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International Conference on Grassroots Environmental Movements in Japan and the United States
April 25-26, 2003
University of Kentucky
Taylor Education Building Auditorium
Program: Click here (PDF format)
Organizer/hosts:
P.P. Karan
Department of Geography, University of Kentucky
An international conference on environmental movements in Japan and the United States will be held on April 25-26, 2003
at the University of Kentucky Taylor Education Building Auditorium. The conference will bring together Japan and America's
preeminent environmental scholars, NGOs and environmental activists. The conference will offer pointed and thought provoking
discussions of the current state and future prospects of the grassroots environmental movements.
An interdisciplinary group of scholars from economics, political science, sociology, geography and anthropology,
NGOs and environmental lawyers and activists will discuss the issues and problems confronting today's grassroots environmental
movements and analyze their strengths and weaknesses. The conference will emphasize the ways in which the local environmental
groups have worked in Japan and the United States to become more responsive to local concerns.
The dynamic history of the local citizen's groups in the United States working to protect Kentucky's waters and forests,
promote sustainable development in Central Appalachia, grassroots movement opposing disposal of chemical weapons at the
Bluegrass Army Depot, citizens efforts to clean up Nuclear Weapons facilities in Colorado, grassroots participation in
civil-military environmental protection in Hawaii are among the specific case studies to be discussed at the conference by
environmentalists from Kentucky, Georgia, Maryland, California, and Hawaii.
Japanese environmentalists from Tokyo, Hokkaido, Kyoto, Kanazawa and Nagoya will discuss grassroots movements opposing airport
construction to protect coral reefs in Shiraho Sea, protection of farmland in Tokyo, citizen's movement against nuclear power plants,
sustainable development of the Tokyo Bay, local efforts to manage Japan's Mountain National Parks, environmental
friendly agriculture, urban environment conservation efforts in Kyoto, efforts to save the Kawabe River in Kyushu,
wildlife protection in rural Japan, local efforts to protect tidal flats and "rights of nature."
Through case studies the conference will highlight some of the opportunities and challenges for local environmental movements
that have relevance for policy and action to protect local and regional environments. The experience of environmental movements
in Japan and the United States carries important lessons for other regions of the world.
MEETING ORGANIZATION
The conference, sponsored by the University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences, Environmental Studies Program,
Japan Studies Program, Department of Geography, Asia Center and the Vice President for Research, is open to the public.
For further details contact:
Professor P. P. Karan, Department of Geography and Japan Studies Program.
E-mail: ppkaran@uky.edu Tel 859 257-6953. Fax 859 323-1969.
INVITED SPEAKERS
Japanese Case Studies
Dr. Unryu Suganuma, Hokuriku University
"Grassroots Movement at Ishigaki Island: The Case of a New Airport Construction"
u-suganuma@hokuriku-u.ac.jp
Dr. Noritaku Yagasaki, Tokyo Gakugei University
"Protection of Urban Farming and Farmland in Tokyo"
yagasaki@u-gakugei.ac.jp
Dr. Nathalie Cavasin, Waseda University
"Citizen and Nuclear Industry in Japan: After the Tokaimura Disaster"
n_cavasin@yahoo.co.jp
Dr. Kenji Yamazaki and Tomoko Yamazaki, Meiji University and Iwate University
"Sustainable Development in Tokyo Bay: Collaboration of Anti-Reclamation Movements and Growth of Urban Fishery"
ken@yc4.so-net.ne.jp ymzk@iwate-u.ac.jp
Dr. Teiji Watanabe, Hokkaido University
"Future Management Possibilities of Mountain National Parks by Communities in Japan"
twata@spa.att.ne.jp
Dr. Shinji Kawai, Akita Prefectural University
"Reversing Pressures: Farmersf Approaches towards Environmentally Friendly
Agriculture in Ogata, Japan"
ariyon@akita-pu.ac.jp
Dr. Masao Tao, Kyoto University, Faculty of Economics
Political Conflicts on Environmental Conservation in Kyoto
tao@econ.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Dr. Todd Stradford, University of Wisconsin-Platteville
"Citizens' Movement for Saving the Kawabe, Kyushu"
stradfot@uwplatt.edu
Dr. Ken'ichi Nonaka, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto
"Wildlife Protection in rural Japan
k-nonaka@za2.so-net.ne.jp
Akiko Ikeguchi and Dr. Kohei Okamoto, Nagoya University
"Conservation or Creation?: Environmental Policies in Urban Coasts and Tidal
Flats Change in Japan"
h44540a@nucc.cc.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Taka'aki Kagohasi, Japan Environmental Lawyers Federation
"Local Conservation Groups to Protect 'Rights of Nature'"
Jelf-nagoya@mta.biglobe.ne.jp
Kim D. Reimann, Georgia State University
"International Resources and Norms for mobilizing local Environmental Movements in Japan"
polkdr@langate.gsu.edu
Jonathan S. Taylor, California State University at Fullerton
"Anti-Military and Environmental Movements in Okinawa"
jstaylor@Exchange.FULLERTON.EDU
United States Case Studies
Dr. Hilary Lambert, Associate Director, Kentucky Water Alliance
"Differing Scales, Common Agenda: Groups Protecting Kentucky's Waters and Waterways"
Hilary@KWAlliance.org
Dr. Christopher S. Rice, Research Director, Kentucky Appalachian Center
"Grassroots organizations in Central Appalachia for Sustainable Development"
Csrice00@uky.edu
Dr. Elizabeth Taylor, Appalachian Center and Social Theory Program
"Civil Society Organizations in Central Appalachia"
etaylor@uky.edu
Dr. David Zurick, Eastern Kentucky University
"Grassroots Movement Opposing Disposal of Chemical Weapons at the Blue Grass Army Depot, Richmond, Kentucky"
David.Zurick@EKU.EDU
Dr. Miranda Schreurs, University of Maryland
"Cross-cultural learning among NGO activists: The US and Japan"
mschreurs@gvpt.umd.edu
Dr. John Metz, Northern Kentucky University
"Citizen's Advisory Committees and the Clean up of Nuclear Weapons Facilities: Democratic Participation or Public Relations Coup"
metz@nku.edu
Dr. Christopher Jasparro, Asia-Pacific Center, Honolulu
"Community Groups as grassroots participants in civil- military environmental protection in Hawaii"
crvlad@yahoo.com
Perrin de Jong , Kentucky Heartwood
"Grassroots efforts to preserve Kentucky Forests"
kyheartwood@alltel.net
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