OSAKA UNIVERSITY SHORT-TERM STUDENT EXCHANGE PROGRAM _

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INTRODUCTION TO GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT

Tsuyoshi SASADA, et al. (Faculty of Engineering)

Objective
The 21st Centaury is an era of global partnership, in which human community is required in every nation, society, organization, and all groups in the world to make effort in accordance with respective positions and capacities in order to attain sustainable development in the future. The present lectures concern the planning and management of urban areas in the 21st centaury. In industrially advanced countries, public interest in roles urban area is to play, such as improvement and preservation of landscape and ecosystem, is growing. On the other hand, in most developing countries, the rapid urbanization and industrialization have produced lots of serious environmental pollution without enough infrastructures. There are many differences in perfection of social, economic and political systems between both groups of countries. Japan is only one advanced country among Asian developing countries. Students who are interested in global environment and sustainable development will be stimulated by knowing two different worlds in the small earth, and will be encouraged in considering human activates on the global environment.

Textbook
There is no assigned textbook

Lecture Outline
1) Historical Review of Environmental Destruction of the Earth: Prof. Katsuhiko IMAI
2) Economic Evaluation of River Improvement Works: Assoc. Prof. Masahiro TAMAI
3) How Can Plants Stabilize Global Environment?: Assoc. Prof. Takashi MACHIMURA
4) Designing the Sustainable Urban Neighborhood: Prof. Kunihiro NARUMI
5) Environmental Design with Computer Graphics: Prof. Tsuyoshi SASADA
6) Sustainable City: Industrial Symbiosis and Environmental Planning: Assoc. Prof. Tsuyoshi Fujita
7) Human Activities and Heat Island Phenomena: Prof. Minoru MIZUNO
8) Collaboration for Environmental Design: Assoc. Prof. Haruyoki KUSAMA
9) Urban Energy System and Global Environmental Issues: Assoc. Prof. Yoshiyuki SHIMODA
10) Meteorological Modeling and Atmospheric Pollutants in Meso-Scale: Assist. Prof. Akira KONDO
11) Acid Precipitation and Soil Acidification Prediction: Prof. Akikazu KAGA
12) Hydrodynamics and Transport Processes in Semi-Enclosed Coastal Seas: Prof. Keiji NAKATSUJI

Grading
Class participation 40%
Term paper to be submitted of the end of the course 60%