Capacity Building Workshop on Carbon Governance in Asia: Bridging Scales and Disciplines

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Pathways of regional development are sequences of interrelated changes in social, economic and governance systems. They vary from place to place and over time, in ways that are likely to have different net consequences for carbon stocks and fluxes, which in turn may constrain or in other ways feed back upon development processes. Thus, the climate problem is not just a cumulative and systemic problem at the global level but has different features causes, and impacts at different levels of governance. These mutual interdependencies and feedbacks place demands on the science community to establish a common, mutually agreed knowledge base to support policy debate and action, and to develop integrated systems of governance, from the local to the global level, that ensure the sustainable development of the coupled socio-ecological system.

Asia is a key region which is rapidly growing economically. Asian contribution is already dominating the global carbon emissions. It will play a greater role for global carbon management in the foreseeable future. However, within Asia, huge differences in welfare, governance systems, and carbon emission trajectories exist and thus poses a carbon governance challenge. A better understanding of the carbon management challenges across multiple scales is necessary for Asia, which is less understood as of now. Such understanding will provide important insights to design an optimized carbon governance structure.

The overall aim of the workshop on ‘Carbon Governance in Asia: Bridging Scales and Disciplines’ is the capacity building of Asia-Pacific young researchers and to discuss the issues and opportunities for carbon governance for developing low carbon societies in Asia.

It will include local, national, regional, and global aspects – as well inter-scale dynamics - of this research and policy challenge. This scale-based perspective will help raising awareness of the participants and through the dissemination of results also policy-makers and stakeholders of the interdependencies between scales and the importance of each scale.

The workshop will bridge the scientific disciplines and create the conducive environment to explore future collaborations. It will enable early-career researchers from the Asia-Pacific region to present their research at an international workshop and to receive feedback and support form established colleagues, and bringing these young researchers in contact with the regional and global research communities and projects.

The workshop will include lectures by leading scientists in the field, and presentations of the papers of early-career participants, as well as an extensive opportunity for discussions and interactions for early-career researchers. The leading researchers for the workshop include:

• Michele Betsill, Colorado State University, USA
• Norichika Kanie, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
• Ma Zhong, Renmin University, China
• Yasuko Kameyama, Center for Global Environmental Research, NIES, Japan
• Elzabeth L. Malone, Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
• Lorraine Elliott, the Australian National University, Australia
• Jeffrey Broadbent, Institute for Global Studies, University of Minnesota, USA

In addition, a number of other Japan-based senior scholars and policy-makers will attend and contribute to the workshop.

• Leading international experts from Asia Pacific region
• Early-career researchers from the Asia Pacific region
• Selected senior scholars from Japan
• Observers. In addition to the leading researchers and early-career researchers, the workshop will invite a number of observers based on their relevancy and interests.

A pdf file with the participants’ profiles is also available here. Version: October 29.

Senior Scientists

Michele Betsill is an Associate Professor of Political Science as well as founder and co-leader of the Environmental Governance Working Group at Colorado State University in the United States. She is also an affiliate of the Center for Multi-scale Modelling of Atmospheric Processes, a US National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center based at Colorado State University.

Michele’s research investigates the multiple ways in which climate change is governed from the global to the local level across the public and private spheres, with particular emphasis on how different governance arrangements interact with one another. Her current projects focus on the evolution of carbon markets, the legitimacy of transnational climate governance, and the role of local authorities in transitioning to a clean energy economy. She is co-author (with Harriet Bulkeley, University of Durham) of Cities and Climate Change: Urban Sustainability and Global Environmental Governance (Routledge, 2003) as well as numerous articles and book chapters on climate change governance. Michele is a member of the editorial boards of Global Environmental Politics and Environment and Planning C: Policy and Government. She is also on the Scientific Steering Committee for the Earth System Governance Project of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change.

Jeffrey Broadbent took a B.A. in Religious Studies—Buddhism (University of California Berkeley 1974), M.A. in Regional Studies-Japan (Harvard University, 1975), and a Ph.D. in Sociology (Harvard University, 1982). For his Ph.D. he analyzed local conflicts over industrial growth and environmental protection in Japan.

Career appointments include Junior Fellow of Society of Fellows (University of Michigan, 1983-1986), Assistant to Associate Professor Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota (1986~current). Books include "Environmental Politics in Japan: Networks of Power and Protest" (Cambridge University Press, 1998) - received two academic awards (American Sociological Association section and Ohira Foundation, Japan); "Comparing Policy Networks: Labor Politics in the United States, Germany and Japan" (co-author, Cambridge University Press 1996); "East Asian Social Movements: Power, Protest and Change" (co-editor, Springer, 2010). Journal articles include American Sociological Review, Social Problems, Policy Sciences. In his current research he acts as the principal investigator of 20 country study “Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks” (Compon) (National Science Foundation and other funding).

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Professor Lorraine Elliott is Professor of International Relations in the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University and formerly Reader in International Relations at the University of Warwick. She has held visiting appointments at the University of Oxford, the London School of Economics and Political Science, the University of Keele, the Free University of Amsterdam and Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Prof. Elliott researches, publishes and teaches in the areas of global and regional (Asia-Pacific) environmental governance; non-traditional security including climate security, human security and environmental security; Australian foreign policy; and transnational environmental crime. She is the author of more than 80 book chapters and journal articles on these topics. Her publications also include books on Antarctic environmental politics, cosmopolitan militaries, and two editions of The Global Politics of the Environment (Palgrave Macmillan 1998 and 2004).

She is currently completing a book on regional environmental governance under the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and an edited book on comparative environmental regionalism. She has held grants from the Australian Research Council, the Canadian government, the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences and the United States Institute of Peace. Prof. Elliott is a member of the Australian Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation Asia Pacific (CSCAP), the Board of Directors for the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS), the International Advisory Group of the International Human Dimensions Programme (IHDP) Initiative on Global Environmental Change and Human Health, and the Executive of the Environmental Studies Section of the International Studies Association.

Yasuko Kameyama, Ph.D., is a Senior Researcher at the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Japan. She has been working at NIES since 1992. Her main field of study has been international negotiation and institution on climate change. She has participated in early years of Conference of the Parties (COP) of UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) as a member of Japanese delegation.

She is a member of several governmental advisory bodies, both at national as well as prefectural and municipal levels. She is associate member of Science Council of Japan, and member of several academic associations on environment and international relations.

She has published many articles and book chapters both in Japanese and English. Some of her recent publications include: “Climate Change in Asia: Perspectives on the Future Climate Regime” (co-authored with Agus P. Sari, Moekti H. Soejachmoen and Norichika Kanie, in 2008, published at United Nations University Press), or “Process Matters: Building a Future Climate Regime with Multi-Processes”, article published in Climate Policy journal, in 2007.

Norichika Kanie is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Decision Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, and visiting Associate Professor of the United Nations University’s Institute of Advanced Studies. Among others he serves as a scientific steering committee member of the Earth Systems Governance programme of IHDP, and editorial board member of the journal Global Environmental Governance. Currently he is a bureau member of the Working Party on Global and Structural Policies (WPGSP) at OECD. From August 2009 to July 2010 he is a Marie Curie Incoming International Fellow of the European Commission and based in Sciences Po. and IDDRI, Paris, France.

His recent publications include “Post-2012 Institutional Architecture to Address Climate Change: A Proposal for Effective Governance. Global Warming and Climate Change”, in Grover, V.I. ed. Global Warming and Climate Change: Ten Years After Kyoto and Still Counting, Vol. 2., NH, Science Publishers (2008), and “The long-team challenge of climate change – Possible allocations for Japan and Asian countries in 2050”, in Yasuko Kameyama, Agus P.Sari, Moekti H.Soejachmoen and Norichika Kanie eds. Climate Change in Asia United Nations University Press(2008). He received his Ph.D. in Media and Governance from the Keio University.

Professor Ma Zhong, Dean and Professor at the School of Environment and Natural Resources, Renmin University of China, specializes in the economic aspects of environmental issues and teaches Environment Economics and Policies at Renmin University. He is the leading scholar in China in researching and implementing environmental economics and market based instruments of environmental management. Ma Zhong has been working extensively with the governments and international funding agencies on a variety of projects in China. He also serves as the director to Beijing Environment and Development Institute (BEDI) and a senior advisor to the China Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP).

Elizabeth Malone’s interests focus on policy-relevant sociological research in global change issues, developing studies that integrate disparate worldviews, data sources, and scientific approaches. Malone was an author and review editor for the most recent assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, both in impacts, adaptation and vulnerability; and mitigation. In recent years she has, with colleagues, developed structured methods for analyzing country, sector, and local vulnerabilities to climate change. She coordinated and developed the science portion of the U.S. National Intelligence Assessment on Climate Change and coordinated the development of regional reports on scientific knowledge about climate change. She edited, with Steve Rayner, Human Choice and Climate Change, a four-volume assessment of social science research relevant to global climate change; they jointly authored the summary volume and an invited paper for Nature on the conclusions.

Malone holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Maryland-College Park. Her book Debating Climate Change (Earthscan, 2009) uses both discourse analysis and social network analysis to explore bases for agreement in the arguments used in the global climate change debate.

Contributors

Beyond the contributors profiled below, distinguished policy makers and members of the research community will provide an input in the workshop sessions. They include:

Mr. Tetsuro Fujitsuka has 25 years of experience in policy making and development in Japanese government. He joined the Ministry of Construction in 1987 as a technical official and worked in various departments in the areas of national development planning, river basin management, water resources development management, natural disaster prevention, water quality management and environment conservation. He also served as a diplomat in Ministry of Foreign Affairs and has an experience of economical and technical cooperation for developing countries in Africa.

During the last 10 years, Mr. Fujitsuka has been in the Environment Agency/Ministry of the Environment and he has been working on basic environment plan, pollution abatement program, life cycle assessment, green purchasing, eco-labelling, CSR, low pollution/energy efficiency vehicle, water management, CDM and co-benefit approaches, etc. He joined a lot of international conferences and workshops for environment management as well as technical assistant activities in developing countries. Recently he served in Indonesia as an environment policy adviser of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and he joined the Asia Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN) as the Director of its Secretariat. Mr. Fujitsuka holds graduate and post graduate degrees in Civil Engineering from Gifu University. He is a Professional Engineer in Japan and an APEC Engineer. He is an acting member of Japanese Society of Civil Engineering and Japanese Geotechnical Society.

Ms. Kristine Garcia currently works in Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN) Secretariat based in Kobe, Japan as Coordinator. She is mainly responsible for and assists in the implementation, administration and management of APN’s scientific activities particularly the Annual Calls for Proposals.

Prior to APN, Ms. Garcia worked in Environmental Forestry Programme of the College of Forestry and Natural Resources in University of the Philippines Los Baños as a researcher where she provided technical and administrative support to the foreign and local counterparts of projects related to climate change and watershed management. She was also involved in several projects supported GEF, UNEP and UNITAR. Ms. Garcia completed her degree in Mathematics in University of the Philippines, Los Baños

Dr Yoshiki Yamagata was born in Tokyo and graduated from the University of Tokyo (new school on Macro-System Science) in 1985. His Ph.D. thesis was about “Monitoring and modeling of terrestrial ecosystems”. He is currently working at the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) as a Special Senior Researcher. His research topics include: Terrestrial ecosystem monitoring, Land use modeling, Urban & Regional Carbon Management (URCM). He received 1st OZE PRIZE 1998 and has been involved in several international activities such as: Lead Author of IPCC “Special Report on Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF)”, Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) member of IHDP/Institutional Dimension of Global Environmental Change (IDGEC), ESSP/Global Carbon Project (GCP), Editorial Board of Elsevier journals “Climate Policy”, “Environmental Science and Policy”, and “Applied Energy”.

Toshiko Chiba began her career on Environmental Administration at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government from 1998. After being responsible for the developing of the Environmental Assessment Plan, she became in charge of the Climate Strategy from 2001. During March 2005 to June 2008, she was in charge of the amendment of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Environmental Security Ordinance. Recently, she has been in charge of planning and operation of the Tokyo Cap-and-Trade Program, a program newly introduced by the June 2008 amendment of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Environmental Security Ordinance. Toshiko is in her present position from April, 2010.

Yuko Nishida is a Planner for the Policy planning Division, Bureau of Environment, Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG). She is specialized in urban sustainable development issues, currently in charge of policy making regarding climate change.

Prior to her current position, she worked as an Urban Renewal Planner and Coordinator at the Bureau of Construction from 1983 to 1994. She was also a visiting research associate at the United Nations University from 1996 to 1997. She is in her current position at the Bureau of Environment from 1998. She received her Master in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Hwan Ok Ma is currently a Project Manager at the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) located in Yokohama, Japan. He holds B.S. degree in forestry from the Korea University, Seoul, Korea and Ph.D. in forest resource economics from the University of Washington, Seattle, USA. He worked as a Deputy Director of the Korea Forest Services before joining ITTO in 1996. His current activities include capacity building to promote climate change mitigation and adaptation activities as well as the conservation of biodiversity in tropical forests in the Asia-pacific region

Mr. Kazuhiko Takemoto started as Senior Fellow to oversee the Education, Sustainability and Ecosystem Assessment Programme, which comprises the following groups: Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), Ecosystem Services Assessment (ESA) and the International Satoyama Initiative (ISI). Mr. Takemoto has extensive experience in the environmental area. Prior to join UNU-IAS, he was Vice-Minister for Global Environmental Affairs at the Japanese Ministry of the Environment (MOE), and has developed policies on international environmental cooperation and global environment, in particular, climate change.

Additional input will also be provided by the organizers as follows:

• Dr Shobhakar Dhakal is one of the two executive directors of the Global Carbon Project. His expertise is on direct and embodied urban energy use and urban carbon emissions quantifications (including key sectors), modeling, policy analyses, and cross-comparative studies and he has over 30 scholarly publications. He was appointed as an IPCC AR5 Coordinating Lead Author for WGIII Ch.12 "Human Settlements, Infrastructure and Spatial Planning". He also leads the Urban and Regional Carbon Management initiative.
• Mr Ruben Zondervan is executive officer of the Earth System Governance Project. His current research interests include amongst others the governance of geo-engineering and the policy of sciences. Ruben Zondervan studied political science, modern history, law, and economics in Freiburg im Breisgau and Potsdam, and holds a M.Sc. (cum laude) in Environment & Resource Management from the VU University Amsterdam. Prior to his current position, he worked at the University Oldenburg, the VU University Amsterdam, the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Riga, and at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.
• Dr Jose Puppim de Oliveira, organizer and Assistant Director and Senior Research Fellow at the United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS) since August 2009. He has academic interests in the political economy of sustainable development. He is particularly interested in researching patterns of environmental governance and policy implementation at different levels, looking at how global policies are translated into local policy implementation. In UNU-IAS, Jose coordinates the Sustainable Urban Futures programme.

Early Career Researchers

Julius Ibukun Agboola is currently a UNU IAS Postdoctoral Fellow with the Marine Governance and Coastal Management team at Operating Unit Ishikawa/Kanazawa, conducting research on climate change in marine and coastal areas, including its impact on coastal communities, coastal and ocean management, and conservation and sustainable use of marine and coastal biodiversity among other issues.

He had his first and second degrees, respectively, in Fisheries and Aquatic Biology, and Environmental Resources Management from the Lagos State University, Nigeria. With the support of the Japanese Government Scholarship (Monbukagakusho) award, he took his Ph.D. in Environmental Science specializing in Marine Biogeochemistry from the Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University, Japan in March 2009.

His research interests span several aspects of global environmental change, including biogeochemical cycle of carbon and nitrogen in coastal ecosystem; land-ocean interaction; biodiversity, and examining the gradients and responses of physical, chemical and biological components of the aquatic ecosystems to environmental change, Also, he is interested in the application of GIS in coastal ecosystem studies and integrating social and biophysical issues for sustainability and climate change research.

Amir Bashir Bazaz is a Doctoral candidate with the Public Systems Group at Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. Working on the interface of energy-environment-economy, with other interests in the field of public management, public policy, low carbon societies, urban management, and water-energy nexus. His first degree was awarded in Electrical Engineering and he has over six years of post- degree industrial experience.

Tim Cadman is currently a Sustainable Business Fellow in the Faculty of Business at University of Southern Queensland, and a member of the Australian Centre for Sustainable Business and Development. He recently became a Research fellow of the Earth System Governance network, and is also a member of the editorial board of the new Earthscan Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment.

Through his work as a practitioner, researcher and teacher, he has been closely engaged in environmental and sustainable trade-related research around the Pacific Rim countries and beyond since 1992 and has travelled widely within the region. His main areas of expertise are in global environmental governance, responsible investment, sustainable forestry, and climate change.

His Ph.D. research was focussed on private sector governance, most notably global non-state market driven systems for environmental management (ISO 14000 series), as well as forest management certification (Forest Stewardship Council - FSC, and the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification schemes - PEFC).

He has worked extensively with the forest industry in Australia over the past decade, particularly with those with interests in planted timber resources, most notably managed investment schemes such as Timbercorp, Integrated Tree Cropping and Hancock Victoria Plantations.

Yogesh Jadhav is presently pursuing his doctoral degree in developmental studies from Devi Ahilya University (Indore, India). His bachelor’s degree is in Environmental Sciences and MBA in Forestry Management. An Indian national, he has been working on issues related to environmental governance and natural resources management in India, and his work experience encompasses cross-cutting themes and the sectors of carbon governance, participatory management and integrative approaches of bridging local perspectives with global implications.

Previously he has worked on sustainable forestry governance projects, linking local socio-economic relationships with carbon governance through integration of people’s (local) indicators with global scale standards for forestry governance and sustainable carbon management, using an approach based on criteria and indicators.

Joni Jupesta became a Ph.D. Fellow at the United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies in September 2010 and will continue as Postdoctoral Fellow from October 2010. His research focuses on energy for sustainable development. He is particularly interested in exploring the possibilities to design an energy system for a low carbon society. This work uses an integrated assessment method to scale up science and technology innovation in the energy sector to the policy level.

A native of Indonesia, Joni Jupesta holds a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Indonesia, a Master of Science degree in Quality, Safety and Environment from the University of Magdeburg, Germany, a Master of Business Administration degree from the Hochschule Esslingen, Germany and a Ph.D. degree obtained at the Department of Management Science and Technology, Tohoku University-Japan. Since October 2007 he conducted his Ph.D. research as a Japanese Government scholar on energy systems to analyze the introduction of biofuel in the transportation sector in Indonesia, from the energy, economics and environmental perspective. He published his research work in several peer reviewed journals papers: Journal of China Sciences, Sustainability and Applied Energy and forthcoming in Research Policy and Sustainability Accounting, Policy and Management journal. In 2007 he worked as a Research Associate for Sustainable Energy Development at the Department of Energy Systems at the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. Earlier, in 2001-2003, he worked as a quality engineer in a chemical company in Indonesia.

Anar Koli, a Bangladeshi national, is studying at the University of Tsukuba, Japan as a Ph.D. candidate and doing her research on forest governance and climate change issues. Her major is in International Political Economy and she received two master degrees from two different schools in both social and natural sciences. One Master degree was awarded by the University of Tsukuba with the major in International Political Economy and another Masters degree she earned from the University of Dhaka in Bangladesh in Botany. Her research interest is in sustainable development and climate change, human security, environmental governance, community forest governance.

Before coming to Japan, Anar worked more than 6 years as a NGO professional in Bangladesh on environmental related issues. After receiving her Ph.D. she is planning to work as a researcher in the environmental and sustainable development field.

Wanxin Li went to the City University of Hong Kong in December 2007. She received her Bachelor’s in Precision Instruments and Masters in Economics from Tsinghua University. From Virginia Tech, she received her second Masters in Statistics and Ph.D. in Public Administration and Policy. In the past, she has worked with the World Bank, OECD and Tsinghua University. She is interested in studying the interplay between government, business, individuals, and nongovernmental organizations in the context of environmental and social governance.

Her recent publications include journals such as The China Quarterly (“Self-motivated vs. Forced Disclosure of Environmental Information in China—A Comparative Case Study of the Pilot Disclosure Programs”), Nature (“Small but Effective Moves towards A Greener China”), Public Administration and Development (“Clean Air in Urban China: The Case of Inter-agency Coordination in Chongqing’s Blue Sky Program”) and a publication with the OECD (“Eco-Innovation Policies in the People’s Republic of China”).

Liguang Liu is Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Public Administration at Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, USA. Prior to studying abroad, he was a policy researcher working with Liaoning Development and Reforms Commission in Shenyang, China, and later Chinese Academy of Coal Sciences in Beijing, China. He holds MS in Environmental Policy from Roskilde University, Demark, MBA from Northeastern University, China, and BS in Applied Mathematics from Liaoning University, China. His areas of research interest include climate change policy and politics, international climate change negotiation, contemporary Chinese politics, environmental program evaluation. His recent work has appeared in such journals as Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Journal of Knowledge-based Innovation in China, and Public Administration and Development. He expects to graduate from FIU in July, 2011.

Tek Jung Mahat received PG Diploma training in ‘Mountain Environment and Global Change’ from the University of Torino, Italy (2008) and MSc in Environmental Science from the Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal (2003). Besides he has undertaken special courses on climate change, sustainability, ICT and environmental communications and youth leadership from various universities and organisations in Hungary, UK, Japan, South Korea and Nepal.

Tek is actively advocating the ‘mountain agenda’ since 2003 and is now responsible for overall management of APMN, the Asia Pacific Node of global Mountain Forum. Author of over two dozen papers, available both online and in print (published in UK, Bolivia, India and Nepal), Tek spent over four years teaching Environmental Education, Environmental Economics, Climate Change, GIS and RS to BSc and higher secondary level students (in TU and HSEB affiliated institutes in Kathmandu). He pioneered moderated e-dialogue and e-networking among the environment professionals working in Nepal through the establishment of the ‘Environment Professionals Group: Water, Climate Change and Biodiversity Information Network’, from 2005 and onwards, with membership of over 430 people, and was lead person behind establishment of the Climate Himalaya in Nepal in 2007. Between 1998 and 2007, Tek worked with over twelve national organisations in Nepal, including professional associations and media houses.

Aumnad Phdungsilp is a lecturer at Department of Energy Management of Dhurakij Pundit University, Bangkok, Thailand. He is also a research associate at Division of Building Services Engineering, School of Architecture and the Built Environment, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. His work includes research and teaching in the areas of energy and environmental modeling, urban energy use and carbon management, energy and climate policy, and buildings and the built environment. Recent project involvement includes: research policy in the context of sustainable development and low-carbon economy in Thailand; developing methodological framework for urban carbon footprint; and resource-efficient in building sector. Aumnad received his Tekn. Lic. in Energy Technology and his M.Sc. in Sustainable Energy Engineering from Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.

Xin Tian is a research assistant for GCOE program, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Japan. Current research interests are environmental policy, especially environmental finance. Now working on economic policy for reducing regional disequilibrium of carbon emissions in China.

Jue Yang graduated from University of Tsukuba majoring in Policy and Planning Sciences in 2008, where she specialized in environmental assessment of water quality evaluation. In the same year she became a Ph.D. student in the field of Environmental Studies at the same university. She has started her professional career in the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) of Japan in early 2008.

Now, Jue Yang is acting as Assistant Fellow at NIES, working in the area of global environmental research with a focus on environmental governance and environmental agreements using statistical analysis approach. Her particular interest is on the formation of environmental regimes, working together with the University of Arizona. Her personal research interests span a variety of topics in environmental assessment, environmental governance based on social network approach and quantitative analysis. She has also been working in the fields of forest products certification and public opinion in the forest sector and collaborated with the forest program at IIASA, Austria. She is currently finalizing her Ph.D. dissertation on the diffusion of the voluntary-regulation system, especially the diffusion of forest certification.

Day 1: Monday, 1 November 2010

Day 2: Tuesday, 2 November 2010

Day 3: Monday, 3 November 2010

• Final version(pdf, file size: 1.1 MB)

Shobhakar Dhakal, Executive Director, Global Carbon Project
shobhakar.dhakal [at] nies.go.jp

Ruben Zondervan, Executive Officer, Earth System Governance Project
zondervan [at] ihdp.unu.edu

Jose Puppim de Oliveira, Assistant Director, UN University Institute of Advanced Studies
puppim [at] ias.unu.edu