Research theme

Urban communities are particularly vulnerable to the future demand of food, water and energy, and this is further acerbated by the onset of climate change. A solution needs to be found for a FEW nexus. Granted by Belmont Forum's Sustainable Urbanisation Global Initiative, this internationally diverse project sees urban agriculture as a key facilitator of the Nexus, needing water and energy to become productive. Working directly with living labs in some of the most vulnerable communities in the partner cities, the team aims to co-design new food futures with stakeholders that leave them less vulnerable to forces disturbing the nexus. The lessons learned from these stakeholder workshops will be shared outside the team, so that lessons learned locally can be applied globally.

Recent achievement of the Internet of Things (IoT) have brought a great opportunity for GIS to be integrated with physical space as Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). This project studies on the platform for integration of cyber and physical world with IoT and various CPS technologies. The platform could be applied for environmental field survey, construction, education and citizen participation etc.

Japan has launched the Feed-in-Tariff since July 1 2012. However the policy does not bring much benefit to communities. This is a project supported by the Ministry of Environment, Japan for promoting the community-based Solar PV business. A common based energy business model is proposed.

This project make plans for the treatment of debris caused by precedented earthquake and tsunami in costal zone of South and Southeast Sea of Japan.

With the development of urbanization, the sustainability of food is becoming important issue in every country. This project studies the rural societies and food security by enhancing information technologies in Mongolia and Tohoku Japan.

This project studies the sustainable development of mineral resources and environmental management in developing countries. Main research area is Mongolia.

The purpose of this study is to apply this concept and the framework of ecosystem assessment recommended by Millennium Assessment to Qinghai-Tibet Plateau for assessing and managing the ecosystem services in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

The impact of climate change in Mongolia, especially the loss of livestock in winter because the extreme coldness and snow cover is crucial. This project aims to develop an early warning system by sending weather forecast to herders by mobile phone, and support the actions adapting to climate change.

Climate change is such an issue that must be considered at global and local, long-term and short-term, and practiced by the integration of top-down and bottom-up, private and public approaches. This research develops postgraduate programs and actions of mitigation and adaptation at urban and regional level.

中国内蒙古自治区東部に位置するコルチン砂地における砂漠化は、過去に地域の土地条件を無視した不当な農業政策による人的行為の影響が大きい。本研究は、衛星画像で得た現況エコトープマップと歴史地図や偵察衛星の空中写真で得た各時代のエコトープマップを用いて、流動砂丘・樹林地・水面などが発生、拡大または消滅する

Cities are required to adapt to climate change in the world. Every City has its own history and process of urbanization, which bring the differences in available policies to climate change adaptation.

都市の拡大にともない，中心市街地の気温が郊外より高くなり、ヒートアイランドという現象が発達する．それによって、エネルギー消費の増大や異常気象の多発など，さまざまな環境問題をもたらしている．ヒートアイランドはコンクリートやアスファルトなどの人工的舗装面の拡大と，都市活動による人工排熱の増加に起因するも

中国四川大地震の被災都市、都江堰市の復興計画の策定及びその復興実施のプロセスの追跡と分析を通して、環境共生都市の計画及び実現手法を研究し、都市と農村の共存と発展を実現する。