11月14日Risk management and sustainability governance – key features and leadership development

题  目：Risk management and sustainability governance – key features and leadership development

报告人：Masanori Kobayashi

主持人：达良俊 教授

时  间：2014年11月14日（周五）10:00-11:30

地  点：闵行校区资环楼148室

报告人简介：

       Masanori Kobayashi is Fellow at the Yokohama National University  (YNU) Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences and  Researcher at the Ocean Policy Research Foundation undertaking research  on environment and sustainability policy issues. He was Associate  Professor at YNU (2011 – 2014), worked for the Institute for Global  Environmental Strategies (IGES, 2004 – 2011), the Secretariat of the  United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (1997 – 2004), the  United Nations Division for Sustainable Development (1995 – 1997), and  the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Permanent Mission of Japan to  the United Nations in New York (1992 – 1995). He holds LL.M (Master in  Law, U of Georgia, USA), M.A. in international economic laws and public  administration (International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan), and  B.A in laws and economics (Chiba University, Japan) and completed the  course work and withdrew from the doctor program in agriculture and life  sciences (University of Tokyo, Japan). Latest publications include  Participatory Sustainability Research for Risk Management and Leadership  Development. 2014. In: Kaneko, N. et al. eds, Sustainable Living with  Environmental Risks. Springer.

报告简介：

         Growing population and industrialization have been augmenting the  demands for natural resources and their exploitation, there is an  increasing concern over the detrimental impacts on the global  environment and humanity. Research and policy measures have been  undertaken to articulate environmental risks and key factors of  sustainability. Yet, compartmentalized approaches did not forge a  scientific foundation for averting risks and promoting sustainability.  Environmental risks are often in trade-offs. They are also weighed  against other socio-economic factors. Appropriate decision making and  implementation for optimal risk management and sustainability promotion  require a holistic viewpoint and needs to be fostered by  trans-disciplinary science.

     Effective risk management and sustainability promotion require proper  assessment of the environment and social capacity. National governments  and international agencies provide monitoring data of the environment  such as air and water quality, forest cover, land, biodiversity and  waste management. Many of the environmental issues are inter-woven and  closely related to livelihoods of the communitie.

      To tackle mounting sustainability challenges, it is vital to forge  social capacity for managing risks and promoting sustainability more  effectively. Human resource and leadership development in this area is  thus highly important. Yokohama National University, East China Normal  University and 8 other universities in Asia and Africa have collaborated  to promote leadership development under the program called the  Leadership Development Programme for Sustainable Living with  Environmental Risks (SLER) from 2009 –2014. The SLER implementation  process reveals the potentials and challenges in developing future  environmental leaders for effective environmental risk management and  sustainability