Zoom Link :
https://kyoto-u-edu.zoom.us/j/83702273131?pwd=TGZXQVZWMlVMZjRwMk4wSFFRcVM5dz09

Title: Epidemic Invasions in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
Speaker: Michitake Aso

During a summer day in 1952, Vietnamese farmers in the Red River Delta may have looked up to see French airplanes dropping insects, powders, and other strange things. Or they may not have. In a now largely forgotten episode of the First Indochina War, the anti-colonial Viet Minh believed the French used biological weapons between 1952 and 1954. My talk examines this episode of potential biological warfare as a “sampling device.” Thus, whether or not the French military conducted biological warfare matters less than the Vietnamese responses. I argue that medical doctors, agricultural scientists, and political cadres of the Viet Minh initially drew on traditions of natural disaster response even as they gathered information from the Red River Delta and looked to the People’s Republic of China for guidance. My talk also explores how the Viet Minh sought to manage popular attitudes and actions. While at first peasants dutifully reported suspected germ warfare, when nothing happened, enthusiasm for germ surveillance and other hygienic tasks waned. By the end of the First Indochina War, charges of germ warfare were quietly shelved, though never resolved, and they would resurface during the Vietnam War to frame well-documented acts of environmental warfare.

Bio:
Michitake Aso is an Associate Professor of the Global Environment in the Department of History at the University at Albany. He is currently a visiting research scholar at Kyoto University and has held fellowships at the National University of Singapore and the University of Texas at Austin. His book Rubber and the Making of Vietnam: An Ecological History won the Agricultural History Society’s Henry A. Wallace Award and the Forest History Society’s Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Award. He has published articles in various scholarly journals and has taught courses on environmental, medical, and Asian history.

Reporter: KONO, Hisaki（GSE）

Title: At the Right Time: Modifying Repayment and Disbursement Schedule in Microcredit (joint with Abu Shonchoy and Kazushi Takahashi)

Abstract:
Although microcredit has expanded credit access, its outreach is still limited, especially among agricultural farmers. The standard microcredit causes a mismatch in the timing between cash flow and credit flow for the typical farmer, who has little income until the harvest, whereas the standard microcredit requires payments in weekly installments. Agricultural investment is sequential but the loan disbursement happens only once, and farmers thus need to save part of the disbursed money for later investment, which would be difficult for present-biased farmers. In this context, we evaluate two modified microcredit programs that change the timing of repayment and loan disbursement by randomly offering share-cropping farmers in Bangladesh either (1) the standard microcredit, (2) crop credit that requires a one-time repayment after harvest, or (3) sequential credit that disburses credit sequentially and requires a one-time repayment after harvest. We found that the crop credit and sequential credit achieved higher uptake rates than the standard microcredit, and borrowers were more satisfied with these modified products. The sequential credit resulted in increased later investments among present-biased borrowers by alleviating their savings constraints. These new products did not worsen the repayment rate, and the sequential credit led to a smaller credit. We attribute this reduction in the credit size to the option value: the sequential credit allowed borrowers to adjust the final loan size after observing the productivity and expenditure shocks. Our simulation suggests that sequential credit with self-set limit that provides the option value and commitment devices will make the microcredit program more attractive to agricultural farmers.

Keywords: Microcredit; Commitment; Option value

Contact:
MACHIKITA, Tomohiro / MIENO, Fumiharu（CSEAS）, YANO, Go / KONO, Hisaki（GSE）, MIURA, Ken（Graduate Schools Agriculture）

Call for Short Documentaries is now available!
【Deadline：August 31, 2021】

VISUAL DOCUMENTARY PROJECT 2021
Theme “DEATH / LIFE”

For more details of application, please click here.

The Fanning the Flames Speaker Series
in Celebration of the Publication
Fanning the Flames: Propaganda in Modern Japan

Beginning Tuesday, June 1, 2021 | 12:00 pm PT | 3:00 pm ET

Registration https://stanford.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fGlZBVfcRJqsLNgdyL18Og

Japan’s Meiji Restoration brought swift changes through Japanese adoption of Western-style modernization and imperial expansion. Fanning the Flames brings together a range of scholarly essays and collected materials from the Hoover Institution Library & Archives detailing how Japanese propaganda played an active role in fostering national identity and mobilizing grassroots participation in the country’s transformation and wartime activities, from with the First Sino-Japanese War (1894–95) to the end of World War II.
The Fanning the Flames Speaker Series highlights conversations with leading scholars of modern East Asian history, art, and propaganda and is presented in conjunction with the book and upcoming online and physical exhibitions.

Events in the Series:
Tuesday, June 1
12:00 pm PT | 3:00 pm ET
Anchors of History: The Long Shadow of Japanese Imperial Propaganda
Barak Kushner, professor of East Asian History, University of Cambridge
Michael R. Auslin, the Payson J. Treat Distinguished Research Fellow in Contemporary Asia at the Hoover Institution

Thursday, June 10
4:00 pm PT | 7:00 pm ET
“War Fever” as Fueled by the Media and Popular Culture: The Path Taken by Meiji Japan’s Policies of “Enrich the Country” and “Strengthen the Armed Forces”
Toshihiko Kishi, professor at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University
Kay Ueda, curator of the Japanese Diaspora Collection, Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Additional Lectures in the Series
Dates and titles to be announced
Yuma Totani, professor of Japan, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Alice Tseng, Professor of Art History, Boston University

Participant Bios:
Barak Kushner is professor of East Asian history and the chair of Japanese Studies in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge. He has edited numerous books and written several monographs, including the award-winning Men to Devils, Devils to Men: Japanese War Crimes and Chinese Justice (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015). In 2020 he hosted several episodes of a major Chinese documentary on Japanese war crimes and is currently writing a book titled The Construction of Injustice in East Asia: Japan versus Its Neighbors.

Michael Auslin is the Payson J. Treat Distinguished Research Fellow in Contemporary Asia at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. A historian by training, he specializes in U.S. policy in Asia and geopolitical issues in the Indo-Pacific region. His publications include Negotiating with Imperialism: The Unequal Treaties and the Culture of Japanese Diplomacy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004) and Asia’s New Geopolitics: Essays on Reshaping the Indo-Pacific (Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 2020).

Toshihiko Kishi is a professor at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University. His research covers twentieth-century Asian history, East Asian regional studies, and media studies. He has published extensively on East Asian history, most recently as co-editor of Picturing Taiwan: The Asahi Shimbun Press Photo Selections (Taipei: Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica, 2020), and many other books. Professor Kishi is also a member of the Science Council of Japan and a senior researcher at the Research Center for Science Systems, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

Kaoru “Kay” Ueda is the curator of the Japanese Diaspora Collection at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives. She curated many of the materials used in the Fanning the Flames book and exhibition. Ueda manages the Japanese Diaspora Initiative, endowed by an anonymous gift to promote the study of overseas Japanese history during the Empire of Japan period. She is the editor of On a Collision Course: The Dawn of Japanese Migration in the Nineteenth Century (Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 2020).

Maritime Asia Heritage Survey
https://maritimeasiaheritage.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp

This open-access online archive presents a wealth of multi-media material in ways that facilitate cross-referencing for the comparative study of the inter-connected histories of maritime Asian societies. It includes IIIF deep zoom digitized manuscript images and metadata, 3D models of historical sites and cultural artefacts incorporating LiDAR and photogrammetry, as well as video recordings of oral history interviews in addition to the main database.

The website also features customized reference resources designed and produced by the MAHS Team to help users to contextualize the datasets, including an interactive 3D timeline, glossaries of local terms for architectural features, ornamental motifs, and traditional crafts, as well as a virtual library of open-access scholarly publications.

Zoom Link :
https://kyoto-u-edu.zoom.us/j/82287875218?pwd=NjdCOWdIUkZjbE11L2RIRGdnQjFOQT09

Title: Community-based health care systems: the inter-relationship between codified traditional medical doctors and informal medical practitioners in Southern India
Speaker: Sachi Matsuoka, CSEAS

This presentation examines the inter-relationship between codified traditional medical doctors and informal medical practitioners, called Vaidya, in Southern India where health indicators are on par with those in developed countries. It aims to clarify the roles of informal medicine for modern Indian communities through methodologies include geographical, historical, and medical systems reviews as well as ethnographic observation of medical practices and analyses of patients’ treatment-seeking behaviors through long-term fieldwork.

In India, a variety of medical systems including traditional medical systems such as Ayurveda and Siddha have been registered as codified medical systems and each have public medical institutions in India. Yet, there are also exist informal medical systems. Under community health, Vaidyas practitioners have not been studied to the same degree as informal ones, rather they have been perceived as traditional medical systems or those that provide ethnobotanical knowledge. While previous studies have reported that Vaidyas are less used by people including those in urban areas, this presentation will show that patients visit Vaidyas from outside of villages. Vaidyas offer options for certificated doctors who are exploring the true nature of better treatments. Yet, codified traditional medicine offers income opportunities to Vaidyas.

This finding implies that even under frequent contact between different cultures, people’s treatment-seeking behavior and the role of informal medicine can change depending on cultural and social contexts, even though medicinal effects are proven through scientific research. Such a phenomenon supports a “medical pluralism” that can provide treatment options to community members. This presentation will show that informal medicine possesses multifunctional quality for communities.

As a variety of traditional medical systems has been spreading globally in response to issues such as ongoing population aging, medical pluralism may diversify through individual preferences. This presentation will argue that policy for community health needs to multilaterally consider the usefulness of non-codified medicines as medical resources not only in rapidly changing India, but also in other developed countries.

Bio:
Matsuoka Sachi is a researcher at the Center for Southeast Asian studies at Kyoto University, who started out as a clinical pharmacist before becoming a project coordinator for human-grassroots security projects granted by the Japanese Government on health and education issues in West Africa. After a career in the health and community sector, she entered academia questioning how human societies support (and are supported) considering the diversity of hope for life and death. Her current research topics include informal medicine, religious practices, and social services examining the relationship between formal and informal care. She has conducted qualitative and quantitative case studies in Kerala, Southern India along the lines of medical anthropology-based interdisciplinary studies.

The Fanning the Flames Speaker Series
in Celebration of the Publication
Fanning the Flames: Propaganda in Modern Japan

Beginning Tuesday, June 1, 2021 | 12:00 pm PT | 3:00 pm ET

Registration https://stanford.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fGlZBVfcRJqsLNgdyL18Og

Japan’s Meiji Restoration brought swift changes through Japanese adoption of Western-style modernization and imperial expansion. Fanning the Flames brings together a range of scholarly essays and collected materials from the Hoover Institution Library & Archives detailing how Japanese propaganda played an active role in fostering national identity and mobilizing grassroots participation in the country’s transformation and wartime activities, from with the First Sino-Japanese War (1894–95) to the end of World War II.
The Fanning the Flames Speaker Series highlights conversations with leading scholars of modern East Asian history, art, and propaganda and is presented in conjunction with the book and upcoming online and physical exhibitions.

Events in the Series:
Tuesday, June 1
12:00 pm PT | 3:00 pm ET
Anchors of History: The Long Shadow of Japanese Imperial Propaganda
Barak Kushner, professor of East Asian History, University of Cambridge
Michael R. Auslin, the Payson J. Treat Distinguished Research Fellow in Contemporary Asia at the Hoover Institution

Thursday, June 10
4:00 pm PT | 7:00 pm ET
“War Fever” as Fueled by the Media and Popular Culture: The Path Taken by Meiji Japan’s Policies of “Enrich the Country” and “Strengthen the Armed Forces”
Toshihiko Kishi, professor at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University
Kay Ueda, curator of the Japanese Diaspora Collection, Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Additional Lectures in the Series
Dates and titles to be announced
Yuma Totani, professor of Japan, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Alice Tseng, Professor of Art History, Boston University

Participant Bios:
Barak Kushner is professor of East Asian history and the chair of Japanese Studies in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge. He has edited numerous books and written several monographs, including the award-winning Men to Devils, Devils to Men: Japanese War Crimes and Chinese Justice (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015). In 2020 he hosted several episodes of a major Chinese documentary on Japanese war crimes and is currently writing a book titled The Construction of Injustice in East Asia: Japan versus Its Neighbors.

Michael Auslin is the Payson J. Treat Distinguished Research Fellow in Contemporary Asia at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. A historian by training, he specializes in U.S. policy in Asia and geopolitical issues in the Indo-Pacific region. His publications include Negotiating with Imperialism: The Unequal Treaties and the Culture of Japanese Diplomacy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004) and Asia’s New Geopolitics: Essays on Reshaping the Indo-Pacific (Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 2020).

Toshihiko Kishi is a professor at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University. His research covers twentieth-century Asian history, East Asian regional studies, and media studies. He has published extensively on East Asian history, most recently as co-editor of Picturing Taiwan: The Asahi Shimbun Press Photo Selections (Taipei: Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica, 2020), and many other books. Professor Kishi is also a member of the Science Council of Japan and a senior researcher at the Research Center for Science Systems, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

Kaoru “Kay” Ueda is the curator of the Japanese Diaspora Collection at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives. She curated many of the materials used in the Fanning the Flames book and exhibition. Ueda manages the Japanese Diaspora Initiative, endowed by an anonymous gift to promote the study of overseas Japanese history during the Empire of Japan period. She is the editor of On a Collision Course: The Dawn of Japanese Migration in the Nineteenth Century (Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 2020).

Japan’s Meiji Restoration brought swift changes through Japanese adoption of Western-style modernization and imperial expansion. Fanning the Flames brings together a range of scholarly essays and collected materials from the Hoover Institution Library & Archives detailing how Japanese propaganda played an active role in fostering national identity and mobilizing grassroots participation in the country’s transformation and wartime activities, starting with the First Sino-Japanese War to the end of World War II.

=CONTENTS=
Fᴏʀᴇᴡᴏʀᴅ / Eʀɪᴄ Wᴀᴋɪɴ
Aᴄᴋɴᴏᴡʟᴇᴅɢᴍᴇɴᴛs
Iɴᴛʀᴏᴅᴜᴄᴛɪᴏɴ / Kᴀᴏʀᴜ Uᴇᴅᴀ

PART I: ESSAYS
1 | Pɪᴄᴛᴜʀɪɴɢ Eᴍᴘɪʀᴇ: Nɪsʜɪᴋɪ-ᴇ ᴀɴᴅ ᴛʜᴇ Wᴀʀs ᴏғ Iᴍᴘᴇʀɪᴀʟ Jᴀᴘᴀɴ / Oʟɪᴠɪᴀ Mᴏʀᴇʟʟᴏ ᴀɴᴅ Mɪᴄʜᴀᴇʟ Aᴜsʟɪɴ
2 | Aɴᴄʜᴏʀs ᴏғ Hɪsᴛᴏʀʏ: Tʜᴇ Lᴏɴɢ Sʜᴀᴅᴏᴡ ᴏғ Iᴍᴘᴇʀɪᴀʟ Jᴀᴘᴀɴᴇsᴇ Pʀᴏᴘᴀɢᴀɴᴅᴀ / Bᴀʀᴀᴋ Kᴜsʜɴᴇʀ
3 | Mᴜʟᴛɪɴᴀᴛɪᴏɴᴀʟ Pᴇʀsᴘᴇᴄᴛɪᴠᴇs ᴏғ Vɪsᴜᴀʟɪᴢᴇᴅ Jᴏᴜʀɴᴀʟɪsᴍ ᴏɴ ᴛʜᴇ Sɪɴᴏ-Jᴀᴘᴀɴᴇsᴇ Wᴀʀ: Cᴏᴍᴘᴀʀᴀᴛɪᴠᴇ Sᴛᴜᴅʏ ᴏғ Mᴇɪᴊɪ Jᴀᴘᴀɴ, Qɪɴɢ Cʜɪɴᴀ, ᴀɴᴅ Eᴜʀᴏᴘᴇ / 𝐓𝐨𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐡𝐢𝐤𝐨 𝐊𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐢
4 | Nɪsʜɪᴋɪ-ᴇ ᴀɴᴅ Wᴀʀ Pʀɪɴᴛs / Jᴜɴɪᴄʜɪ Oᴋᴜʙᴏ
5 | A Vɪsᴜᴀʟ Rᴇᴠᴏʟᴜᴛɪᴏɴ: Tʜᴇ Eᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ ɪɴ Pᴏᴘᴜʟᴀʀ Nɪsʜɪᴋɪ-ᴇ / Alice Y. Tseng
6 | Vɪsᴜᴀʟ Mᴇᴅɪᴀ Tʀᴇɴᴅs ᴅᴜʀɪɴɢ ᴛʜᴇ Rᴜssᴏ-Jᴀᴘᴀɴᴇsᴇ Wᴀʀ Pᴇʀɪᴏᴅ: A Cᴏᴍᴘᴀʀᴀᴛɪᴠᴇ Sᴛᴜᴅʏ ᴏғ Mᴇɪᴊɪ Jᴀᴘᴀɴ ᴀɴᴅ Cᴢᴀʀɪsᴛ Rᴜssɪᴀ / 𝐓𝐨𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐡𝐢𝐤𝐨 𝐊𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐢
7 | Bᴀᴋᴜᴅᴀɴ sᴀɴ’ʏᴜ̄sʜɪ: Tʜᴇ Tʜʀᴇᴇ Hᴇʀᴏᴇs ᴏғ Sʜᴀɴɢʜᴀɪ / Hᴀɴᴀᴇ Kᴜʀɪʜᴀʀᴀ Kʀᴀᴍᴇʀ ᴀɴᴅ Sᴄᴏᴛᴛ Kʀᴀᴍᴇʀ
8 | Tʜᴇ Pᴀᴄɪғɪᴄ Wᴀʀ ᴀɴᴅ Kᴀᴍɪsʜɪʙᴀɪ / Tsᴜɴᴇᴏ Yᴀsᴜᴅᴀ
9 | Pʀɪɴᴛᴇᴅ Wᴀʀᴛɪᴍᴇ Kᴀᴍɪsʜɪʙᴀɪ / Tᴀᴋᴇᴛᴏsʜɪ Yᴀᴍᴀᴍᴏᴛᴏ

PART II: COLLECTION HIGHLIGHTS
Wᴏᴍᴇɴ ᴀᴛ Wᴀʀ
Bᴜsʜɪᴅᴏ̄: Sᴀᴍᴜʀᴀɪ Vᴀʟᴜᴇs
Iᴄᴏɴɪᴄ Sʏᴍʙᴏʟs
Wᴀʀ Hᴏʀsᴇs
Tᴇᴄʜɴᴏʟᴏɢʏ
Iɴᴛᴇʀɴᴀᴛɪᴏɴᴀʟ Pʀᴏᴘᴀɢᴀɴᴅᴀ Wᴀʀ

Fᴜʀᴛʜᴇʀ Rᴇᴀᴅɪɴɢs / Gʟᴏssᴀʀʏ / Mᴀᴘs / Aʙᴏᴜᴛ ᴛʜᴇ Cᴏɴᴛʀɪʙᴜᴛᴏʀs / Iɴᴅᴇx

Product Details
Publisher : Hoover Inst Press (June 1, 2021)
Publication date : June 2021
Language : English
Hardcover : 192 Pages, 11 x 9.5
ISBN-10 : 0817924647
ISBN-13 : 978-0817924645
定価：US $59.95、CA $80.95、日本 ¥7,906（本体¥7,188）

Vol.10, No.1 of Southeast Asian Studies
https://englishkyoto-seas.org/

Contents

≪Articles≫
Jely A. Galang
Chinese Laborers on a Mining Frontier: The Case of Copper Miners in
Northern Luzon, 1856–98
………………………….. ( 3 )
https://englishkyoto-seas.org/2021/04/vol-10-no-1-jely-a-galang/

Iwai Misaki
Care Relations and Custody of Return-Migrant Children in Rural
Vietnam: Cases in the Mekong Delta
………………………….. ( 33 )
https://englishkyoto-seas.org/2021/04/vol-10-no-1-iwai-misaki/

Vivek Neelakantan
“No Nation Can Go Forward When It Is Crippled by Disease”: Philippine
Science and the Cold War, 1946–65
………………………….. ( 53 )
https://englishkyoto-seas.org/2021/04/vol-10-no-1-vivek-neelakantan/

Shimojo Hisashi
Local Politics in the Migration between Vietnam and Cambodia: Mobility
in a Multiethnic Society in the Mekong Delta since 1975
………………………….. ( 89 )
https://englishkyoto-seas.org/2021/04/vol-10-no-1-shimojo-hisashi/

Byron Josue de Leon
Peasant Violence in Early Nineteenth Century Philippines and
Guatemala: The Cases of Apolinario de la Cruz and Rafael Carrera in
Comparative Perspective
………………………….. (119)
https://englishkyoto-seas.org/2021/04/vol-10-no-1-byron-josue-de-leon/

François Molle, Chatchom Chompadist, and Thanawat Bremard
Intensification of Rice Cultivation in the Floodplain of the Chao
Phraya Delta
………………………….. (141)
https://englishkyoto-seas.org/2021/04/vol-10-no-1-francois-molle-et-al/

≪Book Reviews≫
Odajima Rie
Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao, Hui Yew-Foong, and Philippe Peycam, eds.
Citizens, Civil Society and Heritage-Making in Asia.
Singapore: ISEAS Publishing, 2017.
………………………….. (169)

Liana Chua
Noboru Ishikawa and Ryoji Soda, eds. Anthropogenic Tropical Forests:
Human–Nature Interfaces on the Plantation Frontier.
Singapore: Springer, 2020.
………………………….. (172)

Thomas Edward Kingston
Michael D. Leigh. The Collapse of British Rule in Burma: The Civilian
Evacuation and Independence.
London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
…………………………. (175)

Momoki Shiro
Arlo Griffiths, Andrew Hardy, and Geoff Wade, eds. Champa: Territories
and Networks of a Southeast Asian Kingdom.
Paris: École française d’Extrême-Orient, 2019.
…………………………. (179)

Chatri Prakitnonthakan
Jiat-Hwee Chang and Imran bin Tajudeen, eds. Southeast Asia’s Modern
Architecture: Questions of Translation, Epistemology and Power.
Singapore: NUS Press, 2019.
…………………………. (183)

Patricio N. Abinales
Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz. Asian Place, Filipino Nation: A Global
Intellectual History of the Philippine Revolution, 1887–1912.
New York: Columbia University Press, 2020.
…………………………. (187)

Kim Yujin
Steve Ferzacca. Sonic City: Making Rock Music and Urban Life in Singapore.
Singapore: NUS Press, 2020.
…………………………. (190)
………………………………………………………….

If you would like to submit a paper to our journal, please do so
electronically through the ScholarOne Manuscripts online submission
system: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/seas

We are particularly happy to receive papers on agriculture, ecology,
rural development, natural resources management and other related
areas that are analyzed within an area studies framework. Of course,
papers of other topics are equally welcome as well.

Zoom Link :
https://kyoto-u-edu.zoom.us/j/82828596507?pwd=YkJsRWIwRkIxZVhaUmNxVGFabUtEdz09

Title: Can Forests Solve the Climate Crisis?
Speaker: Wil de Jong Professor, CSEAS

The greatest challenge that the global community needs to address in the next decades is a looming global climate crisis caused primarily by anthropogenic carbon emission. Multiple international initiatives have put their hopes on forests to solve this. This lecture addresses how justified these hopes are and the hurdles that need to be overcome. It briefly reviews the earth carbon stocks and fluxes, and the role that forests play in both. It will look at what predicted climate change may do to forests and their role in regulating atmospheric carbon. The proposals to address climate change by planting vast numbers of trees and restoring large areas of forests will be reviewed. The following questions will be addressed: How large an area of forests or how many trees need to be planted to reduce atmospheric carbon? What are environmental challenges and impacts of such tree planting and forest restoration, including of progressing climate change itself? What are economic, social, political, and cultural challenges? Or, in other words, who will reap benefits and who will pay the costs of these plans?

Bio:
Prof de Jong studied forestry at Wageningen Agricultural University, Netherlands and moved to the tropics in 1982 to explore the role of forests in people’s lives. He worked in Peru for seven years, spent four years at the New York Botanical Garden’s Institute of Economic Botany and two years as a post-doc in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Then he joined as Scientist and Senior Scientist the Center for International Forestry Research in 1995, in Bogor Indonesia and worked there for 10 years before moving to Japan in 2004, where he worked at the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka. Since 2006 he joined Kyoto University, first at the Center for Integrated Area Studies (CIAS) and later at CSEAS. His research is on tropical forest governance and policies, smallholder and community forestry, forest and climate change, forest restoration and forest transition.