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• SDGs and the Environment (1)

  • SDGs
  • MDGs
  • energy
  • climate change

  As an overview of the SDGs, the term “sustainable development” and the MDGs will be explained, followed by a review of the status of SDG achievement from a global and Asian perspective.In addition, the status of Goals 7 and 13 as environmental goals will be reviewed from the perspective of ASEAN countries.

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  • Progress in Sustainable Development

    The term “sustainable development” and the MDGs are reviewed as background to the birth of the SDGs.

  • SDGs and the Global Achievement

    The targets for each of the 17 goals of the SDGs will be explained, and the status of achievement of those goals will be reviewed from a global perspective.

  • ASEAN Countries and SDG7 and 13

    After reviewing the status of achievement of the SDGs by ASEAN countries, the status of Asia will be reviewed, focusing on Goal 7 and Goal 13 as goals related to the environment.

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  ／講師

  • Sakiko Okayama

    Assistant Professor, Institute for Excellence in Education Innovation, Chiba University

• SDGs and the Environment (2)

  Review the status of achievement of Asia and the SDG targets, with a focus on ASEAN countries, and their contents.

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  • ASEAN Countries &SDG11

    Progress of ASEAN countries in achieving Goal 11 and its contents

  • ASEAN Countries &SDG12・14

    Progress of ASEAN countries in achieving Goal 12,14 and its contents

  • ASEAN Countries &SDG15

    Progress of ASEAN countries in achieving Goal 15 and its contents

  Lecturers

  ／講師

  • Sakiko Okayama

    Assistant Professor, Institute for Excellence in Education Innovation, Chiba University

• Disaster Management

  • Rural Nepal
  • Traditional Local Community (gaun)
  • Coping Strategy
  • Mutual Cooperation

  Disasters seem to be a major concern globally due to the huge risk of loss of life and the economy. Not a single country or community are safe from the potential risk of disasters. This part discusses disaster risk management in the traditional local community (gaun) based on a community-based disaster management approach. Gaun-based activities are vital for disaster risk management, but their administrative status is informal. Community-based disaster management systems are very effective in traditional local communities for disaster risk management. So, the collective actions of local people, proper management and use of local resources and economic power of guns should encourage disaster risk management effectively in rural communities.

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  • Role of Traditional Rural Community (gaun) in Disaster Management in Nepal -1

    The community-based disaster management (CBDM) aims to put people at the centre of development and reduce the impacts and risks of disasters through community participation. This lecture reviews the existing studies of disaster management based on the local community and finds that the community used by the government and researchers necessarily does not reflect the actual community of residents. To fill this gap, it focuses on the rural community (gaun) understanding the needs and priorities of people and examining their potential to reduce vulnerability to disasters.

  • Role of Traditional Rural Community (gaun) in Disaster Management in Nepal -2

    This lecture focuses on understanding the pre-disaster situation and basic structures of rural life and compares the pre-disaster local resources between informal and formal local units in the research area. Tole-based activities were within the ethnicity, but it is not so significant due to too small a unit of close kinship relation. More importantly, this study revealed that gaun as a basic unit and gaun-based local resources are traditional and primary resources for the people’s daily lives which are managed collectively regardless of ethnicity. Ward and VDC-based organizations are newly formed.

  • Role of Traditional Rural Community (gaun) in Disaster Management in Nepal -3

    This lecture analyzes the local people’s behaviour for disaster response and coping strategies of local people considering mutual cooperation in post-earthquake recovery focusing on the gaun realising that strong mutual cooperation among the hilly rural people regardless of ethnicity at an emergency. It further reveals that local people’s activities towards the post-disaster recovery in three periods. They are emergency, restoration and reconstruction periods. Based on the study of these periods for post-disaster recovery, many exceptional activities were found gaun based regardless of ethnicity and collective activities of gaun people were vital for the post-disaster reaction.

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  ／講師

  • DHAKAL DIPENDRA

    Project Researcher, Faculty of Social of Science, Chiba University

• Post-disaster Vulnerability and Recovery

  • Nepal Earthquake
  • Rural Households
  • Ethnicity
  • Cash Income Recovery

  Disaster vulnerability is not equal to all residents, as they depend on various circumstances (social, psychological, and economic) unequally distributed across individuals, households, and regions. Studies on disaster vulnerability often emphasise that people with different ethnic backgrounds are affected differently when struck by a hazard. This study identifies and analyses the impacts of disaster on the livelihoods of rural people and the function of gauns on disaster (vulnerability considering the socio-economic factors) and identifies the factors of early recovery considering economic restoration (cash income before the earthquake).

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  • Disaster vulnerability and recovery in the aftermath of the 2015 earthquake in rural Nepal

    Developing countries are more vulnerable to natural disasters, primarily due to weak response strategies and inadequate institutional frameworks. This lecture introduces the disaster impacts of Nepal and evaluates the vulnerability of ethnic communities after the 2015 Nepal earthquake. It provides detailed information on the ethnic composition of the population of the research area which was conducted on 188 households of ward numbers 7, 8 and 9 in Betini Village Development Committee, Nuwakot, Nepal.

  • Disaster vulnerability and recovery in the aftermath of the 2015 earthquake in rural Nepal

    This lecture evaluated the vulnerability of individuals, households, and communities (gaun). At the individual and household level, vulnerabilities were analysed by focusing on women and the elderly, ethnicity, head of household gender, and household economic conditions. As a result, it became clear that Dalits were vulnerable as an ethnic group. Also, in terms of the structure and damage of gauns, smaller gauns and those located on steep slopes were more vulnerable. There was mutual cooperation among the inhabitants of gauns to mitigate the damage, but economic factors also affected their vulnerability.

  • Disaster vulnerability and recovery in the aftermath of the 2015 earthquake in rural Nepal

    This lecture identified the factors of early recovery considering the cash income before the earthquake. It found that the majority of the low-income households below the poverty line could recover earlier because they were engaged in labour work before the disaster and labour work increased after the disaster for reconstruction whereas wealthy households with remittance/tourism business were late for recovery due to the remittance stop when they returned home after the earthquake and delayed in the revitalization of tourism business.

  Lecturers

  ／講師

  • DHAKAL DIPENDRA

    Project Researcher, Faculty of Social of Science, Chiba University

• Future chart

  • Backcasting
  • Socio-economic, Environmental data
  • Technological data
  • Prediction

  Forecasting involves predicting the future by monitoring and analyzing current trends and making projections based on explicit or implicit assumptions derived from present observations. Backcasting, as a new approach, is well suited to multifaceted planning processes to describe the images of society and formulate the measures needed to realize it in a manner that allows the consideration of future generations’ perspectives. Future charts are visual tools representing trends, values, or probabilities. They help in understanding and predicting future outcomes in various fields. They stimulate and numerically visualise the future situation in cities- population, ageing, industrial structure, the status of childcare, education, medical care, nursing care, the maintainability of public facilities and roads, farmland, the availability of housing, and the possibility of self-sufficiency through renewable energy. The future chart shows the Financial, technological, social, and AI-driven predictive records.

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  • Background of Future Chart

    Sustainable cities have been criticized for having challenges translating sustainability into the built environment. The forecasting approach involves predicting the future by monitoring and analyzing current trends and making projections based on explicit or implicit assumptions derived from present observations. Backcasting, as a new approach, is well suited to multifaceted planning processes to describe the images of society and formulate the measures needed to realize it in a manner that allows the consideration of future generations’ perspectives in future chart. The future chart is a visual tool representing trends, values, or probabilities. They help in understanding and predicting future outcomes in various fields.

  • What is the Future Chart?

    A growing global human population and expanding economic activities are exerting unsustainable demands on natural resource extraction and the conversion of forested land for industrial agriculture, cattle production, and the expansion of urban centres. These pressures negatively impact critical global commons needed to sustain life on Earth through air, water, and soil pollution, carbon emissions, deforestation and the necessary loss of biodiversity. The future chart is numerical data which shows the future status of the city however, if we change the current trend through policy, we can change the future status indicated in the “Future Chart”. It stimulates and numerically visualizes the future situation in cities- population, ageing, industrial structure, the status of childcare, education, medical care, nursing care, the maintainability of public facilities and roads, farmland, the availability of housing, and the possibility of self-sufficiency through renewable energy. It can be used for policies that look ahead to the future of local governments.

  • Contents and Structure of the Future Chart

    Scenarios, roadmaps and similar foresight methods are increasingly used in academia, government and industry to cope with uncertainty in areas with long planning horizons, such as energy or transport policy, economic, social and environmental potential of emerging technologies; and mobilizing the intellectual, financial, political and institutional resources. The structure of the future chart is created based on the population forecast. The population forecast is compared with demand and supply for the workforce needed to care for Humans (childcare, education, nursing, medical), Artefacts (public facilities, roads, houses, infrastructure) and Nature (farmland/forestry). The Future Chart predicts the population and age structure of each municipality in 2050 based on the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research’s (SNS) population projections (median estimates).

  Lecturers

  ／講師

  • DHAKAL DIPENDRA

    Project Researcher, Faculty of Social of Science, Chiba University

• Future Workshop

  • Future Chart
  • Facilitator
  • Policy formulation
  • Performance/Presentation

  A Future Workshop is a participatory method used to bring together a group of people—often with diverse perspectives—to collaboratively imagine, design, and plan innovative ideas for the future. The first future workshops aimed to increase people’s participation in solving collective problems by allowing them to influence future decisions on an issue whose development might otherwise be defined solely by traditional decision-makers such as politicians, civil servants or experts. The origin of future workshops is often attached to the work of an Austrian futurist Robert Jungk (1987), who developed the basic form of the workshops to enhance democratic municipal decision-making in Austrian towns. Futures workshops are originally an instrument for collaborative problem solving but in social sciences, especially futures studies, workshops are also used for collecting and refining information that doesn’t have a direct influence on the participants of the workshop.

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  • What is Future Workshop?

    Futures workshops are a good tool for tackling complex problems where many, often seemingly contradicting views, have to be fitted together. In addition to collecting and producing information future workshops act as an instrument of social learning which is especially beneficial if the people taking part in the workshop are also responsible for bringing about the desired change. A workshop that uses future charts to convey to the participants (junior high and high school students and young professionals) who will be responsible for the future of the region, what may happen in 2050 if the current situation continues, and to think about policy proposals as the future mayor of the city and make policy recommendations to the current mayor for the improvement of the current status as well.

  • Schedule, Methods and Examples-1

    A facilitator does not teach, he is neither a ‘teacher,’ nor a ‘leader’ who stands above him and gives orders. Instead, the facilitator supports and facilitates. Create, connect, and hold a place. Intrigue, withdraw, wait. Together, questioning, and concluding. In general, a facilitator is often referred to as a facilitator who facilitates the progress of workshops, which are places of learning and creation that emphasize participation, experience, and interaction. Since a wide range of information is included, it is necessary to fill in the worksheet for each item. If you do not set aside time to fill out such a worksheet, only the matters explained at the end may remain in your mind. After the explanation, give them a small piece of paper and ask them to write down their questions. You can ask them to use one piece of paper per question so that they can categorize the questions by item.

  • Schedule, Methods and Examples-2

    In the stage of writing out the assignment, we will move it to another table to check if there is any assignment content that was left out and set up a stage to enrich the assignment content. While looking at the issues, write down the recommendations from the future mayor to the current mayor. It is not a good idea to ask them to suddenly come up with policy proposals. It is necessary to devise a way to organize the issues and have them consider policy recommendations while looking at the results of the work. In the policy advocacy stage, there is no time to look at the recommendations of other groups and similar opinions will come from multiple groups. For the recommendations of other groups, we will set aside time to affix a ” like sticker” and evaluate them.

  Lecturers

  ／講師

  • DHAKAL DIPENDRA

    Project Researcher, Faculty of Social of Science, Chiba University

• Decarbonized Future Workshop

  • Carbon Neutral Simulator
  • Population
  • Future Chart
  • Decarbonized Future Workshop

  A workshop that combines future charts and carbon neutral simulator experiences to simultaneously think about decarbonization and solving local issues. The Carbon Neutral Simulator is a tool created to examine decarbonization policies in basic municipalities. Based on the projections of the population, number of households, and employed population in 2050 for each municipality, we calculate the number of houses, non-residential buildings, and automobiles that will be in operation in 2050, and consider the scale of energy-saving investment.

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  • Carbon Neutral Simulator

    The Carbon Neutral Simulator is a tool created to examine decarbonization policies in basic municipalities. Based on the projections of the population, number of households, and employed population in 2050 for each municipality, we calculate the number of houses, non-residential buildings, and automobiles that will be in operation in 2050, and consider the scale of energy-saving investment. In addition, you will consider whether renewable energy is equivalent to the energy demand that remains even after efforts to conserve energy are generated in the region. If it is generated, the indication “Carbon neutrality achieved!” will be displayed. You can realize that the ease of issuing this display differs depending on the municipality, and it can be used as a material for considering decarbonization policies.

  • Decarbonized Future Workshop

    A workshop that combines future charts and carbon neutral simulator experiences to simultaneously think about decarbonization and solving local issues. A simulator that allows you to grasp the energy conservation and renewable energy investment potential of the municipality based on population forecasts and various statistical data related to the municipality by entering the local government code. It is possible to grasp the decarbonization measures and possibilities of the municipality. “Decarbonization and Future Workshop” Based on the information from the Carbon Neutral Simulator and the Future Chart, junior high and high school students and local government officials are divided into groups to think about issues and policies as the future mayor of 2050 and make policy recommendations to the current mayor on what should be done now. It has been held in more than 20 municipalities so far.

  • Sado and Tanegasima Future Workshop

    With the growing threat of climate change, realizing a decarbonized society has become a vital challenge, both domestically and internationally. To minimize the impact of climate change, it is necessary to limit global temperature rise since the industrial revolution to 1.5 C and to meet this goal, it is vital to achieve net zero emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) worldwide by 2050. To further increase the attractiveness of Tanegashima, the building will be sold to architects and artists at a low price and used for public purposes. Concerning the proposal presentation at the Tanegashima Decarbonization Future Workshop, it was purposed to prevent the number of farmers from decreasing, subsidies will be provided to make agricultural machinery robots cheaper, make discount coupons to buy food in Tanegashima and in response to the decline in the birth rate, it was proposed to create a taxi app specifically for pregnant women.

  Lecturers

  ／講師

  • DHAKAL DIPENDRA

    Project Researcher, Faculty of Social of Science, Chiba University

• Environmental Management and ISO 14001

  ISO standards, particularly environmental management system standards. Also, EMS standards in universities will be introduced.

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  • ISO Standards

    Explanation of ISO standards and management system standards.

  • Environmental Management System Standards

    Explain the benefits of ISO certification and ISO 14001

  • University and EMS Standards

    Status of acquisition of EMS standards by Japanese universities and its transition.
    Introducing universities and EMS operation case studies.

  Lecturers

  ／講師

  • Sakiko Okayama

    Assistant Professor, Institute for Excellence in Education Innovation, Chiba University

• Environmental Management in Universities (1)

  Explain the need for environmental management at universities, and the benefits and challenges of EMS certification for universities

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  • The need for environmental management in universities (1)

    Consider the need for an EMS based on the size and organizational structure of the university.

  • The need for environmental management in universities (2)

    The need for an EMS based on the existence of an inter-university network

  • Effects and Challenges of EMS Certification for Universities

    Explanation of the benefits and challenges of certification based on a survey of universities

  Lecturers

  ／講師

  • Sakiko Okayama

    Assistant Professor, Institute for Excellence in Education Innovation, Chiba University

• Environmental Management in Universities (２)

  After considering the human resource development required by universities, the presentation will explain the benefits of student participation in university EMS.

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  • Human Resource Development Required by Universities

    Consideration of human resource development required by universities based on various domestic and international concepts

  • Student Participation in Environmental Management

    Explain the extent to which students participate in the university’s EMS, based on surveys

  • Effects of Student Participation in Environmental Management

    Explain the effects of student participation in the university’s EMS, based on research

  Lecturers

  ／講師

  • Sakiko Okayama

    Assistant Professor, Institute for Excellence in Education Innovation, Chiba University

• Chiba University Environmental Management (1)

  The background of Chiba University’s EMS efforts and the mechanism known as the “Chiba University method” will be explained, as well as its development into a minor program.

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  • History of EMS at Chiba University

    Introduction about Chiba University, how it got involved in EMS, and the Environmental ISO Student Committee

  • Student-centered EMS

    Explaining the Chiba University Method

  • EMS Education and Effectiveness

    Explain the effectiveness of the student-centered EMS and its development into a minor program

  Lecturers

  ／講師

  • Sakiko Okayama

    Assistant Professor, Institute for Excellence in Education Innovation, Chiba University

• Chiba University Environmental Management (２)

  An overview of the Environmental ISO Student Committee and its activities will be presented.

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  • Environmental ISO Student Committee Overview

    Organizational structure of student committees and coursework

  • Activities of the Environmental ISO Student Committee (1)

    Introduction of the Student Committee’s activities on campus

  • Activities of the Environmental ISO Student Committee (2)

    Introduction of the Student Committee’s activities in the community

  Lecturers

  ／講師

  • Sakiko Okayama

    Assistant Professor, Institute for Excellence in Education Innovation, Chiba University

• Chiba University Environmental Management (３)

  Continue with an introduction to the activities of the student committee, followed by an explanation of the human resource development benefits of interacting with outside parties.

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  • Activities of the Environmental ISO Student Committee (3)

    Describe joint projects being implemented with local banks

  • Activities of the Environmental ISO Student Committee (4)

    Projects conducted in cooperation with other companies will be described. It will also explain the benefits that projects with companies generate.

  • Effects of the Environmental ISO Student Committee on Human Resource Development

    Explain the effectiveness of human resource development for solving environmental issues

  Lecturers

  ／講師

  • Sakiko Okayama

    Assistant Professor, Institute for Excellence in Education Innovation, Chiba University

• Land management and community development: Case studies from Thailand

  Learn about land management and community development through case studies from Thailand.

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  • Land Management-Pond Based Farming System Model

    Learn about land management for agriculture and its adaptation to different contexts through the Thailand agricultural model.

  • Community Development-Sufficiency Economy

    Learn how the Sufficiency Economy philosophy is applied to agriculture.

  • Healthy Land for Farming-Chang Hua Man Royal Project Model

    Learn about soil improvement for agriculture

  Lecturers

  ／講師

  • Hikari Ishido

    Professor, Graduate School of Global and Transdisciplinary Studies, Chiba University

• Community development and garbage management: Case studies from Thailand

  Learn about community development and garbage management through case studies from Thailand.

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  • Community Development-Klong Bang-Mod

    Learn about community development for transforming into a creative community

  • Garbage Management-Khaya Coin Reward

    Learn about the waste management project that transforms garbage into rewards.

  • District Development-Creative District Talat Phlu

    Learn about community development for transforming into a creative district. Talat Phlu, BKK

  Lecturers

  ／講師

  • Hikari Ishido

    Professor, Graduate School of Global and Transdisciplinary Studies, Chiba University

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  Sakiko Okayama

  Chiba University Institute for Excellence in Education Innovation

  Assistant Professor
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  DHAKAL DIPENDRA

  Chiba University

  Project Researcher, Faculty of Social of Science
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  Hikari Ishido

  Chiba University Graduate School of Global and Transdisciplinary Studies

  Professor

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