In 2002, the state government of Kerala, India, launched an organic agriculture policy initiative with the document Jaivakeralam: The Context and Need for a “Sustainable Agricultural Development Policy” for the State of Kerala, a policy statement promoting organic agriculture as a sustainable alternative for Kerala in the post-Green Revolution era. During the beginning of the organic agriculture movement in the 1960s and 1970s in Europe and Japan, organic farming represented antimodern agriculture. The movement explored environmentally friendly farming, as well as alternative, face-to-face local markets. Organic farming in Kerala, however, is basically export-oriented and pro-market. Nevertheless, it aims to support marginalized and small farmers, employing a package of subsidies and price guarantees. Therefore, this paper explores how the antimodern aspects of the organic agriculture movement were combined with a pro-market “alternative,” investigates the policy process that made organic agriculture a priority in Kerala., and illuminates the stresses and negotiation of agricultural policy-making in contemporary India.

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Triple Bottom Line （TBL） approach of Novo Nordisk, Danish pharmaceutical company, pursues to be responsible financially, socially and environmentally, and its performances are highly appreciated. The approach of Novo Nordisk is along with its core principles, Novo Nordisk Way, and considered to be originated from Scandinavian stakeholder theory, affected by Elkington’s works or Creating Shared Value（CSV） proposed by Porter and Kramer. In other words, Novo Nordisk puts more priorities on considering the interests of multiple stakeholders for being responsible to them. The company also prioritizes the cooperative strategic relations with stakeholders, because of the company believes that it would be significant to be sustainable for the company, society and environment, based on the past experiences. Along with the current movement, such as UN SDGs, pharmaceutical companies in Japan are also required to create long-term sustainable values. As learning from Novo Nordisk for them, the author proposes two subjects as below would be highlighted. － Integrated activities to solve socially or environmentally issues with corporate strategies based on corporate principles － Reconciliation of the conflict among multiple stakeholders

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A facilitator of the groundwater session of the Third World Water Forum commented that ‘Water is culture.′ Though water is a natural substance, it does not exist independently of humans because humans interact with nature. If we define culture as everything substantiated by human interaction, water is surely a part of culture. Nowadays a center of water issues is shifting from the realm of science to the realm of humans. Including environmental problems, issues that involve the value could not be treated by contemporary science based on Cartesian dualism. New science is necessitated, which would step into the problem of value. ‘Water is culture′ is raised here as an example to step into the problem of value in water issues.

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The news about the attempted poisoning of Ukrainian presidential candidate with dioxin was given wide coverage in the world media. The author attempted to calculate the amount of dioxin with which the candidate was poisoned,taking into consideration his toxic intake from the viewpoint of the Yusho investigation previously reported in Japan. The candidate's toxic intake was calculated at 1.75-2.20 mg-TEQ. Thi value fairly agrees with the maximum incubative amount that exhibits toxic symptoms,mainly chlor-acne.

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  The reclamation of Saemangeum area in the west coast of Korea implied for a variety of lessons in terms of environmental study and education. The adult residents' self-learning started to overcome regional environmental problems. With the meaning of implements for the shellfish gathering, “Gre” was designated by the local residents to activate and promote learning of their own culture and ecosystem in the tidal wetland area. This learning process has an emphasis on understanding and reinterpretation of life, culture and labor in the relation with communication among community members and reconstruction of reality through the process of self-learning.

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The aim of this paper is to focus upon the impact of globalization on domestic communities, consequently illustrating the necessity of 'state power' to tame the affluence of such globalization. According to the stock of globalization studies, it is more often than not said that 'state power' is declining, more to say. 'Retreat of the State'. But the reality is contrary to such recognition of 'Retreat'. In this paper, firstly we focus on the arguments of Anne-Marie Slaugter (international law) and Saskia Sassen (sociology) to show that the existing components of the state-government are still at the center role, especially as the 'regulatory power'. Slaugter describes this globally woven 'regulatory web' as the 'trans-governmental order'. Secondary, we pay attention to the important aspect of globalization, that is, the global trend of deregulation. In this rather negative aspect of globalization, we explore the U. S.-Japan comparative case studies, especially in the area of land-use regulation/deregulation as to global big-box retailers in suburbia. In this respect, we take a close look at the history of regulatory legislations in Japan. The conclusion of this U.S.-Japan comparison is that public intervention (regulatory power) is too weak, and the land-ownership is too strong in Japan, compared to other countries, including the United States. Such too weak state intervention and too strong ownership result in the undermining of the basic infrastructure of communities. So if we want to retain viable and sustainable communities, we need the 'state power' to regulate the land-use. This conclusion may seem to be paradoxical, because 'viable' communities are to be based on the free solidarity of citizens. But we should acknowledge that this paradox is inevitable. The point to be stressed is that 'power is too scarce' here.

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In recent years flooding in the urban area is becoming a serious problem in Japan. Urbanization have changed water cycle system and the volume of flood have been increased over 2-3 times and the arrival time of flood have been decreased less than half that . The essential counter meager to changed water cycle is that we reinforce water storage and infiltration ability at the hall area in the basin and back to the healthy water cycle. But it is difficult that we advance reinforcing water storage and infiltration to hall area because there are many stakeholders in the basin.

In 2009, there was a big flood along the Hiigawa rive in Fukuoka city. After that we opened citizen conference for integrated basin management of the Hiigawa rive at 4^th Oct in 2009 and proposed Fukuoka city Mayor and Fukuoka prefecture governor recommendation of river basin management.

In this paper, the recommendation is explained and some discussions are held.

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