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Volume 9
Journal of Earth Science & Climatic Change
Climate Congress 2018
August 06-07, 2018
August 06-07, 2018 Osaka, Japan
4
th
World Congress on
Climate Change and Global Warming
Climate change law education in post-Fukushima Japan and the progressive building of a cross-
disciplinary anthropocene curriculum
Isabelle Giraudou
University of Tokyo, Japan
H
ow can Environmental Law education engage with the proposed Age of Humankind? While much environmental law
maintains a business as usual tone, how might we train the so-called Gaian generation of environmental learners? This
paper is largely a speculative attempt to answer the question. Focusing on interdisciplinary pedagogical frameworks established
for a mixed body of students in earth sciences, geo engineering and environmental humanities, it discusses the practical and
theoretical conditions under which integrated syllabi and innovative pedagogies may contribute to the progressive development
of climate change law education in Japan. It considers the potential of courses designed at the interface of Disaster STS (that
investigates the relations between disasters, science production and policy outcomes), global environmental governance (that
addresses the need for institutional science-policy interfaces) and critical environmental legal studies (that seek to move
beyond the human/environment unproblematized distinction by combining law and environmental sciences in a way that
belongs solely neither to law nor to ES). Such courses should allow students to explore, through case studies and role-play
simulations, the relevance of emergent boundary organizations for dealing with climate change and their legitimacy regarding
the development of negotiated rulemaking processes in environmental regulation. By emphasizing the pedagogical value of
complementary fields such as disaster STS, global governance and critical environmental legal studies, this paper seeks to shed
further light on the significance of climate change law education for the progressive building in post-Fukushima Japan of a
cross-disciplinary anthropocene curriculum.
giraudou@global.c.u-tokyo.ac.jpJ Earth Sci Clim Change 2018, Volume 9
DOI: 10.4172/2157-7617-C3-046