Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2023

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[U-06] From outreach to knowledge co-creation: Advancing inclusive community engagement in Geoscience

Tue. May 23, 2023 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM Exhibition Hall Special Setting (1) (Exhibition Hall 8, Makuhari Messe)

convener:Vincent Tong(Northumbria University), Takuro Ogura(Graduate School of Education, Hyogo University of Teacher Education), Chiaki T. Oguchi(Institute for Environmental Science and Technology, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University), Takashi Oguchi(Center for Spatial Information Science, The University of Tokyo), Chairperson:Vincent Tong(Northumbria University), Takuro Ogura(Graduate School of Education, Hyogo University of Teacher Education), Chiaki T. Oguchi(Institute for Environmental Science and Technology, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University), Takashi Oguchi(Center for Spatial Information Science, The University of Tokyo)

9:15 AM - 9:30 AM

[U06-02] Opening dialogue in policy process: Implication for inclusive citizen engagement in Geoscience

★Invited Papers

*Hidenroi Nakamura1 (1.Toyama Prefectural University)

Keywords:deliberation, inclusion, reflection, pluralism, SDGs, resilience

While operational gaps to transformation for systemic challenges and SDGs are recognized, transformation policy process should include systemic change of values and beliefs, linking science, policy, and communities, and co-knowledge production for actions, where geoscience community has a role to play. Co-knowledge production requires dialogue across various boundaries. Dialogical aspect in policy process is necessary to realise inclusion and reflection for transformative environmental and sustainability governance. In this presentation, the author introduces two case studies on dialogical policy process in which geoscience experts also engaged. One is an explorative study of citizen dialogue on radioactive waste management in post-Fukushima Japan. The other is a retrospective study of policy processes in Finland for decades, including the process of spent nuclear fuel disposal. The former case proposes methods for polyphonic dialogue among citizens, and between citizens and experts, in a random sampling-based citizen dialogue involving experts and citizens, as an element of inclusive, reflective policy process. The latter study develops a systemic perspective of a culture of open dialogue to view policy processes encompassing the micro- (interpersonal communication), meso- (organization) and macro- (legislation) levels. It delineates the core principles of open dialogue that could also facilitate an inclusive, reflective transformation to sustainable development, suggesting a way to cultivate a culture of open dialogue in policy process based on the findings from Finland.