Dear SSJ members,

I hope this message finds you well.
We are organizing an exploratory international workshop to compare current regional environmental governance mechanisms in Europe and East Asia by bringing experts, from both natural and social sciences, on region and regional governance of environmental issues and try to look beyond current examples of regional governance with interdisciplinary perspective.

You can find further details on the rationale, detailed program and participants of the workshop on our homepage (http://www.reg-observatory.org/events/eereg/eereg_inde
x.html). You are most welcome to join our workshop.

Call for Posters:
In order to provide young researchers and PhD as well as Masters students with an opportunity to share their relevant research with our workshop participants, we have an open call for posters. If you are interested in introducing your work with a poster and join discussions with leading figures of regional environmental governance at this workshop, please send a 200-word abstract of your poster via email to below contact persons. For those, whose poster is accepted to take part at the workshop, will be invited to lunch and dinner program of the workshop.

Deadline for poster abstract submission: 7 January 2013

Theme:
Interdisciplinary Workshop on Comparing Regional Environmental Governance in East Asia and Europe

Dates: 24 (Thu) - 25 (Fri) January 2013
Venue: RIHN Lecture Hall, Kyoto, Japan
http://www.chikyu.ac.jp/rihn_e/access/index.html
Link:
http://www.reg-observatory.org/events/eereg/eereg_index
.html

Organizers:
Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN), Japan University of Geneva, Switzerland

Contact for poster abstract submission:
Aysun Uyar, RIHN (auyar[at]chikyu.ac.jp)
Jörg Balsiger, University of Geneva
(joerg.balsiger[at]unige.ch)

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Looking forward to meeting interested colleagues and young researchers in Kyoto, 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