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Research paper thumbnail of Future Visions for Fundamental Livelihoods: Collaborative Actions in the Nishibetsu Watershed in Japan

Ecological Research Monographs, 2018

Nishibetsu River flows in the eastern part of Hokkaido, located in the northernmost area of Japan... more Nishibetsu River flows in the eastern part of Hokkaido, located in the northernmost area of Japan. In this watershed, local people spearhead activities with the objective of reviving and maintaining the watershed environment as a continuing habitat for the Blackiston’s fish owl. A parent body leading these activities is called Nijibetsu Kor Kamuy Society , which is a totally voluntary and non-profitable organization. The Society’s efforts to revive the natural environment have gone on for more than 20 years, producing opportunities for cooperation that go beyond administrative boundaries and differences in interests. The Blakiston’s fish owl is a species worshipped as Kotan kor kamuy (protective spirit of the village) from ancient times by the Ainu, an indigenous people in Hokkaido, and the activities of the Nijibetsu Kor Kamuy Society are consistent with this in that they direct their attention to the Blakiston’s fish owl. The local residents have made ingenious use of tools, knowledge and techniques they have in their livelihoods. And, the success of the Blakiston’s fish owl indicates not only a good/adequate watershed environment, but indicates that the Nishibetsu watershed is in a condition to continue to sustain cornerstone industries in the region, such as dairy farming and fishing. The watershed’s value has been widely shared through a series of activities. In this chapter, we will look back in specific ways at that process.

Research paper thumbnail of 3.11後の環境社会学

Journal of Environmental Sociology

Research paper thumbnail of 環境自治のしくみづくり―正統性を組みなおす―

Journal of Environmental Sociology

Research paper thumbnail of 事例研究再考 : 生活を組み立てる〈力〉としての調査研究

Research paper thumbnail of 開発と住民 : ソロモン諸島マライタ島における出稼ぎと移住の社会史 ―1930~1990年代―

Research paper thumbnail of An Introduction to the Special Issue

Japanese environmental sociology has developed rapidly over the last two decades and has made a s... more Japanese environmental sociology has developed rapidly over the last two decades and has made a significant contribution in the greater Japanese environmental context. This progress, however, has not been adequately conveyed in the English language. This special issue, focusing on environmental governance in Japan, tries to show readers how Japanese sociologists are now tackling environmental problems and to introduce the unique frameworks they have constructed as well. By way of introduction, I will offer a brief history of Japanese environmental sociology and then outline its features with reference to the articles in this issue. Japanese environmental sociology began with the sociological study of 'kogai' or industrial pollution issues. Nobuko Iijima, a pioneer of this relatively new discipline, studied the world-renowned Minamata Disease (see Harutoshi Funabashi's and Reiko Seki's articles herein) in the 1960s. Minamata Disease, which first broke out in Minamata in 1956 and then in Niigata in 1965, was and remains a tragic environmental disaster caused by the Methyl mercury discharged by factories. Thousands of people have suffered. Iijima conducted social research on the pollution victims and found a socially-formed complex of suffering, in which they suffer not only from disease but also from poverty, social discrimination, the collapse of their families and so on. Disease and social distress were not only related, but served to mutually accelerate one another (Iijima, 1984; 1992). Minamata Disease, in Minamata and again in Niigata, attracted the attention of numerous social scientists. Masazumi Harada, a doctor long involved with the Minamata Disease, has recently advocated Minamata Studies which approach the Minamata Disease through a variety of disciplines. Many social scientists think that Minamata was the starting point for environmental sociology.

Research paper thumbnail of 宇井純さんが模索した学問のあり方について――フィールドワーク・歴史・適正技術――

Journal of Environmental Sociology

Research paper thumbnail of Rural Community Sustainability and the Commons: A Post-Disaster Experience

Research paper thumbnail of The South Pacific in the changing world era

Research paper thumbnail of Adaptive Process Management: Dynamic Actions Toward Sustainable Societies

As we saw in the previous chapters, in order to create a sustainable local environment, scientist... more As we saw in the previous chapters, in order to create a sustainable local environment, scientists and local citizens need to be interactively involved in solution-orientated knowledge production; furthermore, it is important that they are able to visualize sharable values. Yet, the difficulty is that nature and society are both laden with uncertainties – so, from the outset, answers are not clear to questions such as how to create knowledge and how to create social institutions. Fixed institutions and fixed values may seem to work well for a while, but will, eventually fail to do so. At that point, the dynamics of nature and society need to be recognized, requiring changing to a method that places importance on a process that is constantly on the move. The following five points are the keys to handling such a process: (1) recognize plural values, (2) avoid setting a single goal (prepare multiple goals and multiple institutions), (3) aim for a multifaceted dynamic consensus building...

Research paper thumbnail of Resilience of nature and local society under the climate change environment – A future perspective of Ecology and Civil Engineering Society

Ecology and Civil Engineering

Research paper thumbnail of Hokkaido cluster

Satoyama-Satoumi Ecosystems and Human Well-Being, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of The Possibility of Citizens' Research

Japanese Sociological Review, 2003

Research paper thumbnail of How does social resilience originate from? - requirements for adaptive governance

Ecology and Civil Engineering, 2017

Research paper thumbnail of Satoyama–satoumi sub-global assessment in Japan and involvement of the Hokkaido Cluster

Landscape and Ecological Engineering, 2009

A sub-global assessment (SGA) began in Japan in November 2006, and is projected to end in May 201... more A sub-global assessment (SGA) began in Japan in November 2006, and is projected to end in May 2010, when the Tenth Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP10) will be held in Nagoya City. Since May 2008, we have been involved in the evaluation of the Hokkaido Cluster, one of four clusters assessed. This report provides a brief background of the relationships between the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) and the SGA, and the governance structure of the SGA in Japan. It also describes our efforts in assessing the Hokkaido Cluster and discusses the challenges of SGA at the cluster and national levels. The MA was a 4-year international appraisal of scientific knowledge on world ecosystems and included global and sub-global assessment. After the MA, Japan began a satoyama-satoumi SGA in 2006. This is composed of six teams: the board, a science assessment panel, author groups, local advisory bodies, the board of review editors, and secretariat. Author groups include a national group and groups for four local clusters: Hokkaido, Tohoku, Hoku-shin-etsu, and Western Japan. Work in the Hokkaido Cluster began with a small group in 2008. Authors for the cluster report were selected from among experts on important events regarding satoyama and satoumi in Hokkaido. Generally, Hokkaido has no traditional satoyama-satoumi landscapes created by longterm interactions with the local people. We are now seeking the style of sustainable nature use that is best suited to Hokkaido. The SGA in Japan now faces the challenge of integrating the four cluster assessments according to common indicators. Keywords Ecosystem services Á Human well-being Á Multi-scale assessment Á Northern satoyama Á Exploitive farming Brief background of sub-global assessment in Japan

Research paper thumbnail of Pursuing the Sociological Study of Environmental Governance in Japan: An Introduction to the Special Issue

International Journal of Japanese Sociology, Nov 1, 2006

Japanese environmental sociology has developed rapidly over the last two decades and has made a s... more Japanese environmental sociology has developed rapidly over the last two decades and has made a significant contribution in the greater Japanese environmental context. This progress, however, has not been adequately conveyed in the English language. This special issue, focusing on environmental governance in Japan, tries to show readers how Japanese sociologists are now tackling environmental problems and to introduce the unique frameworks they have constructed as well. By way of introduction, I will offer a brief history of Japanese environmental sociology and then outline its features with reference to the articles in this issue. Japanese environmental sociology began with the sociological study of 'kogai' or industrial pollution issues. Nobuko Iijima, a pioneer of this relatively new discipline, studied the world-renowned Minamata Disease (see Harutoshi Funabashi's and Reiko Seki's articles herein) in the 1960s. Minamata Disease, which first broke out in Minamata in 1956 and then in Niigata in 1965, was and remains a tragic environmental disaster caused by the Methyl mercury discharged by factories. Thousands of people have suffered. Iijima conducted social research on the pollution victims and found a socially-formed complex of suffering, in which they suffer not only from disease but also from poverty, social discrimination, the collapse of their families and so on. Disease and social distress were not only related, but served to mutually accelerate one another (Iijima, 1984; 1992). Minamata Disease, in Minamata and again in Niigata, attracted the attention of numerous social scientists. Masazumi Harada, a doctor long involved with the Minamata Disease, has recently advocated Minamata Studies which approach the Minamata Disease through a variety of disciplines. Many social scientists think that Minamata was the starting point for environmental sociology.

Research paper thumbnail of Future Visions for Fundamental Livelihoods: Collaborative Actions in the Nishibetsu Watershed in Japan

Ecological Research Monographs, 2018

Nishibetsu River flows in the eastern part of Hokkaido, located in the northernmost area of Japan... more Nishibetsu River flows in the eastern part of Hokkaido, located in the northernmost area of Japan. In this watershed, local people spearhead activities with the objective of reviving and maintaining the watershed environment as a continuing habitat for the Blackiston’s fish owl. A parent body leading these activities is called Nijibetsu Kor Kamuy Society , which is a totally voluntary and non-profitable organization. The Society’s efforts to revive the natural environment have gone on for more than 20 years, producing opportunities for cooperation that go beyond administrative boundaries and differences in interests. The Blakiston’s fish owl is a species worshipped as Kotan kor kamuy (protective spirit of the village) from ancient times by the Ainu, an indigenous people in Hokkaido, and the activities of the Nijibetsu Kor Kamuy Society are consistent with this in that they direct their attention to the Blakiston’s fish owl. The local residents have made ingenious use of tools, knowledge and techniques they have in their livelihoods. And, the success of the Blakiston’s fish owl indicates not only a good/adequate watershed environment, but indicates that the Nishibetsu watershed is in a condition to continue to sustain cornerstone industries in the region, such as dairy farming and fishing. The watershed’s value has been widely shared through a series of activities. In this chapter, we will look back in specific ways at that process.

Research paper thumbnail of 3.11後の環境社会学

Journal of Environmental Sociology

Research paper thumbnail of 環境自治のしくみづくり―正統性を組みなおす―

Journal of Environmental Sociology

Research paper thumbnail of 事例研究再考 : 生活を組み立てる〈力〉としての調査研究

Research paper thumbnail of 開発と住民 : ソロモン諸島マライタ島における出稼ぎと移住の社会史 ―1930~1990年代―

Research paper thumbnail of An Introduction to the Special Issue

Japanese environmental sociology has developed rapidly over the last two decades and has made a s... more Japanese environmental sociology has developed rapidly over the last two decades and has made a significant contribution in the greater Japanese environmental context. This progress, however, has not been adequately conveyed in the English language. This special issue, focusing on environmental governance in Japan, tries to show readers how Japanese sociologists are now tackling environmental problems and to introduce the unique frameworks they have constructed as well. By way of introduction, I will offer a brief history of Japanese environmental sociology and then outline its features with reference to the articles in this issue. Japanese environmental sociology began with the sociological study of 'kogai' or industrial pollution issues. Nobuko Iijima, a pioneer of this relatively new discipline, studied the world-renowned Minamata Disease (see Harutoshi Funabashi's and Reiko Seki's articles herein) in the 1960s. Minamata Disease, which first broke out in Minamata in 1956 and then in Niigata in 1965, was and remains a tragic environmental disaster caused by the Methyl mercury discharged by factories. Thousands of people have suffered. Iijima conducted social research on the pollution victims and found a socially-formed complex of suffering, in which they suffer not only from disease but also from poverty, social discrimination, the collapse of their families and so on. Disease and social distress were not only related, but served to mutually accelerate one another (Iijima, 1984; 1992). Minamata Disease, in Minamata and again in Niigata, attracted the attention of numerous social scientists. Masazumi Harada, a doctor long involved with the Minamata Disease, has recently advocated Minamata Studies which approach the Minamata Disease through a variety of disciplines. Many social scientists think that Minamata was the starting point for environmental sociology.

Research paper thumbnail of 宇井純さんが模索した学問のあり方について――フィールドワーク・歴史・適正技術――

Journal of Environmental Sociology

Research paper thumbnail of Rural Community Sustainability and the Commons: A Post-Disaster Experience

Research paper thumbnail of The South Pacific in the changing world era

Research paper thumbnail of Adaptive Process Management: Dynamic Actions Toward Sustainable Societies

As we saw in the previous chapters, in order to create a sustainable local environment, scientist... more As we saw in the previous chapters, in order to create a sustainable local environment, scientists and local citizens need to be interactively involved in solution-orientated knowledge production; furthermore, it is important that they are able to visualize sharable values. Yet, the difficulty is that nature and society are both laden with uncertainties – so, from the outset, answers are not clear to questions such as how to create knowledge and how to create social institutions. Fixed institutions and fixed values may seem to work well for a while, but will, eventually fail to do so. At that point, the dynamics of nature and society need to be recognized, requiring changing to a method that places importance on a process that is constantly on the move. The following five points are the keys to handling such a process: (1) recognize plural values, (2) avoid setting a single goal (prepare multiple goals and multiple institutions), (3) aim for a multifaceted dynamic consensus building...

Research paper thumbnail of Resilience of nature and local society under the climate change environment – A future perspective of Ecology and Civil Engineering Society

Ecology and Civil Engineering

Research paper thumbnail of Hokkaido cluster

Satoyama-Satoumi Ecosystems and Human Well-Being, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of The Possibility of Citizens' Research

Japanese Sociological Review, 2003

Research paper thumbnail of How does social resilience originate from? - requirements for adaptive governance

Ecology and Civil Engineering, 2017

Research paper thumbnail of Satoyama–satoumi sub-global assessment in Japan and involvement of the Hokkaido Cluster

Landscape and Ecological Engineering, 2009

A sub-global assessment (SGA) began in Japan in November 2006, and is projected to end in May 201... more A sub-global assessment (SGA) began in Japan in November 2006, and is projected to end in May 2010, when the Tenth Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP10) will be held in Nagoya City. Since May 2008, we have been involved in the evaluation of the Hokkaido Cluster, one of four clusters assessed. This report provides a brief background of the relationships between the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) and the SGA, and the governance structure of the SGA in Japan. It also describes our efforts in assessing the Hokkaido Cluster and discusses the challenges of SGA at the cluster and national levels. The MA was a 4-year international appraisal of scientific knowledge on world ecosystems and included global and sub-global assessment. After the MA, Japan began a satoyama-satoumi SGA in 2006. This is composed of six teams: the board, a science assessment panel, author groups, local advisory bodies, the board of review editors, and secretariat. Author groups include a national group and groups for four local clusters: Hokkaido, Tohoku, Hoku-shin-etsu, and Western Japan. Work in the Hokkaido Cluster began with a small group in 2008. Authors for the cluster report were selected from among experts on important events regarding satoyama and satoumi in Hokkaido. Generally, Hokkaido has no traditional satoyama-satoumi landscapes created by longterm interactions with the local people. We are now seeking the style of sustainable nature use that is best suited to Hokkaido. The SGA in Japan now faces the challenge of integrating the four cluster assessments according to common indicators. Keywords Ecosystem services Á Human well-being Á Multi-scale assessment Á Northern satoyama Á Exploitive farming Brief background of sub-global assessment in Japan

Research paper thumbnail of Pursuing the Sociological Study of Environmental Governance in Japan: An Introduction to the Special Issue

International Journal of Japanese Sociology, Nov 1, 2006

Japanese environmental sociology has developed rapidly over the last two decades and has made a s... more Japanese environmental sociology has developed rapidly over the last two decades and has made a significant contribution in the greater Japanese environmental context. This progress, however, has not been adequately conveyed in the English language. This special issue, focusing on environmental governance in Japan, tries to show readers how Japanese sociologists are now tackling environmental problems and to introduce the unique frameworks they have constructed as well. By way of introduction, I will offer a brief history of Japanese environmental sociology and then outline its features with reference to the articles in this issue. Japanese environmental sociology began with the sociological study of 'kogai' or industrial pollution issues. Nobuko Iijima, a pioneer of this relatively new discipline, studied the world-renowned Minamata Disease (see Harutoshi Funabashi's and Reiko Seki's articles herein) in the 1960s. Minamata Disease, which first broke out in Minamata in 1956 and then in Niigata in 1965, was and remains a tragic environmental disaster caused by the Methyl mercury discharged by factories. Thousands of people have suffered. Iijima conducted social research on the pollution victims and found a socially-formed complex of suffering, in which they suffer not only from disease but also from poverty, social discrimination, the collapse of their families and so on. Disease and social distress were not only related, but served to mutually accelerate one another (Iijima, 1984; 1992). Minamata Disease, in Minamata and again in Niigata, attracted the attention of numerous social scientists. Masazumi Harada, a doctor long involved with the Minamata Disease, has recently advocated Minamata Studies which approach the Minamata Disease through a variety of disciplines. Many social scientists think that Minamata was the starting point for environmental sociology.