筑波大学大学院生命環境学研究科実習セミナー(2012年7月開催)

更新日:2012/11/20

筑波大学大学院生命環境科学研究科「環境ディプロマティックリーダーの育成拠点」コースワークの一環としておこなわれたケニア現地実習の①スタートアップセミナー、②総括セミナーにそれぞれ、当センター書庫兼セミナー室を会場として提供した。それぞれの実施の模様を以下に報告する。

§ スタートアップセミナー (2012年7月13日 開催)

このセミナーでは、Jomo Kenyatta農工大学より、東アフリカJSPS同窓会員で同大学上級講師のCharles Ndegwa博士を招いて講演していただいた。まず、博士はナイロビおよびその周辺のゴミ問題、人口問題、交通問題、インフラ問題など都市部環境問題に関連する個別問題をスライド写真にて紹介し、それらの総合事例として「スラム」と呼ばれる居住区の現状についてやはりスライド写真を交えて紹介。次に、これらの状況をどのように景観地理学の見地から記述分析するかという手法を紹介された。人口センサス、ランドサットのデータ、地図データなどの入手できる数種のデータを総合して、都市環境の経年変化を視覚的に表現することができる。

質疑応答と討論の時間では、博士への大学院生の質問が続出。ナイロビの現状に対するもの、分析手法やデータの入手に関するもの、こうした研究者のリサーチと政策決定過程との連携の実際など、その内容は多岐にわたった。

【写真1】 Charles Ndegwa博士の講演を聴講する大学院生

§ 総括セミナー (2012年7月19日 開催)

総括セミナーでは、じっさいのフィールド調査を終えてきた大学院生たちが、調査報告をPower Pointにまとめて、以下10本におよぶ口頭発表を英語でおこなった。

  1. 1. Urbanization of NairobiLI Shuhong, EDL Ph.D candidate, University of Tsukuba
  2. 2. Economic Development and Energy UtilizationZHOU Qian, EDL Ph.D candidate, University of Tsukuba
  3. 3. Urbanization and Environmental Issues in NairobiTIAN Xiaojie, EDL Master candidate, University of Tsukuba
  4. 4. Wildlife Conservation in Kenya and Amboseli National Park IYadmaa Tseveenkhand, EDL Master candidate, University of Tsukuba
  5. 5. Wildlife Conservation in Kenya and Amboseli National Park IIVU Van Minh, EDL Master candidate, University of Tsukuba
  6. 6. Forest Management in Amboseli N.P.: Status and Restoration Efforts for the Wildlife HabitatNguyen Tu Anh, EDL Master candidate, University of Tsukuba
  7. 7. Karura Forest: Management and Conservation of Urban ForestNguyen Thi My Quynh, EDL Master candidate, University of Tsukuba
  8. 8. Community Based Conservation and Environmental EducationBadamsed Delgermaa, EDL Master candidate, University of Tsukuba
  9. 9. Environmental Movement and Environmental Education in KenyaSyeda Masuma Khanam, EDL Master candidate, University of Tsukuba
  10. 10. Water Resource in Amboseli National Park: An Ecosystem ViewHA Nam Thang, EDL Master candidate, University of Tsukuba

セミナーは、これらに以下の専門家がコメントを述べ、参加者と議論するという形がとられた。

  1. Dr. Francis Mwaura(Department of Geography & Environmental Studies, University of Nairobi)
  2. Dr. Charles Musyoki Mutua(Senior Researcher, Kenya Wildlife Service)
  3. Dr. Toshio Meguro(JSPS Research Fellow / Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, the University of Tokyo)
  4. Ms. Lucy Njoka(Educational Officer, Karura Forest Environmental Education Centre)

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これらの発表は「都市化」「野生動物保全」「森林環境保全と環境教育」という3つの大テーマにわかれているので、それぞれ同じテーマに属する報告者どうしの現場認識のちがいから議論となったり、違ったテーマどうしのグループで同じ構造の問題を発見したりという、たいへん有意義なものだった。こうした現地調査を1週間未満でおこなうのは、たいへん難しい。文献資料の調査以上のものをこの短期でどれだけ掴めるかが勝負だが、大学院生各自がそれぞれに現場からなんらかのことを学んだ(あるいは現場からなにか学ぶことの難しさを学んだ)のではないかと思う。大学院生のみなさんにも、引率の孫暁剛博士(特任助教)にもおつかれさまと言いたいが、大学院生の方はタフで、このふたつのセミナーをふくむスタディーツアー全体のタイトなスケジュールにもあまり疲れを見せず、終始活発であった。

【写真2】お互いのプレゼンテーションに聴き入る大学院生ら

【写真3】コメントするLucy Njokaさん

(白石 壮一郎)


19th July, 2012

Closing Remarks

It was very grateful to share this seminar with you, I as a director of this JSPS Nairobi Research Station appreciate you all, your presentations are fine and stimulating.

I will mention a few things on research because I think you’ve already known much about human-environmental issues in Kenya. What you have done in Kenya is what we call “fieldwork”, and it is always difficult. We can access many source and can know current issues and agendas of human-environmental issues in Africa from books, papers and web sites. But once we stand on the ground of fieldwork, sometimes we will be confused because of the complexity of the phenomena of actual world.

For example, as you see, most of National Parks in Kenya are successful and earning good amount of their foreign currency revenue. But it is not simple for us to give ultimate answer to solve some conflicts or miscommunication between “stakeholders”; the organization, whether governmental or non-governmental, or private companies, who would like to enhance conservation of wildlife, who would like to represent the local people, who enhance income generation of the population around the National Park and the local people themselves who depends their livelihood on the environment and economic situation around the Park in many cases.

It is easier to be journalist if you were brave enough, but when we do research, we cannot and should not find simple answer, unless just try to discuss about optimum solution based on our case studies. That is one of the most thing I would like to tell you.

There is another thing I will tell you is about this situation itself here we are, sharing the experience of this study tour and discussing. I want to emphasize this is the great chance for you to have such colleagues and situation. I can give you an example. I spent some years with Dr. Sun and Dr.Charles Mushoki in the same post graduate course for African Studies in Japan. We were different in various aspects, in research interests, in research methods, in research sites, and more, possibly in future life planning also. But we have been fieldworkers of African Studies, that was enough for us to share our discussion, to exchange our ideas on researches. In other words, we shared the excitement and difficulty of doing fieldwork and that facilitate our further research and mutual understandings.

If you found some complexity of the phenomena and difficulities to set clear research questions and answers from the ground of this study tour, you have already learned what fieldwork is. And if you found any significant differences of view or interpretation what you have observed or heard among your colleagues in this tour but still you could discuss based on shared experience, you have already learned from your fieldwork.

Here I would like to thank Dr. Sun, the organizer of this study tour, Dr. Charles Mushoki and other contributors of this seminar. We’ll welcome you to back to the field anytime, we JSPS Nairobi Research Station will ready to support you.

Thank you.

Soichiro Shiraishi Ph.D.
Resident Director, JSPS Nairobi Research Station

【リンク】 EDLニュースレターVol.11(「ケニアインターンシップ」の内容ふくむ、筑波大学)

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