At 5.30am last Sunday I dragged my luggage – all 32 kilos of it – across Tomakomai and onto the train bound for New Chitose Airport. Two things in that tell you a lot about the kind of place Tomakomai is. One is that it took half an hour to get to the station from… Read More Initial reflections on Tomakomai fieldwork
Today’s fieldwork involved a visit to the Tomakomai Federation of Fisheries Cooperative Associations. This was one of the most important pieces of work I’ve done on this project so far, as it hammered home just exactly what is at stake when we undertake carbon dioxide storage in a marine environment. Fisheries are hugely important to… Read More Tomakomai fisheries and the CCS project
Three days of constant dialogue and discussion can be tiring. Very tiring. It was an early night all round for the UK contingent tonight, and my collaborator Jun Kita forgot some of his Japanese when being served in the convenience store as a result of speaking English all weekend. But the consensus (fortunate given the… Read More Consensus and environmental governance – day 3 report
Today was a field-based day. The idea when we put the workshop proposal together was to do something that would give us a sense of the kind of case studies our Japanese counterparts work on – so at 9.00am sharp we loaded into three cars, pulled out of the green Hokkaido University campus, and headed… Read More Day 2 – field trip to Tomatoh Commons
Day 1 of the GB Sasakawa Foundation-funded UK-Japan Workshop on Consensus-Based Environmental Governance is in the can – and what a day we had. Those of the UK contingent who had arrived they day before were now feeling more awake after a long sleep and full breakfast, and we headed en masse through the green… Read More Consensus and environmental governance – day 1 report
The first two weeks in Japan have shot by and tomorrow I head to Tomakomai, which makes this a good time for reflection/update on how the first two weeks of ‘CCS in Japan’ fieldwork, funded via the UKCCSRC International Collaboration Fund, have gone. This time two weeks ago I was about to enter Russian airspace.… Read More Social Aspects of CCS in Japan – Fieldwork Weeks 1 and 2
Next weekend – Saturday 7 May to Monday 9 May – Taisuke Miyauchi and I will be co-convening a UK-Japan Workshop on Consensus-Based Approaches for Environmental Governance, which is possible thanks to the generous support of the GB Sasakawa Foundation. This will be held on the campus of Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan. This is envisioned… Read More UK-Japan Workshop on Consensus-Based Approaches for Environmental Governance – Live-Streaming of Talks
Dr Leslie Mabon 