June 29th, 2023

Proposals

The Graduate Institute for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI Global Environmental Studies Program (Doctoral Program, 2024 enrollment)

Outline

The program of Global Environmental Studies is based on international research projects promoted by the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN). This interdisciplinary research with elements of transdisciplinarity utilizes a problem-solving approach in collaboration with society. The program is designed for students to gain knowledge and methodologies accumulated by the academic fields that constitute Global Environmental Studies and to become independent researchers who will engage in solving global environmental issues with their expertise. In addition, the program will provide research training that avails the research environment for cutting-edge research and the advantages of small-group education.

RIHN Research

● Mission
To lead the way in the comprehensive study of the environment that aims for a practice directed towards solving global environmental problems and a fundamental and inclusive understanding of the mutual interaction of humans and nature, based on interdisciplinary research that fuses humanities, social science and natural science and as well as transdisciplinary research that cooperates and collaborates with society.　



●Structure of the RIHN Research (Research Department）
The Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN) is developing comprehensive research that transcends existing academic fields and disciplines through a “Program–Project system” that unites several research projects under a Program. The Programs consist of a Research Program and Strategic Program, with several research projects under each Program. The research projects are conducted in accordance with the priority issues set for each Program.
　▶︎ Program/Project



●RIHN Center and Strategic Planning and Management Department
The RIHN Center has been established to support overall research activities at RIHN through providing research infrastructure and to promote collaboration with various stakeholders in society toward the establishment of global environmental science. In addition, the Strategic Planning and Management Department has been established to promote the continuous utilization of diverse research results from Research Programs and Projects and to promote the management of RIHN. The RIHN Center and the Strategic Planning and Management Department are responsible for a wide variety of tasks in cooperation with Programs and Projects while conducting research in global environmental science. Because conducted research spans in wide range, please refer to the List of Faculty Members below for information on individual research field.

List of Faculty Members

Notes: 1.Name, 2.Expertise, 3.Research topic, 4.Research keyword(s), 5.Additional information

▼ Professor
1. SHOBAYASHI Mikitaro (Research Department)
2. Agriculture and agri-environmental policies, Water resources policies, rural development, agricultural economics
3. Research on policies to improve the relationship among agriculture, the environment, land and water resources
4. Global environmental issues, the role of the recognized community in the creation of agri-environmental policies, multi-functions and agricultural trade policies
1. SHINJO Ryuichi (Research Department)
2. Petrology and mineralogy, Isotope geochemistry
3. Research on the geology and water cycle of coral reef islands and marine paleoenvironmental study using geochemical analyses
4. Environmental tracer, isotope, geochemical cycle, resource utilization, Marine Paleoenvironment, Restoration
5. LINKAGE Project
1. TANIGUCHI Makoto (RIHN Center)
2. Hydrology
3. Research on issues linking a region and the earth such as the linkage between water, energy, and food, and climate change
4. Water circulation, sustainability science, underground water, underground warming, resources and diversity
1. TAYASU Ichiro (RIHN Center)
2. Isotope ecology, environmental isotope study
3. Research on the relationship between organisms and the environment, ecosystems, and the global environment through stable isotope analysis of elements contained in organisms, water, and environmental samples, and research on environmental traceability (provenance and history estimation) based on isotopic information.
4. Stable isotope, ecology, food web, ecosystem, global environment
5. https://www.environmentalisotope.jp
1. NAKAGAWA Yoshinori (Research Department)
2. Future studies, qualitative research
3. Research to solve problems that involve conflicts between current and future generations through field research on the practice of organizations and communities shaping their own long-term visions with global sustainability as a constraint, and the development of methodologies to support such practice.
4. Future Design
5. Google Scholar
1. HAYASHI Kentaro (Research Department)
2. Biogeochemistry, Soil Science
3. Research on nitrogen cycling based on biogeochemical studies and integrating various fields for sustainable nitrogen use for future generations.
4. Nitrogen cycling, atmosphere, soil, atmosphere-land interaction
5. https://www.chikyu.ac.jp/Sustai-N-able/index.html
1. MATSUDA Motoji (Research Department)
2. Cultural Anthropology, Environmental Sociology
3. Conflict and dialogue between culture and science at field sites where global environmental issues arise, and exploration of convivial relationship between them.
4. Culture, Indigenous Knowledge, Community, Everyday Life World
▼ Associate Professor
1. ISHII Reiichiro (RIHN Center)
2. Theoretical ecology
3. Research aimed at elucidating the sustainability of ecosystems and biodiversity and their conditions under multiple human activities using diverse ecosystem observation data and modeling methods.
4. Ecosystem/biodiversity sustainability, compound anthropogenic factors, mechanistic model
1. Grace Wong (Research Department)
2. Forest and natural resource economics, development studies
3. Research focuses on social-environmental justice and politics of forest frontiers, social forestry and climate change.
4. Forest and climate change, equity, critical policy studies, Southeast Asia, gender
5. https://www.stockholmresilience.org/meet-our-team/staff/2018-03-06-wong.html
1. KUMAZAWA Terukazu (RIHN Center)
2. Regional planning, environmental informatics
3. Research on empirical analysis and method development for designing future society by sharing people's knowledge about environmental issues and local communities.
4. Environmental and social design, environmental information, regional context, sustainability knowledge, ontology engineering
5. https://digitalfudo.jp
1. KONDO Yasuhisa (Strategic Planning and Management Department)
2. Archaeological geography, environmental sociology, Science of Team Science
3. Research on archaeological geography of Arabia and community capability development based on the integration of open science and interdisciplinary co-creation theories.
4. Archaeology, anthropology, cultural studies, geographic information, Open Team Science
1. SHIN Ki-Cheol (RIHN Center)
2. Petrology, Geochemistry, Isotope geology
3. Research on the environmental assessment of Global Environmental Studies by using traceability methods utilizing isotopic and geological information of metal elements.
4. Metal element isotope, geological information, traceability
1. Daniel Niles (Strategic Planning and Management Department)
2. Geography
3. human-environmental geography specializing in sustainability studies, material culture, and environmental knowledge.
4. Human-environmental geography; sustainability studies; material culture; environmental humanities; sustainable agriculture
5. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Daniel-Niles
1. MATSUMTO Tae (RIHN Center)
2. Educational Technology
3. Research on the development of systems and data analysis methods to effectively utilize advanced technologies, etc., in order to realize data-driven education.
4. E-learning, AI, Gamification, Learning support systems, Database science

Research Support

●Research Assistant (RA)
Under the direction and supervision of a faculty member, a research assistant earns wages while assisting the researcher in performing a variety of tasks necessary for research activities.



●Admission Fee/Tuition Exemption, etc.
A system of admission/tuition fee waiver (Payment Postponement) is available to provide financial assistance to students who are unable to pay the admission fee/tuition due to financial difficulties. Applications for tuition fee waiver are accepted twice a year. Those who are approved for tuition fee waiver are exempted from the full or half amount of tuition fee for the semester.
　▶︎ SOKENDAI Website



●Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
JSPS Doctoral Course Research Fellowships (DC1・DC2)
To provide outstanding young researchers at an early stage in their careers the opportunity to choose their own research topics, etc. independently based on free thinking and focus on advancing their research in fostering creative researchers who will become future leaders of scientific research in Japan, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (“JSPS”) solicits Research Fellowships for Young Scientists and provides support to graduate students enrolled in doctoral courses and doctoral degree holders with outstanding research skills who wish to pursue research at universities and other research institutions.
　▶︎ SOKENDAI Website

Selection of SOKENDAI Ph.D students 2024

(Schedule of Admissions, Application Guidelines, etc.)
Scheduled to be released in August on SOKENDAI Website

Information Session

We will hold an Information Session as follows;

Time:
（1）Thursday, September 21, 2023 13:30～14:30 JST (English, in-person + online)
（2）Thursday, September 21, 2023 15:00～17:00 JST (Japanese, in-person + online)
Place:
Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN) (in-person participation)
Program (tentative)
  • Explanation on Global Environmental Studies Program Outline
  • Explanation of the entrance examination
  • Tour of the RIHN Building (Available for those who join in person. On Thu, Sep 21, 2023, starting at 16:00 JST, Language: Japanese)
  • Q&A
  • Meeting with a potential supervisor (faculty) (if desired)
Participants:
Those considering applying to the Doctoral Program (Master’s degree holders or equivalent) and those interested in this program
Participation:
Please apply from the Admissions Information Session page.
Deadline:
(1), (2)Monday September 18, 2023 JST
Contact
General Affairs and Planning Subsection (Graduate School Team), General Affairs Section, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
Email： gakumu(at)chikyu.ac.jp * Please replace "(at)" with "@".
Tel: 075-707-2152, 2454
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