Professor ITO Tetsuji is a professor of social psychology at college of Humanities and Social Sciences, and vice-director of Global and Local environment Co-creation Institute (GLEC), Ibaraki University in Japan. He received the M.A. and Ph.D degree in Graduate School of Literature, Nagoya University. He had an experience of staying in Hanoi more than one year in total as a researcher and now one of the lecturers of MCCD in Vietnam Japan University. He is interested in the human conflicts in a society. Active fieldwork and connecting keypersons are his main methodology to approach the human nature.Dr. TAMURA Makoto is an associate professor at the Global and Local Environment Co-creation Institute (GLEC), Ibaraki University in Japan and a core member of MCCD in Vietnam-Japan University. He received the M.A. and Ph.D degrees in Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo. His research interest is the impact assessment and countermeasures for climate change, andthe interrelationship between economic activity and environment.Dr. KOTERA Akihiko is a lecturer at the Global and Local Environment Co-creation Institute (GLEC), Ibaraki University in Japan. He received the M.A. and the Ph.D. in Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University. He specializes in Agro-Environmental Informatics and his main area of interest is the climate change impacts in Southeast Asia, especially Vietnam.Dr. ISHIKAWA-ISHIWATA Yuki is an assistant professor at the Global and Local Environment Co-creation Institute (GLEC), Ibaraki University in Japan, and a core member of MCCD in Vietnam-Japan University. She received the M.A. degrees in Graduate School of Engineering (currently, Graduate School of Science and Engineering), Soka University, and Ph.D. degrees in Graduate School of Science and Engineering in Ishinomaki Senshu University. Her research interest is the impact of climate change on the dynamics of the ecosystem and agriculture.
