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International Workshop on Material Circulation through Agro-Ecosystems in East Asia and Assessment of its Environmental Impact, March 25027, 2003 Tsukuba

 
 
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Background

A variety of materials has been circulating through atmosphere, hydrosphere, pedosphere, and biosphere in a sustainable manner. In the middle of the 20th century and onward, however, vigorous human activities have been disturbing the sustainability of the material circulation, and brought about various ill-balanced material flows, resulting in a rise in greenhouse gases(GHG), water shortage, soil deterioration, natural resource exhaustion, accumulation of toxic chemical substances, and a reduction in biological diversity.

The Earth Summit 1992 sounded an alarm bell to all over the world as to the importance of global-scale environmental conservation for human existence. To cope with the current worrying situation, a series of international pacts concerning global warming have been concluded among the member countries of IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) and COP. In addition, great efforts have been made internationally in preserving endangered biological species, establishing international standards for toxic chemical pollutants such as dioxins and cadmium, and, consequently, the Convention on Biological Diversity was also concluded.

East Asian countries, in particular, China, Korea and Japan possess a variety of agro-environmental problems in common such as emission of GHG from farmland, effect of elevated CO2 on crop growth, pollution of soils and crops by heavy metals and dioxins, deterioration of water quality, environmental risk of invader species, and GMO & GM-crops. The National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, leading institute of agro-environmental research in Japan has successively concluded the Memorandums of Understanding with the National Institute of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of the Rural Development Administration, Republic of Korea in 2001, and the Institute of Soil Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the People's Republic of China in 2002, in order to beef up the three parties' research collaboration on the common problems in agro-environments, and to work out the better solutions collaboratively.

As the first high-profile step of the three parties' research collaboration, an international workshop on The Material Circulation has planned to share relevant information regarding agro-environmental problems in East Asia, among top scientists in China, Korea, and Japan. In this workshop scientists from the three institutes are to discuss important common issues in agro-environment in East Asia, and to shoot for feasible and effective schemes of collaborative research in order to work out the better solutions for the ill-balanced material cycle in agro-environments and its environmental impact.



Venue

This workshop is held at Tsukuba International Congress Center, EPOCHAL TSUKUBA
(Post Address: 2-20-3, Takezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0032, Japan; http://www.epochal.or.jp/eng/index.html).

 
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Programme


Tuesday 25 March

Registration 9:30 (opening )

Opening and Keynote Address  
  10:00 - 10:30 MINAMI, K. (NIAES, Japan)
 
  The role of agro-environmental research
 
Topic A: Regional Agriculture and Environment in East Asia  
Chair: ISHII, Y. (NIAES, Japan)  

A-1 10:30 - 11:00 ZHOU, J. (ISS, CAS, China)
 
  Impact of fertilization on environment in China  

A-2 11:00 - 11:30 EOM, K. C. (NIAST, RDA, Korea)
 
  Environmental and ecological aspects of Korean Agriculture  

A-3 11:30 - 12:00 HAYASHI, Y. (NIAES, Japan)
 
  Agro-Climatological backgrounds for impact assessment in East Asia  

 
Lunch Break
 

Topic B: Greenhouse Gas Emission and Sequestration in Agro-Ecosystem  
Chair: NOUCHI, I. (NIAES, Japan) and YANG, L. (ISS, CAS, China)  

B-1 13:00 - 13:25 SHIN, Y. K. et al. (NIAST, RDA, Korea)
 
  Greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural sources and its control  

B-2 13:25 - 13:50 CAI, Z. (ISS, CAS, China)
 
  Options for mitigating CH4 emissions from rice fields in China  

B-3 13:50 - 14:15 YAGI, K. (NIAES, Japan)
 
  Strategies and options for mitigating CH4 and N2O emissions from Japanese paddy fields  

B-4 14:15 - 14:40 ZHU, J. (ISS, CAS, China)
 
  Responses of agro-ecosystem to elevated atmospheric CO2 - China Rice/Wheat FACE experiment  

B-5 14:40 - 15:05 KOBAYASHI, K. (NIAES, Japan)  
  FACE: a window to watch the responses of agro-ecosystems to future atmosphere  

 
Tea Break
(15 minutes)

B-6 15:20 - 15:45 SHIRATO, Y. et al. (NIAES, Japan)  
  Estimating carbon sequestration in Japanese arable soils using RothC model  

Topic C: Cycling of Farm Chemicals in Agro-Ecosystem  
Chair: KATO, H. (NIAES, Japan) and KHO, M. H. (NIAST, RDA, Korea)  

C-1 15:45 - 16:10 HAN, Y. et al. (ISS, CAS, China)  
  A deterministic model of the nitrogen cycle in soil-plant systems in Taihu Lake region  

C-2 16:10 - 16:35 YANG, C. and YANG, L. (ISS, CAS, China)  
  Studies on coordination of soil phosphorus supply with photosynthetic rate of rice under different nutrient treatments  

C-3 16:35 - 17:00 ITAHASHI, S. (NIAES, Japan)  
  Analysis and evaluation system of water quality in a medium-sized river basin.  

 
Reception
18:00 - 20:00


Wednesday 26 March

 
Topic C (continued): Cycling of Farm Chemicals in Agro-Ecosystem  
Chair: KATO, H. (NIAES, Japan) and KHO, M. H. (NIAST, RDA, Korea)  

C-4 9:00 - 9:25 ZHANG, J. (ISS, CAS, China)  
  Transport of water and nitrate through soils in North China Plain  

C-5 9:25 - 9:50 NAM, J. J. et al. (NIAST, RDA, Korea)  
  Distribution and long-term changes of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in Korean Soil.  

C-6 9:50 - 10:15 JIANG, X. et al. (ISS, CAS, China)  
  Degradation of POPs and release kinetics of heavy metals in red earth of China  

C-7 10:15 - 10:40 SEIKE, N. and OTANI, T. (NIAES, Japan)  
  Temporal change of dioxins in Japanese paddy field  

 
Tea Break
(15 minutes)

C-8 10:55 - 11:20 SUGAHARA, K. (NIAES, Japan)  
  Development of a crop-soil database for risk evaluation of cadmium contamination in relevant staple crops  

C-9 11:20 - 11:45 KOBARA, Y. (NIAES, Japan)  
  Estimates and reducing techniques of methyl bromide emission from soil fumigation  

C-10 11:45 - 12:10 JUNG, P. K. et al. (NIAST, RDA, Korea)  
  Development of the assessment technologies for nutrient losses in the agro-ecosystems  

 
Lunch Break
 

Topic D: GMO, Bio-Remediation and Bio-Diversity  
Chair: OKA, M. (NIAES, Japan) and CAI, Z. (ISS, CAS, China)  

D-1 13:10 - 13:35 MATSUO, K. et al. (NIAES, Japan)  
  Environmental impact assessment of genetically modified crops in relation to pollen dispersion  

D-2 13:35 - 14:00 SHI, W. and YAN, W. (ISS, CAS, China)  
  Assessment of root exudates components in genetically modified crops  

D-3 14:00 - 14:25 TAKAGI, K. and YOSHIDA, Y. (NIAES, Japan)  
  In situ bioremediation of herbicide simazine-polluted soils in a golf course using degrading bacteria-enriched charcoal  

D-4 14:25 - 14:50 MOCHIZUKI A. (NIAES, Japan)  
  Assessment methods for indirect effects of introduced hymenopteran parastitoids to agro-ecosystems in Japan  

 
Tea Break
(15 minutes)

Topic E: Construction of Environmental Resources Inventory and Its Utilization  
Chair: UWASAWA, M. (NIAES, Japan) and JUNG, P. K. (NIAST, RDA, Korea)  

E-1 15:05 - 15:30 KOH, M. H. et al. (NIAST, RDA, Korea)  
  Monitoring of environmental resources and its utilization in Korea  

E-2 15:30 - 15:55 SHI, X. et al. (ISS, CAS, China)  
  Soil database with 1:1,000,000 and reference system of China  

E-3 15:55 - 16:20    
  OBARA H. et al. (NIAES, Japan)  
  Construction of soil inventory and its utilization in Japan.  

E-4 16:20 - 16:45 YASUDA, K. et al. (NIAES, Japan)  
  Construction of insect inventory and its utilization in NIAES of Japan.  

Discussion for Future Cooperation  
16:45 - 17:20 Chair: IMAI, H. (NIAES, Japan)  

Closing  
17:20 - 17:30 ZHOU, J. (ISS, CAS, China)  
 
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Organizing Committee

Chairman:
MINAMI, K., Director General, NIAES, Japan

Members:
China
ZHOU, J., Director General, Institute of Soil Science, CAS, P. R. China
YANG, L., Deputy Director General, Institute of Soil Science, CAS, P. R. China
Korea
EOM, K., Director, National Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology, RDA,
Korea
KOH, M., Deputy Director, National Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology, RDA, Korea
Japan
SEINO, H., Director, Department of Research Planning and Coordination
HYASHI, Y., Director, Department of Global Resources
OKA, M., Director, Department of Biological Safety
IMAI, H., Director, Department of Environmental Chemistry
UWASAWA, M., Director, Natural Resources Inventory Center
ISHII, Y., Director, Chemical Analysis Laboratory


secretariat

HAYASHI, Y., Director, Department of Global Resources
OKA, M., Director, Department of Biological Safety
IMAGAWA, T., Head, Division of Research Planning, Department of Research Planning Coordination



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Contact address

IMAGAWA, Toshiaki
Head, Division of Research Planning,
Department of Research Planning and Coordination,
National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences
3-1-3 Kanoundai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8604, Japan
Telephone: +81-298-38-8180
Facsimile: +81-298-38-8167
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Invitation Letter

For Invited Speakers:  
  In order to facilitate visa arrangement the secretariat issues an invitation letter for each participant. It will be delivered in the middle of February.
For Others:  
  In order to facilitate visa arrangement, the secretariat requests that you supply the following information together in the message of the Registration Form: Date and Place of Birth, Nationality, Current Address, Passport Number (with Place and Date of Issue, Date of Expiration), Current Affiliation, Position in the Affiliation, Place where you would like to apply for visa. The secretariat issues an invitation letter for each participant.


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