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"Regional Integration and Environmental Security in the Japanese Politics"
Speakers:Ms. Nilly Kamal El-Amir (PhD Candidate, Faculty of Economics & Political Science,Cairo University, Egypt / Visiting Researcher, The Graduate School of Economics , Waseda University)

As a result of the increasing awareness of protecting environment on the local, regional and international levels, since 1970s the security studies have been expanded to include new dimensions and concepts such as: human security, energy security and environmental security…

Currently there is little coherence around the world about environmental security's definition, threats, and policy responsibilities. However, it can be defined as: "The relationship between security concerns such as armed conflicts and the natural environment".

In this respect, the research aims at introducing and analyzing definitions of the concept of environmental security and its related concepts, as: environmental citizenship, environmentalism…

Since ODA is considered as one of the main tools of implementing the Japanese policy, this research will try to explore how central is that tool in enhancing the environment's quality on East Asia on one hand and the environmental regional cooperation on the other hand.

Examining the statements of both Game and Coalition theories, the paper will raise the following questions:

• What are the main definitions of the environmental security concept?
• How can the environmental aid and

世界遺産管理における社会的環境管理能力の形成と制度変化に関する一考察：日本の自然遺産・屋久島を事例に
Speakers: 岩本 英和 Mr.Hidekazu Iwamoto (PhD Candidate at GSAPS, Waseda University)

本研究の目的は、世界遺産地域（自然遺産）の屋久島を対象に、保護と利用の観点から持続可能な自然資源管理体制を明らかにすることである。1972年に採択された世界遺産条約は、条約加盟国に対して、自国内の遺産を保全する法的措置を義務付けているが、必ずしも保全が厳格に実施されていないという問題がある。そこで、環境ガバナンスの各主体と社会的環境管理能力（SCEM）の視点から自然遺産管理システムの社会的能力評価を行い（Matsuoka 2007）、保全と利用を念頭に置いた持続可能な管理システムの構成要素・制度形成のあり方を考察する。

Commentator:
Prof. Matsuoka at GSAPS (Environmental security,Environmental politics Specialist)

日時 2008年12月16日（火）18：00〜20：00
Date Tuesday, December 16th, 18：00〜20：00
会場 早大西早稲田 ビル19号館 314号室
Venue Sodai-Nishiwaseda Bldg 19 Room 314
Organizer WUDSN / Supported by GIARI

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Speaker:Mr. Ye Kyaw Thu
(Ph.D candidate at Waseda university)
B.Sc. degree in Physics from Dangon University,Myanmar in 2000.
M.Sc degree in Global Information and Telecommunication Studies, Waseda University , Japan in 2006.
Member of MCPA, IEICE, IPSJ, IEEE and ACM.

Introduction to Concepts of Positional Mapping(PM), Positional Gesture(PG) and Positional Prediction (PP) for Asian Syllabic Languages on Mobile Devices

I believe that text typing on small mobile devices will become more popular and necessary communication in Asian developing countries such as Myanmar, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Laos and Cambodia etc. In these countries, however, there in no efficient and user-friendly text input method for mobile devices yet. Asian languages are syllabic languages that derived from Indic script or Brahmi around BC third century. And thus, Myanmar language or Burmese, Bengali, Nepali, Dzongkha (language of Bhutan), Lao and Khmer have common writing natures with Indian languages such as Hindi, Marathi, Punjabi and Tamil etc. But current mobile devices key-mapping or text input methods such as multi-tap or T9 are based on English and not directly applicable to syllabic languages are different and have larger numbers of characters than English alphabets. My research looks for common and user-friendly keyboard mapping and text input methods for Asian syllabic languages based on their word formation or writing natures for mobile devices. I have already proposed 1)Positional Mapping (PM) for mobile phone or Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) keyboard mapping 2)Positional Gesture (PG) for gesture text input interface and 3)Positional Prediction (PP) for consonant cluster predictive text input.

日時 2008年12月2日（火）18：00〜20：00
Date Tuesday, December 2nd, 18：00〜20：00
会場 早大西早稲田 ビル19号館 314号室
Venue Sodai-Nishiwaseda Bldg 19 Room 314
Organizer WUDSN / Supported by GIARI





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