CCRI Director, Professor Janet Dwyer is making a seminar presentation on Thursday 14th December about her experience and research over the summer in Kyoto, Japan, where she undertook an OECD Research Fellowship.
Janet was hosted by the laboratory of landscape architecture in the Division of forest and biomaterials science, Kyoto University. Whilst there, she researched the governance of Japan’s Satoyama cultural landscapes, which will form the base of her CCRI Seminar presentation.
These landscapes and the environmental initiative that now bears their name are testament to a growing awareness of the need for sustainable land management which is embedded within both socio-cultural and natural value-systems, in the developed and developing world
Janet investigated how policies at national, regional and local levels have supported or hindered the growth and development of Satoyama initiatives and actions across Japan and compared this experience with emerging contemporary UK landscape-scale experiments and understanding in policy. The aim was to generate innovative approaches to sustainable land and natural resources management in high value cultural landscapes, to inform future UK, EU and Japanese policy, contributing to the growing international body of research on policies for sustainable management of land and nature, and to develop and extend fruitful Anglo-Japanese research collaborations on this topic.
It will take place at the University of Gloucestershire Oxstalls Campus in Room TC217 from 12.00 to 13.00 hrs. View Map.
The seminar is free to attend but we would ask you to register your interest in attending on the seminar event page.
