About AEAEH

Rationale for Establishing the Association for East Asian Environmental History (AEAEH)

More than twenty scholars doing East Asian environmental history participated in the First World Congress of Environmental History convened by the International Consortium of Environmental History Organizations (ICEHO) in Copenhagen and Malmo during August 4-8, 2009. Because East Asia is not well represented among the current members of ICEHO, many of us who joined in a discussion during the conference agreed to form an association and named it the Association for East Asian Environmental History (AEAEH).

The AEAEH is an organization of individual members engaged in doing research on East Asian environmental issues with historical perspectives. Scholars from fields related to environmental studies, such as history, archaeology, literature, ethics, anthropology, geography, demography, economics, sociology, law, biology, ecology, agronomy, nutrition, medical science, public health, meteorology, geology, and engineering (energy, hydrology, municipal engineering), are all welcome to become members. Interdisciplinary approaches will be emphasized and within the sphere of East Asia a wide temporal span will be covered. Comparative studies, of course, will also be encouraged.

 

President of AEAEH

Prof. Buhm Soon Park (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) was elected the new President of the Association for East Asian Environmental History (AEAEH) by the General Meeting of the Association on 10 September 2021 for a two-year term (2022-2023). Prof. Park is to succeed Prof. Akihisa Setoguchi who served as the sixth President of AEAEH during 2020-2021.

Vice President of AEAEH

Prof. Manyong Moon (Jeonbuk National University) was appointed as the Vice President of AEAEH for a two-year term (2022-2023).

Council of AEAEH

Nine members of AEAEH were elected for the Council of AEAEH during the General Meeting of the Association on 10 September 2021. They are (alphabetical order by last name):
Lisa M. Brady (Boise State University)
Xiaohong Chao 鈔曉鴻 (Xiamen University)
Shen Hou 侯深 (Peking University, Beijing)
Jongmin Lee (University of Science and Technology, Korea)
Xueqin Mei 梅雪芹 (Tsinghua University)
Manyong Moon (Jeonbuk National University)
Koji Nakashima 中島弘二 (Kanazawa University)
Federico Paolini (Università della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli)
Akihisa Setoguchi 瀨戶口明久 (Kyoto University)

 

Asian Association for Environmental History Founding Committee, AEAEH

On 10 September 2021, it was decided at the General Meeting of the Association that the association would be renamed as the “Asian” Association, covering the whole range of Asian and also Oceanian regions. The Founding Committee, launched on 27 October 2019, was endorsed to continue its activities for another two years. The committee will continue to be chaired by Professor Emeritus Satoshi Murayama 村山聡 (Kagawa University) and has been mandated with the task of drawing up new bylaws and a new organizational structure for the renewed Association to be presented for discussion and decision at the next General Meeting at EAEH 2023.

Committee Membership List (alphabetical order by last name)

  • Dr. Shen Hou, Professor, History Department, Peking University, Beijing, China.
  • Dr. Michael Shiyung Liu, Professor, University of Pittsburgh, USA / Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China.
  • Dr. Christof Mauch, Professor and Chair, Director, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich, Germany.
  • Dr. Jenia Mukherjee, Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India.
  • Dr. Satoshi Murayama, Co-Convener, International Consortium for Earth and Development Sciences, Kagawa University / Professor Emeritus, Kagawa University, Japan.
  • Dr. Donald Worster, Honorary Director of the Center for Ecological History at Renmin University of China, Beijing, China / Professor Emeritus, Kansas University, USA.

 

AAEH

The Asian Association for Environmental History (AAEH) was launched on 1 July 2023. It follows a decision made at the General Meeting of the Association held during EAEH 2023 in Daejeon, Korea to rename the Association for East Asian Environmental History (AEAEH) to the “Asian” Association, covering the all of Asia and Oceania.

The following is a temporary website (http://dlpweb.ed.kagawa-u.ac.jp/main/?page_id=552) which will be operated until our official website is launched. We will continue to experiment with various projects and propose a new Mission Statement and Bylaws, which will hopefully be approved by the General Meeting of the Association in two years’ time.

President of AAEH

Satoshi Murayama (Kagawa University, Takamatsu, Japan) was elected as President of the Asian Association for Environmental History (AAEH) by General Meeting of AEAEH on 1 July 2023 for a two-year term (2023-2024).

Vice President of AAEH

Toru Terao (Kagawa University, Takamatsu, Japan) and Taro Takemoto (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan) were appointed by the President as Vice Presidents of AAEH for a two-year term (2023-2024).

Council of AAEH

Five members of AEAEH were elected to serve as Council members of AAEH by the General Meeting on 1 July 2023, and seven members were appointed by the President. They are (in alphabetical order):

  1. Shen Hou (Peking University, China)
  2. Jaehwan Hyun (Pusan National University, Korea)
  3. Shinobu Iguro (Otani University, Japan)
  4. Wakako Kumakura (Keio University, Japan)
  5. Jongmin Lee (University of Science and Technology, Korea)
  6. Jung Lee (Ewha Womans University, Korea)
  7. Michael Shiyung Liu (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
  8. Jenia Mukherjee (Indian Institute of Technology, Khargpur, India)
  9. Atsushi Ota (Keio University, Japan)
  10. Federico Paolini (University of Macerata, Italy)
  11. Hrvoje Petrić (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
  12. Fiona Williamson (Singapore Management University, Singapore)

AAEH Secretariat

The International Consortium for Earth and Development Sciences (ICEDS), Kagawa University, Takamatsu, Japan; You can contact us by sending an email to iceds.aaeh@gmail.com. We would like to take this opportunity to confirm your member registration. We will soon send information to the email address where you are currently registered. If you would like to become a new member, please also contact us at the above e-mail address.

 

AEAEH Bylaws

 


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