Schedule
Day 1: Monday, November 6, 2017 | 180 Doe Library
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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
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Session 1. Urban biocultural food production & Food security
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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
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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 Kremen | What 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 Nicholls | Agroecology and the design of climate change resilient farming systems
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12:20-12:40 Discussion for Part I
12:40-1:40 RIHN Lunch Open House
1:40-2:00 Break
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Part II. Heritage and Human Impacts on the Environment
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Session 4. Landscape, Materiality & Traditional Ecological Knowledge (Anthropology Colloquium/290 Series)
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2:10-2:25 Junko Habu (Anthro/UCB; Small-Scale Economies Project; RIHN) | Introduction
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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
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Session 6. Multiple Paths of Economic Developments in Global Environmental History: Japan and the World
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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
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10:10-10:30 Break
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Session 7. Designing Lifeworlds of Sustainability
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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
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11:15-11:45 Discussion for Part III
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11:45-1:30 Break
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Part IV: Water, Food, Ecosystem and Transdisciplinarity | Women's Faculty Club Lounge
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1:30-1:40 Welcome Remarks | Mio Katayama Owens (Assistant Dean for International and Executive Programs, College of Natural Resources, UCB)
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Session 8. Water-Food-Energy Nexus
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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
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3:20-3:30 Closing Remarks