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13:00 - 17:10, 28 November, 2002
Venue: Museum Hall, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art
Kobe, Japan

Programme

12:40	Registration
13:00	Opening Session
		- Sombo T. Yamamura (Director, APN Secretariat) - Tomio Saito (Vice Governor, Hyogo Prefectural Government)
13:15	Introduction to LUCC, Recent LUCC Activities, Role of LUCC in Global Change Research Network
		- Sharifah Mastura Syed Abdullah (Professor, Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia)
13:45	Introduction to Vegetation Recovery, Recent Activities, Role of Vegetation Recovery in Global Change Research Network
		- John Fox (Professor, Department of Environmental Biology, Curtin University of Technology, Australia)
14:15	Linking LUCC and Vegetation Recovery
		- Satoshi Matsumoto (Professor, Faculty of Bioresource Science, Akita Prefectural University, Japan)
14:45	Introduction to DIVERSITAS, its Science Plan and Possible Linkage between DIVERSITAS and LUCC/Vegetation Recovery Projects of APN
		- Tohru Nakashizuka (Professor, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN), Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan)
15:15	-Break-
15:30	World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) Plan of Implementation and Activities for Conservation of Biodiversity
		- Kazuaki Hoshino (Biodiversity Coordinator, Natural Environment Bureau, Ministry of the Environment of Japan)
16:00	Panel Discussion Theme: Global Change Research on LUCC and Vegetation Recovery, and Practical Activities for Environmental Conservation
	Chair: Satoshi Matsumoto Panelist: John Fox Kazuaki Hoshino Takeshi Miyaji (Environmental Activities Management Section, Consumers Co-operative Kobe) Tohru Nakashizuka Sharifah Mastura Syed Abdullah
16:55	Closing Remarks- Satoshi Matsumoto
17:10	Closing

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