Project Promotion Meeting 2013 Apr.12 (Fri.)

Project Promotion Meeting As we have entered into the fourth year of our project, we would like to have another promotion meeting for our studies. The date and venue is as below. 【Date】April 12, 2013(Fri.)15:00~18:00 【Venue】Conference Room II, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University Speakers ・Yuuichi Kano(Kyushu University) “Fresh Water Fishes in Southeast Asia and Sarawak” ・Yayoi Takeuchi(National Institute for Environmental Studies) “Biodiversity of the Reserved forest in the vicinity of Sarawak Settlements ・Kuniyasu Mokudai(Pro Natura Foundation Japan) “Riverine Landscape of Sarawak”

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Bank Erosion along the Rajang River and Its Social Impacts [Watakabe, Soda, Mokudai, Ikeda, Yuhora]

Bank Erosion along the Rajang River and Its Social Impacts Takuma Watakabe(Graduate School of Regional Sciences,Tottori University) Ryoji Soda(Graduate School of Literature and Human Sceiences, Osaka City University) Kuniyasu Mokudai(Pro Natura Foundation Japan) Hiroshi Ikeda(Fukada Geological Institute) Kazuhiro Yuhora(Muroto Geopark Promotion Office) Introduction Fig. 1 Study area  Introduction  The district of Sarawak, Malaysia is stretched in the tropical forest and the residents of this area are facing a drastic environment change ever since the logging operation began. One example is the Rajang river basin (Fig. 1) where people witness serious riverbank erosion. According to the residents, the problem began to surface from the end of 1960s or 70s which coincide […]

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