[U-08_2AM2] How JpGU will manage environment and hazard?

12:30 PM - 12:45 PM JST(3:30 AM - 3:45 AM UTC)

[U08-14] The Mission of Human Geoscience in the Study of Disasters and Global Environmental Problems

*Yukio HIMIYAMA¹ (1.Hokkaido University of Education)

Keywords:

human geoscience,Great East Japan Disaster,global environmental problem,sustainability,disaster

The Human Geoscience Section of JpGU has been emphasizing the importance of studying increasing disasters and global environmental problems together in an integrative way, and has worked together with the Human Geoscience Committee of the Science Council of Japan to organize various meetings and issued proposals related with global environmental problems and hazards/disasters. The lecture reviews these activities and their achievements, the harsh reality of the still continuing Great East Japan Disaster, and the worsening global environmental problems and the efforts to combat them, and discusses the missions of human geoscience now and towards future.