Invitation to a lecture by professor Linas Didvalis from the Centre for Asian Studies, VMU: "The Development of Forest Protection Movements in Japan"

You are cordially invited to a lecture by Professor Linas Didvalis from the Centre for Asian Studies at the Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania, titled "The Development of Forest Protection Movements in Japan", organised by the East Asia Resource Library (EARL). 

The lecture will be held on Tuesday, 12 December 2017 at 14.00 in the lecture room FDV-08 at the Faculty of Social Sciences in Ljubljana (Kardeljeva ploščad 5, 1000 Ljubljana).

Japan is one of the originators of the international timber trade, the largest wood importer globally for several decades and has a long history of participation in the logging of old-growth forests of Southeast Asian and other regions. The lecture will discuss the problems of protecting millions of hectares of world's old-growth forests in Japan, that were sacrificed for human consumption in the last six decades and in this regard, the development of forest protection activism in the country.

Please confirm your attendance at: earl@fdv.uni-lj.si

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Back to list of notificationsPublished: 28. November 2017 | Category: EARL