Glocal Expert Program -Program Overview-
On Air
Subject | Others
Climate policy, SDGs and social resilience
- Climate Security
- Human Security
- Society and Culture
- Scientific Knowledge and People's Knowledge
Climate policies (climate policies), in the context of the current global situation of climate change, include both global and local policies. One of the main goals of these policies is to improve the social resilience of our societies.
This lecture aims to clarify social resilience and how it can be enhanced. It will be based on climate science's complex impacts and future projections. Still, in addition to top-down government policies, bottom-up dialogue methods for improving social resilience, such as citizen participation workshops, will also play an important role. To respond to climate change, the government and everyone need to change, and we will consider how this can be achieved.
©Ibaraki University. Last Update 2025-10-01
Content／学習内容
-
Climate change and Disaster Prevention and SDGs
- The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction
- The Paris Agreement
- Disaster prevention
- Sustainability
- Resilience
- MDGs
- Well-being
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the SDGs, and the Paris Agreement were all adopted in 2015. This lecture will provide an overview of their significance and relationship from the perspective of global environmental politics and explain the need for social resilience.
Videos
／学習動画
-
Context of Global Environmental Politics
In this chapter, we will study the history of environmental politics from the emergence of global environmental politics to the Rio Summit in 1992. We will look at how climate change became an important theme.
-
SDGs and its International Dimension
In this chapter, we will learn four trends in global environmental politics: sustainable development, disaster risk reduction, climate change, and biology and ecosystems. We will discuss how these trends were integrated into the 2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by organizing them.
-
Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, SDGs, and Paris Agreement
In this chapter, we will learn about the correlation between the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the SDGs, and the Paris Agreement, three important international decisions adopted in 2015.
Lecturers
／講師
-
Seiichiro HASUI
Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Domain of Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ibaraki University
-
Resilience from the Perspective of International Politics
- Society
- Security
- Risk Society
- Disaster Prevention
- Reconstruction
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the SDGs, and the Paris Agreement were all adopted in 2015. This lecture will provide an overview of their significance and relationship from the perspective of global environmental politics and explain the need for social resilience.
Videos
／学習動画
-
Understanding Resilience – Disaster Prevention, Recovery, and Reconstruction
In this chapter, you will learn the meaning of resilience and the difference between disaster prevention, recovery, and reconstruction. You will also learn about the evolution of the concept of resilience.
-
Social Resilience and Its Necessity
In this chapter, we will define “social resilience” from the perspective of international political science and explain why it is so essential in today’s risk society.
-
Social Resilience, Climate Change, and Security Interconnections
This chapter will discuss the relationship between climate change and social resilience and help us understand that this is becoming a security issue.
Lecturers
／講師
-
Seiichiro HASUI
Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Domain of Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ibaraki University
-
Traditional Security and Nontraditional Security
- Nationalism
- International Cooperation
- Environmental Security
- Human Security
- Climate Security
- Securitization
This lecture will explain the difference between safety and security and the expansion of the concept of security from the military to climate change.
Videos
／学習動画
-
Difference between security and safety
We will learn the conceptual difference between safety and security. At the same time, discuss the relationship between the two.
-
Redefining of Security
This chapter discuss how traditional concepts of security have been redefined as they become less applicable to the real world and explain the differences between the various examples of redefining.
-
Expansion of Concept of Security and “Resilience”
This chapter explains how the concepts of security and resilience have changed and how the two have come to be linked.
Lecturers
／講師
-
Seiichiro HASUI
Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Domain of Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ibaraki University
-
Climate Change and Human Security
- Mahbub ul Haq
- Amartya Sen
- Sadako Ogata
- Securitization
- Precautionary principle
- Empowerment
This lecture will explain the need for climate policies based on the history and practice of the concept of human security.
Videos
／学習動画
-
From National Security to Human Security
In this chapter, we will explain the background to the emergence of human security from the UNDP and the concept of human security itself. We will also touch on its relationship with climate change.
-
Construction of New Concept of Security by Holistic Approach
In this chapter, we will discuss the construction of the concept of human security through a comprehensive approach, expanding the perspective of security, and the progress and challenges of this approach.
-
The Intersection of Human Security and Climate Change Policy
This chapter will discuss the relationship between human security and climate change policy, focusing on the points where the two overlap.
Lecturers
／講師
-
Seiichiro HASUI
Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Domain of Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ibaraki University
-
Climate Security
- Energy Security
- Food Security
- Environmental Refugees
- Violent conflict
- Securitization
How does climate change affect security? This program follows discussions in international politics and academia and explains the logic behind them.
Videos
／学習動画
-
The emergence of the “Climate Security”
This chapter reviews the historical background of how climate security theory has emerged in the international political arena.
-
The Logic of Environmental Issues Becoming Security Issues
This chapter provides an overview of the process of securitization and how environmental issues come to be treated as security issues.
-
Climate change is the starting point for all security issues
In this chapter, we will show that climate security is the starting point for all security issues discussed today, including human security, energy security, food security, and national security.
Lecturers
／講師
-
Seiichiro HASUI
Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Domain of Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ibaraki University
-
Climate Change and UXO in Laos
- UXO
- Cluster bomb
- Floods
- Climate Change
The large amount of unexploded cluster munitions remaining in Laos, once disposed of, will be swept away again by floods that will increase due to climate change. This presentation will explain the unintended effects of climate change.
Videos
／学習動画
-
Characteristics of Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) in Laos
This chapter provides an overview of the characteristics of UXO contamination in Laos, including the high concentration of cluster munitions, as well as the characteristics of cluster munitions themselves as UXO.
-
Increasing Flooding and Climate Change in Laos
This chapter describes the increasing number of floods in Laos due to climate change and their frequency, magnitude, and impact.
-
Unexploded Ordnance brought by floods
This chapter describes from a security perspective the secondary effects of climate change impacts in the form of cluster bomb submunitions that, once removed, are washed ashore again by flooding.
Lecturers
／講師
-
Seiichiro HASUI
Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Domain of Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ibaraki University
-
Climate Change and Peace
- Structural Violence
- Subsistence
- Climate Resilient Development
- Civil Society
- Climate Justice
- Ethics of Care
Development has overtaken climate change. This lecture will critically and constructively explain Climate Resilient Development (CRD) as the latest version of the development concept from a peace studies perspective.
Videos
／学習動画
-
Climate Change as Structural Violence
This chapter uses the structural violence concept of peace studies to examine climate change impacts as a type of violence and to explore the conditions for peace.
-
Climate Justice and Climate Security
In this chapter, we revisit the climate justice issue of uneven distribution of climate change impacts from a climate justice perspective plus an “Ethics of Care”, and identify the need for our involvement.
-
Envisioning a climate-resilient peace
In this chapter, from the perspective of peace studies, we will consider not only the absence of climate change impact, but also the more positive state of climate peace and the conditions necessary to achieve it.
Lecturers
／講師
-
Seiichiro HASUI
Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Domain of Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ibaraki University
-
Resilience from a social psychology perspective
- society
- community
- culture
Define resilience from a social psychology perspective and explain why it is required.
Videos
／学習動画
-
Social resilience, society, community, and culture
This section explains what resilience is and how it functions in disaster prevention and recovery and reconstruction.
-
What determines social resilience?
This section explains what determines social resilience, and that flexibility and soft strength are the key points.
-
The relationship between climate change adaptation and social resilience
This section discusses how social resilience functions in relation to climate change adaptation issues.
Lecturers
／講師
-
Tetsuji ITO
Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Domain of Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ibaraki University
-
Scientific Knowledge and People’s knowledge on Climate Change
- people’s knowledge
- locality
It will be explained that while the scientific knowledge related to climate change are useful and important, the people’s knowledge also deserves attention.
Videos
／学習動画
-
Scientific Knowledge, People’s knowledge and locality
In this section, we will explain the knowledge of science and the knowledge of people, and deepen our understanding of the top-down approach and bottom-up approach based on each.
-
Methodology of Natural Sciences and Human Sciences：Sandbox problem
The differences in methodology (ideas, approaches, etc.) between the natural sciences and the human sciences are explained, and it is explained that both are necessary.
-
Creation of an integrated model through two approaches
This section explains the creation of an integrated model using both a top-down approach and a bottom-up approach.
Lecturers
／講師
-
Tetsuji ITO
Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Domain of Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ibaraki University
-
Walking on the Frontlines of Climate Change
- local perspective
- bottom-up
Explaining how to understand the issue of climate change based on local perspectives gained through fieldwork.
Videos
／学習動画
-
Methodology of fieldwork
This section explains and promotes understanding of the methodology of fieldwork in social psychology and other fields.
-
Fieldwork Case Study 1: Daigo Town, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan
As an example of fieldwork related to climate change, I will introduce the work being done in Daigo Town, Ibaraki Prefecture, through video.
-
Fieldwork Case Study 2: Phuc Xa ward, Ba Dinh district, Hanoi city, Vietnam
As an example of fieldwork related to climate change, I will introduce a video of the Phuc Xa ward in Hanoi, Vietnam.
Lecturers
／講師
-
Tetsuji ITO
Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Domain of Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ibaraki University
-
Community-based climate change adaptation
- community-based adaptation
Climate change adaptation needs to be tackled as something that is rooted in the community. This article explains what kinds of examples there are of this.
Videos
／学習動画
-
What is “community”?
We will consider and highlight what a “community” is, which seems obvious but is not.
-
What is “adaptation”?
We will consider and highlight what “adaptation” is, which seems obvious but is not.
-
What kind problem is “climate change”?
We will discuss the issue of climate change from a variety of perspectives, including sociocultural aspects.
Lecturers
／講師
-
Tetsuji ITO
Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Domain of Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ibaraki University
-
Interactive workshop techniques: face-to-face
- face-to-face
- locality
Learn the techniques for interactive workshops (face-to-face) for sharing knowledge related to climate change adaptation.
Videos
／学習動画
-
What is an interactive workshop?
I will explain what an interactive workshop is and deepen your understanding.
-
Workshop using “Narrative Map”
I will introduce the original tool, the Narrative Map, and explain how it can be used in workshops.
-
Enriching Narratives in a Community
Promotes an understanding that enriching the community narrative is the key to community revitalization.
Lecturers
／講師
-
Tetsuji ITO
Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Domain of Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ibaraki University
-
Interactive workshop techniques: online
- online
- interlocality
Learn the techniques for interactive workshops (online) for sharing knowledge related to climate change adaptation.
Videos
／学習動画
-
Taking Advantage of Online
When holding an interactive workshop online, think about how we can make the most of the advantages of doing so online.
-
Creation of interlocal knowledge 1
This section explains the key points to consider when actually planning a workshop.
-
Creation of interlocal knowledge 2
We will hold a workshop with no geographical restrictions using online tools, and consider how to create interlocal knowledge.
Lecturers
／講師
-
Tetsuji ITO
Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Domain of Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ibaraki University
-
Stories change people’s attitudes and behaviors
- attitude
- behavior
Explaining that it is not only scientific evidence that changes people’s attitudes and behavior, but also the ‘stories’ that people hold.
Videos
／学習動画
-
Logico-Scientific mode and Narrative mode
This section explains the characteristics of the logical-scientific mode and the narrative mode that humans have.
-
Why do “stories” change people?
It will explain why stories can change people more than scientific evidence.
-
Small Stories Change the World
It is not always necessary to create big stories to change the world. Think about how small stories can change the world.
Lecturers
／講師
-
Tetsuji ITO
Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Domain of Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ibaraki University
-
Top-down and bottom-up approaches to climate change adaptation
- bottom-up approach
- integration
The course instructors (Hasui and Ito) will discuss top-down and bottom-up approaches, as well as their integration.
Videos
／学習動画
-
Toward an Integrated Approach 1
The dialogue will highlight the integrated approach from the standpoint of the humanities and social sciences.
-
Toward an Integrated Approach 2
The term “social implementation” is often used, but we propose the concept of “social penetration”, with the implication that it permeates among people.
-
Toward an Integrated Approach 3
To summarize this lecture, we will discuss the role of the humanities and social sciences.
Lecturers
／講師
-
Seiichiro HASUI
Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Domain of Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ibaraki University
-
Tetsuji ITO
Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Domain of Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ibaraki University
Staff／スタッフ
-
Seiichiro HASUIIbaraki University Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Domain of Faculty of Humanities and Social SciencesProfessorCareer2022 – Present Vice-director of Global and Local Environment Co-creation Institute（GLEC）, Ibaraki University
2020 – 2022 Director of Global and Local Environment Co-creation Institute（GLEC）, Ibaraki University
2020 – 2024 Assistant Vice President for Promoting SDGs, Ibaraki University
2018 – Present Visiting Lecturer, Master’s Program in Climate Change and Development, Master’s Program in Climate Change and Development,Vietnam Japan University
2013 – Present Professor of College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ibaraki University -
Tetsuji ITOIbaraki University Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Domain of Faculty of Humanities and Social SciencesProfessorCareer
2006 – Present Professor, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ibaraki University
2018 – Present, Visiting Lecturer, Master’s Program in Climate Change and Development, Master’s Program in Climate Change and Development,Vietnam Japan University
2014-2020 Director,Institute for Global Change Adaptation Science(ICAS),Ibaraki University
Competency／コンピテンシー
Course Objectives
・Acquire knowledge about climate change and social resilience
・Develop the ability to analyze issues related to building social resilience
・Inspire motivation and attitudes towards promoting climate change policies and adaptation
Learning Outcomes
Evaluation will be carried out using a rubric based on quizzes and reports.
・Knowledge of climate change and social resilience
・Ability to analyze issues related to improving social resilience in the face of climate change
・Willingness and ability to implement to improve social resilience in the face of climate change
Information／その他の情報
References
IPCC (2022) Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, Contribution of Working Group II to the Sixth Assessment Report of the IPCC.
Ito,T., M.Tamura, A.Kotera, Y.Ishikawa-Ishiwata (eds.) (2022) Interlocal Adaptations to Climate Change in East and Southeast Asia: Sharing Lessons of Agriculture, Disaster Risk Reduction, and Resource Management, Springer.
Contact／お問合せ先
tenkai@m.ibaraki.ac.jp
