Environmental Risk Management Strategy for Infrastructure
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Time & Place: Every Friday, 10:30am - 12:00pm, room 1-306, Bldg 1, Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University

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y’S“–‹³ˆυz ‹³Žφ Ό“c—T”V Prof. Hiroyuki Matsuda

Aim of lecture
Environmental management provides methods for treating serious problems such as water and air pollution, waste disposal, destruction of ecosystems. An environmental management strategy that involves conservation and restoration of ecosystems can help to solve these problems with pollution control. Local ecosystems affect indigenous national culture and citizenship. Ecosystems support several sorts of services to human well-being and rather serve multiple functions in the overall infrastructure. Because ecosystems are properly uncertain, environmental management must be a part of comprehensive risk management with socioeconomic dimensions. Environmental management should be the planning basis of national, local, and city infrastructure.

Program

  1. The value of ecosystem services in the world.
  2. Radiation risk due to Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Disaster@
  3. Convention on Biological Diversity and biodiversity indicators
  4. Extinction risk assessment and the Red Data Book.
  5. Balance between biodiversity conservation and sustainable use
  6. Ecological risk-benefit analysis using "expected loss of biodiversity"
  7. Spatial coastal management in Shiretoko World Heritage.
  8. Precautionary principle and adaptive management
  9. Human health risk from foods
  10. The ecological characteristics of Japan and the world
  11. Guideline of nature restoration projects
  12. Environmental Impact Assessment for Aichi EXPO and Henoko US Militaly Base Plan
  13. Examination

Book that could be interesting: Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005) Ecosystem and Human well-being, Synthesis. This is downloadable from http://www.millenniumassessment.org/

Goal of the lecture

  1. To understand the environmental conditions in onefs own country.
  2. To understand of ecosystem services in onefs own country.
  3. To design several possibilities for ecosystem management for infrastructure

Questions, with answers from students using blackboard etc. PowerPoint will be used for summaries.

Hearing and speaking English will be required.

Evaluation: Results of examination (70%), report (10%), and lecture attendance (20%).