[U-10] Science Council of Japan and JpGU

[U10-08] Activities of the Subcommittee on Human Geosciences at the Science Council of Japan

*Takashi Oguchi¹ (1.Center for Spatial Information Science, The University of Tokyo)

Keywords:Science Council of Japan, Human and nature, Interdisciplinarity, Global environment

The Subcommittee on Human Geosciences, established within the Earth and Planetary Science Committee of the Science Council of Japan, examines the interaction between geoscientific phenomena and human activities from the perspective of human geosciences to solve relevant problems such as global environmental issues. Human Geosciences represents a cross-disciplinary field that includes physical earth and planetary science, social sciences such as regional studies, and environmental sciences. It requires different approaches from academic societies, each specializing in a single field. To realize this initiative, the Human Geosciences Subcommittee has held comprehensive discussions based on knowledge from various fields, symposiums to disseminate information to society, and published books. The themes covered by this subcommittee include the relationship between humankind and environmental changes since the late Pleistocene, the assessment of the impact of global environmental changes such as global warming, future predictions of natural disasters and policy recommendations for disaster prevention, and the exploration of the sustainable global environment. The 26th term of the Science Council of Japan, which began in October last year, has announced a policy of placing greater emphasis than ever on collaboration among diverse fields. The Human Geosciences Subcommittee, which is particularly interdisciplinary within the Earth and Planetary Science Committee, is an organization consistent with this policy, and it is hoped that its activities will be further activated under the collaboration with the JpGU.