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
What’s he building in there? What the hell is he building in there? Tom Waits, Mule Variations The last month has been busy. Insanely busy. I haven’t been sleeping well. I wake up with my heart racing, thinking about all the things that need to be done during the upcoming day. I run around… Read More East again… | 準備はOK
Dr Leslie Mabon 