Kyoto University

N
LakeBiwa

琵琶湖

Shinkansen

Otsu City

東海道新幹線

大津市

Lake Biwa

Route No.18 Biwako Culture
県道18号線 Museum（大津ー草津線） 琵琶湖文化館
Biwako Hall 琵琶湖
滋賀県立芸術劇場
Hamaotsu Sta.
びわ湖ホールOtsu Prince Hotel
浜大津駅
大津プリンスホテル
SEIBU
Route No.161
Department Store
国道161号線
西武百貨店

JR Otsu Sta.
JR大津駅

JR Tokaido（Biwako Line）

Keihan Zeze Sta.
京阪膳所駅

Omi-Ohashi
近江大橋

JR東海道本線（琵琶湖線）

Meishin Highway
名神高速道路JR Zeze Sta.
JR膳所駅

Route No.1
Otsu I.C.

Nishiki Sta.
錦駅

国道1号線

Research Center for
Environmental Quality
Management
Kyoto University, Japan

名神大津I.C.

京都大学大学院工学研究科附属流域圏総合環境質研究センター

ACCESS 交通アクセス
10 minutes by car from JR Otsu Sta.
JR琵琶湖線

大津駅下車タクシー10分

15 minutes on foot from Zeze Sta.
(JR&Keihan Railways)
膳所駅（JR＆京阪）下車徒歩15分

7 minutes on foot from Keihan Nishiki Sta.
京阪石坂線

錦駅下車徒歩7分

10 minutes by car from Otsu I.C.
(Meishin Highway)
名神大津インターから10分

Research Center
for Environmental Quality Management
Kyoto University

京都大学大学院工学研究科附属 流域圏総合環境質研究センター

1-2 Yumihama, Otsu, 520-0811. Japan
Phone ＋81-77-527-6220〜4
FAX ＋81-77-524-9869〒520-0811 滋賀県大津市由美浜1-2
TEL 077-527-6220〜4
FAX 077-524-9869
http://www.eqc.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Research Center for
Environmental Quality Management

ResearchOutlineActivities■ The Research Center for Environmental Quality Management (RCEQM) was inaugurated in 2005.

ResearchIt has three research and educational divisions: Environmental Quality Management,● Domestic and international research

Environmental Quality Prediction, and Environmental Quality Monitoring.

● Academia‒society collaboration for innovation

Education

Outreach■ The main goal of the RCEQM is to become an advanced research and educational institution, byintegrating various ﬁelds of expertise to target integrated watershed management and toEducation

investigate the adverse eﬀects of existing and new environmental contaminants on human● Lectures, including international e-learning

health and ecosystems.

● Opportunities for both domestic and foreign students■ The RCEQMʼs research and education will contribute greatly toward solving current and futureenvironmental problems.

Outreach● Cooperative research with international, national, and local governments, the private sector, andResearch at RCEQM
To create and maintain a healthy, safe, resilient environment through:■ Risk-based, integrated watershed management that considers the eﬀects of climate change onhydrology and water quality, the environmental risk assessment of toxic chemicals, and governance.
■ Development of innovative technologies for managing and controlling contaminants in theenvironment. Sitting on the shore of Lake Biwa and near a municipal wastewater treatment
plant, the RCEQM focuses on the management and pollution in the lake and its watershed andon municipal wastewater management.
■ Revealing how human activity

and nature generate contaminants, and the fate and eﬀects
of pollutants in the environment.
■ Assays of environmental toxicity

and biology, technologies forthe management of contaminants, and establishment of anurban water recycling system.

private companies● Technical, scientiﬁc and public seminars

Research topics
Environmental Quality Management◆ Integrated watershed management of lotic and lentic water environments in Japan and Asia
◆ Taxonomy of natural organic matter to understand its role and function in the aquatic environment

and in water and wastewater treatment◆ Development of bio-mimic sensors for evaluating environmental toxicity◆ Development of innovative genotoxicity tests◆ Evaluation of the toxicity of chemicals by using “Omics” approaches: proteome, genome,transcriptome, metabolome, DNA adductomeEnvironmental Quality Prediction◆ Water quality management for a healthy aquatic ecosystem◆ Risk management of emerging pollutants in water recycling systems◆ Municipal wastewater management, including advanced water treatment and countermeasuresagainst combined sewer overﬂows◆ Water reclamation and reuse◆ Pathogen control in wastewater, water reuse and the aquatic environment

Environmental Quality Monitoring◆ Cooperative research and education with visiting foreign scholars