The 12th Workshop on Environment and Human Activities in South Asia
-Challenges to Global issues in Asia through collaboration with locally existingHosted by Faculty of Letters, Nara Women’s University
Co-hosted by Department of Practice-oriented Area Studies, Center for Southeast AsianStudies, Kyoto University

Date : 17th of December 2017, 10:00-17:20
Venue : Faculty of Letters N Hall, #301, Nara Women’s University

Program
10:00-10:10 Opening remarks
Haruhisa Asada (Nara Women’s University)
Session1 Meteorology in Monsoon Asia

Chair : Taichi Hayashi (Kyoto University)

10:10-10:30 Multi-scale variation in Asian Monsoon Circulation
Toru Terao (Kagawa University)
10:30-10:50 Adaptation measures against Climate Change in Thailand
Masashi Kinouchi (University of Tokyo)
10:50-11:30 Storm observation in South Asia by Himawari 8 radar and VHLbased lightning detection radar
Hirohiko Ishikawa (Kyoto University)
11:30-11:40 BreakSession2 Climatology in South Asia

Chair: Toru Terao (Kagawa University)

11:40-12:00 Long-term trend of severe local storm environment in northeasternregion of Indian Sub-continent
Yusuke Yamane (Tokoha University)
12:00-12:20 Case study on local heavy rainfall during monsoon season in northern
AssamAzusa Fukushima (Kobe Gakuin University)
12:20-12:40 A preliminary analysis of rain drop size distributions in Cherrapunji
Fumia Murata (Kochi University)
12:40-13:00 Long-term trend of seasonal march in Indian Monsoon
Jun Matsumoto, Tomoshige Inoue (Tokyo Metropolitan University)
13:00-14:00 Lunch time

Session3 Myanmar, Bangladesh and India

Chair: Kazuyo Minamide(St. Andrew’s University)

14:00-14:20 Diversity of fishes in the paddy ecosystem and villager’s perspective
on conservation of paddy fishes in Myanmar
Omar Myint, San San Myint (University of Yangon)
Nobuhiro Ohnishi (Kyoto Gakuen University)
14:20-14:40 Ethnography of urban pumps: everyday water management practices
beyond technocratic supply-demand ethos of groundwater
governance in Dhaka
Hasan Ashraf (Jahangirnagar University)
14:40-15:00 Women Empowerment through Participation in Micro-Credit
Program: A Case Study of one village in Bangladesh
Ummey Habiba Rathna (Nara Women’s University)
15:00-15:20 Abandoment of agriculture in Assam, India
Haruhisa Asada (Nara Women’s University)
15:20-15:30 BreakSession4 Bhutan and Japan

Chair: Nobuhiro Ohnishi (Kyoto Gakuen University)

15:30-15:50 Community Livelihood Pattern in Shongphu Gewog, Trashigang
Dzongkhag, Eastern Bhutan
Bimal Sharma (Sherubtse College)
15:50-16:10 Activities of Sherubtse College Student on Winter Vacation 2017
Yoshio Akamatsu (Kyoto University)
16:10-16:30 Historical changes if inundated area in Okayama plain and its
factors during modern era
Shinji Miyamoto and Shintaro Uchino (Okayama University of Science)
16:30-16:50 Land Use, Water Management and Farmland Abandoment inLadakhi Village of Northern India
Shinya Takeda (Kyoto University)
16:50-17:10 Learning from establishment of Bangladesh Agriculture University:
Potentialand necessity of university’s challenging the problems ofdepopulation and abandoning farming
Kazuo Ando, Haruo Uchida and Yoshio Akamatsu (Kyoto University)
Md.Salim (Bangladesh Agricultural University)
17:10-17:20 Closing remarks
17:30-Taichi Hayashi (Kyoto University)

Reception (@Local restaurant near Kintetsu Nara Station)