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1. CIRCULATION

<Completed Research>

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

<Full Research>

• Human Impacts on Urban Subsurface Environments
• 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

2. DIVERSITY

<Completed Research>

<Full Research>

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

<Completed Research>

<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

4. ECOHISTORY

<Full Research>

• Agriculture and Environment Interactions in Eurasia: Past, Present and Future
• Environmental Change and the Indus Civilization
• Noelithisation and Modernisation: Landscape History on East Asian Inland Seas

5. ECOSOPHY

<Completed Research>

• Interaction between Environmental Quality of the Watershed and Environmental Consciousness: With Reference to Environmental Changes Caused by the Use of Land and Water Resource
• Interactions between Natural Environment and Human Social Systems in Subtropical Islands

<Full Research>

• Vulnerability and Resilience of Social-Ecological Systems

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