15 December
Local Date: Dec 14 2024 |
Local Time: 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Jafar Jafari is Founding Editor, Annals of Tourism Research; Chief Editor, Tourism Social Science Series; Co-Editor, Bridging Tourism Theory and Practice; Co-Editor, Encyclopedia of Tourism; Co-Founder, TRINET; Founding President, International Academy for the Study of Tourism; Co-Founding Editor, Information Technology & Tourism; and Co-Founding President Tourism Intelligence Forum. |
Dr. Parviz Koohafkan, is the Founder and President of the World Agricultural Heritage Foundation and the UN Partnership Initiative on “Conservation and Adaptive Management of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS)”. He is presently Senior Consultant in Food and Agriculture Organization of United Nations, FAO and Honorary Senior Research Fellow and Policy Advisor at Bioversity International in Rome Italy. Dr. Koohafkan has an Engineering degree in Agronomy and Natural Resources management from University of Teheran, Iran and a Master and Ph.D. in Applied Ecology from the University of Sciences and Techniques of Montpellier, France. His fields of specialization are Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development; Integrated Natural Resources Management; Biodiversity and Genetic Resources Conservation and Sustainable Livelihood and Climate Change. He held several senior positions in Food and Agriculture Organization of United Nations (FAO) including the positions of Director of Land and Water Division, Director of the Climate Change and Bio-energy Division, and the Director of Rural Development Division in the Sustainable Development Department of FAO |
Obtained PhD in Entomology from Kyoto University in 1980. Major field of interests is ecology, especially, long-term insect population dynamics in Japan, Indonesia and other tropical countries. Recently, engaged in the research, conservation and sustainable use of Satoyama and Satoumi in Noto Peninsula, Kanazawa, Japan. Served as the Co-chair of the Scientific Assessment Panel of the Japan Satoyama Satoumi Assessment (JSSA). Serving as the Director of Noto Satoyama MeisterTraining Program (2007-2011), Satoyama Satoumi Revitalizing Project, Kanazawa University (2010-on going), Noto Satoyama Satoumi Meister Training Program (2012-on going, since 2016 serving as Advisor), and Ifugao Satoyama Meister Training Program in the Philippines (JICA Technical Cooperation for Grassroots, 2013-on going). 1947年兵庫県生まれ。石川県立自然史資料館館長(2017〜)、金沢大学名誉教授、農学博士(京都大学)。専門は生態学。国連大学による「日本の里山・里海評価」(JSSA)科学評価パネル共同議長、東アジア農業遺産学会(ERAHS)日本代表議長、金沢大学里山里海プロジェクト代表として「能登里山マイスター養成プログラム」、フィリピンにおいて「イフガオ里山マイスター養成プログラム」(JICA草の根技術協力事業)などを運営。能登半島と石川県の里山里海の保全、総合活用、地域再生に取り組んでいる。 |
Dr. Kazem Vafadari is Director of International Center for Asia Pacific Tourism (iCAPt); and Academic Director of the Kunisaki City Research Center for world agriculture heritage in Oita, Japan. He is a Professor and Vice Dean for International Affairs, College of Sustainability and Tourism at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (APU). He worked with United Nations University and Kanazawa University in Japan before joining APU in 2011. He is an expert on sustainable tourism, natural resource management and tourism applications of agriculture heritage landscapes. His research background also includes community building, rural revitalization and destination branding. |
Hiroaki HAYASHI earned his doctoral degree in Agriculture (Plant Nutrition and Fertilization) from the University of Tokyo. In 2003, he quit his research activities at the University of Tokyo and returned to the mountainous area of Kunisaki City, Oita Prefecture, in Kyushu Island of Japan, where he is engaged in agriculture and forestry. His products are rice and log wood cultivated dried shiitake mushrooms, each of which is produced in an environmentally friendly and traditional way. Since 2013, he has been leading the implementation of an action plan for dynamic conservation of the Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) of this region as the Chairman of The Kunisaki Peninsula Usa GIAHS Promotion Association. |
Dr Masahiko Ota is an Associate Professor in the Institute of Liberal Arts at Kyushu Institute of Technology in Japan. He is an environmental social scientist concerned with natural resource governance, sustainable local development, and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). His research has primarily focused on issues related to forest governance in tropical Asia, particularly Indonesia and India, and Japan. |
Dr Mucahid Mustafa Bayrak is an Associate Professor at the Department of Geography of National Taiwan Normal University. For the past 10 years he has conducted research on development issues of Indigenous and local communities from a political ecology perspective in East and Southeast Asia. His research interests also include sustainable tourism management, climate resilience, and traditional ecological knowledge systems. |
Ms Nien Tung is a Research Assistant for Dr Mucahid Mustafa Bayrak at the Department of Geography of National Taiwan Normal University. She has a background in ESG and corporate sustainability. |
Prof. Shyue-Cherng Liaw graduated from the National Taiwan University, Dept. of Forestry for BS and MS degrees. He got the Ph.D from the Colorado State Univ., Dept. of Earth Resources. He had served as a senior technician in Taiwan Forestry Bureau, and as an associate researcher in Taiwan Forestry Research Institute, Dept. of Watershed Management. After that he moved to be an associate professor and professor in Dept. of Geography, National Taiwan Normal University. Prof. Liaw have been a visiting scholar and researcher in the Univ. of British Columbia, Univ. of Alberta, Univ. of Tsukuba, and Univ. of Tokyo, respectively. |
Li-San Hung is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at National Taiwan Normal University. He is a broadly trained human – environment geographer with specializations in human dimensions of natural hazards and climate change. |
Jafar Jafari Welcomeremarks | |
Parviz Koohafkan Speaker | |
Koji Nakamura Speaker | |
Kazem Vafadari Moderator and Speaker | |
Hiroaki Hayashi Speaker | |
Masahiko Ota Speaker | |
Mucahid Mustafa Bayrak Speaker | |
Nien Tung Speaker | |
Shyue-Cherng Liaw Speaker | |
Li-San Hung Speaker | |