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The RIHN Encyclopedia of Global
Environmental Studies

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•Mission and Goals

Towards Environmental Humanics
of the Earth System

Research Domains

•Research Projects

Progressing/Completed Research

1. CIRCULATION

<Completed Research>

• Human Activities in North-eastern Asia and Their Impact on the Biological Productivity in North Pacific Ocean
• Human Impacts on Urban Subsurface Environments

<Full Research>

• Effects of Environmental Changes on the Interactions between Pathogens and Humans
• Global Warming and the Human-Nature Dimension in Siberia
• Megacities and the Global Environment
• ^*Designing Local Frameworks for Integrated Water Resources Management

^* Initiative based project

2. DIVERSITY

<Completed Research>

• A New Cultural and Historical Exploration into Human-Nature Relationships in the Japanese Archipelago

<Full Research>

• Human Life, Aging, and Disease in High-Altitude Environments: Physio-medical, Ecological and Cultural Adaptation in the Three Great "Highland Civilizations"
• Collapse and Restoration of Ecosystem Networks with Human Activity

3. RESOURCES

<Full Research>

• Historical Interactions between the Multi-Cultural Societies and the Natural Environment in a Semi-Arid Region in Central Eurasia
• Environmental Changes and Infectious Diseases in Tropical Asia
• A Study of Human Subsistence Ecosystems in Arab Societies: To Combat Livelihood Degradation for the Post-Oil Era
• Managing Environmental Risks to Food and Health Security in Asian Watersheds

4. ECOHISTORY

<Completed Research>

• Agriculture and Environment Interactions in Eurasia: Past, Present and Future

<Full Research>

• Environmental Change and the Indus Civilization
• Noelithisation and Modernisation: Landscape History on East Asian Inland Seas

5. ECOSOPHY

<Full Research>

• Vulnerability and Resilience of Social-Ecological Systems

Research Project Structure in the Second Phase

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