| 内容 |
Recently, the destruction of the Earth’s environment has reached to the utmost limit by selfish activities of human beings. It is necessary for remaining the clean and green earth for future generations to develop an eco-friendly town. As a city of the Kyoto Protocol was adopted at the third Seccion of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change(COP3), Kyoto city puts great effort into promoting environmental protection. Moreover, Kyoto city has received recognition as an eco-friendly city in the international community. Kyoto city establishes the image of a city focuses on environmental conservation. However, unlike as the true eco-friendly city, Kyoto city is the label of an “eco” city. Therefore, through the comparison of Kyoto city and Freiburg, this thesis tries to show whether Kyoto city is in fact an eco-friendly city. As a result, this study found that it is necessary for a true eco-friendly city that Kyoto city should deploy activities created by a harmonious combination of citizens, companies, and the government, and taken advantage of a characteristic of a city. |
| 講評 |
Congratulations to the Stevenson Seminar members of the graduating class of 2019! This year’s graduation theses covered a broad range of “globalization, education and culture” issues, spanning topics of ethics in curricula, environmental awareness, fashion, sustainability, concepts of beauty, shutaisei, overseas study, and adventure. Methodologies were nearly as diverse, including the use of text (primary and secondary), qualitative interviews, questionnaires, and field observations. Befitting a university and department that value the moral dimensions of education, nearly all of the theses share an explicit or implicit focus on conscious. In addition, each paper includes an original component, demonstrating the students’ ability to work with new topics or take a new approach to a familiar theme. Also, apart from the normal challenges of researching and writing, each student used at least a few non-Japanese-language sources, and all students wrote their papers in English, evidencing both language ability and tremendous effort. The end result is a collection of papers that have contributed to the growth of the students in terms of both technical skill and intellectual development, and of which the seminar should be proud. |
