PARENT SESSION
Special Session 7: Social capacity development for environmental management: International cooperation and ecological solution
Organized by: S HONG and N NAKAGOSHI
Monday, August 8, 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM, Exhibit Hall 210a-e, Level 2, Palais des congrès de Montréal

Sustainable environmental management strategy: International cooperation and ecological solution.

Hong, Sun-Kee ^*,1, Kim, Jae-Eun ², Nakagoshi, Nobukazu², ¹ Kookmin University, Seoul, Korea² Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan

ABSTRACT- The concept of social capacity for environmental management is developed from major discussions in international cooperation, capacity development and sustainable development, and it supported by new institutional economics and comparative institutional analysis. Base on these efforts, we are developing the social capacity index and elucidating the development process by utilizing the policy analysis approach, which comes from two methods of analysis of environmental issues: technological assessment and socio-economic assessment. Considering several issues in urbanized environment such as transportation, vehicles, ecosystems, and green-space management, we can search for socio-ecological solutions in three inter-disciplinary and trans- disciplinary perspectives on the environmental management of urban-rural gradient: 1) Enhancing social carrying capacity in man-nature systems, 2) Development of social activity for urban ecosystem management, and 3) International cooperation and networking for regional issue of urban-to-rural ecology in Asia.

Key words: Environmental management, International cooperation, Social capacity, Urban ecosystem