and earth scientific perspectives, a variety of research topics are expected including resource/environmental use and local knowledge, environmental history, environmental geography, environmental degradation through resource use and/or management, related socio-economic changes and implication for livelihood security, political ecology, and the issue of scale gap between local and broader, national and global studies.