Global COE Program - Kyoto University - In Search of Sustainable Humanosphere in Asia and Africa

Global COE Program
In Search of Sustainable Humanosphere in Asia and Africa

Newsletter Third Issue, February 2009

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Featuring G-COE Young Scholars’ Summer Activities

Fieldwork in India

Increment of Water Demand Correlates with the Expansion of Invader Tree
-In search of sustainable-humanosphere path in tropical dry area-
Takahiro SATO (G-COE Researcher, Center for Southeast Asian Studies)

Fieldwork in Africa

Dispute over Land?
Soichiro SHIRAISHI (Researcher, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies*
*Current Affiliation: Graduate School of Sociology, Kwansei Gakuin University）

Breeding Experiment of Falcata

A Highly Effective Technique for Germinating Paraserianthes falcataria
Rumi KAIDA (Researcher, Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere)

Joint Fieldwork in Kenya, October 7th-19th 2008

Osamu KOZAN (G-COE Assistant Professor, Center for Southeast Asian Studies)

Motoko Fujita (G-COE Researcher, Center for Southeast Asian Studies）

The International Workshop in Kenya

SUN Xiaogang (G-COE Researcher, Center for Southeast Asian Studies)

Symposium on "An Anthropological Exploration on Risk" in Kyoto

Shuhei KIMURA (G-COE Assistant Professor, Center for Southeast Asian Studies)

Training Program for Young G-COE Scholar in the United Kingdom

Fumikazu UBUKATA (G-COE Assistant Professor, Center for Southeast Asian Studies)

Activities of Formulation

Paradigm Formulation:
Masaki SHINOHARA (Associate Professor, Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere)

Initiative 1: Koichi FUJITA (Professor, Center for Southeast Asian Studies)

Initiative 2: Masayuki YANAGISAWA (Associate Professor, Center for Integrated Area Studies)

Initiative 3: Energy Devcelopment and Associated Environmental Destruction in East Kalimantan, Indonesia
Takashi WATANABE (Professor, Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere)
Yasunori OHASHI (Mission Research Fellow, Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere)

Initiative 4: Shuhei KIMURA  (G-COE Assistant Professor, Center for Southeast Asian Studies)

Reports and News

石川登　准教授(東南アジア研究所)の著書が第3回 樫山純三賞を受賞

Column

”Multiple Paths of Economic Development in Global History”：
Kaoru SUGIHARA (Professor, Center for Southeast Asian Studies)

Termite Eating：
Akinori YAMADA (JSPS Researcher Fellow, Graduate School of Agriculture)

For the Realization of the Sustainable Utilization of Environmental Resources：
Shoko KOBAYASHI (G-COE Researcher, Center for Southeast Asian Studies)

Paradigm Seminars

Biosphere as a Global Force of Change
The Second G-COE International Conference (9th to 11th March 2009)

Kyoto Working Papers on Area Studies : G-COE Series
Published between September 2008 ～　January 20th 2009