Building an Inclusive Classroom Development Model of Geography ESD for Multicultural Students

Since 1990, the number of foreign residents in Japan has tripled due to reforms to Japan’s immigration control system. In light of the region’s multicultural society, there is a need to develop multicultural inclusive classes not only for compulsory education, but also for higher education, as well as to develop human resources for this purpose. 

In recent years, upper secondary school social studies courses have been reorganized from the standpoint of ESD, and students are expected to develop thinking skills for resolving regional issues, including multicultural conviviality. Traditional ESD research, on the other hand, has lagged behind in terms of methodology for class development that responds to the characteristics of learners from multicultural backgrounds. 

This study aims to build a practical lesson development model with the help of local residents and high schools in Aikawa Town, Kanagawa Prefecture, using cognitive linguistics and clinical psychology findings on learners. We will develop a teacher training curriculum that can respond to a multicultural society based on the knowledge gained during this process.

Environmental Governance of Adaptive Fisheries Villages and Families

Recent fisheries policy reforms have prompted a reconsideration of the role of fishing cooperatives as resource managers, as well as a call for fishing villages to be multifunctional in resource management and environmental management. The changes in marine ecosystems and coastal environments caused by climate change and disasters, as well as the decline in the population of fishing villages, are the context for this. 

How will coastal fishing communities respond to and transform their institutions in response to these changes? What kinds of regional conditions are possible, and what challenges do they present? 

This study attempts to consider how the village and family systems of coastal communities are involved in the institutional transformation of coastal fishing grounds and resource use. Japanese management of enrollment forests and fishing grounds has often been cited as a basis for community-based shared resource management. The village and family system, which was positioned at the end of governance in the early modern period, has been focused on as the basis for such communal management. This study aims to clarify the current state of these social organizations and explore the sustainable use of fisheries resources.

Sustainability of Extensive Shrimp Production Operations in Vietnam

Third-party environmental certification systems and environmentally sustainable eco-labels are increasingly being used in the global distribution of seafood products across borders. While unrestrained production, which does not rely on artificial seedlings or compound feed, has the potential to correct the economic disparity in that it is not only environmentally friendly but also beneficial to farmers with limited capital, there are a number of challenges in designing a system that fully evaluates the value of such a system. 

In aquaculture that is open to the ecosystem, such as extensive production, there is a trend to promote area-based environmental management that focuses on the ecosystem of the production area (Ecosystem Approach to Aquaculture: EAA).

In the future, it will be necessary to consider the position of small-scale producers in these efforts. Therefore, this study aims to evaluate the coarse production of pink and white shrimp in the Mekong Delta, a representative production area for shrimp farming for the international market, from a socioeconomic perspective, and to clarify the possibilities and challenges for production organizations in response to EAA.

Wetland Ecological History of Ulwa in the Mosquito Plain, Nicaragua

The western Caribbean coast has a distinct difference between wet and dry seasons, and wetlands are formed seasonally over a wide area. Despite the fact that this is an important region for understanding human adaptation to tropical wetlands, few studies have revealed life technologies in terms of wetland environments. 

One reason for this is that indigenous peoples’ historically formed subsistence technologies have been considered difficult to understand since they were forced to change their lifestyles following the Spanish and British advances in the 16th century. Field surveys, however, have confirmed the existence of indigenous language place names indicating the use of wild birds, reptiles, and fish, as well as multilingual place names.