Nagasaki University STAR Research Platform on Collective Survival in the Anthropocene
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In May 2024, the NURECSA project has been terminated and a instead a new project (NUPPRI) has started from July 2024. For details please see the NUPPRI website.

For all forthcoming events see Conferences and Seminars.

About NURECSA

Welcome to the homepage of the Nagasaki University STAR Research Platform on Collective Survival in the Anthropocene: Development of an Analytical Framework for Glocal Governance Responses to Global Catastrophic Risks  (NURECSA).   

The platform is based on a project seed funding by Nagasaki University and its goals are to promote trans-disciplinary research between various fields in natural and social sciences to contribute to our knowledge about global and local risks generated or aggravated by the human factor and posing threats to the collective survival of life on planet Earth. Among its primary research areas are investigation of pandemics, climate shift, environmental degradation, nuclear proliferation and conflict escalation. It seeks to promote collaboration between scholars in Japan and around the globe to support development of research and interchange of knowledge.

NURECSA is open to researchers interested in investigating about interactions between human and natural phenomena in challenging and innovative ways. It focuses on the complex entanglements of animate and inanimate factors in processes, such as deforestation, urbanization and human-animal interface, desertification, ocean level rise, extreme weather events, nuclear miniaturization, proliferation permissiveness of weapons of mass destruction, migration, terrorism, intensification of ethnic hatreds, and communal violence. Its interests vary from explicating micro-level phenomena, such as femto- or pico-scale implications of weak nuclear interactions or photon absorption, nano-scale events such as virus modification or carbon dioxide absorption, through more mezzo-level based human and societal processes, and to macro-level planetary scale phenomena such as climate disruptions, pandemic outbreaks, and risks of global nuclear wars. This research platform recognizes the differences among various disciplines and their research programs, and attempts at traversing their inner logics and discovering ruptures and thematic linkages to build a framework for understanding dangers where human actions are deeply interlinked with nature, and searching for pathways to collective survival in the age of the Anthropocene.

 We are proud to be committed to methodological and theoretical pluralism and to welcome comments and participation from around the world. To find more information about our goals and activities visit us here.