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Schedule

Day 1: Monday, November 6, 2017 | 180 Doe Library

9:00-9:10       Opening Remarks 

 

Part I. Food and Agriculture 

 

9:10-9:20       Welcoming Remarks 

9:20-9:35       Miguel Altieri | Agroecology: Foundations for new agricultural practice on the earth

Session 1. Urban biocultural food production & Food security

9:35-9:50       Steven McGreevy (RIHN; FEAST Project) | Scaling to holistic local food security: directions in agrifood system sustainability assessment

9:50-10:05     Christoph Rupprecht (RIHN) | Biocultural cityscapes: towards urban landscape stewardship

10:05-10:20   Jennifer Sowerwine (Dept. of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, UCB) | Mapping Agro-biodiversity Hotspots and Cultural Foods in the Urban Food Desert: Fostering Food Security, Biocultural Diversity, and Health 

10:20-10:35   Break

 

Session 2. Organic agriculture and scale: Balancing environmental and consumer demands

 

10:35-10:50   Mai Kobayashi (RIHN) | What we see from Bhutan and its relationship with ‘organic’ agriculture

10:50-11:05   Claire KremenWhat diversification can do for organic production systems

11:05-11:20   Joji Muramoto (UCSC) | Anaerobic Soil Disinfestation; Its agroecological significance in California strawberry production

 

Session 3. Food policy supporting the future of sustainable agriculture

 

11:20-11:35   Norie Tamura (RIHN) | Agricultural policy and future directions in Japan: gaps, scales and destinations

11:35-11:50   Julia Van Soelen Kim (North Bay Food Systems Advisor, UC Cooperative Extension) and Jennifer Sowerwine (Dept. of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, UCB) | Food policy councils as venue for engaging diverse food and agriculture perspectives

11:50-12:05   Nina Ichikawa (BFI, UCB) & Adam Calo (UCB)| The Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program in the US Farm Bill

12:05-12:20   Clara NichollsAgroecology and the design of climate change resilient farming systems

12:20-12:40   Discussion for Part I

 

12:40-1:40     RIHN Lunch Open House

 

1:40-2:00       Break

Part II. Heritage and Human Impacts on the Environment

Session 4. Landscape, Materiality & Traditional Ecological Knowledge (Anthropology Colloquium/290 Series)

2:10-2:25       Junko Habu (Anthro/UCB; Small-Scale Economies Project; RIHN) | Introduction

2:25-2:40       Daniel Niles (RIHN) | Beyond control: agricultural heritage and the Anthropocene

2:40-2:55       Nathan Sayre (Geography, UCB) | Official vs practical ecological knowledge on Southwestern public rangelands

2:55-3:10       Kent Lightfoot (Anthro/ARF, UCB) | Rethinking the Ecological Restoration of Public Lands in Central California: New Perspectives from Ancient Landscape Management Practices  

3:10-3:25       ann elise lewallen (UCSB) | Indigenous Ainu and “Environmental Rights” in the Date Thermal Power Plant Struggle

 

3:25-4:00       Discussion for Part II with Anthropologists

 

4:00-4:15       Break

 

Session 5 Environmental Issues in East Asia

 

4:15-4:30       You-tien Hsing (Geography/CCS, UCB) | Surviving Conservation: Herders and Farmers in China’s Northwest

4:30-4:45       Daniel O’Neill (EALC/CJS, UCB) | Re-wilding the Nuclear Exclusion Zones

4:45-5:00       Jon Pitt (EALC, UCB) | WOOD JOB! and the Return to Japanese Forestry

 

5:00-6:00       Comments (Sander van der Leeuw, ASU) /General Discussion

 

Day 2: Tuesday, November 7, 2017 | 180 Doe Library + Women's Faculty Club Lounge

 

9:00-9:10       Introduction

 

Part III: Asian Perspectives on Development and Societal Transition | 180 Doe Library

Session 6.  Multiple Paths of Economic Developments in Global Environmental History: Japan and the World           

9:10-9:25       Kaoru Sugihara (RIHN, UCB) | Introduction to Program I of RIHN

                   9:25-9:40       Kayo Murakami (CJS, UCB): Consumer behavior toward organic labels: Implications for sustainable food policy

                   and environmental education

9:40-9:55       Keiko Yamanaka (Ethnic Studies/CJS; UCB) | Nepalese Labor Migration to Japan: Multiple Paths to Household Development in the Globalized Economy

9:55-10:10     Steven Vogel (Poli Scit/UCB) | Japan’s Labor Policy Regime Shift: From Labor Surplus to Labor Shortage

10:10-10:30 Break

Session 7. Designing Lifeworlds of Sustainability

10:30-10:45   Yoshi Saijo | Future Design     

10:45-11:00   ann elise lewallen (UCSB) | A Nuclear Narmada? Adivasi Struggles for Environmental Justice in India

11:00-11:15   Dana Buntrock (Architecture/CJS, UCB) | Goading architects into sustainability. A discussion of two bureaucracies, METI + MLIT

11:15-11:45   Discussion for Part III

11:45-1:30     Break

Part IV: Water, Food, Ecosystem and Transdisciplinarity | Women's Faculty Club Lounge

1:30-1:40       Welcome Remarks | Mio Katayama Owens (Assistant Dean for International and Executive Programs, College of Natural Resources, UCB)

Session 8. Water-Food-Energy Nexus

1:40-1:55       Makoto Taniguchi (RIHN) | Synergy and Tradeoff of Water-Energy-Food Nexus in Asia-Pacific Region

1:55-2:10       Laura Moreno (Energy & Resources Group, UCB) | An Issue at the Nexus: Reducing and Diverting Wasted Food in Households

2:10-2:25       Ann Thrupp (BFI, UCB) | Using a Transdisciplinary Participatory Approach to Address Food Systems Challenges

2:25-2:40       Junko Habu (Anthro/ARF/BFI, UCB & Small-Scale Economies Project; RIHN): Farmers’ Resilience after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Accident

 

2:40-3:20       Discussion for Part IV

3:20-3:30       Closing Remarks

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