Updated: Contributing to an implementation strategy for Future Earth in Asia: The 5th International Workshop on Future Earth in Asia

A full-two-day workshop will be held at the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN) with the following objectives:

• Bring together a number of communities in Asia, including representatives from Global Research Projects, RIHN, and Future Earth-related groups; and
• Engage in discussions relevant to a strategic plan to be developed by the Regional Advisory Committee and to provide Asia-specific inputs into global-level Future Earth processes.

The workshop will highlight the work of the Asia-based Future Earth research communities and the recent organizational development in the region and to reflect on what it means for a mostly globally-conceptualized project to work in the Asia region.

Following the Workshop, the Regional Advisory Committee (RAC) will meet to develop an Implementation Plan for Future Earth in Asia, taking into account the inputs from the Workshop.

More information: 

• Program

Post Workshop Resources

Presentations:

Day 1

• Daniel Niles (RIHN): The Anthropocene and Asia
• Isabelle Louis (RAC, UNEP): A Resource Efficient Asia Pacific
• Thomas Reuter (RAC, ISSC): Future Asia: Toward an Integrated Plan for Sustainability

Day 2

• Satoshi Ishikawa: Area-capability approach for Transdisciplinary study
• Tatsuyoshi Saijo: Negotiating with the Future
• Steven McGreevy: Don’t rock the boat? Radical change and reaching consensus in the FEAST Project and Future Earth
• Yuko Onishi: A Strategic Research Agenda for Future Earth in Japan

Posters:

Future Earth Core Projects

• Future Coasts
• GCP (Global Carbon Project)
• GLP (Global Land Programme)
• IGAC (International Global Atmospheric Chemistry)
• IMBER (Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research)
• IRG (Integrated Risk Governance Project)
• MAIRS (Monsoon Asia Integrated Regional Study)
• SOLAS (Surface Ocean–Lower Atmosphere Study) and other Future Earth activities

Future Earth Regional Project

• SIMSEA (Sustainability Initiative in the Marginal Seas of South and East Asia)
• SSCP KAN (Systems of Sustainable Consumption and Production Knowledge-Action Network)
• Regional Office for Future Earth in South Asia (Bangalore)
• Regional Centre for Future Earth in Asia (Kyoto)