We held the international workshop “Living Spaces under Changing Climate and Environment” across Meghalaya and Assam in 7-9th November, 2016.

For more information of this event, please see the PDF. [ICEDS-NEHU Workshop 2016]

—Living Spaces—

How do we address questions that arise from current intrinsic issues of humanity? All these issues are clearly in interactions with changing environmental factors.

— Where do we live? —

Here we focus on ‘living spaces’, geographical regions or locations where florae, faunae, and humanity live. Where do they live? How do they form their pattern of living spaces? Where will they migrate? Exploring these questions may lead us to new approaches to understand different aspects of issues faced by humanity. Life on this planet exists in ‘living spaces’ under interactions among florae, faunae, and humanity, and with ambient environmental factors such as climate, geosphere, eco-systems, geographical settings, and society. North Eastern Hill University this workshop will be held is situated in a mountainous region in the Meghalaya Plateau of India. Mountain life has special aspects that are attributable to topographic features. Further, the Meghalaya Plateau (‘Meghalaya’ means ‘home of clouds’) is home to the wettest place in the world, Cherrapunjee (Sohra), world record holder of annual rainfall (>26000mm). Rainfall is a key factor that defines an environment in which life exists. We will also focus on the climate change and its impact on the variation of rainfall characteristics. So, we propose the following key words / key concepts for our workshop.

Keywords: living spaces; flora; fauna; climate change; geosphere; hydrosphere; culture; adaptation; population dynamics; historical demography; disaster; bio-hazards; food; agriculture; water resource; welfare and livelihood; geo-park; green tourism; natural resources; industry; transportation; mountain life; monsoons; historical data rescue; rainfall and cloud; cloud burst

Date: 7-9 Nov. 2016
Inaugural session, sessions 1-6, overnight excursion to Cherrapunjee (Sohra)

Venue:
North Eastern Hill University (NEHU)

Workshop Program

Inaugural session

Keynote Address by Prof. Satoshi Murayama (Kagawa Univ)

Invited presentations:

Dr. Sayeedul Islam Khan (Chairman, GRAM Bangla)

Prof. Abani Kumar Bhagabati (Dept. of Geography, Gauhati Univ.)

Sessions (6 sessions are expected):

3 presenters (30min) + 1 discussant (10min)

Excursion:

Scientific tourism, exchanging with local people

Organizing Committee:
Patron: Prof. S. K Srivastava, Vice-Chancellor, NEHU
Prof. H. J Syiemlieh, Convener
Prof. T. Terao and Dr. L. Cajee, Co-Conveners
Prof. S. Murayama
Prof. T. Hayashi
Dr. S. I. Khan
Prof. A. C. Mohapatra
Prof. D. K. Nayak
Prof. B. S. Mipun
Prof. S. K. De
Dr. P. K. Ryngnga


Jointly Organised by:
Depatment of Geography, NEHU,
Faculty of Education, Kagawa University
ICEDS, Kagawa University
CSEAS, Kyoto University
DPRI, Kyoto University


Sponsored by:
JSPS grants-in-aid for scientific research (26220202, 25284165)
Murayama-FS, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
Indo-Japan Joint Scientific Research Promoting Project of Kyoto University