Hokkaido University Sustainability Weeks 2010

Contents
1. Overview of Sustainability Weeks 2010
1.1

Features of this year ............................................................................................2

1.2

Program pamphlet ...............................................................................................4

1.3

Greeting from the president ............................................................................12

1.4

Report pamphlet .................................................................................................13

1.5

Publication on newspaper (only in Japanese) ................................................20

2. Websites of the Events and Activities (Date Order)
2.1

Public Lecture: Fertility and Sustainable Future ...........................................25

2.2

Science Café: “Shirabekata” on Earth Vol.1- Vol.3 ..........................................27

2.3

The 7th Presentation & Debate Competition, School of Economics andBusiness Administration .................................................................................29

2.4

Hokkaido University Sustainability Forum.....................................................31

2.5

Public Lecture Commemorating the Establishment ofthe Hokkaido University Center for Environmental and Health Sciences:
Let’s Think Together! Our Environment and Children’s Health..................33

2.6

Special Event: Ride and Think for Sustainability in Hokkaido University ..36

2.7The 2nd Hokkaido University Sustainability Research Poster Contest ........38

2.8International Workshop on Green Circuits and Systems ...............................41

2.9Fair Trade Fair vol.5 ..........................................................................................43

2.10

SW2010 Opening Event – Hokkaido Univ. Int’l Sympo on SD:
Toward a Society Offering Quality of Life and Human Dignity for All–Comprehensive Exploration into the Causes of the Crises We Face – ......45

2.11 Controlling Zoonoses:
An Experimental Exhibition on Integrative Science.....................................50
2.12 Invitation to Study-Abroad Programs:
SD on Campus – A Global Quality of International Campus Life ...............52
2.13 First Sustainable Campus Contest...................................................................54
2.14 International Symposium on Renewable Energy ..........................................58
2.15

Sustainable Campus Tour .................................................................................61

2.16 CLARK THEATER 2010 ...................................................................................63

Hokkaido University Sustainability Weeks 20102.17 International symposium on Global Campus for Sustainability
Education............................................................................................................65
2.18

Symposium on Northern Mountains:
Past Change and Monitoring Network...........................................................68

2.19

Key Issues for Carbon Storage and Biodiversity－Tropical Peat and Forest－ ..........................................................................70

2.20

Hokkaido Community Care Symposium ..........................................................72

2.21

Symposium on the Possibility of a Green Welfare State:
Toward Sustainable and Inclusive Growth ....................................................75

2.22

Symposium on EcoDesign of Low Carbon Society Based onRegional Partnership between Urban and Rural Areas ...............................77

2.23

Workshop for the 2nd Amur-Okhotsk Consortium Meeting 2011 ..................79

2.24

Symposium on Expanding the Potential of Children in Future Society........81

2.25 The 3rd International Symposium on Sentinel Earth－Advance in Satellite Imagery Data and GIS and Their Application ........84
2.26 The Instruction on Research Diagnostic Criteria for TemporomandibularDisorders...........................................................................................................86
2.27 Public Program on Health Sciences..................................................................88
2.28

Seminar on Environmental Policy～Biodiversity and Climate Change～ ....90

2.29 Business-Academia-Government Collaboration Seminar onDevelopments of Geo-spatial Information and Future World II ..................92
2.30

Hokkaido Marine Bioscience Symposium ........................................................94

2.31 International Symposium on Child Poverty and Anti-poverty Strategy .......97
2.32 International Symposium on “Reproductive Rights and The Sustainabilityof Women’s Health in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives” .............99
2.33 The 14th Ainu Language Speech Contest “ITAK AN RO”～Let’s Speak in Ainu Language!～ ..............................................................101
2.34

Special Lecture “Intergenerational Justice and Health in an Aging
Society” ...........................................................................................................103

2.35 Public Lecture: Theory and Practice of Fisheries Sustainability Science ...105
2.36

SCJ Hokkaido District Conference“Green Innovations Originating in Hokkaido” ............................................108

2.37 Fishing Down and Fisheries Sustainability Science ..................................... 110
2.38

JSPS Core University Program Seminar“Proposal for Sustainable Fisheries” ............................................................ 112

3. Report of the Symposium (both in Japanese and English)

Hokkaido University Sustainability Weeks 2010

Sustainability Weeks 2010 Opening Symposium: Toward a Society Offering
Quality of Life and Human Dignity for All－Comprehensive Exploration into the Causes of the Crises We Face－(* The numbers in the parentheses [ ] are the page numbers in the report.)
3.1

Message from the President ............................................................................. [2]3.2

Outline of the Sustainability Weeks 2010 ..................................................... [4]3.3

Program ............................................................................................................. [8]3.4Congratulatory Ceremony for Nobel Prize Laureate,Professor Emeritus Akira Suzuki ................................................................ [12]3.5

Keynote Lecture: Sustainability at Dalhousie .............................................. [14]3.6

Plenary Lecture
3.6.1 Session 1: Effects of the Natural & Social Environments on
Human Health- Environmental Health Issues for Future Sustainability ....................... [19]- Outline of Research Projects at the Hokkaido University Center for
Environmental and Health Sciences and Future Tasks – including theSignificance of the Center’s Establishment to Hokkaido University .... [28]3.6.2 Session 2: The Deterioration of Ecosystems and its Impact onHuman Life
- Issues on Forest Rehabilitation of Degraded Forestland in Mongolia .. [46]- Sustainable Use and the Ecosystem Network of Mongolian
Nomadic Pastures .................................................................................... [53]- Hokkaido University’s Efforts to Tackle Regional Environmental
Problems in Mongolia .............................................................................. [69]3.6.3 Session 3: Reflections on Societal Structure- Actual Conditions of Poverty Issues in Japan and the Direction to Takefor their Resolution .................................................................................. [75]- Actual Conditions of Poverty Issues in Japan and the Direction to Takefor their Resolution (2) .............................................................................. [77]3.7

Parallel Session 1: Children for Sustainable Development – PresentCrisis Affecting Children ............................................................................ [80]3.8

Parallel Session 2: The Eurasian Ecotone: Sustainable Ecosystem Use
in Mongolia .................................................................................................. [84]3.9

Parallel Session 3: Global Water Crisis and Well-being ............................. [88]3.10 Parallel Session 4: Health and Care for Ageing Society: Are the SeniorHokkaido University Sustainability Weeks 2010

People in Japan Happy? ............................................................................. [92]3.11 Panel Discussion ............................................................................................. [96]3.12 The Second Hokkaido University Sustainability Research Poster
Contest ....................................................................................................... [100]3.13

G8 University Summit / Sapporo Sustainability Declaration ................. [129]3.14

Organizing Committee of Sustainability Weeks/ Program Committeeof Sustainability Weeks 2010 ................................................................... [138]