Dear SSJ members,

I hope this message finds you well.

As initiators of the GEC-Japan/Asia Platform, we are organizing an international symposium on global environmental change and sustainability research in Asia.

To briefly introduce GEC-Japan/Asia, in 2011, representatives of the global environmental change programs in Japan and RIHN have initiated an academic information exchange platform, called as GEC-Japan, on transdisciplinarity and sustainability research collaboration in Japan and East Asia. We are now extending our activities and turning GEC-Japan into GEC-Asia platform.

In this symposium, we plan to discuss further processes and Asian particularities of global sustainability research and transdisciplinary collaboration by including the recent developments on the Future Earth process and focusing on science-society interface as well.

If you are interested in interdisciplinary, and preferably transdisciplinary research and collaboration on the issues of global environmental change and sustainability, particularly in Asia, please check further details of our symposium on below link and you are most welcome to join us in Kyoto.

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International Symposium on Future Asia
Bridging Science, Technology and Society: Practices of Transdisciplinary Implementation on Sustainability and Environmental Change in Future Asia
Organizers:
GEC-Japan Platform
Japan National Committee for IGBP/WCRP/DIVERSITAS/IHDP, Science Council of Japan Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN)

Dates: 13 (Thu) – 14 (Fri) December 2012
Venue: RIHN Lecture Hall, Kyoto, Japan (http://www.chikyu.ac.jp/rihn_e/access/index.html)
Contact for registration:
GEC-Japan/Asia Secretariat (RIHN)
URL: http://www.chikyu.ac.jp/gec-jp/

E-mail:
gec-jp[at]chikyu.ac.jp
Tel: +81 (0) 75-707-2100, Fax: +81 (0) 75-707-2106

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With kind regards,

Aysun Uyar

Assistant Professor

Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN)

457-4 Motoyama Kamigamo, Kita-ku, Kyoto 603-8047, JAPAN

Tel/Fax: +81-75-707-2503 / +81-75-707-2510

E-mail: auyar[at]chikyu.ac.jp

http://www.chikyu.ac.jp/index_e.html