Wed. May 27, 2015 4:15 PM - 5:00 PM 101A (1F)

Convener:*Gen Ueda(Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Tohoku University), Yoshinori OTSUKI(Institute of Geography, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University), Chair:Gen Ueda(Graduate School of Environmental Studies, 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 and their methodological and/or conceptual reflections. 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.