[Construction of a pragmatic scientist community contributing to stakeholder-driven management of local environment] Field Workshops

R&D Program: Interactions between Science, Technology, and Society Construction of a pragmatic scientist community contributing to stakeholder-driven management of local environment

Kenmun, Amami's environmental icon
Kenmun, Amami's local sprite as an environmental icon

How can we protect Amami's forests? Research on ownership patterns of forests
Efforts to protect Amami's forests? Research on distributions of ownership patterns of forests

A square constructed as part of a landscape restoration project

Amami's specialties listed at Minatoya Ryokan: beautiful scenery, habu snakes, cycad
trees, hundred-million-year-old meteoric stones, Oshima tsumugi (traditional fabric), and keihan (chicken rice) in this restaurant

Report on the 4th Field Workshop

The 4th Field Workshop
Dates: June 19 to 20, 2010
Venue: Amami City Museum

The 4th Workshop featured presentations by a group of people involved in environmental conservation and knowledge production in Amami region. The participants in the workshop exchanged ideas and approaches with each other about what local stakeholders expected from scientists, their frustration at what scientists were doing, and how scientists could contribute to local communities. We reviewed some community-based efforts for environmental and landscape conservation, examined the knowledge used by the relevant stakeholders, and explored how a scientific community as an outside actor could contribute to them.

June 19 (Saturday)

●Opening address / the objectives of the workshop
	Hideyuki Onishi (Faculty of Contemporary Social Studies, Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts) Tetsu Sato (Faculty of Tourism and Environmental Studies, Nagano University) Taku Iida (Research Center for Cultural Resources, National Museum of Ethnology)
● Workshop Session 1:
	- "Community development taking advantage of Amami's heritages - Challenges of the Amami Islands in the context of natural environment and culture" Kiyomi Nakayama (Amami City Museum) - "Environmental conservation efforts in Amami-Oshima Island" Hiroaki Sono (Environmental Network Amami) - "Amami Mammalogical Society's efforts - Amami-Oshima Isaland is not all the Amami Rabbit (Amami no Kurousagi)" Naoshi Nagae (Amami Mammalogical Society) General discussion

June 20 (Sunday)
● Workshop Session 2:
	- "Adoption and utilization of internationally-recognized systems by local communities" Tetsu Sato - "Utilization of Amami's heritages from Kenmun (local sprite) perspective" Kiyomi Nakayama - "Amami region's efforts for being designated a World Natural Heritage Site" Jun Tanaka (Amami Ranger Office of Nature Conservation, the Ministry of the Environment) General discussion

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Field Workshop Session (Amami City Museum)

● Field trip

	Field trip to a site with restored landscape in Akagina district of former Kasaricho
Street with a flavor of old samurai residences

Participants:

Tetsu Sato (Faculty of Tourism and Environmental Studies, Nagano University), Mahito Kamada (Institute of Technology and Science, the University of Tokushima), Shigeru Yanaka (Faculty of Regional Sciences, Tottori University), Hideyuki Onishi (Faculty of Contemporary Social Studies, Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts), Atsushi Makino (Shiga Prefectural Lake Biwa Museum), Masahito Kamimura (WWF Coral Reef Conservation and Research Center), Katsunobu Shirakawa (Natural Museum of Geihoku), Mayuko Shimizu (Faculty of Tourism and Environmental Studies, Nagano University)

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