In collaboration with Research Projects, the Strategic Program aims to develop concepts and methodologies to solve global environmental problems in collaboration with society.

The Strategic Program develops concepts and methodologies for transdisciplinary research to solve global environmental problems in collaboration with society. It develops comprehensive and systematic concepts and methodologies for transdisciplinary research, which are widely applicable to global environmental issues, and accessible to related stakeholders. The Strategic Program produces conceptual and methodological frameworks together with RIHN Research Projects, based on individual methods, techniques and tools from the divisions in the Fundamental Research Department. It collaborates with the Research Projects, building on the case studies developed by these Projects, and develops comprehensive and systematic methodologies beyond an individual Research Program or Project. It also delivers completed concepts and methodology to the Research Programs and Projects, the Fundamental Research Department, and related stakeholders.

We have developed research within the Strategic Program based on discussions at the Strategic Program meeting and on both internal and external discussions, focusing on collaboration with society to solve environmental issues through “methods/ tools,” “methodologies/concepts,” and “goals” lists.

Furthermore, in collaboration with Research Programs / Projects and the Fundamental Research Department, we are promoting research related to complex global environmental issues, including SDGs, carbon neutrality, nexus research, and integrated data visualization.

The Strategic Program aims to form concepts/methodologies as meta-framing along the mission of global research while implementing Strategic Projects as a bottom-up research process. In the “Future Design” Strategic Project proposing methodologies for multi-layered and diverse implementation of sustainable visions, we are identifying conditions under which different future visions can coexist and constructing methodologies to realize situations where society as a whole moves toward sustainability.

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