Osaka University, International Workshop on Environmental Issues and Public Participation
On March 7 to 8 and 9 to 10 March 2015, our research project will held two international workshops on Environmental Issues and Public Participation. Workshop 1 (7 to 8) is “Environmental Policy-Making Instruments Based on Public Participation in a High Technological Society － Energy, Chemical Substances and Water Management as Central Issues”. Workshop 2 (9 to 10) is “Participation Principle Indicators under the Environmental Law: Towards Establishing International Collaboration in Pursuit of Environmental Justice”. Since pre-application is required, please apply than form link below.
Workshop 1
Environmental Policy-Making Instruments Based on Public Participation in a High Technological Society － Energy, Chemical Substances and Water Management as Central Issues
Date: March 7 – 8, 2015
Venue: Osaka University, Toyonaka Campus, Engineering Science International Bldg., 1st Floor, Sigma Hall
Language: English
Organizers: OSAKA UNIVERSITY, PROJECT TIGER “Policy decision-making and public participation on energy, chemicals and water management: an international comparative study” (Global Initiative Program), GREEN ACCESS PROJECT II “Review of Legal Indicators for the Participation Principle in Environmental Matters – Promotion of an International Cooperation towards Strengthening the Environmental Democracy” (JSPS Grant-in-Aid), and MITSUI & CO., LTD., ENVIRONMENT FUND – Project “Proposing an Asian Version of the Aarhus Convention – Constitution of an International Cooperation for Implementing the Environmental Justice”
Registration : Required
Admission: Free
Programm
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Session I Policy-Making and Public Participation
Report 1: Noriko Okubo (Professor / Research Representative, Osaka University, Graduate School of Law and Politics – Japan)
High technology and public participation-based decision-making –current trends and issues on the environment
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Report 2: Daniel Farber (Professor, University of California, Berkeley; Co-Director, Center for Law, Energy & the Environment – CLEE – USA)
Public Participation in Science-Based Policy Under U.S. Law
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Report 3: Keishiro Hara (Associate Professor, Osaka University, Center for Environmental Innovation Design for Sustainability (CEIDS) – Japan)
Participatory Approach in Sustainability Science: Vision and Indicator Settings at Local Level in Japan
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Report 4: Hideyuki Hirakawa (Professor, Osaka University, Center for the Study of Communication-Design (CSCD) – Japan)
Public Engagement in Science, Technology and Innovation Policy in Japan: Achievements and Challenges
Session II Energy
Report 5: Kazuhiko Matsumoto (Professor, Osaka University, Law School – Japan)
Resuming Nuclear Power Plant Operations and Social Consensus Building
Fullpaper(Japanese)
Report 6: Haifeng Deng (Associate Professor, Tsinghua University, Faculty of Law – China)
Energy Security Strategy, Policy and Public Participation in China
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Report 7:Michel Prieur (Emeritus Professor, University of Limoges; Scientific Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Environmental, Development and Urban Planning Law (CRIDEAU); President of the International Centre of Comparative Environmental Law (CIDCE) – France)
Decision making process on shale gas
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Report 8: Sven Rudolph (Associate Professor, Kyoto University, Graduate School of Economics – Germany)
Public Participation in Market-based Climate Policy: A Political Economy Perspective and the Cases of Japan and Germany
Fullpaper
Session III Chemical Substances
Report 9: Michinori Uwasu (Associate Professor, Osaka University, Center for Environmental Innovation Design for Sustainability (CEIDS) – Japan)
Participatory approach for food security
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Report 10: Huiyu Zhao (Associate Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Koguan Law School – China）
The evolvement of China’s public participation system on site selection of chemical projects: taking PX projects as an example
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Report 11: Hirofumi Aizawa (Ministry of the Environment – Japan)
Global trends of Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers in the context of Public Participation
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Session IV Water Management
Report 12: Mitsuo Matsumoto (Associate Professor, Osaka University, Osaka School of International Public Policy – Japan)
Legal Reforms for the Sustainable Governance of Waters in Japan; Long Way towards Local Autonomy and Citizen Participation
Report 13: Siriporn Wajjwalku (Associate Professor, Thammasat University, Department of International Relations, Faculty of Political Science – Thailand)
State-community relations and the integrated water management in Northern Thailand: The case study of the People Council of Ing River
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Report 14: Antonio Rossmann (John and Elizabeth Boalt Lecturer in Water Resources Law, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law – USA)
Citizen Participation in The Great California Drought
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Report 15: Mathilde Boutonnet (Professor, Aix-Marseille University, Faculty of Law and Political Science – France)
Public participation in water management in France
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Report 16: Patrícia Faga Iglecias Lemos (Secretary of the Environment of the State of São Paulo; Professor, University of São Paulo, Faculty of Law, Brazil)
Engaging society in the Brazilian water management : how to improve protection and reslience
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Workshop 2
Participation Principle Indicators under the Environmental Law: Towards Establishing International Collaboration in Pursuit of Environmental Justice
Date: March 9 – 10, 2015
Venue: Osaka University, Toyonaka Campus, Osaka University Hall, 1st Floor, Assembly Hall
Language: English (Chinese Mandarin to English consecutive interpretation will be provided)
Organizers: GREEN ACCESS PROJECT II “Review of Legal Indicators for the Participation Principle in Environmental Matters – Promotion of an International Cooperation towards Strengthening the Environmental Democracy” (JSPS Grant-in-Aid), OSAKA UNIVERSITY, PROJECT TIGER “Policy decision-making and public participation on energy, chemicals and water management: an international comparative study” (Global Initiative Program), and MITSUI & CO., LTD., ENVIRONMENT FUND – Project “Proposing an Asian Version of the Aarhus Convention – Constitution of an International Cooperation for Implementing the Environmental Justice”
Registration : Required (go to Application Form)
Admission: Free(Except Lunch Seminer at 9th March)
Program :
English version / Japanese version
Download Page of Abstract and Papers on Workshop2