SEEPS Camp 2023 (In-person)
Call for Participants
21 – 23 August, 2023
Applications Due: 6 July, 2023
Organized by the Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies(SEEPS)In 2021, the Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies (SEEPS) launched
a new event called the SEEPS Camp. Following the success of the three online SEEPS
Camps, we are happy to announce to hold the first in-person SEEPS Camp 2023 inAugust. The purpose of the Camp is to bring together a small group of outstanding Ph.D.
students and young researchers who will lead the SEEPS in the future and to provide
them with opportunities to interact with each other. We further aim at building a network
among them who aspire to be leading environmental economists
Participants will present their research plans or outcomes and exchange ideas. They will
also join a special session and discuss with mid-career researchers of the SEEPS who
will share their experiences of an academic career development. The camp will be heldin the Nasushiobara area, Tochigi Prefecture. We will have an opportunity to interview
Nasushiobara city, one of the “Decarbonization Leading Area”, chosen by Ministry of theEnvironment. Nikko National Park, which is registered as Zero Carbon Park, also
straddles this area. Participants will stay in the cottage with rooftop solar PV in Looop
Resort NASU with the concept of “symbiosis between people, forests, and energy”.

1Dates:21 to 23 August, 2023
Participation Cost:
FreeSEEPS provides the travel costs, accommodation costs, and food expense.
Venue:
Towa Pure Cottage, Looop Resort NASU
https://looop.co.jp/service/ipp/looopresortnasu
https://www.pure-cottages.jp/plan/244
Address: 3375 Takakuotsu, Nasu-cho, Nasu-gun, Tochigi Prefecture, 325-0303

There are two bedroom-buildings within the cottage. Participants are kindly requested tostay in one of the bedroom-buildings with other participants of the same gender. Also,
the toilet and bath are for co-use with other participants.
Organization committee members will stay in the different cottage. Please see the links
above to know the details of the cottage.
Eligibility:
To apply for the SEEPS Camp 2023, you must hold a master’s degree. The applicants
would be a Ph.D. student, a business person who has received a master’s degree within
the past eight years, or an early career researcher who has received a Ph.D. within thepast five years at the time of the application.
Non-members of SEEPS and those living outside Japan are also welcome, although thetravel cost to Japan is not provided.
Application:
To apply, please send an email to the SEEPS office (seeps-post@as.bunken.co.jp).
Files to attach an email include:
1) Curriculum vitae
2) Research proposal (or abstract of your research paper) and a description of yourmotivation for studying environmental economics and policies.
(no more than 2 pages)
There are no requirements for formatting. Manuscripts should be in English or Japanese.

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The application deadline is 6 July, 2023. Eight participants at maximum will be selected.
The result will be notified to you in the middle of July.
If you have any questions, please email Hide-Fumi Yokoo, at hidefumi.yokoo@r.hitu.ac.jp.
What to bring:
LaptopItems required for your stay (e.g., cloths)
Driver license if you own
Organizing Committee:
Hide-Fumi Yokoo (Hitotsubashi University), Hideki Shimada (National Institute ofAdvanced Industrial Science and Technology), Miwa Nakai (Fukui Prefectural University),
Jun Yoshida (Tohoku Gakuin University)
Tentative Program in JST:
Monday, 21 August•

11:30 Meeting up on the JR Nasushiobara station and lunch time with the selfintroduction session•

13:30 Traveling to the accommodation via the supermarket for grocery shopping•

15:30 Check-in•

16:00-17:30 Special Session (online) : “Career development after the Master course”
by mid-career researchers of the SEEPS. They will share their experiences on “jobhunting for academic jobs” and their career development, followed by a questionand-answer session. Speakers are as follows:

Dr. Shinsuke Uchida (Professor at Nagoya City University)

Dr. Vu Ha Thu (Assistant Professor at Kyoto University)

Dr. Tarek Katramiz (Project Assistant Professor at Keio University)•

17:30- Cooking dinner•

18:30- Dinner time

Tuesday, 22 August•

7:30 Breakfast•

9:00 Traveling to the Nasushiobara city government•

10:00 Special Session: Presentation by the Nasushiobara city government on
climate change countermeasures and a question-and-answer session afterwards
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12:00 Lunch time at Restaurant Au revoir (near the station)•

13:30 Traveling back to the accommodation•

14:30-16:30 Presentations by four participants•

16:30-16:45 Break•

16:45-18:15 Presentations by four participants•

18:30 Dinner at BBQ Village

Wednesday, 23 August•

7:30 Breakfast•

9:30 Check-out•

10:00 Sightseeing at farms (Minamigaoka Dairy, Shinrinno Bokujo)•

11:30 Traveling back to the JR Nasushiobara station•

12:00 Dismissing on site4