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International Symposia in 2011 Fiscal Year

1. The 10th Southeast Asia Forum
2. Date： March 17 (Sat.), 2012
3. Place：Twin Towers Hotel Bangkok
4. Theme:FLOODS- Lessons Learned from Experiences
5. Program：PDF
6. Poster：PDF

1. JSPS Asian Core Program - Asian Connections: Southeast Asian Model for Co-Existence in the 21st Century
   Kyoto Workshop on East Asian Economy : After the Global Financial Crisis in East Asia; Toward a New Model of East Asian Economy
2. Date：March 13, 2012
3. Place：Middle-sized Meeting Room (Room No. 333), Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University
4. Co-organizer：Institute of Sustainability Science
5. Program：PDF
6. Statement：
7. The prolonged crisis in Europe and the stagnation of the US economy have made East Asian economies look for new demands and create demands in their own region. The characteristics of big current account surpluses that appeared after the Asian Monetary Crisis in 1998 are now common in this region, with the exception of Vietnam. These characteristics were created by robust growth of exports, especially exports supported by production networks developed within the region. However a big current account surplus leads to a large savings-investment surplus. Another cause of this big gap between savings and investments is the stagnation of investment in the region for a decade after 2000. In China, the savings-investment surplus is related to having consumption levels too small for the scale of the national economy. The large current account surplus in this region was behind the global imbalance that was apparent in 2008, and may lead to currency appreciation that could hurt domestic industry.
8. Many ideas and measures have been proposed in an attempt to improve the situation. The immediate policy response was to increase government spending, such as spending on public works. However, this time a Keynesian short-term policy is insufficient because the issue is related to structural factors, such as boosting Chinese private consumption or increasing investments. Remedies intended to fill the savings-investment gap with Government spending can lead to long-term chronic budget deficits. Large-scale money supply by central banks with reducing the interest rates should also be a short-term policy. Now is the time to rethink the issue more fundamentally and from a longer-term perspective.
9. The first idea proposed is to boost the regional markets both for products and for money flows. For example, this could be done by way of establishing an East Asian Community. How do free trade agreements and new systems enhance trade within the region? Attempts to foster an Asian bond market made since 1997 have failed so far, but we need to see a flow of money though both formal and informal networks between people, especially by family businesses expanding their networks.
10. The second idea is to enhance collaboration to strengthen the production networks in this region, or to implement policies such as supply side policies to enhance or upgrade industrial structures with high value added production capabilities and high-level human resources. This idea may increase the current account surplus, at least in the short term, because of the increase of exports. For this idea, creating regional demands is essential, because of current poor expectations for the European and US markets.
11. The third idea comes from the observation that so far the East Asian economic model is too export-biased, with undervalued currency, low wages for workers, and low social security levels – an approach labeled "welfare capitalism" that gives priority to productivity. Such a model lowers the levels of consumption, demand, and welfare of the people based on the "dangerous obsession" that lower wage levels and less control over security are necessary to enhance international competitiveness. The third idea emphasizes the importance of internal markets through wage-led profit-led policies accompanied with improvement of social security and improved income distribution.
12. The global financial crisis impacted on the region because of the sudden loss of exports to US and European markets, and a consequent decrease in demand. Subsequent recovery of the East Asian economies has further enhanced the importance of Inter-Asian markets and economies, and enhanced the inter-reliance of economies in the region.
13. Here we need measures that will further develop medium-term and long-term regional demands. We can envisage many real needs and necessities among the people of the region. It is important for all of the people to be able to live healthy and secure lives. Natural disaster prevention, hygiene or health related institutions, and social security are all needed by the people. Green development is expected to boost technological innovation, investment, and produce further demands. Job creation by enhancing local industry, or by further development of high tech industry related to regional demands, with extensive forward and backward linkage, can reduce income disparities, boost investment, and lead to further consumption or exports. Innovations oriented towards living healthy and secure lives, green economy oriented innovation and growth, and regional demands induced by Sustainable Humanosphere or similar development may all be alternatives for creating medium- or long-term demands in the region, and for improving the livelihood, environment, and welfare of the people.
14. As an example, in Indonesia, where there has been significant earthquake damage in recent years, neglected seismic standards can improve the housing stock, and create long-term demand for the construction of safe, privately-financed housing.
15. We will analyze the East Asian economy following the global financial crisis, examine what measures are taken to boost domestic and regional demands, and investigate how effective these measures are. We further analyze the response of trade, consumption, investment, and currency rates in each country, and we will examine the change of inter-regional trade in East Asia that is replacing a reliance on the US markets. Also, we will discuss an alternative East Asian model that will emphasize living healthy and secure lives, the green economy, and regional demand supported both through institutional frameworks and informal means that will sustain economic growth, and will bring improvements in the welfare of people in this region.
16. The workshop will be held in Kyoto on March 13, 2012. It will cover South Korea, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and Indonesia and analyze means of collaboration within the region. Papers on China, Vietnam and Japan are included in the proceeding.

1. Date： January 25, 2012　15:00～18:00
2. Name of Seminar：2nd Seminar of "Green and Life in ASEAN: Coexistence and Sustainability in East Asian Connections"
3. Place：Tonan-tei, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University
4. Program：
5. 1. Dr.Kok-Boon Neoh, CSEAS, Kyoto University
   　"Termite biology and ecology - Its potential as ecosystem service provider"
6. 2. Dr. Keith Barney, CSEAS, Kyoto University
   　 “The Making of an Environmental State in Laos: Comparative Studies in Forest Concession Governance and the Dynamics of Upland Agrarian Transformation”.

1. Date：December 17 - 18, 2011
2. Name of Workshop：Kyoto-NTU-SYSU Joint International Workshop Plural Coexistence: East Asian Experiences in Comparative and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
3. Place：Middle-sized Conference Room, 3rd Floor of Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University

1. Date：December 4 - 6, 2011
2. Name of Symposium：Fifth International Conference "In Search of Sustainable Humanosphere in Asia and Africa"
3. Place： Conference Room, 3rd Floor of Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University

1. Date：October 28th - 29th, 2011
2. Name of Sumposium：Green and Life in ASEAN: Coexistence and Sustainability in East Asian Connections - The 2nd CSEAS-KASEAS Joint International Symposium
3. Place:Meeting Rooms on 3rd floor of Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University
4. Sponsors：KASEAS, JSPS Asian CORE Program and CSEAS-Kyoto University "Towards Sustainable Humanosphere in Southeast Asia"
5. Program：PDF
6. Poster：PDF

1. Date：October 4 - 8, 2011　　　　　 　
2. Name of Workshop：The 2nd International Workshop On South South Cooperation (SSC) for Sustainable Development in　the Three Major Tropical Humid Regions in the World
3. Place：Pekanbaru （Indonesia）　
4. Program：
5. Presenters：

   1.Kosuke　Mizuno, Kazuo Masuda Socioeconomic challenges for sustainable management of a tropical peat land ecosystem and proposal of people’s forest

   2.Hiromitsu Samejima,Motoko S. Fujita, Dendy Sukma Haryadi and Ahmad Muhammadbr> Biodiversity inventory in a peat-swamp area -Mammals & Birds-br>

   3.Kazuo Watanabe, Shuichi Kawai 「Land Use and Biomass on the Peat Swamp Area in The Giam Siak Kecil- Bukit Batu Biosphere Reserve」

   4.Haris Gunawan, Shigeo Kobayashi, Kosuke Mizuno, Kono Yasuyuki, Osamu Kozan Peatswamp Forest and Restoration Experiments to Promote the Local Community Livelihood and Ecosystem Services Functions in Riau Biosphere Reserve, Indonesia.

1. Date：September 30 - October 1, 2011　　　　 　
2. Name of Seminar：Humanosphere Science School 2011
3. Place：Baileo Oikumene and Swiss-Belhotel Ambon, Ambon, Indonesia
4. Organizers：Research Institute for Sustainable Humanoshere, Kyoto University／Research and Development Unit for Biomaterials, Indonesian Institute of Science／Faculty of Agriculture, Pattimura University／Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University

1. Date：September 22, 2011　　　　 　
2. Name of Workshop：International Workshop “Development, Environment and Socio-political Transformation in South Asia: Diversity and Sustainable Humanosphere in Contemporary Dynamism” (KINDAS & G-COE)
3. Place：　Large-sized Conference Room, the 3rd floor of Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University　
4. Organizers：National Institutes for the Humanities Program, Contemporary India Area Studies/ Global COE Program "In Search of Sustainable Humanosphere in Asia and Africa, Kyoto University

1. Date：September 1, 2011, 13:00-17:00
2. Name of Workshop：Workshop of Young Cambodian Researchers “Development and Human Security in Cambodia”
3. Place：Small Meeting Room I (Room no. 330)
4. Program：
5. 13:00-13:10
6. Opening 13:10-13:35 Heng Molyaneth (Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University) Title: Economic effects of cross-border migration: Analysis on productive investment and consumption of migrant households
7. 13:35-14:00
8. Cheng Savuth (Graduate School of Economics, Nagoya University) Title: Industry Linkages, Technology Gap, Absorptive Capacity, and Productivity Spillover from Foreign Firms: Evidence from Firms in Cambodia
9. 14:00-14:25
10. Sim Piseth (Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University) Title: The Potential of Oil and Gas Industry in Cambodia
11. 14:25-14:40 Coffee Break
12. 14:40-15:05　
13. Ham Oudom (Master course of Anthropology-Sociology, Royal University of Phnom Penh) Title: Access to Education of Indigenous Peoples in Cambodia
14. 15:05-15:30
15. Uy Saret (Department of Sociology, Royal University of Phnom Penh) Title: Community based Natural Resource Management and Livelihood Changes: Ethnic Cham people in Chong Kneas Commune.
16. 15:30-15:55
17. Phon Sovatna (Graduate School of Integral Agriculture and Rural Development) Title: A Study of Farmer Water User Committee (FWCC) of the SCIRIP project, Kampong Thum
18. 15:55-16:20
19. Kong Sothea (Graduate School of Integral Agriculture and Rural Development) Title: Study on the present of E.Coli and vibrio in the fresh cultured fish and its fermented products (Nam Sach Trey).
20. 16:20-17:00 Discussion
21. 17:00 Closing

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