APCS (Asian-PacificCitySummit) Press 2011 May VOL-11
Asian Pacific City Summit（APCS）is an international city network proposed by Fukuoka City and was established in 1994. The Summit has since been held every other year as an international conference of leaders of the Asia-Pacific region striving for “furthering collaboration and networking among cities of the Asian Pacific region”. It currently has 29 member cities/regions from 13 countries.
Ⅰ．Featured topic: the theme for the 9th Working-level Conference for Asian-Pacific City Summit in Kagoshima
What type of environmental issues are our members interested in?
The theme for the 9th Working-level Conference to be held from Thursday, August 18 to Saturday, August 20 in Kagoshima, Japan is “Environmental initiatives for sustainable development”. We would like to announce the result of our questionnaire and you will find what type of environmental issues our members are interested in!
Ⅱ．Best practices of APCS members
KagoshimaMuseum of Environment: Planet Earth and its Future
The museum tells a single action can change the future environment
KagoshimaMuseum of Environment: Planet Earth and its Futureis a facility for people to learn about environment so that they can take eco-friendly action. It was established in October 2008.On August 20, the participants of the 9th Working-level Conference will visit the museum and to learn its activities, which help raise public awareness about environment. In this issue, we would like to show you the outline of the facility before you visit there.
FUKUOKAPress
The FukuokaCity Public Film Archive
Aiming to be the center for Asian films
The theme for the 9th Working-level Conference to be held from Thursday, August 18 to Saturday, August 20 in Kagoshima, Japan is “Environmental initiatives for sustainable development”. We would like to announce the result of our questionnaire and you will find what type of environmental issues our members are interested in. APCS secretariat has classified and compiled the questionnaires which we have received according to keywords. Thank you very much for providing us many and detailed answers. We will plan to reflect them in the contents of the 9th Working-level Conference. (For details, please refer the attached documents entitled “Survey summary all” and “Survey summary keyword”)
For the 9th Working-level Conference, we believe that our member cities have already received official invitation from Kagoshima city. We kindly ask you to submit the “Response Form” (pink sheet) and the “Application Form” (yellow sheet) to Kagoshima cityby May 27.
Keyword / Cities interested in the area / Cities with best practices in the areanatural energy, renewable energy / Busan, Bangkok, Honolulu, Miyazaki / Kitakyushu, Miyazaki, Kagoshima
air pollution / Gwangyang, Jeju, Bangkok, Miyazaki / Gwangyang, Jeju, Dalian, Guangzhou
water (marine) pollution, aquatic conservation, sewage treatment / Dalian, Jeju, Miyazaki / Dalian, Kumamoto
waste treatment, recycling / Dalian, Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh, Honolulu, Saga / Busan, Ho Chi Minh, Honolulu, Vladivostok, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka
low-carbon, energy saving, global warming / Jeju, Saga, Miyazaki / Jeju, Kitakyushu, Kumamoto, Fukuoka
Keyword / Cities interested in the area / Cities with best practices in the area
electric vehicles, transportation system / Jeju, Honolulu, Oita / Kagoshima
eco city, sustainable city planning / Pohang, Dalian / Pohang, Dalian
urban greening, environmental conservation / Gwangyang, Ho Chi Minh, Ipoh, Vladivostok, Saga / Ho Chi Minh, Ipoh, Vladivostok, Fukuoka
citizen participation/collaboration, environmental education/ enlightenment / Bangkok, Miyazaki, Kagoshima / Ho Chi Minh, Vladivostok, Kitakyushu, Saga, Kagoshima
smart grid / Honolulu
environmental business / Kitakyushu / Kitakyushu
cross-sectoral collaboration / Guangzhou, Kumamoto / Guangzhou
urban hygiene / Ho Chi Minh / Ho Chi Minh
environmental management system / Miyazaki
Keyword / Specific contents which cities can make presentations or provide information
natural energy, renewable energy / Kitakyushu: Smart community project
Kagoshima: electric power-assisted bicycles promotion, Megasolar Power Plant Plan
air pollution / Guangzhou: "Guangzhou city rules for preventing air pollution and improving air quality", "2010 the 16th Asian Games air quality control policy"
Gwangyang: Research on reduction of air pollution in Gwangyang bay area
Dalian: The 11th Five-Year Plan
water (marine) pollution, aquatic conservation, sewage treatment / Kumamoto: Groundwater conservation plan
waste treatment, recycling / Busan: Plan to build recycle system of household waste
Vladivostok: Wastes municipal target program
Kitakyushu: Waste management project which involves citizens
Fukuoka: Nighttime household waste collection
low-carbon, energy saving, global warming / Kumamoto: Low-carbonCity Development Strategic Plan
Fukuoka: Morning glory curtain project
eco city, sustainable city planning / Pohang: Terra nova Pohang project
urban greening, environmental conservation / Ipoh: "Greening Greentown" project
Vladivostok: Greening target program
Fukuoka: Morning glory curtain project
citizen participation/collaboration, environmental education/enlightenment / Vladivostok: Population's Ecological Education program
Saga: Saga Forum on the Environment
Kagoshima: Environmental college, Children environmental summit
environmental business / Kitakyushu: KitakyushuAsianCenter for Low Carbon Society project
eco tourism / Jeju: Urban environmental measures (Green City Project: eco tourism)
environmental policy/urban policy / Ho Chi Minh: the mobilizing program for building and developing the good-looking and modern city
Kitakyushu: Action plan (Green Frontier Plan)
Dalian: The 11th Five-Year Plan
environmental management system / Miyazaki: environmental management system
KagoshimaMuseum of Environment: Planet Earth and its Future is a facility for people to learn about environment so that they can take eco-friendly action. It was established in Kagoshima city, in October 2008.The museum tells that our daily life and business activities have various influences on future environment. On August 20, the participants of the 9th Working-level Conference will visit the museum. In this issue, we would like to show you the outline of the facility before you visit there.
The basic principles are following four points:
- Connect peoplewith a strong partnership so that they can enjoy learning, participating, and exchanging.
- Promote education of people and system building by collaborating with citizens, and disseminate the results.
- Support people to lead a pro-environment life and encourage totake eco-friendly action.
- Develop people to actively engage in environmental conservation activities.
Not only is the roof of a uniquely shaped building with gentle curve, but also the entire site of the museum covered with green grass.
The museum also prevents room temperature rise and reduces the heat island effect by greening the roof and the site. It has also natural air-conditioner using groundwater, air circulations system using the stable underground temperature, and solar electricity system (solar panels). In this way, the museum is utilizing various natural energies.
Inside the museum is divided into 4 zones. By using things that have drifted ashore as an example, ZONE1: “Everything in the world is linked to each other”reminds us that environmental issues are shared by the entire world, and our life affects each other. ZONE2: “The Earth has already had more than it can stand” tells that the Earth has greatly changed by mankind’s activities, and it is facing a crisis.ZONE3: What we have done, and what must be done?”tells that our daily life has great impact on the global environment. ZONE4: “Return to the past and think about the future called today” makes us think about the transition of lifestyle from that of 40 years ago to present“useful, fast, and clean” life.
In addition, the museum offers participatory/ experience-based environment classes, recycling workshops, environment-friendly cooking workshops. Not only people from Kagoshima city, but also from outside the city and even from other prefectures visit there. We can see that the establishment of the museum raised public environmental awareness.
For more information on Kagoshima Museum of Environment: Planet Earth and its Future, please check the website.
(Japanese)
●Japanese items in the collectionFilms are made by video artists related to Fukuoka
Japanese traditional films
Document films,
Animated cartoons
Experiment films
Personal focus films, etc.
●Various Asian countries’ items in the collection
Cambodia Turkey Malaysia Korea Laos Vietnam
Bangladesh Thailand Kazakhstan Pakistan China
Iran Australia India Indonesia New Zealand
Mongolia Sri Lanka Philippines, etc.
Fukuoka City Public Library is not merely a public library, but also a film archive, which is for preserving films as cultural property. Recently, many nationalgovernments have set up film archives,and some of them have joined the International Federation of Film Archives, to preserve domestic and foreign film heritages.In Japan, only the Film Centre of Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art and FLFA have joined the International Federation of Film Archives. Therefore, FLFA is the only archive which has joined the International Federation of Film Archives from Japanese local government.
FLFA is a significant Asian film archive, which has about 470 Asian films of the world.As the city of Fukuoka also holds the annual Fukuoka International Film Festival since 1991, it has been making enormous effort to promote Asian film cultures.Focusing on the films from various Asian countries and regions including the onesshowing at the Fukuoka International Film Festival, FLFA has preservedthem as cultural heritages, and recovered the lost films with high technology. Let's see what efforts FLFA has made to ensure the future of these inheritances.
For current condition of film archive
Japanese
English
Chinese
Korean
Archive library (Japanese)
◇ From APCS secretariat ◇
Asian-Pacific City Summit Website (Japanese) has been relaunched!
APCS secretariat has relaunched Asian-Pacific City Summit Website (Japanese).
In order to make the website more convenient for our members, we will enhance to offer information on our members and to provide reports of previous Mayors Conferences and Working-level Conferences, APCS-Press through the website. We will continue to disseminate activities of APCS.
We will relaunch our websites in other languages (English, Chinese, and Korean) and improve their contents, so please keep visiting our sites!
Renewed APCS website (Japanese)
APCS website (English)
APCS website (Chinese)
APCS website (Korean)
Relaunched Japanese website
We will also relaunch English, Chinese, Korean sites.
★We welcome information which we can introduce in APCS Press from member cities. Please let us know!
・Events of your city (Festivals, events, major incidents, etc.)
・Urban policies of your city (master plans, key plans, major projects, major transportation infrastructures, etc.)
【Editorial/Publication】 Asian-Pacific City Summit Secretariat
(Fukuoka Asian Urban Research Center ： URC）
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