Research Program

Research programs conduct research on specific global environmental issues through collaborative practice in society by promoting multiple research projects.
There are three types of Research Programs: "Global Environmental Culture Program," "Combining Knowledge for a Fundamental Innovation of Land Use" and "Co-creation of the Earth-human System" and each project belongs to one of these programs.

• Global Environmental Culture Program
• Combining Knowledge for a Fundamental Innovation of Land Use
• Co-creation of the Earth-human System

Co-creation of the Earth-human System Program

Aakash Project

An Interdisciplinary Study Toward Clean Air, Public Health and Sustainable Agriculture: The Case of Crop Residue Burning in North India

Combining Knowledge for a Fundamental Innovation of Land Use Program

FairFrontiers Project

Fair for Whom? Politics, Power and Precarity in Transformations of Tropical Forest-agriculture Frontiers

Co-creation of the Earth-human System Program

LINKAGE Project

Adaptive Governance of Multiple Resources based on Land-Sea Linkages of the Water Cycle: Application to Coral Reef Island Systems

Co-creation of the Earth-human System Program

Sustai-N-able Project

Towards Sustainable Nitrogen Use Connecting Human Society and Nature

Global Environmental Culture Program

Organic Material Circulation Project

Building up organic material circulation system among urban and rural area: Toward the integration of local perception and scientific knowledge

Global Environmental Culture Program

SceNE Project

High-resolution reconstruction of resilient indigenous lifestyle in environmental changes to future collective knowledge deduced from the fusion of science and arts

Feasibility Study

• Global Environmental Culture Program
  • Coproduction Research with Local Practice and Science for Sustainable and Fair Hunting of Forest Wildlife
• Combining Knowledge for a Fundamental Innovation of Land Use Program
  • Satoyama Reconnections: Engaging communities in resilient, nature- and climate-positive land use futures
  • Designing payments for ecosystem services to innovate farmland use
  • Nature- and culture-based solutions for disaster mitigation and ecosystem conservation in floodplain landscapes: co-creative designs of floodplain communities for river basin disaster resilience and sustainability with nature positive practices
  • Navigating the Transition: Policy pathways for amplifying Living-as-Nature in land-use practices
  • Projection of land use orders in the bioeconomy era
  • Establishment of a new land use policy system of rural area that simultaneously realizes decarbonization, stable food supply, and solution of local issues
• Co-creation of the Earth-human System Program
  • Enhancing disaster resilience of socio-ecological systems: Integrating multiscalar and geospatial environmental-hydrological-social data
  • Empirical research on improving area capabilities using the creative process of deviation in art projects
  • Establishing the methodology of attitude and behavior change through integrating narrative and scientific knowledge based on citizen science and deliberation: Case of climate change

Strategic Program

In collaboration with research projects, strategic program aims to develop concepts and methodologies to solve global environmental problems in collaboration with society.

• Strategic Program outline

Future Design Project

Development and Pluralistic Coexistence of Sustainability Visions Through Future Design