Conference chairperson: Yoshiko Kawabata
Co-chairperson: Takahiro Morio, Fumio Watanabe
Senior Advisor: Toshinori Kojima
International desert Council (IDC)
Chair of IDC : K. Yoshikawa (Japan)
B. Payne (USA), F. Watanabe (Japan), H. A. El-Shemy (Egypt), H. S. Gehlot (India), K. Toderich (Uzbekistan), H. Toyoda (Japan), M. Abu-Zreig (Jordan), R. Misak (Kuwait), R. Harper (Australia), S. Kumar (India), S. Shimada (Japan), S. Sinha (India), S. Suzuki (Japan), T. Davis (USA), T. Kojima (Japan), T. Morio (Japan), Y. Abe (Japan), Y. Kawabata (Japan), Y. Sakai (Japan)
(alphabetical order)
※IDC is a permanent committee to organize the future plan of DT14 : International Conference on Arid Land.
A. Iwamoto (Oriental Consultants Global Co., Ltd), H. Fujimaki (Tottori Univ.), H. Nawata (Akita Univ.), H. Saito (Tokyo Univ. of Agri. & Tech.), H. Suganuma (Tokyo Univ. of Tech.), H. Ushiki, J. Kubota (Natl. Inst. of Humanities), J. Tajima (Tokyo Univ. of Agri.), K. Imamura (Nagoya Gakuin Univ.), K. Kodama (Chiba Univ.),M. Hirata (Obihiro Univ. of Agri. & Vet. Med.), M. Shiraishi, M. Watanabe (Motoko Katakura Foundation for Desert Culture), N. Miki (Okayama Univ.), N. Yamanaka (Tottori Univ.), R. Tachibana (Tokyo Univ. of Agri.), S. Takahashi (Tokyo Univ. of Agri.), T. Nakamura (Univ. of Tsukuba), T. Saito(Tottori Univ.), T. Tanaka (SBI Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd.), Y. Ishikawa (Akita Pref. Univ.), Y. Kitamura (Tottori Univ.), Y. Konagaya (JSPS), Y. Yazawa (Chiba Inst. Tech.)
(alphabetical order)
Place of Conference
Tokyo: Tokyo university of Agriculture facilities or conference hall in Tokyo
Conference Methods
Combined use of venue and online or completely online
Oral presentation will be live by Zoom
Poster will be released online
Early Registration fee (until 31 July)
Regular presenter: $250 or ¥25,000
Senior presenter: $100 or ¥10,000
Student presenter: $100 or ¥10,000
*Presenters include to publish abstracts and to submit to Journal of Arid Land Studies
Late Registration fee (from 1 August to 31 August)
Regular presenter: $350 or ¥35,000
Senior presenter: $200 or ¥20,000
Student presenter: $200 or ¥20,000
*Presenters include to publish abstracts and to submit to Journal of Arid Land Studies
Participation only: Free (Only for academic and private participants without presentation)
Preparation of documents for VISA acquisition fee from overseas: $100
(However, we can not prepare the document of Residence Track.)
Call for Papers
Submission of abstract: 30 June 2021
Title, author name(s) in full spelling with affiliation(s), 300-400 words abstract in English, and name of contact person with e-mail address
Notification of acceptance: 15 July 2021
Registration deadline: 30 August 2021
Manuscript submission deadline: 10 September 2021
All materials: send to dt14ical@gmail.com
The papers presented in the conference will be published in The Journal of Arid Land Studies after critical peer review process.
We have the list of abstracts already submitted if you do not submit your new abstract.
But considering that the accepted period was ca. one years before, so we strongly recommend you to submit a new version of your abstract.
At that time, please add some note such as "this abstract is renewal version of the abstract which was accepted to DT14/ICAL" Then we will accept it automatically.
Also, please register using the Google form.
Please access from the URL below.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfVX4Vdl3fNK2qa9PqZ3qRgn175dXSMBafqmkcFSEm4zpXegg/viewform?usp=sf_link
Co-sponsored
The Japan Association for Arid Land Studies : https://www.jaals.net/
Support
The Association of Japanese Geographers : https://www.ajg.or.jp/en/
Japanese Society for Tropical Agriculture : http://www.trop-agri.jp/index_e.html
Japanese Society for Sand Dune Research : http://www.jssdr.jp/
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