_____ ______ For a Sustainable World

ISBN-13: 9789403631431 / Angielski / Miękka

Eckhard Hitzer

Opis

In 2017 the focus was on renewable energy, in 2018 on energy efficiency and in 2020 on management and education. Colleagues from ICU, Sophia University, Ritsumeikan University, Tokyo City University, Tokyo Kasei University, Toho University and Chiba University of Commerce jointly organized these workshops. The workshops received generous financial support from Japan ICU Foundation in New York, and from the German JSPS Alumni Association. A key motivation for organizing these workshops was the urgent need for Japan to replace nuclear energy by sustainable forms of energy, and to aim at a reduction of expensive fossil fuel imports. Universities that try to prepare young people for social and life challenges, need to both teach about alternatives and become credible role models for students and society in general. _______________2018_____________2020______________________________________________________________________________________________________ICU____________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

O autorze

Eckhard Hitzer has a PhD in theoretical physics University of Konstanz (Germany). He lives since 1996 in Japan (Kyoto University, University of Fukui, and since 2012 as senior associate professor at International Christian University (ICU) in Mitaka, Tokyo). He teaches physics, mathematics at ICU, and a course on environmental problems in Germany and Japan at Sophia University in Tokyo. He has over 100 reviewed international scientific journal papers and book chapters, is member of the editorial boards of three journals, editor of two books and of 10 special journal issues and conference proceedings, active member and organizer of many scientific conference committees and prize committees. Co-organizer of numerous seminars on renewable energy and energy efficiency and international workshops on Sustainable University Development. He visited many renewable energy and energy efficiency projects in Japan and many European countries.