Numbering Code	G-AAA02 82404 LJ31	Year/Term	2022 ・ First semester
Number of Credits	2	Course Type	Lecture
Target Year	From 1st to 5th year students	Target Student
Language	Japanese	Day/Period	Wed.2
Instructor name	YASUOKA HIROKAZU (Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies Associate Professor)
Outline and Purpose of the Course	The instructor gives lectures on human-ecosystem interactions and its historical change, referring to a variety of case studies of the Central African Forest, and then students and the instructor will discuss how relevant human-ecosystem interaction studies are to the issues of biodiversity conservation and sustainable development.
Course Goals	By the end of this course, students will have gained: (1) An appreciation of the ways in which indigenous ecological knowledge and cultural practices, as well as broader political and economic systems, shape diverse human-ecosystem interactions, and how human activities affected, positively and negatively, the ecosystems. (2) An appreciation of importance of human-ecosystem interaction studies on the issues of biodiversity conservation and sustainable development.
Schedule and Contents	１. Introduction ２-14. Lecture, reading, discussion
Evaluation Methods and Policy	Participation (100%)
Course Requirements	None
Study outside of Class (preparation and review)	Read literature referred during class