Sansai Newsletter No.5

11 September 2013

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Law and Development Conference considers the implications ofinternational land acquisitions
Michael Couch （エネルギー科学研究科修士課程 2 年） and Andreas Neef （地球環境学堂教授）
Professor Andreas Neef from the Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies(GSGES) and Professor Yong-Shik Lee from the Law and Development Institute,
University of Manchester, organized this year’s Law and Development Conference.
The event, entitled Legal and Development Implications of International Land
Acquisitions, was held on 30 and 31 May at the Clock Tower of Kyoto University
and was opened by Professor Shigeo Fujii, the Dean of GSGES.
The dramatic rise of large-scale international land acquisitions and leases
targeting developing countries in Africa, South America and Southeast Asia as wellas parts of Eastern Europe, has become an issue of global concern since the late
2000s. The purpose of this conference was to look at large-scale international landacquisitions from a law and development perspective and determine the various legal
frameworks at international, national and local level that enable or constrain suchprocesses. Eighteen speakers from North America, Asia, Europe, Africa and Oceania
gave presentations on the various law and development implications of international
land acquisitions.
In her keynote speech, entitled The Law and Land Grabbing: Friend or Foe?, Liz
Alden Wily, an independent land-tenure specialist from Nairobi, Kenya, suggested
that land law began as a foe of the poor. State land laws were developed based on
feudal and colonial norms and these laws have been bent over time to dispossess
people of their land, ie, public land was regarded as the property of the state andcould be used as deemed necessary. However, she was cautiously optimistic that the
recent shift in the legal handling of collective rights and the trend towards stronger
recognition of customary law in some African countries can help reshape the paththat large-scale land acquisitions take towards more inclusive models.
In Plenary Session I, Land Acquisitions and International Investment Laws,
Perry Bechky from Seattle University School of Law, USA, spoke about bilateral
investment treaties (BITs) and their main characteristics, namely (1) no expropriation
without compensation, (2) fair and equitable treatment and (3) full protection andsecurity, all of which give very strong rights to international investors. Uche U.
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Contents
Law and Development Conference
considers the implications ofinternational land acquisitions

Michael Couch （エネルギー科学研究科修士課程
2 年） and Andreas Neef （地球環境学堂教授）

国際交流科目フエ大学受入れプログラム
水野 啓 （地球環境学堂特定准教授）

第 16 回地球環境フォーラムを開催
岡田直紀 （地球環境学堂准教授）

森里海シンポジウム 「人と自然のきずな～森里海連環学へのいざない～」 開催
長谷川路子 （森里海連環学教育ユニット研究員）

環境マネジメントセミナー夏季野外実習
上田 純平 （地球環境学堂助教）

International students apply teamwork
to help improve sustainability at the
Yoshida Campus

Jane Singer and Tracey Gannon （地球環境学堂
准教授）

Kyoto University’s first Sustainable
Week inspires students to make adifference

Yuri Sugimoto （地球環境学舎修士課程 2 年）
and Tracey Gannon （地球環境学堂准教授）

お知らせ /Announcements
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Participants of the Law and Development Conference 2013 at Kyoto University

Ewelukwa from the University of Arkansas, USA, suggested
BITs fail to incorporate sustainable development or human rights,
that there is no duty or responsibility on the part of investors andthat the nature of the scope of BITs is too broad. Elizabeth Bürgi
Bonanomi of the University of Bern, Switzerland, outlined thedifferent roles of the various parties and institutions involved ininternational land acquisitions and described ways to achieve more
responsible and sustainable investments in land.
At the beginning of Plenary Session II, Competing Frameworks
and Perspectives on Land Property, Lorena Ossio from the MaxPlanck-Institute for Social Law and Social Policy, Germany,
described indigenous jurisdiction in the highland and lowland areasof Bolivia. She discussed the problems of latifundism (extensive
parcels of privately owned land) in the lowlands and explained
how many governing rights over natural resources of indigenous
territories are shared by the central state.
Sayaka Funada-Classen from the Tokyo University of Foreign
Studies described Japan’s investment with Brazil in Mozambique,the so-called ProSAVANA program, which has been largely
criticized by local farmers and civil society organizations for
opening up the possibility of land grabbing by foreign investors.
Heru Komarudin of the Center for International Forestry Research,
Bogor, Indonesia, closed the day with a presentation that explained
how the global demand for palm oil is causing rapid and vast
expansion of oil palm plantations in Indonesia, resulting insignificant deforestation and land grabs by large concessionaires.
He said the government lacks clarity in monitoring land deals andthat gaps exist between governance, promotion and practices.
On the second day, in Plenary Session III, entitled International
Land Acquisitions and Economic Development, Salim Farrar fromthe University of Sydney, Australia, described Islamic law andits cultural influences on land acquisitions in north-east Africa.
Kyungmee Kim of the Stockholm International Water Institute,
Sweden, highlighted that green water, ie. water in soil and biomass,constitutes 80 per cent of the world’s water resources and said
more research is needed into water loss in land acquisition.

Dr Liz Alden Wily makes her keynote speech

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In Plenary Session IV, Regulating International Land
Acquisitions and Strengthening Community Rights, Lorenza
Paoloni from the University of Molise, Italy, discussed the potential
and limitations of the Food and Agriculture Organization’s
voluntary guidelines on the responsible governance of tenureof land, fisheries and forests in regulating land grabs. Michael
Brüntrup of the German Development Institute, Bonn, discussed
various instruments to control the negative impacts of large-scaleland acquisitions and showed how rural people could potentiallybenefit from them. Fantu Farris Muleta of Addis Ababa University,
Ethiopia, questioned the regulatory approach to large-scale landtransfers, drawing on examples from her home country. She
described the various challenges of such an approach, such as
dealing with legal pluralism (the multiplicity of rules, claims andclaimants/actors) and with non-transparent government practices inallocating land to foreign investors.
The second day of the conference also featured two parallelsessions with a number of country case studies. The issue of genderinequality in land acquisitions was also discussed. It was found thatwomen are more likely to be affected negatively by large-scale landacquisitions. The conference concluded with an open discussion on
future challenges arising from foreign investments in land and by
final remarks from one of the conference organizers.
Selected papers from the conference will be published in a special
issue of the journal, entitled Law and Development Review, in early
2014. More information on the conference can be found at http://
www.lawanddevelopment2013.org

国際交流科目フエ大学受入れプログラム
International exchange course: invitation program for
Hue University students
水野 啓 （地球環境学堂特定准教授）
Twelve students and teachers from Hue University experienced aJapanese summer during an exchange visit from 1 to 13 August. A
varied program brought Vietnamese and Kyoto University students
together for seminars, visits to sites of historical and culturalinterest and rural community experiences in Kyoto, Osaka, Shiga,
Ehime and Hiroshima prefectures. The Vietnamese students were
given the opportunity to learn in depth about daily life in Japan
as well as to consider broader issues such as the environment andpeace. Twelve Kyoto University students visited Vietnam on a twoweek exchange trip earlier this month, starting on 4 September.

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被爆者の証言に耳を傾ける

8 月 1 日～ 13 日の間、国際交流科目「暮らし・環境・平和～ベトナムに学ぶ～」の受入れプログラムとして、フエ大学の学生 10 名・教員 2 名を日本に招へいしました。2007
年、2010 年に続き三度めです。80 名あまりが集まった歓迎会に始まり、京大のベトナム人留学生によるセミナーや、
この科目の派遣プログラムでフエを訪れた（訪れる）京大生たちとのさまざまな交流プログラムが用意されました。
愛媛県西条市と広島を巡る 3 泊 4 日の研修旅行には、他の留学生や JASSO 短期交流学生ら総勢 25 人が参加しました。これまで地球環境学堂とさまざまな連携を行ってきた
西条市では、地元高校生 10 名も加わって寝食を共にし、市内の農業関連施設や手すき和紙工房、造船所、ビール工場、民俗資料館などを視察するとともに、市役所を表敬訪問して、今年 4 月にフエを訪れた真鍋和年副市長らの歓迎を受けました。滞在先の石鎚山のふもとの集落では、地区の方々が大勢集まった交流会、公民館や民家での聞き取りなどを通じ、山村の環境と暮らし－過疎化・高齢化の現
実と、その中で安全に、幸せに暮らしていくためのコミュ

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第 16 回地球環境フォーラム「これからの日本の食卓」を
ニティの大切さ－を学びました。広島では、厳島神社参拝のあと平和記念公園、資料館を訪れ、英語による被爆者講 京都大学百周年時計台記念館国際交流ホール I において話を聴いて、地球の環境とすべての人々の暮らしは、何 2013 年 7 月 6 日に開催した。現在の日本において、私たよりも平和の上に成り立つことを認識しました。京都に ちが口にしている食べ物がどのように生産され流通してい戻ってからは、浄水場から疏水、琵琶湖、下水処理場を巡 るのかを環境汚染、グローバル化などの観点から考え、そる「水の研修」と花火大会鑑賞、市内の神社仏閣や大阪 れらが今後どのように変わっていくのかを展望するとい市内の見学など多彩な交流を楽しみ、また京都市役所を う趣旨で、以下の 3 つの講演を受け、総合討論を行った。
表敬訪問して、同じく昨年 4 月にフエを訪れた門川大作
間藤 徹（農学研究科 教授）「窒素化学肥料が地球の人市長と懇談しました。最後に全員が 11 日間の滞在で学ん口増加を支え環境を破壊した」
だことを発表し、たくさんの思い出を胸に帰国しました。
9 月 4 日～ 19 日には、12 名の学部学生がベトナムを訪吉野 章（地球環境学堂 准教授）
「食の豊かさを問い直す」
れ、フエの学生たちと再会します。さらにこの旅の前半
鷲尾圭司（独立行政法人 水産大学校 理事長）「日本のおには、西条での交流会で酒を酌み交わし一緒に歌った山
魚事情」
村のお年寄り方や高校生 6 名も参加し、フエ大生が自分たちの町を案内します。小さな交流の種が、さまざまな
間藤教授からは、化学肥料の使用により食糧生産が増加
人びと、地域を結ぶ輪となって拡がっていく姿こそ、ア する一方で、環境の富栄養化が進行して来た事実が指摘さ
ジア・プラットフォームの誇るべき成果かもしれません。 れ、環境保全のコストを誰が負担するべきかという問いかけがあった。吉野准教授は、食の多様性を求める消費者の限りない欲求に対しては、グローバル志向ではなくて地域志向の豊かさの追求がひとつの回答となり得ると述べた。
第 16 回地球環境フォーラムを開催
鷲尾理事長は、日本と世界のお魚事情を解説した後、消費16th Kyoto University Global Environmental Forum
者にとっての価値を安全（科学的に危険のないこと）から
岡田直紀 （地球環境学堂准教授）
安心（心の信頼感）へと転換していくことの重要性を指摘した。今回の地球環境フォーラムには多くの参加申し込み
The 16th Kyoto University Global Environmental Forum, entitledがあり、食べ物に関する人々の関心の高さがうかがえた。
Food Production and Supply in Current and Future Japan, was heldon 6 July at International Exchange Hall I, Clock Tower Centennial 森里海シンポジウム 「人と自然のきずな～森里海連環学へのいHall. The three speakers, Professor Toru Matoh (Graduate Schoolざない～」 開催of Agriculture, Kyoto University), Associate Professor Akira
CoHHO symposium: Kizuna Between Human and Nature
Yoshino (Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies,– Introduction to Studies on the Connectivity of Hills,
Kyoto University) and Dr Keiji Washio (President, National
Humans and Oceans
Fisheries University), enthralled the audience with their fascinating 長谷川路子 （森里海連環学教育ユニット研究員）
presentations.
The Educational Unit for Studies on the Connectivity of Hills,
Humans and Oceans (CoHHO) held a symposium, entitled Kizuna
Between Human and Nature: Introduction to Studies on theConnectivity of Hills, Humans and Oceans, in Tokyo on 29 June.
The symposium was attended by around 130 participants, whofound it interesting and fruitful.

間藤教授による講演

森 里 海 連 環 学 教 育 ユ ニ ッ ト は、2013 年 6 月 29 日
（ 土 ） に、 東 京・ 赤 坂 の 日 本 財 団 ビ ル で、 森 里 海 シ ン ポ
ジ ウ ム「 人 と 自 然 の き ず な ～ 森 里 海 連 環 学 へ の い ざ な
い ～」 を 開 催 し ま し た。 こ の シ ン ポ ジ ウ ム は、 今 年 4
月 の 森 里 海 連 環 学 教 育 プ ロ グ ラ ム の 開 講 を 記 念 し、 また、森里海連環学の全国展開を図って開催したものです。
東京開催にもかかわらず、多くの方々がお越し下さり、

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（シンポジウムプログラム）〇開会あいさつ（日本財団常務理事 海野光行）〇森里海連環学とはなにか（京都大学フィールド科学教育
研究センター教授 山下洋）
〇基調講演「ふるさと見分け・ふるさと磨きの空間学」（東京工業大学大学院社会理工学研究科教授 桑子敏雄）〇森里海連環学へのいざない「森、里、海の向こうに」（京都大学フィールド科学教育研究センター教授 吉岡崇仁）「魚を調べ、沿岸域を知る」（東北大学大学院農学研究科教授 片山知史）「連環をひろげる公共政策」（京都大学大学院人間 ･ 環境学研究科教授 浅野耕太）
桑子東京工業大学教授による基調講演〇パネルディスカッション - 森里海連環学にもとづく環境づくり人づくり -（コーディネーター 京都大学森里海連 環
約 130 名の参加がありました。13 時から 17 時 30 分までの 学教育ユニット 吉積巳貴）
4 時間半にわたる長丁場でしたが、参加者の皆さんはメモ パネリスト
NPO 法人森は海の恋人 畠山 信を取りながら最後までとても熱心に聞いてくださいました。
舞鶴市市民、環境！みる・きく・考える会 青海典子
なお、85 名の方が来場者アンケートに、ご協力ください
電力中央研究所 鈴木健太郎
ました。その結果、20 歳代から 70 歳代まで各世代からご京都大学森里海連環学教育ユニット 向井 宏
参加があり、会社員の方が 22.4% で最も多くを占めました。
そのほか、研究者、学生、NPO 職員の方々のご参加が目立ち 〇閉会あいさつ（京都大学大学院地球環境学堂長 藤井滋穂）
ました。非常に多くの方が、「今日のシンポジウムに満足している」「参加して有意義だった」とお答え下さり、ユニット・ 環境マネジメントセミナー夏季野外実習
Field study: seminar in environmental management
日本財団一同、たいへん嬉しく思っております。
自 由 回 答 欄 に お 寄 せ 頂 い た 皆 さ ん の ご 意 見・ ご 上田 純平 （地球環境学堂助教）
要 望 に お 応 え す べ く、 一 層 の 努 力 を 重 ね て、 第 2回、 第 3 回 と 続 け て 参 り ま す。 今 後 と も、 是 非 ご The annual field study for first-year master’s students taking the
参 加 く だ さ い ま す よ う、 よ ろ し く お 願 い 致 し ま す。 Environmental Management Seminar at GSGES was held between（ユニットの HP にて、講演内容や来場者アンケートの結果
3 and 8 August 2013 in Miyazu, northern Kyoto prefecture. Close toをより詳しくご紹介しております：http://fserc.kyoto-u.
70 students, teaching assistants and teachers from GSGES attended
ac.jp/cohho/activities/20130629.html）
this event. The attendees learned about ‘satoyama’ landscapes,
biodiversity in coastal, marine and riverine areas, forest structuresand soil profiles in five field courses offered during the week-longfield study. They also learned basic field survey techniques.

パネルディスカッションのコーディネーターとパネラー

平 成 25 年 8 月 3 日 か ら 8 日 の 日 程 で、 環 境 マ ネ ジ メ ン
トセミナー夏季野外実習が京都府宮津市上世屋で行われ
ま し た。 夏 季 野 外 実 習 は、 毎 年、 環 境 マ ネ ジ メ ン ト セ ミ
ナ ー 科 目 の 一 部 と し て 実 施 さ れ、 夏 期 休 業 中 に 丹 後 半
島 等 の 実 習・ 研 修 施 設 に 約 １ 週 間 の 日 程 で、 里 山 景 観、磯・ 川・ 海 で の 生 物 多 様 性、 生 態 系 を 支 え る 土・ 森 の 構
造、ならびに野外調査法を学ぶことを目的としています。
今 年 度 の 野 外 実 習 参 加 者 は、 履 修 生 37 人（ う ち 留
学 生 12 人 ）、TA18 人、 教 員 12 人 の 計 67 人（TA、 教 員
は、 一 部 実 習 の み の 参 加 も 含 む ） と 過 去 最 大 規 模 の 参
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環境マネジメントセミナー夏季野外実習参加者でパシャリ

土 の 5 つ の 実 習 が 5 日 間 に 渡 っ て 開 講 さ れ ま し た。
1 日目は、地域の実習が、棚田が広がる上世屋の集落で行われ、8 月 9 日に行われた上世屋観音堂の " 千日参り "のため、参道の掃除、献火用の竹林の伐採と竹筒作りに参加し、集落における環境保全活動を実際に体験しました。
2 日目は、磯の実習が行われ、里波見の沿岸部の藻場での海藻の群落調査、海藻の同定、標本作りを通して、海藻の多様性について学びました。3 日目は、川・海の実習が行
われ、川の実習では、舞鶴市は伊佐津川にて、水生生物採集を行い、河川下流域の環境特性と、生態系における優占種と指標種を調べました。海の自習では、東舞鶴湾において、水温、塩分、濁度、溶存酸素量、pH、透明度などの物
理環境の観測と小型底曳網にて底生生物の採取を行い、内湾域の環境特性について学びました。4 日目は、森の実習が行われ、実際に上世屋の森林に入り、毎木調査と植性調査を行い、森林の構造と森の管理について学びました。5日目は、土の実習が行われ、森、水田、造成地のサイトにおいて、深さ 1m の穴を掘り、土壌調査を行い、その土壌断面から、土壌の特性やその成り立ちについて学びました。
また、実習プログラムだけでなく、丹後の旬の食材である魚や野菜についても食事を通して体験し、天草からの寒天作り、伐採した竹を利用した流しそうめんや餅つきな
どのイベントも行われました。そして 5 日目の夜には、履
修生、TA、教員全員が参加した懇親会が開催されました。
International students apply teamwork to help improvesustainability at the Yoshida Campus
Jane Singer and Tracey Gannon （地球環境学堂准教授）
Nineteen international students examined ways to improve
campus sustainability as part of a spring course entitled Buildinga Sustainable Future: Principles and Challenges. To do this they
applied their knowledge of effective approaches at their home
universities and worked in teams to devise inspired solutions,while all the time showing plenty of enthusiasm and curiosity. The
course was designed to foster an understanding of sustainability
issues at the community level among non-environmental majors.
The students conducted a brief, fieldwork-based study on campus,
in Kyoto city and in two rural communities along the Japan Sea
coast: a tiny mountain village and the seaside town of Miyazu,
northern Kyoto. The course was offered by the Kyoto University
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Students interview administrators about energy management on
campusteam of Japanese and international faculty members from the
Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies (GSGES) andGraduate School of Energy Studies at Kyoto University.
The course was created as part of a three-year project for tertiary
education for sustainable development (ESD), funded by the Japan
Society for the Promotion of Science of the Ministry of Education,
Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). Kyoto
University ran a pilot course last year that was well received, so
several members of the faculty taught the same course over a fiveweek period at Hue University of Agriculture and Forestry in
Vietnam in February and March this year to test the replicability of
the approach. Tracey Gannon, associate professor of environmental
communications at GSGES and the course director said: “Our goal
is to empower students with the motivation and skills to improvesustainability on campus and in their home countries.”
The course takes a problem-solving and modular approach. The
students began by learning about global issues such as energy,
population and natural resources. They also considered personal
sustainability, taking a survey to measure their individual carbon

Students share the results of fieldwork in class

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footprints and discussing how each of them could improve theirresults. Then they turned their focus to the campus – their mostimmediate community and the place where their ideas could
make a real impact. They formed four groups to examine campus
sustainability in energy, food, waste, buildings and grounds.
In the first class of the campus sustainability module, thestudents learned about the global green campus movement and they
prepared questions to ask those Kyoto University faculty members
and administrators charged with monitoring their topic area. The
students conducted interviews and toured the campus the following
week. Each group was led by a knowledgeable teaching assistant,a graduate student at GSGES or the Graduate School of Energy
Science. The waste group, for example, first examined receptacles
behind the Centennial Hall for sorting plastic, PET bottles, metal,
burnables and lunchbox waste. They then spoke to Mr Junya
Yano, a member of the Environment Preservation Research Centre
staff, who provided some interesting facts. For example, morethan 1,000 unused bicycles are discarded on campus annually andstudent circles hand out more than 1.5 million A4 sheets of paper
every April. The students suggested improvements based on theirexperiences at their home universities and they fired questions
enthusiastically at Mr Yano. They also learned about efforts to cut
waste at the November Festival from a representative of a student
circle, Ecomitt. Finally, they visited a graduate school laboratory
to see how chemical and other lab waste is sorted and stored.
In the next class, the students shared what they had seen andlearned with other groups, trying to find common elements
and coming up with practical suggestions for improving energy
conservation, promoting the use of solar panels, reducing paper
waste, composting food, improving campus monitoring andincreasing sustainability education for undergraduates (see below
for some of their ideas). To learn more, they directed questions
and comments to their classroom visitors, a team of administratorsfrom the Kyoto University Sustainability Promotion Office,including Mr Masayuki Fujisawa, who later professed to be“very impressed by the students’ enthusiasm for tackling theseissues”. Arjun Hassard, ateaching assistant, added:“It was gratifying to see
the KUINEP students
questioning not only thepeople they interviewed
but also the professors
and each other, asking ‘Isthis actually sustainable?’
We need people who
Logo designed by students for use in theare willing to point out
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problems and suggest better ways of doing things.”
The students’ push to improve campus sustainability did not
end there. During the final class, three student groups presented
practical and achievable campus sustainability initiatives,
including ‘digitizing’ Kyoto University, a recycling plan forbicycles abandoned on campus and suggestions for introducing
vegetarian main dishes to the menu on a trial basis at Rune, oneof the university’s canteens. Assistant professor Misuzu Asari of
the Environment Preservation Research Centre and Mr Kazuyuki
Tahara, Mr Masuyuki Fujisawa and Ms Rie Yasumoto of the
Sustainability Promotion Office provided a generous and receptive
guest audience for the students’ ideas. Since the presentation, one
group’s proposal has already been realized: in October, catering
managers Mr Tatsuya Nakajima and Mr Kouichi Iizuka will bepiloting a number of student-conceived vegetarian dishes in theRune canteen.
International students’ thoughts on improving campus
sustainability“I’d like to see the university put more
information online and make it easier for
students to apply for courses online to reduce
paper waste and avoid misinformation.”
Alexandra Belzon, Netherlands“Buildings are wasting a lot of energy throughthe technologies used to heat and cool them andthrough poor insulation. New technologies andbuilding materials would make it possible to save a
lot of energy.”
Tim de Reise-Meyer, Germany“There’s a lot of potential for positive change[at Kyoto University] and many students andprofessors want to see change happen. But
it has to come from the top, at the university
administration level.”
Julia Nett, USA“It would help if the [trash] bins were better
labeled: even a few words in English saying‘burnable trash’ and explaining what is burnable
would have helped me a lot when I first camehere.”
Aurelien Bandini, France

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“It would be great if there was a place – some
sort of Kyoto University recycle shop – where
people could drop off things when they no longer
need them for use by others … not only their
computers but bicycles, too.”
Agis Georgiou, Greece“Cut down the use of paper; stop printing out
everything – it is not necessary. Get everyone –students, professors and staff – using the internet.”
Zhong Yi Chen, Canada“Some of the older buildings on campus arepoorly insulated and have as much as 40 per centof their heating and energy needs coming fromgas. It’s important for long-term sustainability tohave better insulation, particularly in these older
buildings.”
Sascha Froelich, Germany
Kyoto University’s first Sustainable Week inspires
students to make a difference
Yuri Sugimoto （地球環境学舎修士課程 2 年） and Tracey
Gannon （地球環境学堂准教授）
Kyoto University Sustainable Week – also known as ‘Ecóle deKyodai 2013’ (literally, ‘school for eco studies’, playing on theword ‘eco’ as well as ‘ecóle’, the French word for school) – wasKyoto University’s first sustainability fair, held from 24 to 30 June.
It featured a wide range of mainly student-run events, participatory
activities, talks and exchanges on the theme of sustainability.
Highlights included Butsu-ichi (a ‘swap-meet’ goods exchange),
the Green Film Festival,
the Kodawari Marché (‘Iknow what I like!’ market),a campaign to pick up litteraround the campus, a Jonetsu(hot debate) ‘talk battle’(presentations from graduate
students and student circle
members on sustainabilityrelated topics) and a poster andphoto exhibition.
The Graduate School of
Global Environmental Studies(GSGES), one of several
Publicity for Kyoto University’ssponsors, supported the fair’s first Sustainable Week

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organizing committee, which was headed by assistant professor
Misuzu Asari of the university’s Environment Preservation
Research Centre. GSGES faculty members also mobilized GSGES
students to get involved. Associate professor Tracey Gannon
invited her environmental communication students to participate
in the Green Film Festival, held on the last day of the fair.
Students on associate professor Jane Singer’s environmental ethics
and environmental education course were given credits for thepresentations and posters they produced to introduce environmental
topics to the people who attended the fair. Prof Singer’s students
also participated as evaluators, assessing the fair’s efficacy as a
medium for environmental education. Arillia Findayani, a firstyear master’s student at GSGES, summarised the week’s aims
succinctly: “In this event, students can learn what sustainability is,
why it is important and what we can do to be more sustainable.”
Rethinking sustainability
An organising committee of four GSGES students – Haruka
Sakamoto, Yuri Sugimoto, Fuko Suwa and Tohori Tsuchiya –coordinated classmates’ presentations and poster exhibitions on
a wide range of themes, such as bicycle recycling, the problems
caused by invasive species such as the lovable nutoria or beaverrat (currently wreaking havoc in fields and gardens flanking the
Kamogawa river), food waste in the university’s canteens and theenergy consumption of vending machines on campus. Education
did not preclude entertainment, however, as shown by students
Keiichi Maeda and Taku Tsuyama, who teamed up as manzai(a comedy duo) to guide their audience through the intricacies
of garbage separation in Kyoto city. GSGES student evaluators
praised the posters and presentations through which graduate
students could educate the young undergraduates in their audience.
Stephane Olivier Ramdriamanantsoa, a first-year master’s student

Minori Tokito, a first-year master’ s student at GSGES, asks what
can we do to reduce energy consumption?

11 September 2013at GSGES, described them as“informative and remarkably
resourceful”. Nguyen Thi Thuy
An, a special auditing student
at GSGES, said: “It was agreat chance for Japanese andinternational students at GSGES
to present information on
environmental issues and theirresearch studies to others. As
a result of this, students fromother fields could receive basic
knowledge about environmental
matters.”Your rubbish is hurting us!
Poster by Shota Morishita andOther less overtly educational
Sou Fukumoto, GSGES
events and exhibits also proved
successful in increasing participants’ environmental awarenessand shaping their values. Many students, teachers and citizens
living close to the university campus came to the Butsu-ichi stall
to exchange unwanted clothes, shoes, bags and other accessories,
tableware, books and dolls. Students visiting this stall commented
that exchanging their items helped to re-orient them toward moreenvironmentally friendly action. Pranawita Karina Nursyirwan, afirst-year master’s student at GSGES, reflected: “By participatingin this activity, I realized that I have to think twice before I buy
something: is it really necessary or will it just end up in the trash?
On the other hand, someone somewhere might have a need forsomething I’m ready to throw away.”
Students also praised the Kodawari Marché, which sold organic
vegetables grown locally by KU students along with such goods
as fair-trade and handcraftedwooden products. Yoshie Kira,a first-year master’s student at
GSGES, expressed her desire tosee organic and natural products
sold more widely in shops andsupermarkets. “Vegetables
which are the ‘wrong’ shape or‘non- standard’ in some way
are kept away from ordinary
supermarkets,” she said.
“They have the same nutrientsand taste as other products[considered saleable], so there is
no problem.”
Why waste food when so many
live in hunger? Poster by Gao
These comments suggest
Zheng and Tomoyo Hidekuma,
that participation – in this
GSGES

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case, through shopping– helped students tobecome more aware of theenvironmental impact of
their lifestyle choices andconsider what surrounds
them in their daily lives.
Experiences such as thesehelp students to cultivate
A precious find at the Butsu-ichi
the confidence to live more
pro-environmental lifestyles. The Green Film Festival also sought
to empower students to take pro-sustainable action by showing
the audience that environmental issues are not something far awayfrom us but something very close to our daily lives. By choosing
films with themes such as how our energy needs are met (Das
Schönauer Gefühl [Thoughts of People in Shönau: Renewable
Energy Society for Our Children], Germany: 2008), what goes
into our early-morning coffee (Black Gold, UK/US: 2006) and theimpact of our lifestyles on the planet (No Impact Man, US: 2009),
the organisers encouraged viewers to realise that it is both possible
and relatively easy to take action to tackle environmental problems.
Interactive activities linked to each film greatly increased theirimpact. The organisers knew, for example, that Das Schönauer
Gefühl, which recounts the story of a village in Germany, where
citizens established their own nuclear-free electricity generationcompany in the wake of the Chernobyl disaster of 1986, would
resonate deeply with the predominantly Japanese audience after
the meltdown at the Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima in
2011. For this reason, a short talk with visiting research professor
Dr Harald Lemke, a German philosopher from the University ofSalzburg and University of Lueneburg, Germany, followed thefilm. This gave members of the audience the opportunity to ask
questions about Germany’s shift to alternative energy and rejectionof nuclear power.
Similarly, students from the Manabiya Hachidori (literally,
Hummingbird School), a student circle promoting the use of fairtrade products on campus at Kyoto University, served delicious
Ethiopian fair-trade coffee during the screening of Black Gold.
The film follows an Ethiopian coffee union manager’s efforts to
expose the injustice of the global coffee market and get a fair pricefor beans grown in his home country. The students also showed
slides explaining aspects of the fair-trade concept before and after
the movie to further elucidate themes highlighted in the film. The
combination of the film’s visual impact and the smell and taste of
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GSGES, said: “The direct interaction between the movie and theexperience of drinking coffee stimulated people to think beyond
the movie and link what they are drinking with the stories behind
it. The feeling of being somehow connected with the producersof the products you are enjoying also made the customers feel
somehow closer to nature. Perhaps this is why I bought a small
packet of Tanzanian organic coffee from the students organizing
this film screening.”
Finally, as part of a presentation entitled My No-Impact Day,
five students studying environmental communication suggested
some simple eco actions that students could carry out on a daily
basis. This followed the screening of No Impact Man, a film that
documents New Yorker Colin Beaven’s sometimes moving, often
hilarious efforts to make no personal impact on the environment
for a whole year. He strives to produce zero waste, eat vegetarianand buy only locally produced food while foregoing elevators,
television, cars, buses, toxic cleaning products, electricity andmaterial consumption. Some of the students’ suggestions weresensibly practical, for example, turning off any computer left onstandby for more than 90 minutes. Other suggestions, such asliving communally and rewarding oneself financially for every daya small environmental action has been carried out – or rewarding
an environmental NGO with a donation on each day that action
is not taken – were rather more creative. This presentation was
accompanied by an entertaining quiz about garbage separation by

Fair-trade coffee on sale at the Green Film Festival

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Keiichi Maeda, one half of the manzai team that had won a
prize at the GSGES student presentations a day earlier. Taken
together, these student perspectives on how to live a low-impact
lifestyle provided a crash course in sustainable living that proved
particularly motivating to students in the audience. “No Impact
Man was a very interesting and impressive movie that made me
think about reducing environmental impact in my daily life,” said
Rina Tanaka, a first-year master’s student at GSGES. Evidently,
students don’t have to be experts or keen activists to help shape amore sustainable world. It is to be hoped that they will be inspired
to take action in their daily lives at home and on campus.

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environmental ethics and environmental education class; theJonetsu ‘Talk Battle’ featuring predominantly GSGES students; andthe Green Film Festival. She is currently seeking fellow student
organisers for next year’s Sustainable Week. All those interested
should apply to Yuri at scapemuseum.gon@gmail.com■ ■ ■ お知らせ /Announcements ■ ■ ■Towards Sustainable Week 2014
Was this festival fruitful? Did it achieve its stated objective
in promoting a sustainable campus at Kyoto University? The
answer is “yes and no”. The GSGES student evaluators drewattention to many of the problems that limited the scope of the first
Sustainable Week. They were disappointed by the low turnout atmany of the events and attributed this to insufficient publicity inthe run-up to the festival. They also felt that information about theweek should have been made more widely available in English andthat greater effort should have been made to attract students fromthe Yoshida-minami, Uji and Katsura campuses.
GSGES students proposed simple solutions to these problems,such as increasing pre-event promotion and IT media use, putting
posters in the dining hall instead of the university salon so more
students could see them and arranging more events that appeal
directly to students, such as concerts featuring talented university
musicians. Other recommendations included increasing the numberof incentives to attend. In the stamp rally, for example, students’cards were stamped each time they attended an event and theyearned prizes for filling their cards. Another incentive was to give
students a credit for attending the event. “Incentives like the stamp
rally are a brilliant idea because they automatically encourage
people to get involved in all the events available. Sometimes
an incentive – especially when this is coupled with education –is needed to make people do things differently,” said Pranawita
Karina Nursyiwan, a first-year master’s student at GSGES. Suchsuggestions imply that the participants, as well as the organisers,
realise the potential of this event. To quote participant andevaluator Dong Le, a first-year master’s student at GSGES, theweek was “a stone thrown into a calm lake” – one from whichripples are sure to follow.
Yuri Sugimoto, an executive committee member, coordinated three

平成２５年 京都大学ジュニアキャンパス 「中学生ゼミ」
留学生と一緒に世界の環境問題を考えよう
地 球 環 境 学 堂・ 学 舎 で は、 ア ジ ア・ ヨ ー ロ ッ パ・ 中
南 米 か ら の 留 学 生 ら 15 名 が 中 心 と な り、 海 外（ 特に開発途上国）の環境問題や解決に向けた研究や
実 践 を 紹 介 し ま す。 留 学 生 と 中 学 生 を 交 え た 小 グ
ル ー プ に 分 か れ、 自 由 に 質 問 や 議 論 を し な が ら、 世界 の 環 境 問 題 に つ い て 考 え る 機 会 を 提 供 し ま す。
日時：2013 年 9 月 15 日（日）午前・午後
場所：京都大学総合研究 5 号館 2 階会議室
Kyoto University Junior Campus 2013: international
students to discuss global environmental issues
GSGES will run a special seminar for junior high-school students
at this year’s Kyoto University Junior Campus. International
students from Asia, Europe and South America will introduce someof the environmental issues their respective countries face and thenhold discussions in small groups. This event will take place on 15
September in the Large Lecture Room, Research Building No.5,
2nd Floor, Kyoto University.
JSPS 研究拠点形成事業 「インドシナ地域に おける地球環境
学連携拠点の形成」 第 1 回シンポジウム 、 第 6 回インドシナ地域における教育 ・ 研究連携に向けた大学間ワークショップ
地球環境学堂 ・ 学舎では、 今年度より JSPS 研究拠点形成事
業 （B. アジア ・ アフリカ学術基盤形成型） 「インドシナ地域における地球環境学連携拠点の形成」 が採択されました。 初年度
は、 フエ大学との共催により、 上記シンポジウムを開催いたしま

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す。 本シンポジウムでは、 学堂 ・ 学舎のこれまでのベトナム ・ イ
ンドシナ地域における活動を総括するとともに、 急速に発展する
インドシナ地域の複合的な環境問題解決への理解をめざし、 今
後の国際的 ・ 学際的な共同研究の展開について議論します。
日時：2013 年 9 月 16 日（月）9:00-17:00
場所：ホイアンホテル（ベトナム・ホイアン市）
主催：京都大学大学院地球環境学堂 フエ大学
後援：JSPS 研究拠点形成事業
The First International Symposium on Formulation of
The Cooperation Hub for Global Environmental Studies
in Indochina Region & The Sixth Inter-University
Workshop on Education and Research Collaboration in
Indochina Region
GSGES and Hue University, supported by the Japan Society
for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Core-to-Core program, areorganising the First International Symposium on the Formulationof the Cooperation Hub for Global Environmental Studies in the
Indochina Region and the Sixth Inter-University Workshop on
Education and Research Collaboration in the Indochina Region.
These events will take place on 16 September at the Hoi An Hotelin Hoi An, Vietnam.

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International symposium: “Integrated Ecosystem
Management from Hill to Ocean”
The Educational Unit for Studies on the Connectivity of Hills,
Human and Ocean (CoHHO) and the Field Science Education andResearch Center will together hold an international symposium,
entitled Integrated Ecosystem Management from Hill to Ocean, at
Kyoto University on 26-28 November. Although the deadline for
abstracts from those wishing to present is now closed, registration
will remain open until 30 September. For registration procedures
and more information, please visit http://fserc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/
isymposium/
国際シンポジウム “Integrated ecosystem management from
Hill to Ocean”
森 里 海 連 環 学 教 育 ユ ニ ッ ト で は、2013 年 11 月 26 日
（ 火 ） か ら 28 日（ 木 ） に、 芝 蘭 会 館 稲 盛 ホ ー ル で、 国
際 シ ン ポ ジ ウ ム“Integrated Ecosystem Managementfrom Hill to Ocean” を、 フ ィ ー ル ド 科 学 教 育 研 究 セン タ ー と 共 同 で 開 催 し ま す。 発 表 者 の 受 け 付 け は 6 月
末 を も っ て 締 め 切 り ま し た が、 参 加 者 の 受 け 付 け は 9
月 末 ま で 行 い ま す の で、 是 非 と も ご 参 加 く だ さ い。 申
し 込 み・ お 問 い 合 わ せ は、 公 式 HP を ご 覧 く だ さ い。
公式 HP: http://fserc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/isymposium/

JASSO Short Stay exchange student final presentations
Six exchange students participating in the Japan Student Services
Organization (JASSO) program will give their final presentations
between 3pm and 6pm on 18 September in Meeting Room 207
on the second floor of the Faculty of Engineering Department ofCivil Engineering Historic Bldg (#37), Yoshida campus, Kyoto
University. The topics covered will be: learning and practising
specific techniques in water management; farmer institution andcooperation support for sustainable rice agriculture; the impact
of climate change and landscape alteration on avian migration,
a comparison of the city agriculture of Kyoto with the city
agriculture of Jakarta; research into Japanese organic farming
as a model for Vietnamese alternative agriculture; the landscapeagriculture characteristic of satoyama. Anyone interested iswelcome to attend and no registration is necessary.

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