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Dear colleagues,We are pleased to invite you to an online symposium "Environmental Offshoring: Implications for East Asia's Regionalization and Sustainable Development" at Sophia University on Tuesday, March 15, 2022, from 9:00-17:00, Japan Standard Time.

To participate in the webinar, registration is required.

Registration: https://eipro.jp/sophia/events/view/ck20220315 <https://eipro.jp/sophia/events/view/ck20220315>

If you have any questions, please contact us at we@kasasustainability.org <mailto:we@kasasustainability.org>

We look forward to seeing you!Best regards,

Sophia Symposium Organizers***ENVIRONMENTAL OFFSHORING:Implications for East Asia's Regionalization and Sustainable Development

SOPHIA SYMPOSIUM

TUESDAY, March 15, 2022

9:30 AM - 5:00 PM JST (Tokyo, Japan)

Online @ZOOM Webinar

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About The Symposium:

The interdependent relationship between society and nature is a defining debate of the 21st century, including in relation to climate change, sustainable development, and the Anthropocene. Globalization and regionalization have brought about not only convenience and prosperity for some, but also cross-border challenges such as natural disasters, pollution, resource depletion, and environmental degradation that impact others.

Understanding how East Asian regionalism connects societies and ecologies with implications for equity and sustainability requires collaboration across the conventional boundaries, disciplines, and sectors to coproduce new and relevant knowledge.

This symposium will examine the practices and implications of "environmental offshoring" under East Asia regionalism, including the consequences of bilateral and multilateral agreements and development policies. Attention will be paid to the issues of ecological sustainability, distributional equity, and business continuity.

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9:45 Symposium Opening

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Panel 01: Ecological-Economic Connectionsin East Asian Regionalism

10:00 "Environmental Offshoring as Disaster Prevention and Mitigation: A Relational Analysis of Japan's Foreign Direct Investment and Development Assistance in Thailand"

Speakers: Takeshi Ito and Carl Middleton - Sophia University and Chulalongkorn University

Discussant: Kaoru Sugihara - Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN)

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Panel 02: Environmental Dynamics in Southeast Asia

11:00 "China's Rising Power In A New Asian Epoch: The Political Economy Of Southeast Asian Palm 'Waste'"

Speaker: Paul K. Gellert - University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Discussant: Ian G. Baird - University of Wisconsin, Madison

12:00 "Organic Rice: The Implications of Different Environmental Certification Systems In Laos and Thailand"

Speaker: Ian G. Baird -University of Wisconsin, Madison

Discussant: Paul K. Gellert - University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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13:00 Lunch Break

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Panel 03: Social-Ecological Systems Governance in Asia

14:00 "An International Certification Scheme: Challenges and Opportunities for Enabling a Sustainable Supply Chain of Wild Plant Products"

Speaker: Maiko Nishi - United Nations University for the Advanced

Study Of Sustainability (UNU-IAS)

Discussant: Simon Olsen, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)

15:00 "Environmental Offshoring and SDG Performance: From Better to Worse?"

Speaker: Simon Olsen, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)

Discussant: Carl Middleton, Chulalongkorn University

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16:15Closing Session

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