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20-25 August 2007, in Kitami city and East Hokkaido, Japan
Conference Theme: Critical Reflections on Local and Regional Responses:
perspectives from the North and the South


Symposium and Workshop


Topics:
・Economic Study in Rural, Urban, Rural-Urban Development
・Marginalization Induced by Economic Globalization, Cultural, Historical, Psychological Factors etc.
・Sustainable Management of Local/Regional Resources and Heritages
・Role of Social Capital and Its Temporal Dynamics/Areal Differentiation
・Role and Perspective of Politics and Regional Policies
・Social Study in Community Development through Governance, Voluntarism, Partnership and so forth

Date:
19 August: Delegates arrive in Kitami 
20 Plenary (morning), Parallel Sessions (afternoon, evening)
21 Parallel Sessions (morning, afternoon, evening)
22 Parallel Session (morning), Plenary
(afternoon) ends at 15 o'clock

Sessions
Workshops will be composed of four or five sessions of 1-3 days. Three or four sessions are held in parallel.
・Broad East Asian session
・Social capital sesseion (Joint session. Session's title is 'Social capital and development trends in Japan's and Sewden's countryside')
Other two or three sessions will be set up according to the topics of the presentations.

The discussants will be appointed to each presentation as well as the chair for each module of the session..
    

Excursion

  • Theme: Challenges to Economic Depression and Social Exclusion and Gift with Natural Beauty
  • Date:
    15 o'clock of 22th to the evening of 25th August
  • Itineraries and hotels (plan)              22: Kitami- Tanno- #Abashiri (Spa)         23: Abashiri (northern people's museum)-Sea of Okhotsk-potato field- Shari- Shiretoko World Natural Heritage (in the distance)- #(Naka)Shibetsu 
    24: Cape Notsuke- Cultivation of the wilds, dairy farming in Bekkai Town- Shibecha- Touro Lake- #Kushiro (Marshland National Park and indigenous people, Ainu)
    25: Kushiro coal mining- Volcanic Mashuu Lake with high transparency- Kussyaro Ainu meuseum- Akan Lake(traditional crafts shops)- onion field- Memanbetsu Airport