Project List (2005)


Full Research and Pre-Research

Axis 1 Environmental Change Impact Assessment

1-1 FR 4 Impact of Climate Changes on Agricultural Production System in the Arid Areas
WATANABE Tsugihiro
1-2 FR 3 Recent Rapid Change of Water Circulation in the Yellow River and Its Effects on the Environment
FUKUSHIMA Yoshihiro

Axis 2 Human Activity Impact Assessment

2-1 FR 4 Emissions of Greenhouse Gases and Aerosols, and Human Activities in the East Asia
HAYASAKA Tadahiro
2-2 FR 3 Sustainability and Biodiversity Assessment on Forest Utilization Options
NAKASHIZUKA Tohru
2-3 FR 1 Human Activities in Northeastern Asia and Their Impact on the Biological Productivity in North Pacific Ocean
NARITA Hideki
2-4 PR Human Activity Impacts on Urban Subsurface Environments
TANIGUCHI, Makoto
2-5 PR Erosion of Genetic Diversity as a Social, Ecological and Environmental Problem
SATO Yo-Ichiro

Axis 3 Spacial Scale

3-1 FR 4 Multi-Disciplinary Research for Understanding Interactions between Humans and Nature in the Lake Biwa-Yodo River Watershed
YACHI Shigeo
3-2 FR 2 Interaction between Natural Environment and Human Social Systems in Subtropical Islands
TAKASO Tokushiro

Axis 4 History and Time Scale

4-1 FR 4 Historical Evolution of the Adaptability in an Oasis Region to Water Resource Changes
NAKAWO Masayoshi
4-2 FR 3 A Trans-Disciplinary Study on Regional Eco-History in Tropical Monsoon Asia:1945-2005
AKIMICHI Tomoya

Axis 5 Conceptual Framework for Global Environmental Issues

5-1 FR 4 Global Water Cycle Variation and the Current World Water Resources Issues and Their Perspectives
KANAE Shinjiro
5-2 FR 2 Interactions between the Environmental Quality of a Watershed and the Environmental Consciousness: With Reference to Environmental Changes Caused by the Use of Land and Water Resources
YOSHIOKA Takahito
5-3 PR A New Cultural and Historical Exploration into Human-Nature Relationships in the Japanese Archipelago
YUMOTO Takakazu

Feasibility Studies

1-3 FS Vulnerability and Resilience of Social-Ecological Systems
UMETSU Chieko
2-6 FS Clarification of Materials Circulatory Systems Changes in East Asia as a Result of the Use of Geo-spherical Resources
NAKANO Takanori
3-3 FS Environmental Change and the Indus Civilization
OSADA Toshiki
4-4 FS Neolithisation and Modernisation: Landscape History on East Asian Inland Seas
UCHIYAMA Junzo
4-5 FS Historical Interactions between Hybrid Society of Ethnic Groups and the Natural Environment in a Semi-arid Region, Central Eurasia
KUBOTA Jumpei
5-4 FS Interactions between humans and harmful biological agents in degraded freshwater ecosystems
KAWABATA Zen'ichiro (This project was converted to FS in October 2005)

Incubation Studies

  IS Hypoxic environment at high altitude - human aging and diseases in association with ecology, culture and nature
OKUMIYA Kiyohito (RIHN)
  IS Interactions between humans and harmful biological agents in degraded freshwater ecosystems
KAWABATA Zen'ichiro (RIHN) (This project was converted to FS in October 2005)
  IS On-farm conservation: Environmental compatibility of a traditional farming system and lifestyle
SATO Tadashi (Tohoku University)
  IS Historical Interaction between Nomadic States' Activities and Environmental Trasformation in the High-Latitude Asian Steppe Region
SHIRAISHI Noriyuki (Niigata University)
  IS A design of the self-reliant and sustainable local communities: A case study on Ise Bay basin area
TAKANO, Masao (Nagoya University)
  IS Change and stability in environment: Why do people have a fear of environmental change?
TAKEUCHI Nozomu (RIHN)
  IS Cooperative society development for cross national environmental issues in East Asia
ZHENG Yuejun (RIHN)
  IS Better understanding the interaction between carbon circulation and human activities in Asia
HONDA Yoshiaki (Chiba University)
  IS Environmental changes and human life in loess Plateau: the chinese environmental history
MURAMATSU Koichi (Gakushuin University)
  IS Infectious Diseases as a Global Environmental Problem - A Human Ecological Approach to Insect-Mediated Disease
MOJI Kazuhiko (Nagasaki University)
  IS Reconstruction of the high resolution environmental history and high-precision chronology by the analysis of annualy laminated sediments
YASUDA Yoshinori (International Research Center for Japanese Studies)

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