Naotaka Hayashi
nhayashi_at_ualberta.ca (Please replace "_at_" with @)
Department of Anthropology
13-15 HM Tory Building
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Canada
T6G 2H4
Program
PhD: Social/Cultural Anthropology
Supervisor: Dr. Mark Nuttall
Current Research
I am in my third year of a PhD program in Anthropology. I started fieldwork in the south region of Greenland in May 2008. My research examines how sustainable these communities of Inuit Greenlanders are in the face of environmental changes, including global climatic changes. I focus on the dynamics of sheep farming (including crop farming), fishing and hunting within this region. Further, I am planning to go to the northernmost settlement in Greenland in spring 2009 to do research about fishing and hunting. My interests also include how Greenlanders use their environmental knowledge to respond and adapt to unusual changes caused by a warming climate at different temporal and spatial scales.
Key Words
adaptation, climate change, Indigenous environmental knowledge, self-determination, sustainable development
Previous Education
B.Agr./Forestry, University of Tokyo, Japan, 1995
M.A.(Anthropology), University of Alberta, 2006
Professional Career
Forestry and biological technologist at the Government of Hokkaido, Japan, 1995-2002
Publications and Conferences
Hayashi, N. (2009) The Need for Integrated Resource Management to Achieve a Sustainable Forest Management Regime: A Case of the Forest Management Regime in Alberta, Canada. Journal of the Japanese Forest Society, 61(3) (in press) (in Japanese with an English abstract)
Hayashi, N. (2008) The Rise of Aboriginal Forestry in Canada: Changing Political, Legal, and Social Landscapes of Mainstream Society. 176 pp, VDM Verlag, Saarbrücken, Germany.
Hayashi, N. "Exploring Diversified Strategies for Co-operative Management of Forests by a First Nation and the Province of Alberta." The 32nd International Forestry Students' Symposium (IFSS) 2004: {RE}defining Forestry in the 21st Century. Oral presentation given to a symposium held by the International Forestry Student Association (IFSA), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario. 25 August 2004.
Background
I worked for forestry in the town of Hokkaido (ca. 43N), which is the northernmost prefecture in Japan. With this experience, I studied forest co-management of a First Nation in northern Alberta (ca. 58N). I would like to expand my research interests to other types of natural resource management for my PhD research, such as land use and marine resource management in Greenland (ca. 61N). Somehow, my research interests keep going up north!
Volunteer
Webmaster, Circumpolar Students' Association (CSA), 2007-2008
Other Interests
While in Hokkaido, I enjoyed cross-country skiing, telemark skiing, backpacking traverses, and ice climbing. Now, because of a lack of equipment, I can only enjoy jogging in my spare time.