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no.	name	country	affiliation	position	presentation title	note
1	Jørgen Amdam	Norway	Volda University College	Professor		keynote
2	Walter Leimgruber	Swiss	Fribourg University	Professor	Towards a better world? Joining the forces to overcome deadlocks.	keynote
3	Toshio Kuroyanagi	Japan	Hokkaido University	Professor emeritus	Depoplation and countermeasures	keynote
4	Etienne Nel	South Africa	Rhodes University	Professor	South Africa's Karoo: A study of economic marginalization and demographic change in South Africa's semi-arid interior	IGU/C 04.27 Organizer
5	Tokuhei Akibe	Japan	Kushiro Utari Association		Culture of the Ainu (provisional)
6	Hideo Kirikae	Japan	Hokkai Gakuen University	Professor	Upward and Downward Direction --- Orientation of the Ainu
7	Pushkar K. Pradhan	Nepal	Tribhuvan University	Professor	Role of small market towns in rural-urban linkage development in the eastern hill area of Nepal
8	Bradley T. Cullen	NM, USA	University of New Mexico	Professor	Some hazards of enytrpreuneurship: a case study of Albuquerque's new businesses
9	Stanko Pelc	Slovenia	University of Primorska	Professor	Peripherality and marginality of Slovenian border areas along the Italian border
10	Raghubir Chand	India	Kumaun University	Professor	Khengpas of eastern Bhutan: Linkages and the population mobility behaviour of a marginal community
11	Bindhy Wasini Pandey	India	University of Delhi	Lecturer	Impact of climatic change on water resources in western Himalaya
12	Takayuki Ueda	Japan	University of Tokyo	Professor	Some approaches to mathematical modeling of social capital-interpretation as collective learning-
13	Alison MacCleery	Scotland	Napier University	Professor	The politics of peripherality in the context of globalisation: case studies from the North and South Atlantic
14	Donald Lynch	Alaska, USA	University of Alaska	Professor emeritus	The north or polar regions: factors of changing marginality
	Donald Lynch				A tunnel, Oil and Gas in the Arctic: Gigantomania Again?	second presentation
15	Walter Zsilinscsar	Austria	Universität Graz	Professor	The role and perspective communal cooperation policy in Austria
16	Ralf Blumenthal and Walter Leimgruber	Swiss	Fribourg University		Microfinance and the fight against poverty
17	Christian M. Rogerson	South Africa	University of the Witwatersrand	Professor	Budget tourism and local economic developments in peripheral regions: Backpacking in South Africa
18	Kenji Tsutsumi	Japan	University of Osaka	Associate Professor	Social ties and social capital in areas under shrinking and marginalization process in Japan
19	Risa Kawashima	Japan	Muroran Institute of Technology	Postgraduate student	Building the artificial society model for interaction between networks and norms	four members
20	Masaru Fujii	Japan	Muroran Institute of Technology	Postgraduate student	Study on the possibility of achieving the sustainable development of rural areas utilizing social capital	four members
21	Tomáš Havlīček	Czechia	Charles University in Prague	Dr	Human and social capital in peripheral regions in Czechia
22	V Jancak	Czechia	Charles University in Prague	Dr	Human capital in agricultural marginal regions in Czechia	with wife
23	Woo-kung Huh	Korea	Seoul National University	Professor	Can information technology revive rural areas? The case of e-village in Korea and Japan
24	Katsuhisa Ito	Japan	Shimane University	Professor	The social capitals and the change of community functions in depopulation areas- from the case study of 12 communities in San-in district
25	Tsuyoshi Hatori	Japan	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Research associate	The roles of social leisure for vitalizing depopulated communities
26	Yuichiro Fujioka	Japan	Kyoto University	PhD student	Changes in local livestock farming related with the expansion of the national meat industry under Globalization in Namibia
27	Junya Fukumoto	Japan	Tohoku University	PHD	An investigation on the roles of regioanl policy proposal system
28	Steve Déry	Canada	Laval University	Assistant Professor	Studying marginality through a multiscalar grid: a case study from protected areas in Vietnam
29	Samuele Patelli	Swiss	Fribourg University	PHD	Perceptions of marginality: the predominant role of historical, cultural, and psychological factors
30	Anette Forsberg Lisbeth Eriksson Fredrika Säfström	Sweden	Dalarna Research Institute	PHD	Learning for active citizenship- local development in urban and rural areas
31	Malin Eriksson	Sweden	Umea University		Social capital and community participation in the context of health promotion
32	Takato Yasuno	Japan	NEWJEC		Lone risk analysis on diary data
33	Hayeong Jeong	Japan	Kyoto University	PhD student?	Protocol analysis of a public debate using facet theory
34	Tetsuji Uemura	Japan	Nomura Research Institute		Forest resources and the forestry labour market in the Nichinan Town in 30 years predicted by the framework accounting for forest management
35	Doo-Chul Kim	Korea	Okayama University	Associate Professor	Connotation of marginality under internalization of the nation: minorities at an upland multiethnic commune in central Vietnam
36	Padma Chandra Poudel	Nepal	Tribhuvan University	Associate Professor
37	Ruth Kark	Islael	The Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Professor	Consequences of the Ottoman Land Law: Agrarian and Privatization processes in Palestine, 1858-1918
38	Mia Lind	Sweden	Dalarna Research Institute		Struggle and development- deconstructing gender bias in practical socioeconomic development work
39	Pestoff Victor	Sweden		Professor	C0-production, the third sector and citizen participation in the provision of welfare services
40	Bae-Gyoon Park	Korea	Seoul National University	Assistant Professor	Multi-scalar politics of globalization: politics of local economic development, spatially selective liberalization and the development of "special economic zones" in South Kores
41	Lars Westin	Sweden	Umeå University	Professor	Media, Place, and Social Capital
42	Takeko Iinuma	Japan	Senshu University	Associate Professor	A Global Paradigm of Participatory Development and Local Interactions: Cases of Development Assistance in Laos
43	Kiyoshi Kobayashi	Japan	Kyoto University	Professor	Economic sustainability of family farming in sparsely marginal areas
44	Kakuya Matsushima	Japan	Kyoto University	Associate Professor	A Study on General Equilibrium Models with Firm-household Complex
45	Yasutaka Matsuo	Japan	Senshu University	Professor	Ways out of the difficulties in agriculture in Japan
46	Daichi Kohmoto	Japan	Kobe Shukugawa Gakuen Univ.		Farmer's Attitudes toward the Promotion of Organic Agriculture in Sri Lankan Village: One Local Response to the Marginalization and Globalization
47	Martin Paju	Sweden	CERUM Umea University		Cultural heritage as a catalyst for cooperation between munipalities
48	Risa Frobel and Hans Westlund	Sweden	Royal Institute of Technology	PhD student Professor	Social capital as a driving force for local development and social economy entrepreneurship- a qualitative study based on Swedish examples
49	Jamalunlaili Abdullah	Malaysia	MARA University of Technology	Associate Professor	Globalization, Industrialization and Privatization: Impacts on Urban and Regional Development in Malaysia
50	Salleh Daim	Malaysia	MARA University of Technology	Lecturer	Indigenous Community Involvement in Protected Area Management in Krau Wildlife Reserve, Peninsular Malaysia: Issues, Concerns & Opportunities