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Message from the Director-General
Research Activities  Full Research  Pre Research  Incubation Studies

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Outreach Program and Events   RIHN International Symposium   Symposium of Environmental Isotope Study   RIHN Public Seminars   Kyoto Municipal Science Center For Youth “Future Scientist Training Course”   RIHN Open House  RIHN Area Seminars  RIHN Tokyo Seminar   The Earth Forum Kyoto; Special Session and International Symposium   The Earth Hall of Fame KYOTO  RIHN Seminars   Lunch Seminars (Danwakai)   RIHN General Meeting (RGM)  Press Conferences  Publications

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Appendices
1. Number and Affiliation of Project Members
2. Research Fields of Project Members
3. Research Project Sites

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Message from the Director-General
The Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN) was established in April 2001 to conduct integrated
research in the field of global environmental studies. In 2004, RIHN became one of the original members of the
National Institutes for the Humanities (NIHU), as an Inter-University Research Institute Corporation.
Environmental degradation can be understood as an imbalance in interactions between human beings and natural
systems. Our mission is therefore to conduct solution-oriented research aimed at exploring how interactions between
humanity and nature ought to be. RIHN conducts interdisciplinary research spanning the natural sciences, humanities,
and social sciences, and transdisciplinary research, collaborating with various stakeholders in society.
Fiscal year 2018 marks the second year of our Phase III Medium-Term Plan. Under the three Research Programs,
and one Core Program, we conducted more than eight full research projects. The RIHN Center was promoting toorganically integrate and support the Research Programs/Projects, including both domestic and international collaboration. As part of RIHN’s international activities, RIHN is hosting the Asian Regional Centre for Future Earth, whichis expected to promote the overall research and capacity buildings of Future Earth in Asia. Under the initiative ofDirector General (with the Council for Research Strategy), the Public Relations Unit and the Institutional Research(IR) Unit functioned actively. The International Publication Unit (IPU) was also established in FY2018. With the new
structure in place, we are pursuing our mission even more vigorously through enhanced collaboration within our institute, across our diverse research community, and with society in general.
This annual report describes the updated outcome of these activities of RIHN for the FY2018. I do hope this reportwill help you to understand the overall activity within the FY2018.
With best regards,
YASUNARI Tetsuzo
Director-General
Research Institute for Humanity and Nature

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Research Activities●Full Research[Research Program 1: Societal Transformation under Environmental Change]
Program Director: SUGIHARA Kaoru

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Project Name:

Societal Adaptation to Climate Change:
Integrating Palaeoclimatological Data with Historical and Archaeological Evidences
Project leader: NAKATSUKA Takeshi

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Project Name:

Toward the Regeneration of Tropical Peatland Societies: Building International Research
Network on Paludiculture and Sustainable Peatland Management
Project leader: MIZUNO Kosuke
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Project Name:

Research and Social Implementation of Ecosystem-based Disaster Risk Reduction
as Climate Change Adaptation in Shrinking Societies
Project leader: YOSHIDA Takehito[Research Program 2: Fair use and management of diverse resources]
Program Director: NAKASHIZUKA Toru

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Project Name: Biodiversity-driven Nutrient Cycling and Human Well-being in Social-ecological Systems
Project leader: OKUDA Noboru
p. 49[Research Program 3: Designing Lifeworlds of Sustainability and Wellbeing]
Program Director: SAIJO Tatsuyoshi

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Project Name:

Lifeworlds of Sustainable Food Consumption and Production: Agrifood Systems
in Transition
Project leader: MCGREEVY, Steven Robertp. 59

Project Name: The Sanitation Value Chain: Designing Sanitation Systems as Eco-Community-Value System
Project leader: YAMAUCHI Tarop. 69
[Core Program]
Program Director: TANIGUCHI Makoto

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Project Name:

Proposal and Verification of the Validity of Isotope Environmental Traceability Methodology
in Environmental Studies
Project leader: TAYASU Ichiro
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Project Name: Information Asymmetry Reduction in Open Team Science for Socio-environmental Cases
Project leader: KONDO Yasuhisa
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●Pre Research
Project Name:

Co-creation of Sustainable Regional Innovation for Reducing Risk of High-impact
Environmental Pollution
Project leader: SAKAKIBARA Masayuki

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Project Name: Mapping the Environmental Impact Footprint of Cities, Companies, and Household
Project leader: KANEMOTO Keiichiro

p. 102●Individual Collaboration FS
1. Future Image of Living Sphere by Restructuring Sustainable Relation between Humans and Land
OKABE Akiko (University of Tokyo)●Institutional Collaboration FS
1. Fair and Equitable Benefit Sharing of Biological and Genetic Resources in the Era of Digital Information:
Improving Livelihoods and Agrobiodiversity Conservation by Intellectual Property and Storylines
KOHSAKA Ryo (Tohoku University)
2. Transformation and Reconstruction of Agri-Cultural Diversity in Southeast Asia
MATSUDA Hirotaka (Tokyo University of Agriculture)
3. Developing Interactive Rural-Urban Systems to Improve Human Well-being: Migration for Humanity and Nature
MORI Koichiro (Shiga University)
4. Study of Behavior Modification of Public People by Sharing Daily Activity and Air Quality Information toward
Clean Air and Promoting Public Health
HAYASHIDA Sachiko (Nara Women’s University)●Core FS
2. Co-design and stakeholder engagement according to geographical scales
ONISHI Yuko (RIHN)●Incubation Studies
1. Humanities for the Environment: Developing a Cultural Approach to Environmental Knowledge
NILES Daniel (RIHN)
2. Assessing and enhancing the environmental sustainability from edible insects
CÉSARD Nicolas (National Museum of Natural History, France)
3. Quantifying and Typing Landform Transformations in Low-lying Large Cities:
Toward Landscape Evaluations in Anthropocene
HARA Yuji (Wakayama University)
4. Sustainable Urban Design using Inclusive Wealth
MANAGI Shunsuke (Kyushu University)
5. Study for energy transition policy and strategy towards RE100% Asian cities
KOBASHI Takuro (Renewable Energy Institute)

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Research Program1: Societal Transformation under Environmental Change
Program Director: SUGIHARA Kaoru

Goal of the Program

Mission Statement
To demonstrate the fundamental significance of global environmental sustainability for human society, we need to make the links
between environmental change and natural disasters, and social issues such as livelihood, inequality, social security and conflict,intellectually explicit, and reinforce them in the real world. RIHN’s Societal Transformation under Environmental Change
research program contributes to this task.
The Program follows two lines of inquiry. The first conducts research on Asia’s long-term paths of social and economic
development in relation to climate change and environmental history. Such studies offer historical understandings of the humannature interface, and evaluate each region ’ s political and economic conditions and cultural and social potentialities incomparative perspective. For example, postwar development of the industrial complex along the Asia’s Pacific coast was madepossible by the combination of imported fossil fuels and utilization of rich local resources of land, water and biomass. Industrial
development in the region produced both rapid economic growth and at times severe environmental pollution and degradation. It
is important to recognize the causes and consequences of these historical processes in their own light, as well as for theirsignificance to future societal change and policy deliberations.
The Program’s second line of inquiry examines the kinds of motivations that affect people’s livelihood, by working closely withvarious stakeholders in local society in Asia. Our project based in Sumatra’s tropical peat swamp forest, for example, has
identified four principal kinds of motivations - local livelihood; profit of local farmers and agricultural and industrial enterprises;
local and centrally-based governance; and conservation measures implemented by governments, NGOs and international
institutions -, and examines how they can best be coordinated to promote sustainability at the village level. Project research also
helps implement policies at local, national and international levels. This ongoing project, which cooperates with local
universities, companies and officials, has already contributed to the development of regional and national policies to control
peatland fires, which became a significant environmental issue in Indonesia and beyond.
This program coordinates a variety of research projects along these lines in order to develop a perspective that helps direct
research and social transformation in Asia.

○ Progress and Results in 2018
Nakatsuka project: FR5

The project is coming to the final stage, and I am pleased to comment that it is most likely to yield excellent results withsummary English-language publications (see Project Report). The long-term temperature/ rainfall data have been created andtested against historical events to the 18th century, and plausible interpretations are being formulated.
Following the successful panel Professor Nakatsuka and I organized at the Annual Meeting of the Socio-economic History
Society in Tokyo in May 2017, we organized a session at the World Economic History Congress, Boston, in July-August 2018,with additional speakers including specialists on China, Europe and modern Japan (from France, the U.K. and the U.S.), todiscuss the impact of the Nakatsuka group data and its implications for comparative environmental history. Members of the
project discussed the possibility of reinterpretation of Tokugawa and early Meiji societies in the light of climate and rainfall data,
while discussants commented on its utility for comparative history, especially with China and Europe. Professor Bruce Campbell,in particular, presented a European comparative perspective, especially with reference to medieval Europe. I responded to his
presentation by proposing the twin approach to global history, to argue that population-based global history, in which Asia
features largely, is just as relevant as GDP-based global history in which the ‘European miracle’ narrative remains fundamental,
for the understanding of the change in the relationships between human activities and the environment. It was clear that climate
history has much to offer for advancing the methodology of global history.

Mizuno project: FR2

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This program aims at providing realistic perspectives and options to facilitate the transformation towards a society that can
flexibly respond to environmental changes caused by human activities such as global warming and air pollution, as well as tonatural disasters.

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This project is concerned with the environmentally vulnerable societies in tropical peatland. It has the most ambitious
interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research design in this field, with fully developed academic and political contacts inIndonesia. It conducts broadly three lines of research; the socio-economic, political and historical analysis of the communities,
corporations and governance structure; the climate change and peat development studies focusing on rainfall, water and material
cycles; and international comparisons of the Indonesian cases. In collaboration with other projects funded by JICA, CIFOR andat Kyoto University, the project made a good progress, particularly on the first two lines of research this year (see Project
Report). The arrival of Professor Yamanaka, a senior specialist of climate-rainfall research, energized the project, and a wider
range of data, both chronological and geographical, were assembled and were then related to the interpretation of the field work.
Other researchers employed at RIHN were active in both field research and networking activities (e.g. newsletters and the homepage). An English-language volume is planned for publication.
Professor Mizuno retired as project leader in March 2019, and was replaced by Professor Kozan, current sub-leader. Professor
Mizuno will continue his own research and offer advice to the project.

Yoshida project: FR 1
In addition to assembling an impressive range of leading researchers and identifying the three main sites of field work in various
parts of Japan, this project decided the methodological focus around the interdisciplinary evaluation of ecosystem-based disasterrisk reduction more clearly than a year ago. In its first year it began the work both at national level research, identifying data andhazard maps, and in local sites, collecting the stock of knowledge on local history, eco-system and policy efforts on disasters
themselves. Some of the existing approaches at the local level (e.g. in Shiga prefecture) already has innovative methodologies on
disaster reduction, combining interdisciplinary knowledge. In view of this kind of development, there may be a greater need to
conduct the English-language literature review for a broader contextualization in the coming years.
I am impressed with the breadth of high-level information gathered from academia, local government officials and some firms(see Project Report). It is expected that the project will be in touch with international collaborative projects on a more regularbasis next year.

Research directives
About a third of my time has been spent on integrating my own research into the context of Program Directorship and, through it,
the RIHN mission. I had several publication commitments before moving to RIHN. First, I have been a project leader at the JSPS
‘Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas’ (Shingakujutsu) at GRIPS, my previous affiliation in Tokyo. The
project ended in March 2018, and the main research outcome is being published in four volumes from Springer. I wrote a chapter
on the Asian development path in Volume 1, the summary volume, and co-edited Volume 2 on the multiple path to the emerging
economy and state in Asia and Africa. Both volumes have just been published. In these works, I introduced the issue of the socioeconomic and historical assessment of environmental conditions behind the rise and stagnation of current emerging economies in
Asia and Africa. Second, I also wrote three more articles, to which I had previously committed; ‘Varieties of Industrialization:
An Asian Regional Perspective’, in an edited volume Global Economic History (Bloomsbury), ‘South Asia in Global History’ asa chapter of a Japanese-language volume on South Asian History (Yamakawa Shuppansha), and ‘Changing Patterns of Sarawak
Exports, 1870-2016’ (co-authored) in an edited volume on the Anthropogenic Tropical Forests (Springer). They are published or
due by June 2019. In all of them my research focus has clearly moved towards resource history, including fossil fuels, biomass,water and the ‘resource nexus’, a local and regional space which combines these and other resources (for a description of theresource nexus, see below).
My presentations at the public domain followed the same line of thinking. They included a lecture at ‘New Approaches in AsiaPacific Historical and Contemporary Studies’, Waseda University, Tokyo (sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Institute andWaseda University’s Global Asia Research Center) in July, and a keynote lecture at the First Conference of the Japan Society for
Afrasian Studies, Kansai University in October. I appeared in a NHK lecture series on Global Economic History (The Open
University of Japan production) in June to July.
At the World Economic History Congress at Boston in July to August, I participated in four sessions and read two papers, as wellas acting as organizer, chair and general discussant (including the climate history panel mentioned in Nakatsuka projectdescription). My presentation at a global history panel, in which I described the regional shift in economic gravity in post-war
Asia, especially from Japan to China after c.1980, and its implications for global environmental sustainability attracted responses,
and developed into international academic exchange at individual levels.
My intellectual interactions with people at RIHN have made a further progress during AY 2018. With Professor Makoto
Taniguchi I continued the discussion on the potential extension of the nexus idea into social science and history domain. With

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Professors Hein Mallee and Daniel Niles, I worked on how to incorporate the humanities side of the discourse on the
Anthropocene in the Asian context.
I describe below some of the ideas I have developed.

The evolution of the resource nexus in Asia
The emergence of the seafront resource nexus occurred first in Japan during the post-war period. Rapid economic growth to c.
1970 was accompanied by national land development plans, driven by ‘developmentalism’, which penetrated into designingurban and industrial space. Because imports of fossil fuels and other raw materials were fundamental to industrial development,
seafront industrial complexes were created around major urban centres along the Pacific coast. I made a preliminary investigation
into the case of the Tokyo Bay, the largest seafront industrial complex in Asia (and in the world built largely in reclaimed land) at
this point in time.
Tokyo agglomeration as a whole also became the first megacity in the world in the early 1960s. While labour-intensive industries
enjoyed access to labour and urban demand, it was better for capital- and resource-intensive industries to be located near theseafront. Thus, industrial ports, directly connected to factories, were created for resource-intensive industries along the seafront,with improved civil engineering technologies. ‘Developers’ organized finance and public support, and invited companies to takepart in the development of the complex. The seafront industries then developed linkages to less resource-intensive industries andcommercial and residential areas across the city. Labour-intensive industries were fairly evenly scattered across the central wardsof Tokyo under the lax zoning regime. Thus, the Tokyo agglomeration emerged as an integrated urban-industrial nexus withspatial specialization between capital- and resource-intensive industries and labour-intensive ones.
There was a correlation between major seafront industrial complexes and areas of land subsidence as a result of the excessive
groundwater extraction. Availability of water was essential to industrial clusters, which includes heavy water users, as well as tourbanization. When their needs clashed and land subsidence emerged as a major threat, it became a ‘social tipping point’. Air
pollution, water pollution, health hazard and noise and vibration also became social tipping points, which had to be addressed bymunicipal and central governments. They needed to be recognized both scientifically and by the public.
After the 1970s, the driver of urban development shifted from economic needs to the more socially and environmentally
acceptable goals, largely as a result of citizens’ movement and the initiatives of municipal and central governments. The
reclamation now related to diverse purposes (residential, airports, leisure and trade fair facilities, as well as a site for industrial
waste disposal). This coincided with the broader signal change from developmentalism to civil minimum and sustainability. But
land reclamation continued at a slower pace, representing the (at least in the short-to medium-term) irreversible human alterationof nature, in this case of coastal ecosystems and their services. Most natural coasts around Japanese cities disappeared.
Today, major reclaimed land ( km2 ) is located in China (13,500+), Netherlands (7,000), South Korea (1,550) and US (1,000+),
while figures were 153 for the Tokyo Bay and 781 for Japan total in 1945-1999. In 2012 China’s State Council estimated that by2020 the overall coastal reclamation demand would be greater than 5,880km2, close to a half of the total area reclaimed over the
past fifty years, much of the needs coming from urban, infrastructural and industrial purposes. Land reclamation is said to havebrought about a serious impact on China’s coastal ecosystems and their services. The ‘social tipping points’, similar to thosefound in the urban-industrial complex in Tokyo agglomeration around 1970, are likely to be experienced in China today on amuch larger scale.

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The original statement of the ‘great acceleration’ by the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) in 2015 was
supported by historical statistics, consisting of a set of twelve indicators on ‘socio-economic trends’ and another set of twelve
indicators on ‘earth system trends’. Together, they suggest a rapid increase of human activities since the nineteenth century andtheir impact on the earth system, especially since 1960. A preliminary study I made suggests that roughly a half of the increasesince 1960 (to 2000 in IGDP statistics but probably the trend continues to this day) came from Asia, in terms of the first four‘ basic ’ socio-economic indicators of population, real GDP, urban population and primary energy supply, although it isnoteworthy that some of them, especially the proportion of Asia in world primary energy supply in 1960 was very low as theextensive use of biomass energy during industrialization was common in monsoon Asia. The exercise also reveals that ‘socioeconomic trends’ are largely regionally identifiable, while some of the ‘earth system trends’ indicators are more globallyoriented in nature. It was these observations that led me to look at the historical evolution of the resource nexus in Asia since the1960s.

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World Social Science Forum
The Fourth World Social Science Forum (WSSF) took place at Fukuoka in September 2018. Its main theme was security(including environmental security) and equality. About 1,000 people participated from 80 countries. I acted as a member of theForum Executive Committee representing the Science Council of Japan, as well as a member of the local organizing committee.
RIHN was a member of the Consortium for the Forum, and was responsible for organizing more than nine sessions and someindividual papers and poster presentations. In fact, it was the second largest presence after the Kyushu University, the hostinstitution.
Since this was the first international conference after the merger between ISSC (International Social Science Council), which was
the original host of WSSF, and ICSU, its larger natural science counterpart, the event became internationally more visible andinterdisciplinary.
In addition to my role as organizers, I participated in several sessions, including the two Future Earth inspired ones for which I
acted as a reporter (I am a member of JST Future Earth Committee), and the Belmont Forum session on the transformation tosustainability. I also acted as a discussant for a RIHN session on the Anthropocene in Asia, which provided a platform for theorganization of the RIHN international symposium in December (see below).

Program seminars and international workshops
One way of interacting with the three projects to promote communication, especially with respect to methodology, is to organize
research seminars. With the arrival of Yoshida project and Dr Naoki Masuhara as a senior researcher for Program 1, we started aseminar series on land use, national development plans, pollution and the resource nexus from early 2018.
Titles of presentations made in the first three seminars in rough translation, including those by several invited speakers, were:‘Land tax system and environment in early modern Japan (Kamatani from Nakatsuka project)’, ‘Land holding and the peatland
issue in Indonesia (Mizuno)’, ‘The East Asian development path and the peasant family economy (Sugihara)’, ‘Adapting to theblessing and curse of nature: Towards a new approach to land use (Yoshida)’, ‘On national land development plans (Sugihara)’,‘A study of the national design for land use from the perspective of the interactions between societal needs and water flows(Nakamura)’, ‘The seafront industrial complex and the shift to the mono-functional use of the coast (Kobori)’, ‘Japan’s pollution
policy during the period of high-speed growth (Ito)’, ‘Environmental problems and legal policy in Indonesia (Sakumoto)’, ‘The
evolution of national development law in post-war Japan (Masuhara)’.
In January 2019 we held an English-language preparatory workshop ‘Urban Space and the Resource Nexus’, which included;‘Labor-intensive industrialization in post-war Tokyo: Urban space as a factor of production (Benjamin Bansal)’, ‘From shrine tomachine: An industrial history of Ota city, Tokyo, 1900-1960 (Kobori)’, ‘The seafront resource nexus around the Tokyo Bay:Social tipping points in circa 1970 (Sugihara)’, ‘Regional sustainability in Japan from the perspective on water-energy-food(WEF) nexus (Sanghyun Lee)’, ‘Japan’s medium-term development strategy and its impact on resource utilization (Masuhara)’,‘Synergy of the multi-scale water-energy-food nexus (Taniguchi)’.
Based on the January workshop, we held a two-day international workshop on the great acceleration and the resource nexus fromthe 10th to the 11th of March. We invited a few people from abroad, to discuss the utility of the nexus and the resource nexus
approaches for the understanding of Asia’s sustainability.

○Project Members○ Naoki Masuhara( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Senior Researcher )○ Future Themes

The International Publication Unit
In April 2018 the International Publication Unit (IPU) was established under RIHN’s Council for Research Strategy, and I was
appointed as its head. The IPU is to promote the editorial work of Global Sustainability, a new journal from Cambridge
University Press, in which, on the invitation of Dr Johan Rockström, editor-in-chief, Professor Yasunari and I were to prepare acollection ‘humanities and global sustainability’. The journal began publication toward the latter part of 2018, and we became
involved in the editorial process. No papers have been published either on humanity-related topics or as a collection ofhumanities collection yet, but I expect that a progress will be made during the next academic year.
The IPU also made the RIHN series of ‘Global Environmental Studies’ from Springeras part of its work. The three series editors(Professors Kenichi Abe, Hein Mallee and Daniel Niles) and the two section editors of Global Sustainability constitute the IPU
committee, with the support of the International Affairs Section of RIHN and Ms. Yumiko Iwasaki of Program 1.

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The IPU also engaged in other aspects of the promotion of international publications, including the setting up of a stand with thedisplay of RIHN publications at WSSF Fukuoka mentioned above, encouragement of independent submission of papers tointernational journals, including those outside the researcher’s specialization, and publication of books other than the RIHN
series.

●Achievements○Books【Chapters/Sections】

・Sugihara, K., 2018,11 “Varieties of Industrialization: An Asian Regional Perspective”. in Giorgio Riello and Tirthankar Roy(ed.) Global Economic History. Bloomsbury Academic, London, pp.195-214.
・Kimura, M., Masuhara, N. and Baba, K. 2018,05 Making Social Networks Visible: Shared Awareness Among Stakeholders
on Groundwater Resources. Endo, A. and Oh, T. (ed.) The Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Human-Environmental Security in the
Asia-Pacific Ring of Fire. Global Environmental Studies. Springer, pp.273-286.
・Baba, K., Masuhara, N. and Kimura, M. 2018,05 Scenario-based Approach to Local Water-energy-food Nexus Issues with
Experts and Stakeholders. Endo, A. and Oh, T. (ed.) The Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Human-Environmental Security in the
Asia-Pacific Ring of Fire. Global Environmental Studies. Springer, pp.321-333.
○Papers【Original Articles】

・Taniguchi, M., Masuhara, N. and Teramoto, S. 2018,10 Tradeoffs in the Water-energy- food Nexus in the Urbanizing AsiaPacific Region. Journal Water International 43(6):892-903. DOI:10.1080/02508060.2018.1516104 (reviewed).
○Research Presentations【Oral Presentation】

・Masuhara, N. "Changes of Local Resource Utilization after 1960: Japan's Medium-term Development Strategy and Its
Impacts". International Workshop on Resource Nexus and Asia's Great Acceleration, 2019.03.10-2019.03.11, RIHN, Kyoto.
・Sugihara, K. “The Great Acceleration in Asia: The Resource Nexus and Social Tipping Points”. International Workshop on
Resource Nexus and Asia's Great Acceleration, 2019.03.10-2019.03.11, Research Institution for Humanity and Nature,
Kyoto.
・Sugihara, K. “The Seafront Resource Nexus around the Tokyo Bay: Social Tipping Points in circa 1970”. Fourth Research
Seminar for Program 1 on ‘Urban Space and Resource Nexus’, 2019.01.18, RIHN, Kyoto.
・Sugihara, K. (Introduction and Chair) “Session 1 ‘Knowledge, Science and the Experience of Nature’. The 13th International
Symposium ‘Humanities on the Ground: Confronting the Anthropocene in Asia, 2018.12.13, RIHN, Kyoto.
・Sugihara, K. (Discussant) “Reciprocal Comparisons and the Asian Paths of Economic Development”, Session on 'Asia in the
Anthropocene (CS5-08 )'. The Fourth World Social Science Forum, 2018.09.26, Fukuoka International Congress Center,
Fukuoka.
・Sugihara, K. (Moderator of the Session and Presenter) "Monsoon Asia, Industrial-Urban-Regional Nexus and Environmental
Sustainability: Reflections of Asia ’ s Historical Experiences" Session on 'Transformation of Resource Base in Asia ’ s
Economic Development and Its Costs: Sustainability of Local, National and Regional Nexus (CS4-03)'. The Fourth World
Social Science Forum, 2018.09.25, Fukuoka International Congress Center, Fukuoka.

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In this context the success of this year ’ s RIHN international symposium ‘ Humanities on the Ground: Confronting the
Anthropocene in Asia’ offered an excellent opportunity for the activities of the IPU. It was the first international conference,
specifically addressing the theme of the intellectual context of the Anthropocene in Asia ‘on the ground’, that is, the local
andregional human-nature interface on the spot. After the symposium the organizing committee and the IPU decided to offer
opportunities for publication either as a collection for Global Sustainability or an edited volume or both to presenters, and asked
Mr. Masahiro Terada, currently visiting associate professor, to help the editorial process.

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・Sugihara, K., (Discussant) Comments on "Tropical Paths and Trade Integration" Session on 'Tropical Economies in the
Making of the Modern World (310121) '. The 18th World Economic History Congress, 2018.07.31, Boston Marriott
Cambridge and MIT Campus, Boston.
・Sugihara, K. "Intra-Asian Trade and Asia’s Economic Development in the Long Nineteenth Century", Session on 'Building a
Global History of Economic Divergence (310202)’. The 18th World Economic History Congress, 2018.07.31, Boston
Marriott Cambridge and MIT Campus, Boston.
・Sugihara, K. "Local and Regional Payment Methods and the Growth of World Trade in the Long Nineteenth Century",
Session on 'Multiple Payment Systems in Globalizing Economies (300212)'. The 18th World Economic History Congress,
2018.07.30, Boston Marriott Cambridge and MIT Campus, Boston.
【Poster Presentation】

・Masuhara, N., Lee, S. and Taniguchi, M. "Decision-making Gaps regarding Food-Energy-Water Nexus? A Case Study of the
Kyoto City in Japan". 2018 AGU Fall Meeting, 2018.12.10-2018.12.14, Washington, DC, USA.
・Masuhara, N. "Citizensʼ Consciousness and Interest: A Study on Groundwater Issues in Saijo City, Japan". World Social
Science Forum 2018, 2018.09.25-2018.09.28, Fukuoka.
・Masuhara, N. and Taniguchi, M. "Proposal and Analysis on Water Intensity in Asia". Nexus 2018: Water, Food, Energy andClimate, 2018.04.16-2018.04.18, Chapel Hill, North Carolina USA.
【Invited Lecture / Honorary Lecture / Panelist】

・Masuhara, N. (Invited Lecture)"Relationships between Geothermal Power Developments and Conflicts in Japan after theGreat Eastern Japan Earthquake of 2011". Workshop on Energy and Environmental Research, 2019.03.25, University of
Hawaii, Hawaii, USA.
・Sugihara, K. (Keynote address) "The Asian Path of Economic Development and Its Relevance to Sub-Saharan Africa". The
First Conference of Japan Society for Afrasian Studies, 2018.10.06, Kansai University, Suita.
・Sugihara, K. (Moderator) Session on ' The Belmont Forum–NORFACE Transformations to Sustainability Programme: Restructuring the Field of Sustainability Research for Sustainable and Secure Futures ('CS1-11)'. The Fourth World Social
Science Forum, 2018.09.26, Fukuoka International Congress Center, Fukuoka.
・Sugihara, K. “(Co-organizer and co-chair) Session on Societal Response to Climate Variation: Institution, Market, and Social
Change in Early Modern and Modern Japan (010214)”. The 18th World Economic History Congress, 2018.08.01, Boston
Marriott Cambridge and MIT Campus, Boston.
・ Sugihara, K. (Invited Lecture) "Monsoon Asia, Intra-Asian trade and the Transformation of Resource Nexus". New
Approaches in Asia-Pacific Historical and Contemporary Studies, 2018.07.02, Waseda University, Tokyo. (Sponsored by theHarvard-Yenching Institute and Waseda University’s Global Asia Research Center.)11
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Stage: Full Research

Project Leader: NAKATSUKA Takeshi
Program 1: Societal Transformation under Environmental Changea) Problem, background and objectives

So far, many scholars of both paleoclimatology (e.g. Zhang et al., 2008) and history (e.g. Parker, 2013) have argued that humanhistory has been influenced by climate. But, most of historians have not yet believed it and often criticized it as the climate
determinism. This mismatch was mainly caused by inaccuracy of our understanding on past climate, but recent IPCC-relevant
developments of high resolution paleoclimatology (e.g. PAGES consortium, 2013) has totally changed the situation. Because pastvariations in temperature and precipitation are now being reconstructed at annual or finer time resolutions during last several
millennia using innovative new proxies of past climate such as tree ring isotope ratios (e.g. Li et al., 2011; Sano et al., 2012; Xuet al., 2013), we can investigate chronological relationship between climate variations and societal phenomena precisely andjudge whether any kind of societal events were preceded by some significant climate events or not. Moreover, we can propose a
new strategy of historical studies. By focusing on outstanding events and periods in past temperature or precipitation variations at
first, we can ask contemporarily important questions about the resilience of human societies against climate changes. (I) Whattypes of human societies can avoid crises owing to climate change? (Ⅱ) How can human societies overcome negative influencesof climate change at last? In this project, we seek answers to the questions by collaborative studies among many
paleoclimatologists, historians and archaeologists on climate-society relationships in Japan during last 5,000 years. Although thisstrategy seems simple, it is not easy for individual researchers to combine up-to-date climatological and historical knowledge sothat there have never been any similar research projects in the world. There are essential reasons why we selected Japan as theresearch field.(a) Japan is located at the north-eastern rim of East Asia Summer Monsoon(EASM), where rice paddy cultivation,
main livelihood of Japanese people during last 3,000 years, has been frequently damaged by flood, drought or cold summer
accompanied with EASM variations. (b) In Japan, we can find plenty of historical documents and archaeological remains to
elucidate past climate-society relationships during last 1,000 and 5,000 years, respectively.
b) Methodology, structure and scheduleThis project has three steps of research strategy. (1) Reconstructions of past climate variations as precise as possible for last
several millennia in Japan and surrounding areas. (2) Comparisons between climate variations and societal phenomena withspecial foci on the outstanding events and periods in climate variations. (3) Analyses of cause-and-effect relationships fromclimate variations to societal phenomena, including the cases where no significant influence had been found in societies. While
step 1, using tree rings, sediments, documentary records and soon, has preceded other steps in the project, step 2 has been studied
simultaneously by referring the result of step 1 and quantifying the documentary and excavated evidences on societal properties.
Based on the new findings in step 2, individual historians and archaeologists in the project are now analyzing the cause-andeffect relationship from climate variations to societal phenomena in their specialized regions and periods, such as early modern,medieval, ancient and pre-historical western and eastern Japan, respectively. During the step 2, we first categorize common
climate-society relationships in Japanese long history as many as possible and then find exceptional cases that the typical climate
variations did not result in the typical societal responses.
c) Expected results
Until FR4, huge amounts of high resolution paleoclimatological data, especially using tree-ring width, density and oxygenisotope ratio as the proxies of summer temperature and precipitation, have been already obtained successfully back to about
5,000 years ago together with new chronological evidences on prehistorical societal events by the tree-ring oxygen isotope ratios(Step 1) enough precisely to discuss climate-societal relationship in Japanese history (Step 2). Agrarian productivity, mainly
shown as rice yields, often suffered from summer climate disasters such as coldness, drought and/or flood through short-termclimate variations, but some cases of climate disasters did not influence societies significantly. On the other hand, influences oflong-term climate variation scan be recognized by changes in distribution and number of archaeological human habitats in aregion. As for the middle-term variations, common characteristics have been found where multi-decadal large variations insummer temperature and precipitation often resulted in the occurrence of serious famines and societal upheavals, respectively,
possibly owing to the unexpected crop failures and uneven water disasters after decadal length of comfortable climate conditions.

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Project Name: Societal Adaptation to Climate Change in Japan: Integrating Palaeoclimatological Data andArchaeological Evidence

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We have been conducting numerous case studies on the climate-society relationship since 2800 BC (Jomon era) to 19th century
AD (Early Modern period), including cases when large climate variations did not leave any significant influences in societies(Step 3), and now preparing many papers and books in Japanese and English, most of which will be published by the end of FR5.
d)Project organization and membership
The project consists of six research groups, one international outreach unit and the project office. All academic activities in the
project have been divided into five traditional discipline-based groups (Paleoclimatological group, Climatological group,
Prehistorical and Ancient group, Medieval group and Early Modern group) and one synthesis group (Categorization andIntegration group), mainly consisting of project office members and core members (leader and sub-leader of each researchgroup). To promote international publications of Japanese historical and archaeological studies, we are operating the international
outreach unit continuously. The discipline based structure for most of research groups was designed to make numerous historians
and archaeologists now outside the project understand results of this project smoothly and participate in the study on climatehistory relationships for the full promotion of the research strategy after the end of this project. As the result, inter-disciplinary
collaborations by individual members in the project still have rooms to be improved at present.

e) Contribution to the Program
Program 1 has two fundamental questions. (A) What type of society can adopt to environmental changes smoothly? (B) How can
we transform present society to it? Our project can answer to the former question by extracting various lessons from historicalsocietal responses against climate changes. By collaborating with other contemporary projects in Program 1, we can contribute toanswer to the latter question too by comparing many cases of societal transformations, which occurred intermittently in Japanese
history, with many contemporary cases in Asian countries and clarifying their essential similarities and differences.
Although our project is a truly inter-disciplinary (ID) project between natural science (paleoclimatology and climatology) andhumanity (history and archaeology), itis not a trans-disciplinary (TD) project collaborating directly with various stakeholders
outside of academic societies. The program in RIHN consists of various types of projects, each of which is located at its
particular position between ID and TD, so that a project in a program may be ID-oriented while another project in the same
program is TD-oriented. The most important purpose to launch the “program” system in RIHN is that a project oriented to ID or
TD can and must collaborate with other projects with different background regarding to ID and TD to learn more deeply fromeach other. The ID-oriented project can provide the other projects of up-to-date academic progresses in the issues covered by the
program, while the TD-oriented project can tell the other projects on-going problems for installation of practical methods to solve
the problems dealt by the program. In this framework, we would like to contribute to the achievement of Program #1 goal fromthe viewpoint of ID-oriented project. During last one year, the inter-project collaboration has not been activated very muchmainly due to the total number of FR projects in Program #1had become small (just 2) one year ago. However, we believe that
we can develop the inter-project collaboration in Program #1 by participation of three FR projects in the coming one year.

○ Progress and Results in 2018a) Project Progress during the FR period to date
Until FR4, we have obtained huge amounts of high resolution paleoclimatological data for last 5,000 years in and around Japan
using many natural proxies and documentary records on past climates (Step1). So far, we have found many fundamental common
linkages between climate variations and societal responses with their important exceptions by comparing thosepaleoclimatological data with various quantitative data on societal properties, such as agrarian production, human population,
distribution of human habitats and occurrence of famines and conflicts, inferable from numerous palaeographic andarchaeological archives (Step 2). Based on the newly obtained paleoclimatological data and the discovered past climate-society
relationships, we are now conducting many case studies in Japanese history from Jomon era (~30thcentury BC) to Edo era (~19th
century AD) on people’s adaptation to climate variations (Step 3). Here, some outstanding results will be presented for eachresearch step.
<<Step 1>> Summer temperature is one of the most important climate parameters controlling agrarian productions because rice
paddy cultivation in Japan has been suffering from summer coldness frequently and it resulted in many large famines in Japanese
history. We have reconstructed summer temperature in annual time resolution during last millennium by tree-ring width anddocumentary records and in centurial time resolution for more than several millennia by sediment analyses. Because time-series
on past summer temperature reconstructed by various proxies are coincided well with others, we can conclude that thosereconstructions are reliable. Summer precipitation is the other most important climate parameter influencing agriculture andpeople’s lives because summer strong rainfall usually causes floods destroying farmlands and villages and on the other handsmall rainfall often results in droughts decreasing crop yields. Until the end of last century, we had never obtained data on past

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Research Projects<Step 3>> We are now conducting so many case studies about cause-and-effect relationships from climate variations to societal
responses during last 5,000 years over Japan as shown in Research Plan below that we cannot explain them in detail here. In
principle, large climate variations had usually caused serious societal damages, but there are significant numbers of exceptions insome periods and regions. For example, multi-decadal large variations in temperature during late 13th and 14th centuries did notseem to cause many famines, while those in precipitation might have resulted in serious warfare at the same periods. An
important lesson from historical climate-society relationship is that any kind of societies have their own resilience against climate
variations to certain degrees resulting in various societal transformation during and after the periods of large climate variations,from which we can learn about adaptability of societies to environmental changes.
b) Progress since the last reporting
There are significant progresses in each of three research steps 1~3 during last one year.

In Step 1, we have nearly reached the final goal of past climate reconstructions necessary in the project during last one year(FR4). Until FR3, we could not separate the signal of long-term precipitation variations in time series of tree-ring oxygen isotope
ratios from that of long-term biological effects. However, by integrating of oxygen and hydrogen isotope ratios in tree-ringcellulose, we have succeeded in reconstructing past variation of summer precipitation in central Japan during last 2,600 years for
all frequency domains covering from annual to millennium time scales, that is now stimulating many case studies of climatesociety relationships especially in prehistorical, ancient and medieval periods in Steps 2 and 3.

We have improved the accuracy of summer temperature reconstruction in Early Modern period by analyzing newly obtained treering width and density dataset in mountainous areas of central Japan, elucidating mechanism of famine occurrence in Step 2. On

Research Projects<<Step 2>> To clarify the influence of climate variations to past societies in Japan, we have been extracting various types ofquantitative and semi-quantitative information about past societies from numerous palaeographic and archaeological archives.
The temporal variation in rice yield in a region during Early Modern era can be inferred from annual records of “Tsubokari ”(grain yield per an unit area; Sato, 1987) and “Nokoridaka” (basis of land tax for a village; Kamatani et al., 2016), which variedcoincidently to summer temperature and/or precipitation, indicating strong influences of climate variations to agrarian
productions. Occurrence of large famines can be monitored by counting of the number of old documents per year describing theword “Ki” (starving) in digital databases of old literatures relevant to climate disasters during Medieval (10-17th centuries;
Fujiki (ed.),2007) and Early Modern (17-19th centuries; Kimura et al. (eds.), 2015) periods. Number of famine records drasticallyincreased when summer temperature suddenly decreased after decadal length of warmth in both Medieval and Early Modern
periods, indicating difficulty for the people used to rich harvests for a long time to adopt the crop failure at once. By comparing
the annual numbers of old documents containing the word “Akuto” (outlaws emerging in a manor) in CD-ROM of “KamakuraIbun vol.1-46” (Database of old documents in Kamakura era, 1185-1333 AD) (Takeuchi (ed.), 1971-91) with the summer
precipitation, we could realize that multi-decadal large variations in summer precipitation and resultant occurrence of unexpectedfloods probably caused local conflicts frequently owing to the serious and uneven damages to farmlands among many manors.
Interestingly, the multi-decadal components of variations in summer precipitation during last 2,600 years shows intermittent
amplification at several hundred year intervals, exactly corresponding to the period of political regime shifts in Japan and China.
Number of human habitats in the prehistorical period summarized from numerous excavation reports in Japan seemed to increase
when amplification of multi-decadal climate variability increased, suggesting that emergence of many refugees due to water
disasters and nation-wide people’s migration at those periods. The large scale coincidence between climate variations and humanhistory must become a basis for many historical researches about climate-society relationship in the near future.

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summer precipitation at annual time resolution in Japan for the period before 17th century AD, while we could reconstruct daily
weather conditions only after 17thc AD using many diary records over Japan. However, we have created a new innovative
method applicable to last several millennia to reconstruct past summer precipitation at annual time resolution using tree-ring
oxygen isotope ratio (Nakatsuka et al., 2004). As the main research activity in Step 1, we have developed many time-series oftree-ring oxygen isotope ratios for last five millennia over Japan. The reconstructed variations of summer precipitation in central
Japan for last 2,600 years by the tree-ring oxygen isotope ratio have been proven to be accurate and reliable by comparison withmeteorological, historical and archaeological archives. In Japan, summer precipitation generally shows negative correlation withsummer temperature, suggesting that we can infer past variations in summer temperature at least in centurial time scale using thetree-ring oxygen isotope time-series even for the period when we have not reconstructed past summer temperature by tree-ringwidth.

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years ago). It provides us of a new evidence on middle Jomon societal change that the decline of human habitats did not occur
due to drastic cooling event at 4.3-4.2k but corresponded to maximal warmth and dryness around 4.6k, suggesting the difference
in climate adaptation between hunter-gathers (Jomon) and farmers (post-Jomon) societies to be discussed in Step 3.

In Step 2, we have accumulated many new quantitative data on past societies since last reporting, to be compared with past
climate variations, such as agrarian production, land tax, human population, social conflict and human habitats inferred fromearly modern documents of tax invoices to villages, medieval palaeographic database compiled by local governments, excavation
reports on prehistorical distribution of human habitats and so on.
In Step 3, we have discussed and fixed contents in final publications of the project during last one year. Planed publications
consisted of six Japanese books, one English book, as shown in Research Plan, and many other individual papers submitted tojournals, some of which have been already written and edited in project office.
c) Most notable outputs to dateBatten, B. and Brown,P. (eds) 2015 “Environment and Society in the Japanese Islands: From Prehistory to the Present”, Oregon
State University Press, 291pp.

Cook, E. R., Krusic, P. J., Anchukaitis, K. J., Buckley, B. M., Nakatsuka, T., Sano, M.,PAGES Asia2k Members 2013 Tree-ringreconstructed summer temperature anomalies for temperate East Asia since 800 C.E. Climate Dynamics 41, 2957-2972doi:
10.1007/s00382-012-1611- x41.

Itoh, K. and Nakatsuka,T. 2017 Quantitative analyses of relationship between reconstructed past climate variations and numbersof old documents in “Kamakura era old documents CD-ROM”, Research on Kamakura Old Documents 40, 23-53. (in Japanese)

Kamatani, K, Sano, M, Nakatsuka, T. 2016 Payment of the land tax and the change of climate in the Early Modern ages. Journalof Japanese History 646, 36-56.(in Japanese)

Kawahata, H., Matsuoka,M., Togami, A. Harada, N., Murayama, M., Yokoyama Y., Miyairi, Y.,Matsuzaki, H., Tanaka, Y. 2017
Climatic change and its influence on human society in western Japan during the Holocene. Quaternary International 440, 102-117

Kurita, N., Nakatsuka, T., Ohnishi, K., Mitsutani, T.,Kumagai, T. 2016 Analysis of the interdecadal variability of summer
precipitation in central Japan using a reconstructed 106 year long oxygen isotope record from tree ring cellulose. Journal ofGeophysical Research-Atmosphere 121, 12,089–12,107.

Liu,Y. and others (incl. Nakatsuka, T.) 2017 Recent enhancement of central Pacific El Niño variability relative to last eightcenturies. Nature Communications 8, Article No:15386,

Nakatsuka, T. 2015 New possibilities in archaeological research enabled by oxygen isotope dendrochronology, ArchaeologicalResearch 62,17-30. (in Japanese with English abstract)

Nakatsuka, T. 2016 Possibility of the new historical study by using the data of the high resolution paleoclimatology. Journal ofJapanese History 646, 3-18. (in Japanese)

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Nakatsuka, T. 2016 Directions in new historical disaster studies based on high resolution paleoclimate data. Bulletin of the
National Museum of Japanese History 203, 9-26. (in Japanese with English abstract)

Tamura, N. 2016 Study on the Japanese medieval history and the reconstruction by the high resolution paleoclimatology. Journalof Japanese History 646, 19-35. (in Japanese)

Wakabayashi, K. 2016a The early agricultural settlements pattern in Japan with flood disaster. Bulletin of the National Museumof Japanese History 203, 27-46. (in Japanese with English abstract)

Watanabe,K. 2016 The formality of agreement on ‘the clearance’: the measures to recover from the typhoon surge in 1790’s
Metropolis Edo. Historical Review (Rekishi Hyoron) 797, 55-73 (in Japanese).
d) Project organization and members
This project consists of six research groups and project office in RIHN, with a special unit for international outreach. Among six
groups, five groups have their own group leaders and sub-leaders, while a group (Categorization and Integration group) is avirtualone where members are coming from other five groups and project office in RIHN to discuss issues covering the wholeproject. Among five groups, three groups (Early modern group, Medieval group and Prehistorical and Ancient group) consist of
historians and archaeologists and the other two groups (Paleoclimatological group and Climatological group) consist of
paleoclimatologists and climatologists.

The two members in International Outreach are historians originating from United States and studying Japanese history fora longtime. They belong to Prehistorical and Ancient group and Early Modern group, respectively, but mainly contribute to preparationof the publication of project results in English by holding an annual meeting for the international publication of the project inAugust regularly, negotiating with editors of Cambridge University Press and other publishers and recruiting of many potential
translators from the community of English native speakers with speciality on Japanese history.

Each research group holds research meetings about three times per year to enhance communication within the group and with the
project office in RIHN. During last one year, each group has been focusing on discussion about publication of the Japanesesynthesis book on the group research result as shown above. The communication between different groups is mainly mediated byproject office in RIHN, but direct communication among groups are also encouraged such as direct communications between
literature-based historians and diary-based ultra-high time-resolution paleoclimatologists in the meeting of Early Modern groupand wooden artefact archaeologists and annually-resolved tree-ring dating of oxygen isotope dendrochronologists in thediscussion of Prehistorical and Ancient Group and Medieval Group. In Each research group, all members belonging to the group
have been conducting their own individual researches on some specific issues at some specific period and region bycommunicating with other members in the group and project office mainly for exchanging quantitative data on past climatic andsocietal conditions within and beyond the group.

We have created a special team of oxygen isotope dendroarchaeology, beyond the groups covering many dendrochronologists
and isotope geochemists in the Paleoclimatological Group and archaeologists in the Prehistorical and Ancient Group andMedieval Group, to collect many important naturally and artificially buried woods and establish annually resolved tree-ring
oxygen isotope chronologies precisely over many regions in Japan and many periods since middle Jomon era about 5,000 years
ago to present. We have successfully reconstructed past variations in summer precipitation at annual time resolution and dated

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Sato, D. 2016 “Recovery from giant disaster and collaboration – Construction of crop storage and development of salt pan by
Maruyama Sasaki family”, Banzanbou, Sendai, 74pp. (in Japanese)

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PAGES 2k consortium (incl. Kimura, K., Nakatsuka, T., Sano, M., Yasue, K.), 2013 Continental-scale temperature variability
during the last two millennia. Nature Geoscience 6, 339-346.

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many excavated wooden artefacts all over Japan since the Jomon era to present using the established tree-ring oxygen isotope
chronologies, which have been already applied to date excavated archaeological woods in Korea and China, too. The special
team has not only consisted of academic researchers in the projects but also collaborated with many experts of archaeologicalinvestigations belonging to local governments all over Japan. This “trans-disciplinary” collaboration has been realized byintroducing of the innovative technology of oxygen isotope tree-ring dating to the trans-academic, governmental and private
community on the buried cultural properties in Japan.
In general, this project structure is suitable for promotion of historical climate adaptation studies according to the philosophy ofeach discipline, but it is not very effective to enhance the inter-disciplinary communication especially for members of naturalscientists because they do not have enough chance to discuss with many historians and archaeologists in the project on theapplication of paleoclimatological data for understanding the historical societal responses to climate variations. To compensate
this insufficiency, we have the whole project meeting once a year, but it is also a big challenge to promote fruitful discussions
among researchers of natural sciences and humanity beyond the large boundary of discipline in the meeting. It is partly because
we have not created enough chances to enhance the inter-disciplinary communication within the project as seen in the project
structure, but partly because the research philosophy itself is completely different between natural science and humanity, suchthat almost all research activities in literature-based Japanese history are individual ones and it is not necessary for potential
contributors of any results on climate-history relationship in the project to agree conclusion of the individual researches because
the individual papers do not usually have co-authorships. By introducing of many natural scientific data to the field of Japanese
historians and archaeologists, the situation may change gradually in the future.

○Project Members◎ NAKATSUKA, Takeshi ( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Professor,Project Leader )○ KAMATANI, Kaoru( Ritsumeikan University College of Gastronomy management,Associate Professor,Project Subleader )Paleoclimatology Group○ YASUE, Koh( Shinshu University,Associate Professor,Dendroclimatological and wood anatomical analyses inJapan and Asia )○ ABE, Osamu( Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University,Assistant Professor,Coral analyses
in Southwest Japan )○ SANO, Masaki( Faculty of Human Sciences, Waseda University,Assistant Professor,Tree-ring analyses in Japan andsubtropical Asia )MITSUTANI, Takumi ( Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties,Visiting Researcher,Age determination ofcultural properties in Japan using tree ring width )SAKAMOTO, Minoru ( National Museum of Japanese History,Professor,Age determination of paleoclimate proxy materials
using radiocarbon )KAGAWA, Akira( Forest and Forest Products Research Institute,Researcher,Development of analytical methods forisotopic ratios of tree-ring samples )FUJITA, Koji
( Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University,Professor,Analysis of ice cores inCentral Asia )XU, Chenxi( Institute of Geology and Geophysics Chinese Academy of Sciences,Associate
Professor,Dendroclimatological and dendroarchaeological analyses using isotopes in Japan andSoutheast Asia )MORIMOTO, Maki
( Faculty of Education, Gifu University,Associate Professor,Coral analyses in Southwest Japan )KIMURA, Katsuhiko ( Faculty of Symbiosis Systems Science, Fukushima University,Professor,Dating of excavatedwooden samples during Jomon, Yayoi, and Kofun Eras )YOKOYAMA, Yusuke ( Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo,Professor,Coral, tree ring and varve
sediment analyses in Japan and Asia )TADA, Ryuji( Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo,Professor,Analysis of varve sediments from Lake
Suigetsu, central Japan )KUBOTA, Yoshimi( National Museum of Nature and Science,Researcher,Paleoceanographic analyses around Japan
using ocean sediment records )TAGAMI, Takahiro( Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University,Professor,Tree-ring and speleothem analyses inJapan and Southeast Asia )WATANABE, Yumiko ( Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University,Assistant Professor,Speleothem analyses in Japanand Southeast Asia )TAKEUCHI, Nozomi ( Graduate School of Science, Chiba University,Professor,Analysis of ice cores in Central Asia )17Research Projects

ZAIKI, Masumi( Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo,Associate Professor,Evaluation of proxyisotope data using general circulation models with isotope dynamics )KURITA, Naoyuki( Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University,Associate Professor,Climatologicalassessment of proxy oxygen isotope data )UEMURA, Ryu( Faculty of Science, Ryukyu University,Associate Professor,Observation of spatial and temporalvariability of precipitation isotope ratios )WATANABE, Masahiro( Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo,Professor,Climatological evaluationof past climate variations based on proxy records )ICHINO, Mika
( Center for Open Data in the Humanities,Researcher,Database construction and utilization of olddiary weather records )OKAZAKI, Atsushi( RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science,Researcher,Evaluation of proxy isotope datausing general circulation models with isotope dynamics )MIZUTANI, Tsukasa ( Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo,Lecturer,Time-series analyses of
paleoclimatological data )TORIDE, Kinya( University of California, Davis,Graduate Student,General circulation modeling with assimilation of
weather records in old diaries )PANDUKA, Neluwala ( School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo,Graduate Student )Prehistory/Ancient History Group○ WAKABAYASHI,( History Museum, Doshisha University,Professor,Analysis of social adaptations to climate changes
Kunihiko
during Yayoi Era )○ HIGAMI, Noboru( Aichi Prefectural Center for Archaeological Operations,Investigator,Analysis of excavated wooden
properties during Yayoi and Kofun Eras )MURAKAMI, Yumiko ( The Kyoto University Museum,Associate Professor,Analysis of excavated wooden samples during
Yayoi and Kofun Eras )MATSUGI, Takehiko ( National Museum of Japanese History,Professor,Analysis of social responses to climate changes
during Yayoi and Kofun Eras, focusing on human population dynamics )AKATSUKA, Jiro
( Ancient Niwanosato Cultural Heritage Network,President,Analysis of social adaptations to climatechanges during Yayoi Era )IMAZU, Katsunori( Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences,Okayama University,Professor,Analysis of
population responses to climate changes in ancient period using document records )FUJIO, Shin-ichiro( National Museum of Japanese History,Professor,Analysis of social responses to climate changes
during Jomon and Yayoi Eras )YAMADA, Masahisa ( Graduate School of Humanity, Tokyo Metropolitan University,Professor,Analysis of excavatedwooden properties during Jomon, Yayoi, and Kofun Eras )INOUE, Tomohiro( Osaka Center for Cultural Heritage,Investigator,Analysis of social responses to climate changes
during the Yayoi and medieval Eras )Research Projects

Climatology Group○ YOSHIMURA, Kei

RIHN( Faculty of Economics, Seikei University,Associate Professor,Analysis of climate change in Japan
using old documentary records )HIRANO, Jumpei( Teikyo University,Lecturer,Analysis of climate change in Japan using old documentary records )TAIRA, Hideaki( Tateyamasugi Research Institute,Director,Analysis of human-forest relationship during last two
millennia in mountainous areas )SHO, Kenjiro( Social Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology,Associate Professor,Assessment ofhydrological impacts of past climate change )LI, Zhen( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Project Researcher,Reconstruction of past hydroclimate
in Japan using tree-ring oxygen isotope ratios )HAKOZAKI, Masataka ( National Museum of Japanese History,Specially Appointed Assistant Professor,Reconstruction of
past climate in Japan using tree-ring width, density and oxygen isotope ratios )LI, Qiang( Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Science,Associate Professor,Reconstruction of
past climate in China using tree-ring width, density and oxygen isotope ratios )KAWAHATA, Hodaka ( Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo,Professor,Reconstruction of past
climate in Japan using inland sediment cores )SAKASHITA, Wataru ( Faculty of Life and Environment Sciences, University of Tsukuba,Researcher,Reconstruction of
past climate in Japan using tree-ring oxygen isotope ratios )HISAMOCHI, Ryo( Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University,Graduate Student,Reconstruction of past climate inJapan using stalactite carbon and oxygen isotope ratios )TSUSHIMA, Akane( Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University,Researcher,Reconstruction of past
climate in Japan using tree-ring oxygen isotope ratios and Analysis of ice cores in Central Asia )SAWADA, Keito( Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University,Graduate Student,Reconstruction of
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KANEDA, Akihiro( Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties,Chief Researcher,Analysis of social
responses to climate changes during the ancient period )MURAKAMI, Mayuko ( Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University,Researcher,Analysis of social responses toclimate changes during the ancient period )BATTEN, Bruce( Graduate School of International Studies, J. F. Oberlin University,Professor,Analysis of social
responses to climate changes during Japanese History )KOBAYASHI, Kenichi ( Faculty of Letters, Chuo University,Professor,Dating of excavated wooden properties during
Jomon, Yayoi, and Kofun Eras )ONBE, Shin
( Kumakogen Town Board of Education,Curator,Analysis of archaeological remains in the Seto
Inland Sea during Jomon Era )IKUTA, Atsushi( Division of Academic Affairs, Ryukoku University,Part-time Lecturer,Comparison between
descriptions in Nihon shoki, the oldest Japanese historical chronicle, and proxy-based paleoclimate
records )Medieval History Group○ TAMURA, Noriyoshi ( Faculty of Humanities, Beppu University,Professor,Analysis of social responses to severe events offlood and drought during Muromachi and Warring States periods )○ MIZUNO, Shoji( School of Human Culture, The University of Shiga Prefecture,Professor,Analysis of social
adaptation to hydroclimate variability during Kamakura and Muromachi periods )ITO, Keisuke( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Project Researcher,Relationship between economy andclimate during the medieval period )NISHIYACHI, Seibi( Faculty of Letters Nara Women’s University,Professor,Analysis of agricultural adaptation toclimate change during the medieval warm period )TAKAGI, Tokuroh( Faculty of Education, Waseda University,Professor,Analysis of environmental adaptation in estatesand villages )ITO, Toshikazu( Faculty of Human Studies, Meijo University,Professor,Analysis of societal responses to climate
variation in Japan during the medieval period )SASO, Mamoru( Faculty of Shinto Studies, Kokugakuin University,Professor,Relationship between climate
variations and spatio-temporal distribution of archaeological remains )TSUCHIYAMA, Yushi ( Graduate School of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Waseda University,Graduate Student,Analysis of
impact of climate disasters on medieval estates )Early Modern History Group○ SATO, Daisuke( International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University,Associate
Professor,Historical Analysis of social responses to natural disasters )○ WATANABE, Koichi ( National Institute of Japanese Literature,Professor,Urban adaptation to heavy flood events in Edo
during the early modern period )KIKUCHI, Isao
( Miyagi Gakuin Women’s University,Professor,Social responses to great famines in Northeast
Japan during the early modern period )NAKAYAMA,( Graduate School of Letters, Hiroshima University,Professor,Changes in livelihood pattern during
Tomihiro
the early modern period in Southwest Japan )HIRANO, Tetsuya( Tokiwa University,Associate Professor,Societal responses to climate change during the earlymodern period in local villages in East Japan )SATO, Hiroyuki( Faculty of Education, Kagoshima University,Associate Professor,Societal responses to climatechange during the early modern period in Southernmost Japan )OGI, Shinichiro( Faculty of Humanities, Kochi University,Professor,Societal responses to climate change during theearly modern period in Southern Japan )TAKEI, Koichi( Faculty of Law and Letters, University of the Ryukyus,Associate Professor,Societal responses toclimate change during the early modern period in Northern Japan )TAKAHASHI, Miyuki ( Faculty of Economics, Rissho University,Professor,Analysis of population dynamics in northeast
Japan during the early modern period )YAMADA, Kosei( Okinawa Prefectural Board of Education,Specialist,Societal responses to climate change during theearly modern period in southwest islands of Japan )TAKATSUKI, Yasuo ( Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration, Kobe University,Associate
Professor,Analysis of market pricing in early modern Japan )MURA, Kazuaki( The University of Tokyo,Associate Professor,Analysis of market pricing in early modern Japan )BROWN, Philip C.
( College of Arts & Sciences, Department of History, The Ohio State University,Professor,Analysisof landownership in Japan during early modern period )ENDO, Takahiro( Osaka Prefecture University,Associate Professor,Societal responses to climate change during theearly modern period in central Japan )KORIYAMA, Shiho( Kasai City Board of Education,Part-time Researcher,Estimate of climate impacts in early modern
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Because only one year is left for our project before the end of FR5 (March, 2019), we will concentrate ourselves to publish our
research results as Japanese and English books shown below through intense individual and group studies in Step 2 and 3.

Part 1. How do new paleoclimatological data change our understanding of Japanese history?

Chap. 1 Overview of climate variations behind Japanese history

Chap. 2 How does our understanding on prehistorical and ancient periods change or not change?

Chap. 3 How does our understanding on medieval period change or not change?

Chap. 4 How does our understanding on early modern period change or not change?

Part 2. Searching societies resilient to climate variations – New possibility in studies of history

Chap. 5 Reconstruction of historical rice growth potential under climate variations

Chap. 6 Comparison of social responses to climate across periods from prehistorical to early modern era

Chap. 7 Comparison of social responses to climate among regions – Cases of early modern era

Chap. 8 Categorizing of climate-society relationship beyond time and space.

<Vol. 2> Reconstruction of past climate variations and establishment of new chronological basis

Part 1. Development of high resolution paleoclimatological reconstruction

Chap. 1 Recent achievements of paleoclimatological reconstructions in Japan and world

Chap. 2 Precipitation -Tree ring oxygen isotope ratio

Research Projects<Vol.1> Emergence of new climatological scope and new potential of Japanese history

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The Japanese synthesis books consist of six volumes. Contents of all books have been determined in detail, some of which havebeen already written and handled by editors (project office members and leader and sub-leader of each group) in the project.
Chapters of each books are as follows. Volume 1 is to overview the whole six volumes (part 1) and to propose a new strategy for
obtaining lessons about societies resilient to climate and environment changes from the history (part2). Volume 2 is to describe
the up-to-date results of past climate reconstructions, their climatological implications and dating of archaeological properties.
Volumes 3-6 are to show the latest results on many historical case studies on climate-society relationships during prehistoricaland ancient (Vol.3), medieval (Vol. 4) and early modern (vol. 5 and 6) periods, respectively.

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Chap. 3 Temperature - Tree ring width and density

Chap. 4 Precipitation and Temperature - Old diaries

Chap. 5 Water and Air temperature - SedimentChap. 6 Water temperature and Salinity - Coral ring

Chap. 7 Climate disaster - Old document

Part 2. Toward comprehensive understanding of climate history

Chap. 8 Integration of paleoclimatological data by statistical methods

Chap. 9 Integration of paleoclimaotlogical data by data assimilation general circulation modelPart 3. Establishment of new chronological basis

Chap. 10 Development and advancement of oxygen isotope ratio dendrochronology

Chap. 11 Spatio-temporal extension and application of tree-ring oxygen isotope chronologies

Chap. 12 Toward highly precise dating by radiocarbon analyses<Vol. 3> Climate and society in prehistorical and ancient period in Japan

Part 1. General part

Chap. 1 Overview of climate variations in prehistorical and ancient period

Chap. 2 Recent development of chronology in prehistorical period

Chap. 3 Migration of rice paddy cultivation and climate variations

Part 2. Formation and alteration of ancient nation

Chap. 4 Relation between climate and local social structure during period of nation formation

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Chap. 5 Population pattern and environment in Yayoi and Kofun period

Part 3. Villages and landscape

Chap. 8 Change in village and climate in central Japan around Nagoya during Yayoi-Kofun transition

Chap. 9 Development of villages with surrounding trench during middle Yayoi in Shiga prefecture area

Chap. 10 Geomorphology and human habitats in southwest Kanto region since late Yayoi related to climate variations

Part 4. Production and economy

Chap. 11 Rice paddy cultivation and precipitation change in Yayoi period

Chap. 12 Problems around “Koku” (crop) and climate variations in 6th and 7thcenturies

Chap. 13 Relationship between ancient coin circulation and climate variations<Vol. 4> Climate variation and medieval societies in Japan

Part 1. Environment and landscape in medieval period

Chap. 1 Overview of climate variations in Medieval period

Chap. 2 History of villages and farmlands related to environmental changes

Part 2. Responses against disasters

Chap. 3 Medieval ceremonies to pray for rain and precipitation variations

Chap. 4 Formation of medieval societies caused by climate changes in 11th and 12th centuries

Part 3. Relation to manor system

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Chap. 7 Variation in middle Jomon (4-5ka) village around the region in southwest Kanto region near Tokyo and its relation toclimate

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Chap. 6 Royal authority and climate - General crisis in late 9th century

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Chap. 5 Influence of climate variations in 11thand 12th centuries to establishment of manor system

Chap. 6 Variation of agrarian production in a manor estate of western Japan during 14thand 15th centuries

Chap. 7 Disasters in a manor estate near Kyoto and climate variations

Part 4. Influence to distribution and economy

Chap. 8 Societal change in 14th century, especially urban economy, and adaptation to famines

Chap. 9 Land sales contracts in late medieval period near Osaka related to climate variations<Vol. 5> Reconsidering of early modern Japan from climate variation

Part 1. Nation-wide characteristics

Chap. 1 Overview of climate variations in early modern period

Chap. 2 Early modern agrarian production inferred from land tax invoices and climate variation

Chap. 3 Population change and natural environment in early modern period

Chap. 4 Anti-famine crop stocks and climate variations

Part 2. Edo government and central market

Chap. 5 Central market in early modern Japan and climate variation

Chap. 6 Responses of Edo government and private sectors to complex disasters in early 19th century

Part 3. Technologies and societies

Chap. 7 “Kabuido” (cooperative groundwater utilization system) in a delta region near Nagoya

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Part 1. Warmth as the problem

Chap. 3 Climate during early 19th century (Bunka period) and agricultural policy in Kaga feudal domain

Part 2. Coldness as the problem

Chap. 4 Disasters and famines during late 18th and early 19th centuries and societal responses in Hiroshima feudal domain

Chap. 5 Crop failure and famine during early 19th century in northern Kanto region (north of Tokyo) and responses by local
society

Chap. 6 Climate variations and societal responses during early 19th century in Sendai feudal domain.

The English synthesis book is planned to be one volume, in which resilience of Japanese societies against large climate variations
will be discussed for each period of outstanding historical regime shifts over Japanese history. Chapters of the book have been
decided as below. Chapters 4 to 10 will be written by Japanese historians or archaeologists mainly in Japanese language andtranslated to English later by English-native experts on Japanese history, including members of international outreach unit in the
project.

Tentative title: “Climate Change and Resilience in Japanese History” (editors: T. Nakatsuka (RIHN), P. C. Brown (The Ohio
State University), B. L. Batten (J. F. Oberlin University))

Tentative title of chapters:

Introduction: Aims of this book (editors)

Chap. 1: Japanese history: an overview (editors)

Chap. 2: Climate change and its relationships to historical events and trends in Japan: Possibilities for a re-writing of history(editors)

Chap. 3: Theoretical perspectives: resilience (editors)

Chap. 4: Climate in the 10th–5th c. BCE and introduction of wet-rice agriculture (S. Fujio, National Museum of Japanese
History)

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Chap. 2 Climate variations and local societies in early modern Tanegashima island (south of Kagoshima) –from 1800 to 1820
AD –

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Chap. 1 Climate disasters and social responses in 19th Ryukyu (Okinawa) island – Top-down reformation and change in societies

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Chap. 5: Climate in the 2nd c. and the Yayoi-Kofun transition (K. Wakabayashi, Dōshisha University)

Chap. 6: Climate in the 6th c. and the emergence of a centralized state (K. Imadu, Okayama University)

Chap. 7: Climate in the 10th–12th c. and the decline of a centralized state (N. Tamura, Beppu University)

Chap. 8: Climate in the 14th–16th c. and warrior society (T. Ito, Meijō University)

Chap. 9: Climate in the 17th c. and agricultural expansion during the Little Ice Age (K. Takeii, University of the Ryukyus)

Chap. 10: Climate in the 18th-19th c. and the development of a market economy (Y. Takatsuki, Kobe University)

Conclusion: Resilience in Japanese history (editors)

All of the writers and translators have been determined, and the book is planned to be published by Cambridge University Press
through the reviewing process of CUP after the end of this project.

●Achievements○Papers【Original Articles】

・Uemura, R., M. Uemura, M. Sano, T. Nakatsuka 2018 A 180-year-long isotopic record of tree-ring cellulose on Okinawa
Island, Japan. Geochemical Journal. (reviewed). in press
・Xu, C., N. Pumijumnong, T. Nakatsuka, M. Sano, 2018 Inter-annual and multi-decadal variability of monsoon season rainfall
in central Thailand during the period of 1804-1999-inferred from tree ring oxygen isotopes. International Journal of
Climatology. (reviewed). in press
・Li, Q., Y. Liu, T. Nakatsuka, K. Fang, H. Song, R. Liu, C. Sun, G. Li, K. Wang 2018,10 East Asian Summer Monsoon
moisture sustains summer relative humidity in the southwestern Gobi Desert, China: evidence from δ18O of tree rings.
Climate Dynamics :1.0-17.0. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-018-4515-6 (reviewed).
・Hisamochi, R., Watanabe, Y., Sano, M., Nakatsuka, T., Naoyuki Kurita, Miyuki Matsuo-Ueda, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Suyako
Tazuru, Junji Sugiyama 2018,12 Cellulose oxygen isotopic composition of teak (Tectona grandis) collected from Java Island:a tool for dendrochronological and dendroclimatological analysis. Dendrochronologia(52):80-86. DOI:https://doi.org/
10.1016/j.dendro.2018.09.010
・Lucquin, A., Robson, H.K., Eley, Y., Shoda, S., Veltcheva, D., Gibbs, K., Heron, C.P., Isaksson, S., Nishida, Y., Taniguchi,
Y., Nakajima, S., Kobayashi, K., Jordan, P., Simon Kanerk, S., and Craig, O.E. 2018,07 The impact of environmental changeon the use of early pottery by East Asian hunter-gatherers. PNAS 115.0(31.0):7931.0-7936.0. DOI:10.1073/pnas.1803782115
・Wei, Z., X. Lee, Z. Liu, U. Seeboonruang, M. Koike, K. Yoshimura 2018,04 Influences of large-scale convection andmoisture source on monthly precipitation isotope ratios observed in Thailand, Southeast Asia . Earth and Planetary Science
Letters(488):181-192. DOI:doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2018.02.015, 2018 (reviewed).
・Hirano, J. Mikami,T. Zaiki,M. Nishina J. 2018 Analysis of precipitation data at Yokohama, Japan, from 1863 to 1869
observed by J.C. Hepburn. Journal of Geography(127.0):531.0-541.0. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-018-4212-5(reviewed).

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・Hakozaki, M., F. Miyake, T. Nakamura, K. Kimura, K. Masuda, M. Okuno 2018 Verification of the annual dating of the 10th
century Baitoushan Volcano eruption based on AD 774–775 carbon-14 spike. Radiocarbon(60.0):261.0-268.0. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1017/RDC.2017.75. (reviewed).

・Nakai, W., N. Okada, M. Sano, T. Nakatsuka 2018 Sample preparation of ring-less tropical trees for δ18O measurement inisotope dendrochronology. (reviewed).

・Xu, C., Sano, N., Ashok Priyadarshan Dimri, Rengaswamy Ramesh, Takeshi Nakatsuka, Feng Shi, and Zhengtang Guo
2018,05 Decreasing Indian summer monsoon on the northern Indian sub-continent during the last 180 years: evidence fromfive tree-ring cellulose oxygen isotope chronologies. Climate of the Past (14):653-664. DOI:https://doi.org/10.5194/
cp-14-653-2018
・Xu, C., J. Shi, Y. Zhao, T. Nakatsuka, M. Sano, S. Shi, Z. Guo 2018,04 Early summer precipitation in the lower Yangtze
River basin for AD 1845–2011 based on tree-ring cellulose oxygen isotopes. Climate Dynamics,. DOI:https://doi.org/
10.1007/s00382-018-4212-5 (reviewed).
○Research Presentations【Oral Presentation】

・Nakatsuka, T New perspectives in historical studies provided by high resolution paleoclimate data. WEHC BOSTON
2018.08.01, Boston, USA.

2018,

・Shibamoto, M., Takatsuki, Y. Climate changes and market economy: the case of early modern Japan. WEHC BOSTON
2018, 2018.08.01, Boston, USA.

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・Nabeshima, E., T. Nakatsuka, A. Kagawa, T. Hiura, R. Funada 2018,06 Seasonal changes of δD and δ18O in tree-ringcellulose of Quercus crispula suggest a change in post-photosynthetic processes during earlywood growth. TROPICS (27.0).
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpy068 (reviewed). in press

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・Caceres, M.L.L., S.Nakano, J.P.Ferrio, M.Hayashi, T. Nakatsuka.,M.Sano,Y.Yamanaka、Y.Nobori 2018 Evaluation of theeffect of the 2011 Tsunami on coastal forests by means of multiple isotopic analyses of tree-rings. Isotopes in Environmentaland Health Studies . (reviewed).

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Stage: Full Research
Project Name: Toward the Regeneration of Tropical Peatland Societies: Building International Research Network on
Paludiculture and Sustainable Peatland Management
Abbreviated Title: Tropical Peatland Societies
Project Leader: MIZUNO, Kosuke
Program 1: Societal Transformation under Environmental Change
Key Words: Peatland, Tropical peatland societies, Rehabilitation, Environmental vulnerability, Transformability○ Research Subject and Objectivesa) Problem, background, and objectives
The degradation of tropical peat swamps in Southeast Asia has increasingly become problematic in the context of international
environmental conservations. Due to their physical characteristics, tropical peat swamp forests have been difficult to utilize, andtherefore, spared from development for a long time. However, drainage associated with plantation development of fast-growing
trees and oil palm has led to a decrease in groundwater table levels and the drying of peat swamp forest.
This has resulted in an increase in CO2 emissions, by peat decomposition, and frequent fires (Hirano 2009, 2012, 2014). In
Indonesia alone, an estimated 2.1 million hectares of forest – most of them peatlands – that were burned in 2015. The amount of
CO2 emitted from the fires in 2015 exceeded annual CO2 emission from the consumption of fossil fuels in Japan of 2015 (Fig.
1). The resultant haze caused incalculable damage to the local economy and has impacted the health of not only the local people,
but also those in Malaysia and Singapore (Fig.2). The prevention of peatland degradation and aridification has become a global
environmental, economic, and political issue.
In Indonesia, the political and social situation around peatland has made the sustainable management of the peat environment adifficult task. Most peatland is classified as state forest, and state appropriation has created contestation, overlapping, andinsecurity over forest tenure conditions (RRI 2008, RRI 2012, Sunderlin, Hatcher, and Liddle 2008, White and Martine 2002).
Companies that were given concessions in peatland areas developed plantations, roads, and canals under weak state regulations,attracting people to move in. The complexity and vagueness of land possession has prevented the local villagers from managing
peatland sustainably and continuously. As a result, the peat swamp has dried up, resulting in degradation, and in turn, widespread
fires like a stage of catastrophe. .
How can society develop institutions to control and manage these fires and mitigate degradation? Our research project willconduct transdisciplinary research into the social-ecological systems in tropical peatlands to understand and address theirvulnerabilities. Ultimately the project intends to elucidate the transformability of environmentally vulnerable societies.
b) Methodology, structure and schedule
The inquiries and issues of peatland societies and environment can be integrated under the cyclic three phenomena; that is, (1)History of Development, (2) Peat Environment and (3) Climate Change. We explore them along the two lines, i.e. studies on
Vulnerability and ones on Transformability (Fig. 3). The studies on vulnerability mainly includes scientific approaches to eachphenomenon such as (1) exploring the socio-economic history of the peatland changes from the peat swamp forest to degradedand dried peatland by the exploitation by the companies and the societies, and changes of socio ecological conditions ofpeatland, (2) monitoring greenhouse-gas emissions in various types of peatlands and clarifying the characteristics of peat
environment, and material and biological cycle such as soil and plants changes according to the peatland degradation (3)Analyzing the relationship among the rainfall, peatland fire, haze and health damage.
On the other hand, studies on transformability involves landscape changes from the degraded and dried peatland to rewetted andrevegetated peatland with improved livelihood and entitlement of local people with our deep commitments to local people’s
efforts to tackle the peatland restorations, such as (1) promoting participation in peatland restoration activities amongst villagers
and suggesting effective policies to administrators, (2) creating the innovative ways of peatland restoration, both by soil science,
biological science and by organizational and agrarian arranges for of the paludiculture (See Fig. 4 & 5) through social forestry,and (3) identifying the potential local hotpots of fire with a weather radar. By combing vulnerability and transformability
approaches, we try to not just implement the restoration or rehabilitation of degraded and dried peatlands, but create new system
and landscape of regenerated peatland society In terms of research schedule, see Fig. 6.
c) Expected results
Through our research activities based around peatland restoration, we will draw an integrated map of the peatland ecosystem withparticipatory mapping (as a result of the studies on vulnerability), and establish a socio-ecological model of regenerated peatlandsociety (as ones on transformability) that can be applied to peatland restoration in other areas. In addition, by comparing the27
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situations of peatlands in various areas, we will explore the characteristics of peat environment and societies in the world,
addressing the transformability of environmentally vulnerable societies.
d) Project organization and membership

2) The Material Cycling Group focuses on the phenomena of the Climate Change and Peat Environment. The group conducts
intensive multi-disciplinary research, particularly on water and material cycles, for the integration of natural and social scientificmapping to better understand peatland ecosystems. The group also assesses influences and health hazards associated with haze.
The group consists of hydrologists, meteorologists, botanists and pedologists.
3) The International Research Group compares the social and ecological situations of peatlands in the world, and integrates
experiences on sustainable peatland management. The members include experts on international relations, political science, andexperienced scientists who conduct research within peatland outside of Indonesia.
e) Contribution to the program
The deliberation of relationship and structure between the three phenomena enables us to discuss sustainable development ofpeatland societies. Namely, in integrating processes between studies on the rainfall pattern/change and fire history, and land
tenure and land conflict history that have been motivated by the companies, local people and the governments, and the solutions
studies we can follow the (2) examining the kinds of motivations that affect people’s livelihood in the Program 1 statement. Also
we focus on the resource intensive development in Indonesia, such as the intensification of timber plantation and oil palm
planting on the peatland as the opposite side of export-oriented industrialization in East Asian countries as (1) showing the Asia’s paths of socio-economic development in relation to climate change and environmental history of Program I statement.
CONTRIBUTION TO THE PROGRAM
The deliberation of relationship and structure between the three themes,ｓ i.e. the History of Development, Peat Environment
and Climate Change enables us to discuss sustainable development of peatland societies. Namely, in integrating processes
between studies on climate change, especially rainfall pattern/change, and the characteristics of peatland exploitation, we canidentify the characteristics of the vulnerability and the process of the transformability. Vulnerable peat swamp forest could not be
restored and degradation of peatland has led to the catastrophe, but now people aim to restore the peatland not as the original peatswamp forest but the vegetated rewetted peat land as social and political options at local societies/livelihoods in accordance ofthe peatland environment. This results in the suggestion to administrators of effective peatland restoration programs, in whichpeople can positively participate (see also Fig, 3 and 4. Amendments to Research…). This transformability approach thus
contributes to showing the Asia’s paths of socio-economic development in relation to climate change and environmental history,
and examining the kinds of motivations that affect people’s livelihood in the Program 1 statement.
In addition, some research activities can respectively contribute to the aim of the Program 1. Some members in the Community,
Corporate and Governance group and Material Cycling group began implementing social forestry program in the village of
Tanjung Leban. This is following the new government policies, in which the government legitimize the community’s ownershipof the forests, which were designated as state forests, through the community practice of social forestry. It has been broadly
conducted in other Asian countries that once the state government claimed the state ownership of the almost all lands, then thegovernment gradually guarantees the people’s land rights. Through the implementation and observation of social forestry
program, we clarify a process of socio-political development of land right in the rapid transformation of peatland environment.
For some time, the Indonesian economy has relied on the export of primary commodities such as logs, wooden products,
sugar, tea, rubber, petroleum, natural gas, and palm oil. Further extraction of primary commodities often sacrifices theenvironment, and in many cases, has not given rise to further industrialization. The prevalence of oil palm planting, for example,
contributes to deforestation, and the degradation of peatland, whilst also leading to decreased industrialization. The developmentof the palm oil processing industry has not been proportional to the increase in Crude Palm Oil (CPO) extraction. This type ofresource intensive development or primary commodity export intensive development pattern in Indonesia is the opposite side of
the Export-oriented industrialization in East Asian countries such as Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and China.

○ Progress and Results in 2018

PROJECT PROGRESS DURING THE FR PERIOD TO DATE

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1) The Community, Corporate and Governance Group mainly deals with the phenomenon of the History of Development. The
Study will focus on historical activities of the companies and people on the peatland, livelihood strategies, land tenure, andresource use to identify factors that cause peat degradation. This group consists of economists, anthropologists, sociologists,
political scientists, experts on company management, experts on administration/governance and archive historian.

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This year, we have tried to integrate our studies among the History of Development, Peat Environment and Climate Changegroups with the ideas of the vulnerability and transformability. Vulnerability is the degree to which a system, or part of a system,
may react adversely during the occurrence of a hazardous event (Prong 2014), on the other hand transformability is the capacity
to create a fundamentally new system when ecological, economic, or social (including political) conditions make the existing
system untenable. (Walker, et al 2004).
Peatland was originally formed as the peat swamp forest that was expulsive to people, because the land was muddy anddifficult to be cultivated. Once the land was cultivated, the land started the subsidence unevenly among the plots. This peatland
experienced the intensive exploitation only since 1980’s by the companies of oil palm and timber plantation. After making theroad and canal, people flowed into the area, and started the exploitation, and all of these exploitation promoted the degradation ofpeatland because of the massive drainage and fire. Degraded peatland is extensive, devastated, and really barren partly at the area
suffered from the expose of acid sulfa.
These conditions are now attempted to be transformed with the idea of rewetting, revegetation and improvement of livelihoodand entitlement of local people. This process of transformation is thought as the transformability, because rehabilitated peatland
is totally different both from the dried and degraded peatland, and also from the original peat swamp forest that was reallyexpulsive to people.
We have studies the vulnerability from the various points of view. Firstly we investigate the history of the exploitation of thepeatland both by the companies, and also local people. Actually we have done research on the people and society on the peat landor the fringe area of peat dorm because people had kept their livelihood at the surrounding area of peat dorm. Local minority areincluded, so we have studied the peatland society that did not disturb the peat land seriously.
We have studied the vulnerability from the viewpoints of the rainfall, peatland fire, haze and health damage of local people. This
topic is really challenging and important. We studies the history of rain fall, and fire with the historical studies. We started theinvestigation of health hazard caused by the haze of peatland fire in cooperation with hospitals in Riau and Central Kalimantan
provinces. They expanded the network of monitoring air pollutant (PM 2.5 and CO2) during peatland fires, and a part of its result
was published on an international journal (Notable Output 6). We also published a thesis, in which we show the dynamics of
CO2 derived from decomposition of peat soils in accordance with the transformation of landscape (forest→devastated land), andthe result of monitoring CH4 emission in Indonesian peatlands (Notable Output 10; Fig)We have studies the material cycling
points of view, such as the vegetation, water and soil changes according to the peatland degradation, especially fire. We havestudied the vulnerability from the viewpoints of land rights also especially on the state forest that has brought about the vague
land rights of local people.
On the transformability, we have persuaded the villagers to participate in the restoration activities and also held Focus Group
Discussion (FGD) in the village of Tanjing Leban, Bengkalis district. As a result, 24 households with the private land of 42
hectares newly decided to join the paludiculture program, and villagers planted vanilla and indigenous trees rewetting the driedpeatlands. We have investigated the soil and plant changes after the fire to clarify the vulnerability of peatland and create theinnovative way of paludiculture.
We analysed Provincial Spatial Planning (RTRW) and found out that it was designed based on the opinions of acacia and oilpalm companies, and, therefore, far narrower area than one that the BRG expected is designated as a peat- protected area. This
has negative effect to eh transromability, so we analyse the reasons. At district/village level, we began the arrangement ofcounter mapping at the two villages in Pelalawan district for the purpose of seeking for the possibility of peatland restoration as
bottom-up approach. We also suggested administrators to embed the improvement of vague land right and illegal occupation
through the implementation of the social forestry program based on our research findings that the stronger the land rights, thebetter the management of the peatlands(Fig 7). Indeed, we began promoting the implementation of social forestry in combination
with the peatland rehabilitation program. Or people will be actively involved in the peatland rehabilitation program because they
can improve the land rights (so far land was disputed, but the conflict can be settled because of the social forestry program) withthe taking part in the social forestry program cum peatland rehabilitation program. This approach is called the entitlement
approach because the weak land rights is deprive of the entitlement, and improving the land rights is the improving theentitlement. Or with the coupling with the fundamental issue’s improvement such as land title, we can secure the active
participation of local people to the peatland rehabilitation program.
Transformability process is not only the change of landscape but also the improvement of people’s livelihood and entitlement.
These improvement of peat land society supported by the innovation of the puldiculture technology and approach including theorganization and agrarian structure consist of the factors that form the new model of peatland society that will be diffuse to otherareas.
Our idea of transformability is not limited to the local society. We find that as a result of the rapid expansions of palm-oil
production (including the planting on the peatland) and the export of crude palm oil, while consumption and the production of
non-tradable goods grew, the production of tradable goods has been stagnant in Indonesia. This resource intensive development,or primary commodity intensive development that sacrifice the industrialization, or the development of tradable goods industry is

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PROGRESS SINCE THE LAST REPORTING(1) The Community, Corporate and Governance Group has made progress in studies especially on governance and trade. The
group revealed discord in and between government offices related to peatland policies at central level. At provincial level, they
analysed Provincial Spatial Planning (RTRW) and found out that it was designed based on the opinions of acacia and oil-palm
companies, and, therefore, far narrower area than one that the BRG expected is designated as a peat- protected area. At district/village level, the group began the arrangement of counter mapping at the two villages in Pelalawan district for the purpose of
seeking for the possibility of peatland restoration as bottom-up approach. The group also suggested administrators to embed theimprovement of vague land right and illegal occupation through the implementation of the restoration program based on our
research findings that the stronger the land rights, the better the management of the peatlands(Fig 7). Indeed, the group beganpromoting the implementation of social forestry in combination with the peatland rehabilitation program. Or people will be
actively involved in the peatland rehabilitation program because they can improve the land rights (so far land was disoputed, but
the conflict was settled because of the social forestry program) with the involvement of social forestry program cum peatland
rehabilitation program. In addition, the group clarified that, as a result of the rapid expansions of palm-oil production (including
the planting on the peatland) and the export of crude palm oil, while consumption and the production of non-tradable goods grew,
the production of tradable goods has been stagnant in Indonesia as a case of Dutch disease.
(2) The Material Cycling Group began the investigation of health hazard caused by the haze of peatland fire in cooperation withhospitals in Riau and Central Kalimantan provinces. They expanded the network of monitoring air pollutant (PM 2.5 and CO2)
during peatland fires, and a part of its result was published on an international journal (Notable Output 6). The group also
published a thesis, in which they show the dynamics of CO2 derived from decomposition of peat soils in accordance with thetransformation of landscape (forest→devastated land), and the result of monitoring CH4 emission in Indonesian peatlands(Notable Output 10; Fig. 8). As for paludiculture, the members persuaded the villagers to participate in the restoration activities
and also held Focus Group Discussion (FGD) in the village of Tanjing Leban, Bengkalis district. As a result, 24 households withthe private land of 42 hectares newly decided to join the paludiculture program, and villagers planted vanilla and indigenous trees
rewetting the dried peatlands. The group has investigated the soil and plant changes after the fire to clarify the vulnerability ofpeatland and create the innovative way of paludiculture.
(3) The International Research Group held a workshop in May 2018 and confirmed the framework of comparing the situations ofpeatlands in the world., the group investigated the social influences of forest fire in Central Kalimantan province, Indonesia, andconducted scoping investigations of peat area in Sarawak, Malaysia. In Peru, they prepared hearing investigations at village level,
which will be conducted in the next year. In this year, they did not conduct the research in Russia because of the limitation of thebudget.

○Project Members
The Community, Corporate, and Governance Group◎ MIZUNO, Kosuke( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature / Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto
University,Professor )□ SUGIHARA, Kaoru( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Professor )○ OKAMOTO, Masaaki ( Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University,Professor )○ OSAWA, Takamasa( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Researcher )Research Projects

As for the progress of research project as a whole, we have elaborated the research concept, in which we have reconfigured thethree themes of the History of Development, Peat Environment and Climate Change and, and explore them taking two
approaches: i.e. studies on Vulnerability and ones on Transformability (see Fig. 3; 4. Amendments to Research …). Along thesethree themes and two approaches, each work group has made progresses toward drawing an integrated map of the peatland
ecosystem, and establishing a reliable management guideline that can be applied to peatland restoration in other areas. In
addition, we reinforced the PR activities (Fig. 9).

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the opposite side of the East Asia’s export-oriented industrialization. Both of the patters of development have bias, so we intend
to establish the peatland society that are not biased with the primary commodity intensive development. We intend to develop thesociety that does not sacrifice the environment, industry and agriculture. One of the solution is to curb the expansion of oil palm
planting on the peatland, but to develop the oleo-chemical industry, and paludiculture that think of the development of processing
industry.

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○ KAJITA, Ryosuke( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Researcher )ABE, Ryuichiro( Japan Indonesia NGO Network )ADIATI, Hanni( Indonesian Government, Department of Environment and Forestry,Government Official )AMINAH MEUTIA,( Doshisha University,Researcher )Ami
DEWI, Kurniawati( Indonesian Institute of Science,Researcher )Hastuti
DHENY, Trie Wahyu ( Geospatioal Information Agency Indonesia,Researcher )Sampurno
DIANTO, Bachriadi( Agrarian Resource Center,Researcher )DUDI, Caudra( Perkempulan Elang )FATIMAH, Yuti Ariani ( Bandung Institute of Technology )GERBEN, Nooteboom ( University of Amsterdam,Professor )GRAHAM, Laura( Borneo Oranghutan Survival Foundation,Project Adviser )HASEGAWA, Takuya ( Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University,Researcher )HAYASHIDA, Hideki ( Institute for Humanity and Social Sciences, Doshisha University,Associate Professor )HEIN, Lars
( Wageningen University )HONNA, Jun( Collage of International Relation, Ritsumeikan University,Professor )HOSOBUCHI, Michiko ( Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University,Researcher )ITO, Tsuyoshi( Faculty of Liberal Arts, Sophia University,Associate Professor )ISNAINI, Zuli Laili( Riau University,Lecturer )KAMEDA, Akihiro( Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University,Assistant Professor )KANO, Hiroyoshi( Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo,Professor )KOIZUMI, Yusuke( Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo,Researcher )KONISHI, Tetsu( Osaka University of Economics and Law,Associate Professor )KONO, Yasuyuki( Kyoto University,Vice President )MASUDA, Kazuya( Faculty of Agriculture and Marine Science, Kochi University,Associate Professor )NUR, Wakhid( Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido Universiry,Doctoral Student )ONDA, Nariaki( Graduate Education and Research Training Program in Decision Science for a Sustainable Society,
Kyushu University,Lecturer )PRASETYAWAN,( Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta, Islamic State University,Senior Lecturer )Wahyu
PURNOMO, Herry( Center for International Forestry Research,Professor )SHAKUTO, Shiori( National University of Singapore,Researcher )SAMBUAGA, Adlin ( Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Riau University )SATO, Yuri
( Institute of Developing Economies,Commissioner )SUZUKI, Haruka( Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University,Researcher )TERAUCHI, Daisuke ( Faculty of Sociology, Toyo University,Assistant Professor )TOJO, Bunpei( Center for Spatial Information Science at the University of Tokyo,Researcher )TARIGAN, Abetnego ( WALHI, NGO )VAN SCHAIK, Arthur ( Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University,Researcher )WIDJAYA, Putri( Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University,Researcher )YOSHIDA, Koshi( Collage of Agriculture, Ibaraki University,Associate Professor )The Material Cycling and Ecosystem Group○ KOZAN, Osamu( Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University/Research Institute for Humanity andNature,Associate Professor )○ SHIMAMURA, Tetsuya ( Graduate School of Agriculture, Ehime University,Associate Professor )○ KAWASAKI, Masahiro ( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature / Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto
University,Professor )○ YAMANAKA, Manabu ( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature / Kobe University / Japan Agency for Marine-Earth
Science and Technology,Researcher / Emeritus Professor / Researcher )○ ITOH, Masayuki( University of Hyogo,Associate Professor )○ SHIODERA, Satomi( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature / Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto
University,Researcher )○ SAMEJIMA, Hiromitsu ( Institute for Global Environmental Strategies,Researcher )31
Research Projects○ Future Themes

RESEARCH PLANa) Integrated socio-ecological and fire study at Tanjung Leban. Mapping of the land on the view points of peatland
rehabilitation, water management, paludiculture will be combined with the socio-economic household survey, with that way the
improvement of livelihood, conditions of socio-economic conditions such as the land title, income of household or education will
be related to the participation of people to the rehabilitation program and to identify the effects of the rehabilitation programs.

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The International Research Group○ NAITO, Daisuke( Graduate School of Agriculture / Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University,Associate
Professor )○ ABE, Kennichi( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Professor )DE JONG, Wil( Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University,Professor )ISHIKAWA, Noboru ( Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University,Professor )OSAKI, Mitsuru( Hokkaido University,Emeritus Professor )RIELEY, Jack( International Peatland Society Convention,Commissioner )PADOCH, Christine( New York Botanical Garden,Senior Curator )SASAKI, Katsunori( FoE Japan,Team Leader )UBUKATA, Fumikazu ( Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science, Okayama University,Associate Professor )RIHN○ GUNAWAN, Haris( Peatland Restoration Agency, Indonesia,Vice Minister )○ PAGE, Susan( Leicester University,Professor )○ SETIADI, Bambang( Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology Indonesia,Senior Researcher )○ SUPIANDI, Sabiham ( Bogor Agricultural University,Professor )HAYAKAWA, Atsushi ( Akita Prefectural University,Associate Professor )HERO, Bambang( Bogor Agricultural University,Professor )HIRANO, Takashi( Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University,Professor )HOOIJER, Aljosja( Deltares,Professor )IIZUKA, Kotaro( Center for Spatial Information Science at the University of Tokyo,Researcher )IRIANA, Windy( Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo )KAWAKAMI,( Rainforest Action Network, Japan,President )Toyoyuki
KOBAYASHI, Shigeo ( Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University,Professor )KOK-BOON, Neoh( National Chung Hsing University,Assistant Professor )KUME, Takashi( Graduate School of Agriculture, Ehime University,Associate Professor )KULU, Ici Pieter( Palangkaraya University,Lecturer )KUWATA, Mikinori( Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University,Assistant Professor )LESTARI, Vera Budi ( Indonesian Institute of Science,Researcher )MAAS, Azwal( Gadjah Mada University,Professor )MATSUMI, Yutaka( Institute for Space–Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University,Professor )MIZUNO, Kei( Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University,Affiliated Associate Professor )MONDA, Yukako( Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University,Researcher )MUHAMMAD, Ahmad ( Riau University,Lecturer )NAKANO, Takanori( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Professor )OHASHI, Katsufumi( Kagoshima University,Associate Professor )SUSANTO, Robiyanto ( Sriwijaya University,Professor )SUWOGNOYO, Rujito ( Sriwijaya University,Professor )Agus
TONOKURA, Kenichi ( Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo,Professor )UEDA, Kayo( Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University,Associate Professor )DHENY, Trie Wahyu ( Geospatial Information Agency Indonesia,Researcher )Sampurno
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RIHN Annual Report 2018b) Extensive household surveys especially with relation to the peatland degradation, rehabilitation and conflicts. Land rights areimportant factors that will be paid attention in relation to the peatland rehabilitation program, and social forestry.
c) Environmental policy decision and its implementation of the new governor in Riau Province. In June 2018, the election of
governor was held in Riau province, and Syamsuar, who is a regent of Siak district and has produced the various results inenvironmental problems, carried with it surpassing the former governor who propelled the industrial development of peatlands inthe province. It is an important task to explore the dynamics of environmental policies implemented by the new governor (willtake office in March 2019) and clarify the structure of governance of environment at provincial level.
d) Counter mapping in the village of Rantau Baru, Pelalawan district. A sub-group of Community, Corporate and Governancegroup have arranged the produce of a peatland map, of which the villagers participate in the making process, in collaboration
with local NGOs. While we practice this as an action research to reinforce the villagers land rights, we will clarify the processesof how counter mapping stimulates the villagers’ motivations to obtaining land right and how the district government and acacia/
oil palm companies react to the movement.
e) Data rescue of rainfall data in peatland areas before deforestation and comparison with after. We have started digitalizing 19C
Dutch-colonial data "Regenwaarnemingen in Nederlandsch-Indie". We will analyse and compare them with operational (BMKG)
data after deforestation (since 1970s). We will also search other climatological data and disaster records at Dutch-Indonesiannational archives.
f) Rainfall variabilities with annual/diurnal cycles and El Niño. We have started analyzing interannual/interlocal variabilities ofseasonal cycles of rainfalls in Sumatera up to the Independence Era (1930s-60s). We will analyse also the diurnal cycles with apredawn peak of rainfall in Riau based on satellite observations. We will make drought caution, based on these analyses andclimate predictions by meteorological agencies/institutes.
g) Radar hydrology and forest fire prevention. We have done radar station adoption at Sepahat fire-watch tower in Bukit Batu of
Bengkalis, Riau, with the official clearance of radar installation from the local government (BPBD) of Benkalis. We will start
continuous operation of radar observations after installation collaborated with central-government agencies (BPPT and BRG).
h) Change of forest properties and tree species traits according to soil type transition from tropical heath to peat swamp forests
We had conducted permanent-plot census and architectural trait analysis for dominant tree species and understood the differenceof forest dynamics between tropical heath and peat swamp forests in Central Kalimantan. Then, we will establish a series of plots
according to soil type transition from tropical heath and peat swamp forests and clarify the environmental factors to explain thechange of forest properties and tree species traits between these two type forests.
i) Relationship between species composition and environmental factors for after burnt grasslands in Indonesian peatlands. From
2014, we continue the research about relationships between grassland communities and environmental factors for after burnt
peatlands in several villages at Bengkalis Regency, Riau Province in Sumatra. We had identified several grassland communities
from field research and statistical analysis, and clarified the relationship between these communities and several environmental
factors such as ground water level and water chemistry. We will extend our subject of study to various disturbed peatlands whichhave different disturbance severity and successional level. And, we also expand our research area widely and test our results inwhole Indonesia. Finally, we will generalize and make the scenario for recovery of disturbed peatlands in Indonesia.
j) Validation of land suitability for forest rehabilitation and selection of native species for rehabilitation disturbed peatlands. We
will establish the method to identify the land which is suitable for forest rehabilitation at the disturbed peatland. And, using
experimental methods, we will
clarify the ecological traits of native tree species in the sight from environment adaptation, and select the suitable species forforest rehabilitation there.
k) International comparative study for the current status, forest management and rehabilitation methods for tropical peatlands.
We will conduct literature study about current status of tropical peatlands and international comparative study for forest
management and rehabilitation of it.

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Research Projects●Achievements○Papers【Review Articles】

・YAMANAKA, M. D., S.-Y. OGINO, P.-M. WU, HAMADA J.-I., S. MORI, J. 2018,04 Maritime continent coastlines
controlling Earth's climate. Prog. Earth Planet Sci. 5(21):1-28. DOI:10.1186/s40645-018-0174-9 (reviewed). (a review,
Special Call for Excellent Papers on Hot Topics: 5. Asia
○Research Presentations【Oral Presentation】

・SHIODERA, S. Species composition and environmental factors of grasslands developing on the burnt peatlands in Sumatra.
15th International Peat Congress 2016, 2106.08.15-2016.08.19, Pullman Hotel, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia.

Research Projectsh) Management and strategies of oil palm and timber plantation’s companies in relation to the peatland use or peatland
rehabilitation programs, and also their participation to the industrialization program for the down-stream industry. Impacts of oilpalm and timber plantation’s activities to the Indonesian macro economy will be studied.

RIHNl) Reconstruction of research organization to explore the economic exploitation around sago production in the village of Kepau
Baru, Bengkalis district. Although some members are continuously monitoring water levels and constructing canal blockings in
the village, the research on the system of economic exploitation around sago production has been stagnant because the in-housemember engaged in the task has resigned the job. In the next year, we will reconstruct the research organization and explore theproblem.

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Stage: Full Research
Project Name: Research and Social Implementation of Ecosystem-based Disaster Risk Reduction as Climate Change
Adaptation in Shrinking Societies
Abbreviated Title: Eco-DRR project
Project Leader: YOSHIDA Takehito
Program 1: Societal Transformation under Environmental Change
URL: https://www.facebook.com/EcoDRR2018/
Key Words: Ecosystem-based Disaster Risk Reduction○ Research Subject and Objectives
Problem, background, and objectives

Climate change is ongoing and projected to intensify in the future, and its impacts expand to various natural and humansystems (IPCC 2014). Among the impacts, this project focuses on natural disasters, and it aims to contribute to adaptation
strategy of reducing and managing the risks of natural disasters. The risk of climate change or natural disaster results from theinteraction among climate-related hazard, exposure and vulnerability of human activities (IPCC 2012, 2014), so that adaptation to
the natural disaster risk can be realized by diminishing exposure (by improving land use) and vulnerability to hazard. Our project
mainly focuses on the land use in order to lower the disaster risk.
Existing hard-engineering countermeasures against natural disasters have target safety levels, below which natural disasters
can be prevented. Although these countermeasures are effective if the hazard level of natural disaster is below the target safetylevel, we are increasingly being faced with the situation, in which the hazard level goes well beyond the safety level, resulting ina devastating natural disaster. Also, conventional countermeasures are sometimes criticized for negatively affecting naturalenvironment and biodiversity that supply multiple ecosystem services supporting our livelihood. Eco-DRR (Ecosystem-based
Disaster Risk Reduction) approaches focus on lowering the exposure of human activities to the hazard of natural disasters, bywhich the losses and damages of natural disasters can be reduced, if not prevented. Eco-DRR approaches take advantage of themulti-functionality of ecosystems, including their capacity to mitigate disasters while providing multiple ecosystem services (e.g.
Convention on Biological Diversity 2015, UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015, Ministry of the Environment (MOE)
Japan 2016). Thus, Eco-DRR approaches complement the existing conventional approaches against natural disasters, although
the effectiveness and multi-functionality of Eco-DRR are not yet clearly and quantitatively understood (Science Council of Japan
2014, The Royal Society 2014).
Japan is facing aging and shrinking population, and it is leading to the abandonment of farmlands, houses and other intensive
land use, providing an opportunity for improving the land use (e.g. Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism(MLIT) Japan 2015). The population of Japan increased substantially over the last century, making the risk of natural disasters
larger and spreading wider. Evaluating the past change of natural disaster risks provides valuable information when considering
the adaptation not only in Japan but also in other countries.
Given the above background, this project sets the two main goals.
Goal 1. Developing the methodology of evaluating the multi-functionality of Eco-DRR in terms of reducing natural disaster risks
and other ecosystem services, and assessing Eco-DRR by comparing the multi-functionality between the past, the present and thefuture.
Goal 2. Supporting the implementation of Eco-DRR through transdisciplinary approaches in collaboration with local
communities, governments, insurance industry and other stakeholders.
Methodology, structure and scheduleThree research components (described below) contribute to achieve the above two goals with the spatial scales of research.
Research component 1) Visualizing the risks of natural disasters in the present and the past
The risk components of hazards, exposure and vulnerability for different natural disasters will be analysed on the GIS, andthen the risks of natural disasters in terms of monetary loss and thenumber of victims will be evaluated and visualized as the risk maps for the present and the past. By comparing the maps between
the present and the past, temporal changes of the natural disaster risks will be examined, and modeling the risk for the different
scenarios of exposure will contribute to assess Eco-DRR.

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Research component 2) Evaluating and modelling multi-functionality of Eco-DRR

Research component 3) Transdisciplinary scenario analysis and developing social and economic incentives of Eco-DRR

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Together with local communities and local governments, transdisciplinary platforms will be formed at each of the local
research sites by taking advantage of existing platforms. This transdisciplinary platform will function to deepen theunderstanding, discuss the future options, and build the consensus of Eco-DRR. Transdisciplinary scenario analysis will be
conducted in consideration of climate change and shrinking population. Multiple scenarios of the future local community will be
developed, and the risks of natural disasters and ecosystem services will be modelled for each scenario. In addition, traditional
and local knowledge of Eco-DRR will be inventoried and evaluated for the multi-functionality to be shared in the platforms andthe general

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Provisioning, regulating and cultural ecosystem services will be evaluated on the GIS, and their spatial distribution will bemodelled in relation to population distribution and land use patterns. The model will be used for evaluating the ecosystemservices for different land use scenarios to assess the potential of Eco-DRR.

public.
In collaboration with insurance industry, a research forum will be formed to discuss the possibility and feasibility of what
insurance industry can contribute to develop economic incentives of Eco-DRR. Also, various laws and institutions in national andlocal governments related to disaster risk reduction and land use will be assessed in the research forum as well.
Expected results
Visualization of the present status, historical changes and future scenarios of natural disaster risks and utilization of Eco-DRR
will help us understand what and where natural disaster risks exist in relation to land use, how we happened to have the risks
historically, and what options we have in the future. Our project also contributes to consensus building and developing social andeconomic incentives to promote and conserve Eco-DRR approaches by collaborating with diverse stakeholders in local
communities, governments and insurance industry.
Project organization and membership
The research components 1 to 3 will be conducted by the groups and sub-groups. The total number of project members now
count about 120.
Contribution to the program
Our project is affiliated with the Program 1 “Societal Transformation under Environmental Change” that aims at providing
realistic perspectives and options to facilitate the transformation towards asociety that can flexibly respond to environmental changes and natural disasters.
Even in the highly developed countries such as Japan, natural disasters frequently occur and cause devastating losses anddamages in human society, and there is an increasing trend of natural disasters caused by storms and typhoons, and heavy rainunder the ongoing climate change. Existing countermeasures against natural disasters based on the conventional civil engineering
technologies have target safety levels, below which natural disasters can be prevented. Although these countermeasures are
effective if the hazard level of a natural disaster is below the target safety level, we are increasingly being faced with thesituation, in which the hazard level goes well beyond the safety level, resulting in a devastating natural disaster. Also,
conventional countermeasures are sometimes criticized for negatively affecting natural environment and biodiversity that
supply multiple ecosystem services supporting our livelihood. Eco-DRR (Ecosystem-based Disaster Risk Reduction) approaches
focus on lowering the exposure of human activities to the hazard of natural disasters, by which the losses and damages of natural
disasters can be reduced, if not prevented. Eco-DRR approaches take advantage of the multi-functionality of ecosystems,
including their capacity to mitigate disasters while providing multiple ecosystem services. Thus, Eco-DRR approaches
complement the existing conventional approaches against natural disasters, although the effectiveness and multi-functionality of
Eco-DRR are not yet clearly and quantitatively understood (Science Council of Japan 2014, The Royal Society 2014). Our
project aims at deepening the understanding of Eco-DRR in an interdisciplinary way combining natural and social sciences,and contributes to the Program 1 by addressing the links between natural disasters and social issues.
Land use and land ownership are the key issue for the social implementation of Eco-DRR, and they are the most challenging
issue when we discuss the future options and build the consensus of Eco-DRR at each local research site. Our project aims at
understanding the history of land use change and examining the future scenarios of land use under the conditions of climatechange and shrinking population, in relation to the laws and institutions associated with land use and land ownership. Land

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RIHN Annual Report 2018ownership right in conformity with public welfare is described in the current constitution of Japan as well as in the former Meiji
constitution, but the actual relationship between land ownership right and public welfare on the ground should be reviewed
and assessed in light of disaster risk reduction and multi-functionality of land. Social transformation with regard to land use andland ownership will be considered in our project, which suggests the strong link between our project and the Program 1. The
Program 1 has been having discussions with seminar talks by internal and external researchers on land use and land ownership,
and we would like to continue contributing to it.

○ Progress and Results in 2018

Research component 1) Visualizing the risks of natural disasters in the present and the past
The methodology for evaluating and visualizing the risks of natural disasters in the present and the past was developed byexamining the existing and new data sets of hazards, exposure and vulnerability. As a trial case, we evaluated the risk of flood interms of potential economic losses and the number of potential victims at a prefecture scale of Shiga, as we will
eventually evaluate and visualize the risks of natural disasters at a country-wide scale. Multiple data sets of flood hazard,
exposure information including land use and buildings (micro geodata), and vulnerability estimates based on the standard manualby the MLIT are combined on the GIS to estimate the potential socio-economic loss of flood disaster. Future challenges exist in
applying the method to multiple types of natural disasters, further improving the evaluation method, applying the method to otherlocal research sites and larger spatial scales, etc.
Research component 2) Evaluating and modelling multi-functionality of Eco-DRR
The existing methodologies for evaluating and modelling ecosystem services were assessed to decide which methodology canbe used for this project. Parameters and land use data sets have been reviewed and collected to be used for our analysis. As a trial
case, we evaluated several ecosystem services at a prefecture scale of Shiga, as we will eventually evaluate them at acountrywide scale. In addition, for the scenario analysis that will be conducted at the next step, we examined the methodology ofland use change modelling at a prefecture scale of Shiga and examined a BAU (Business As Usual) case of the future land use
pattern and its relationship with flood hazard.
Research component 3) Transdisciplinary scenario analysis and developing social and economic incentives of Eco-DRR
We conducted research and actions for social implementation of Eco-DRR at three research sites of Shiga, Fukui and Chiba.
At the Fukui site, the relationship among land use, disaster risks, biodiversity and natural resources was explored in the
Mikatagoko area, and the research results have been shared with local stakeholders at the meetings of the Mikatagoko Nature
Restoration Committee to stimulate the discussions and planning of Eco-DRR in this area. At a prefecture scale of Fukui,
the potential habitat of oriental white stork and its relation to flood hazard, and the relationship between the distributions ofendangered species and flood and landslide hazards were explored. These research results are being shared with the Fukui
prefectural government and others.
At the Shiga site, the relationship between natural resources and landslide was explored in the Hira mountain area, and thefunctioning and spatial position of traditional open levees was studied in the Adogawa river area. In addition, at the prefecture
scale of Shiga, the historical relationship between land use and disaster risks, and the relationship between city planningof municipalities and flood risk were studied. These research results are being shared with local stakeholders and local
governments.
At the Chiba site, the flood mitigating functions of wetlands and grasslands and its relations to biodiversity has been exploredin the Inbanuma area, and the research results are being shared with local stakeholders.
At these sites and others in Toyama and Tohoku areas, the traditional and local knowledge of Eco-DRR including the history ofland use management, flood and landslide control measures built during the Edo period, management of shelter woods aroundhouses, etc. have been collected. These traditional and local knowledge of Eco-DRR will be made accessible to the generalpublic by publishing a series of booklets introducing these knowledges.
As for the social and economic incentives, we examined the feasibility of natural disaster insurance to stimulate theimplementation of Eco-DRR by comparing the insurance systems of different countries, and found that the current insurance
system of Japan is not likely to be a good incentive in this case, although those of other countries also have different difficulties.
Other incentives such as financial and investment schemes and various laws and institutions of the Japanese government havealso been being examined.
Project organization and general activities
Our FR started in April 2018, and since then the organization of the project has been even more developed by having additional
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joined as in-house project members during 2018 to support the project leader and the core members in the headquarter functionof the project and to play a central role in conducting the research components.

Overall self-evaluation and future challenges
During the FR1, research and actions for social implementation have been progressed in each group or sub-group as planned at
the beginning of the project, and no significant difficulties or troubles were not observed. During the early phase of the project,
we plan to focus mainly on producing research outcomes in each group and sub-group, instead of integrating those outcomes intoa single scheme, which is planned at the later phase. However, discussions during the general meeting have identified the need ofvisualizing the directions of integration of outcomes from different groups and from three research sites, indicating what needs tobe done in the next year in addition to the existing plans of research and actions.

○Project Members◎ YOSHIDA, Takehito( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN) & Department of General Systems Studies,
University of Tokyo,Associate Professor,Project management, Transdisciplinary platforms, TLK
research )Group 1 (Natural disaster risk assessment)○ ICHINOSE, Tomohiro ( Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University,Professor,Visualizing andmodelling risks of natural disasters, Transdisciplinary platforms )○ SHIBASAKI, Ryosuke ( Center for Spatial Information Science, University of Tokyo,Professor,Visualizing and modellingrisks of natural disasters )○ AKIYAMA, Yuki
( Center for Spatial Information Science, University of Tokyo,Assistant Professor,Visualizing andmodelling risks of natural disasters )○ UEHARA, Misato( Shinshu University,Associate Professor,Visualizing and modelling risks of natural disasters )AKASAKA, Takumi( Department of Life Science and Agriculture, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary
Medicine,Assistant Professor,Visualizing and modelling risks of natural disasters )ITAGAWA, Satoru( Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University,Project Researcher,Visualizing
and modelling risks of natural disasters )IMAI, Yota
( Tokushima University,Graduate Student,Visualizing and modelling risks of natural disasters,
Transdisciplinary platforms )IMOTO, Ikuko( Keio Research Intsitute at SFC,Senior Researcher,Visualizing and modelling risks of natural
disasters )KAMADA, Mahito( Tokushima University,Professor,Transdisciplinary platforms )HUANG, Wanhui( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Researcher,Regional Environmental Studies, GIS )TAKAHASHI, Seiichiro( LPD Landscape Planning & Design inc.,Technical advisor,Landscape architecture )TAKI, Kentaro( The University of Shiga Prefecture,Associate Professor,Transdisciplinary platforms, Visualizing
and modelling risks of natural disasters, Developing incentives and institutions )NAGAI, Masahiko( Center for Spatial Information Science, University of Tokyo,Project Associate Professor,Evaluating
and modelling multi-functionality, Developing incentives and institutions )NAKAMURA, Futoshi ( Hokkaido University,Professor,External advisor )FURUTANI, Tomoyuki ( Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University,Professor,Visualizing and modelling risks ofnatural disasters )FURUMAI, Hiroaki( Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo,Professor,Visualizing and modelling risks ofnatural disasters )MUTO, Yasunori( Tokushima University,Professor,Visualizing and modelling risks of natural disasters,
Transdisciplinary platforms )MURAKAMI, Akinobu ( Faculty of Engineering, Information and Systems, University of Tsukuba,Associate
Professor,Visualizing and modelling risks of natural disasters, Developing incentives andinstitutions )Research Projects

The international affairs sub-group contributed to discussions and negotiations relating to Eco-DRR and publications including
guidelines in various international organizations such as IUCN, the Ramsar Convention, the Convention on Biological Diversity,
Japan International Cooperation Agency etc.

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In November 2018, we had a general meeting of the project with about 60 participants to share the research results and discuss
the future research plans. Five external advisors and three PDs also joined the general meeting and provided constructive
suggestions in response to the current state of the project. In advance of the general meeting, we had a meeting for the coregroup, with which leaders and sub-leaders of research groups are affiliated. Another meeting of the core group will be held inMarch 2019.

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MORISAKI, Michiya
YAMADA, Yumi

( Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University,Graduate Student,Visualizing
and modelling risks of natural disasters, Transdisciplinary platforms )( Keio University,Extraordinary scientist,Visualizing and modelling risks of natural disasters,
Transdisciplinary platforms )Group 2 (Multifunctionality evaluation)○ SAITO, Osamu( United Nations University, Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS);
Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Tokyo,Academic Director,
Academic Program Officer; Visiting Associate Professor,Evaluating and modelling multifunctionality )○ HASHIMOTO, Shizuka ( Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Tokyo,Associate
Professor,Evaluating and modelling multi-functionality )ITO, Motomi( Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo,Professor,Evaluating and modelling
multi-functionality )KURASHIMA, Osamu ( Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo,Project Researcher,Evaluating andmodelling multi-functionality )HUANG, Wanhui( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Researcher,Regional Environmental Studies, GIS )TSUCHIYA, Kazuaki ( Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Tokyo,AssistantProfessor,Evaluating and modelling multi-functionality )HARASHINA, Koji
( Faculty of Agriculture, Iwate University,Associate Professor,Evaluating and modelling multifunctionality )HORI, Keiko( United Nations University, Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS),Research
Asistant,Environment creation studies, Sustainability science )MATSUI, Takanori( Osaka University,Assistant Professor,Evaluating and modelling multi-functionality )MANAGI, Shunsuke( Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu University,Professor,Transdisciplinary platforms, Developing
incentives and institutions )MIYASHITA, Tadashi ( Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Tokyo,Professor,Evaluating andmodelling multi-functionality )MORI, Akira( Yokohama National University,Associate Professor,Evaluating and modelling multi-functionality,
International affairs )YAGI, Hironori( Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Tokyo,Associate
Professor,Evaluating and modelling multi-functionality )YAGI, Nobuyuki( Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Tokyo,Associate
Professor,Evaluating and modelling multi-functionality )YAMAJI, Eiji
( Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo,Professor,Evaluating and modelling
multi-functionality )Group 3 (Social implementation)・FUKUI subgroup◎ YOSHIDA, Takehito ( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN) & Department of General Systems Studies,
University of Tokyo,Associate Professor,Project management, Transdisciplinary platforms, TLK
research )ISHII, Jun( Fukui Prefectural Satoyama-Satoumi Research Institute,Researcher,Transdisciplinary platforms )ICHINOSE, Tomohiro ( Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University,Professor,Visualizing andmodelling risks of natural disasters, Transdisciplinary platforms )UCHIDA, Kei( Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo,Project Researcher,Visualizing andmodelling risks of natural disasters )KASADA, Minoru( Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo,Project Researcher,Transdisciplinary
platforms )KITAGAWA, Junko( Fukui Prefectural Satoyama-Satoumi Research Institute,Chief Scientist,Transdisciplinary
platforms )KOJIMA, Hideaki( Wakasa Mikata Museum of Jomon Period,Curator,Transdisciplinary platforms )SHINOHARA, Naoto ( Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Tokyo,Graduate
Student,Transdisciplinary platforms )NAKAMURA, Ryo( Fukui Prefectural Satoyama-Satoumi Research Institute,Researcher,Transdisciplinary platforms )FUKUSHIMA, Mariko ( University of Tokyo,Graduate Student,Transdisciplinary platforms )MIYAMOTO, Yasushi ( Fukui Prefectural Satoyama-Satoumi Research Institute,Researcher,Transdisciplinary platforms )MORISAKI, Michiya ( Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University,Graduate Student,Visualizing
and modelling risks of natural disasters, Transdisciplinary platforms )YAMADA, Yumi
( Keio University,Extraordinary scientist,Visualizing and modelling risks of natural disasters,
Transdisciplinary platforms )39Research Projects

Group 3 (Social implementation)・Incentive & Institution subgroup○ URASHIMA, Hiroko ( Corporate Social Responsibility Section, Corporate Planning Department, MS&AD InsuranceGroup Holdings, Inc.,Section Head,Transdisciplinary platforms, Developing incentives andinstitutions )○ NISHIDA, Takaaki( Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting Co., Ltd.,Deputy Chief Scientist,Developing incentives
and institutions )IIDA, Akiko( University of Tokyo,Assistant Professor,Transdisciplinary platforms, Developing incentives andinstitutions )Research Projects

Group 3 (Social implementation)・CHIBA subgroup○ NISHIHIRO, Jun( Toho University,Associate Professor,Transdisciplinary platforms )○ SHOJI, Taro
( Toho University,Visiting Researcher,Transdisciplinary platforms )ONUMA, Ayumi( Faculty of Economics, Keio University,Professor,Transdisciplinary platforms, Forum for natural
disaster insurance )SHIBATA, Yuki
( Toho University,Associate Professor,Environpolitics )TSUGE, Takahiro( Konan University,Professor,Transdisciplinary platforms, Developing incentives and institutions )HASEGAWA, Masami ( Toho University,Professor,Transdisciplinary platforms )RIHN

Group 3 (Social implementation)・SHIGA subgroup○ FUKAMACHI, Katsue ( Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University,Associate
Professor,Transdisciplinary platforms, TLK research )○ MIYOSHI, Iwao
( Kyoto Prefectural University,Assistant Professor,Transdisciplinary platforms )○ TAKI, Kentaro( The University of Shiga Prefecture,Associate Professor,Transdisciplinary platforms, Visualizing
and modelling risks of natural disasters, Developing incentives and institutions )AZUMA, Sachiyo( The University of Shiga Prefecture,Associate Professor,Transdisciplinary platforms )WANG, Wen
( Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University,Graduate student,Landscapearchitecture )OSAWA, Sotaro( Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University,Graduate Student,Architecture )OCHIAI, Chiho( Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University,AssistantProfessor,Community disaster prevention, Community participation type disaster reconstruction )ONITSUKA, Kenichiro ( Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University,Assistant Professor,Rural
planning studies, Rural informationization )KATOH, Sadahisa( Center for Global Partnerships and Education, Okayama University,Associate
Professor,Transdisciplinary platforms )KAMATANI, Kaoru( College of Gastronomy Management, Ritsumeikan University,Associate Professor,Japanese
history )KUBOTA, Yoshiaki( University of Toyama,Professor,Transdisciplinary platforms )KOBAYASHI, Hirohide( Kyoto University,Associate Professor,Transdisciplinary platforms )SHIMADA, Kazuhisa ( The University of Shiga Prefecture,Associate Professor,Transdisciplinary platforms )TAKAHASHI, Hiroki ( Otsu City Museum of History,Curator,Japanese history )TAKAMURA, Noriko ( National Institute for Environmental Studies,Fellow,Transdisciplinary platforms )ZHANG, Pingxing( Kyoto Prefectural University,Postdoctoral fellow,Landscape architecture )TSAI, Sunglun( Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University,Graduate
Student,Architecture )NINOMIYA, Kento( Gurauate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University,Graduate Student,Rural planning studies, Rural
informationization )HASHIMOTO, Shizuka ( Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Tokyo,Associate
Professor,Evaluating and modelling multi-functionality )MIZUTANI, Shusuke ( Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University,Graduate Student,Landscapearchitecture )MURAKAMI, Shuichi ( The University of Shiga Prefecture,Professor,Transdisciplinary platforms )MORISAKI, Michiya ( Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University,Graduate Student,Visualizing
and modelling risks of natural disasters, Transdisciplinary platforms )YAMAMOTO, Akiko ( Takashima city board of education,Supervisor,Regional history )YAMAMOTO,( University of Tokyo,Associate Professor,Transdisciplinary platforms )Kiyotatsu
WATANABE, Keiichi ( Lake Biwa Museum, Shiga Prefecture,Curator,Folkloristics )40
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ICHINOSE, Tomohiro ( Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University,Professor,Visualizing andmodelling risks of natural disasters, Transdisciplinary platforms )ONUMA, Ayumi( Faculty of Economics, Keio University,Professor,Transdisciplinary platforms, Forum for natural
disaster insurance )OKANO, Takahiro( Ministry of the Environment,Environment policy,Developing incentives and institutions )KANIE, Yasumasa( MS & AD Insurance Group Holdings, Inc.,Section Head,Transdisciplinary platforms, Developing
incentives and institutions )TAKI, Kentaro( The University of Shiga Prefecture,Associate Professor,Transdisciplinary platforms, Visualizing
and modelling risks of natural disasters, Developing incentives and institutions )TAKEYA, Takako( Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting Co., Ltd.,Researcher,Developing incentives andinstitutions )TSUGE, Takahiro( Konan University,Professor,Transdisciplinary platforms, Developing incentives and institutions )TSUCHIYA, Kazuaki ( Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Tokyo,AssistantProfessor,Evaluating and modelling multi-functionality )HARAGUCHI, Makoto ( InterRisk Research Institute & Consulting, Inc.,Manager, Senior consultant,Developing incentives
and institutions )FUKAMACHI, Katsue ( Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University,Associate
Professor,Transdisciplinary platforms, TLK research )MANAGI, Shunsuke( Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu University,Professor,Transdisciplinary platforms, Developing
incentives and institutions )MURAKAMI, Akinobu ( Faculty of Engineering, Information and Systems, University of Tsukuba,Associate
Professor,Visualizing and modelling risks of natural disasters, Developing incentives andinstitutions )YOSHIDA, Takehito ( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN) & Department of General Systems Studies,
University of Tokyo,Associate Professor,Project management, Transdisciplinary platforms, TLK
research )Group 3 (Social implementation)・Traditional Local Knowledge subgroup○ FUKAMACHI, Katsue ( Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University,Associate
Professor,Transdisciplinary platforms, TLK research )AZUMA, Sachiyo( The University of Shiga Prefecture,Associate Professor,Transdisciplinary platforms )UCHIYAMA, Yuta
( Tohoku University,Researcher,Transdisciplinary platforms, TLK research, International affairs )WANG, Wen
( Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University,Graduate student,Landscapearchitecture )OSAWA, Sotaro( Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University,Graduate Student,Architecture )OKU, Hirokazu( University of Toyama Faculty of Art and Design,Associate Professor,Landscape architecture )OCHIAI, Chiho( Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University,AssistantProfessor,Community disaster prevention, Community participation type disaster reconstruction )KAKINUMA, Kaoru ( Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Tohoku University,AssistantProfessor,Environmentology )KAJIMA, Syuichiri( Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Tohoku University,Graduate Student,Environpolitics,
Environmental economics )KAMATANI, Kaoru( College of Gastronomy Management, Ritsumeikan University,Associate Professor,Japanese
history )LUKMAN, Kevin M( Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Tohoku University,Graduate Student,Forest
community )KOHSAKA, Ryo( Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Tohoku University,Professor,Evaluating and modelling
multi-functionality, International affairs )KOBAYASHI, Hirohide( Kyoto University,Associate Professor,Transdisciplinary platforms )SAITO, Haruo( University of Tokyo,Assistant Professor,TLK research )SHIMADA, Kazuhisa ( The University of Shiga Prefecture,Associate Professor,Transdisciplinary platforms )JAMIN, Celine( Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University,Graduate
Student,Architecture )TAKAHASHI, Hiroki ( Otsu City Museum of History,Curator,Japanese history )TASHIRO, Ai( Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Tohoku University,Researcher,Environmental
epidemiology )TSAI, Sunglun( Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University,Graduate
Student,Architecture )FUNAHASHI, Tomomi ( Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University,Graduate Student,Ecosystem
Conservation )41
Research Projects

FURUTA, Naoya

Adviser□ KAYABA, Yuichi( Public Works Research Institute,Senior Scientist,External advisor )□ SHIMATANI, Yukihiro ( Kyushu University,Professor,External advisor )□ TAKEUCHI, Kazuhiko ( Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science, University of Tokyo,Director andProfessor,External advisor )□ NAKAMURA, Futoshi ( Hokkaido University,Professor,External advisor )□ WASHITANI, Izumi( Department of Integrated Science and Engineering for Sustainable Society, Chuo
University,Professor,External advisor )KIKUCHI, Naoki( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Associate Professor,Transdisciplinary platforms )MARUYAMA, Yasushi ( Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University,Professor,Transdisciplinary
platforms )MIYAUCHI, Taisuke ( Graduate School of Letters, Hokkaido University,Professor,Transdisciplinary platforms )MORI, Terutaka( Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo,Project Researcher,Transdisciplinary
platforms )TANAKA, Kenta( Faculty of Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba,Associate Professor,Transdisciplinary
platforms )○ Future Themes

Research component 1) Visualizing the risks of natural disasters in the present and the past
The risk components of hazards, exposure and vulnerability for different natural disasters (river flood, coastal flood andrainfall-induced landslides) will be analysed on the GIS by digitizing and integrating different source data (existing GIS data,various paper maps, government statistics, our own observation data, etc.). Then, the risks of different natural disasters in termsof monetary loss (according to the government manual, MLIT 2005) and the number of victims will be evaluated as the productof the components and visualized as the risk maps. The risk maps for the present will cover the all area of Japan including the
local research sites of this project, and the maps for the past will cover the local research sites for the different times during thelast century or so. By comparing the maps between the present and the past, temporal changes of the natural disaster risks will be
examined. The disaster risks will also be modeled as a function of land use and population distribution, and the risks will be
predicted for the different scenarios of exposure in the scenario analysis conducted together with the research component 2.
Research component 2) Evaluating and modelling multi-functionality of Eco-DRR
Provisioning, regulating and cultural ecosystem services will be evaluated on the GIS by the existing and currently developing
methods (e.g. Hashimoto et al. 2014, Kabaya & Okayasu 2014, Englund et al. 2017) using the existing data and statistics, and ourown observation data. Then, the spatial distribution of those ecosystem services will be analysed and modelled in relation to the

Research Projects

International Address subgroup○ FURUTA Naoya( Taisho University; International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural
Resources(IUCN),Professor; Coordinator,International affairs, Developing incentives andinstitutions )UCHIYAMA, Yuta
( Tohoku University,Researcher,Transdisciplinary platforms, TLK research, International affairs )KAWASHIMA, Yutaka ( Japan International Cooperation Agency,Government Office,International affairs )KOHSAKA, Ryo( Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Tohoku University,Professor,Evaluating and modelling
multi-functionality, International affairs )MIYAZAKI, Hiroyuki ( Center for Spatial Information Science, University of Tokyo; School of Engineering andTechnology, Asian Institute of Technology,Project Assistant Professor; Visiting Associate
Professor,Visualizing and modelling risks of natural disasters, International affairs )MORI, Akira( Yokohama National University,Associate Professor,Evaluating and modelling multi-functionality,
International affairs )YAMAZAKI , Takashi ( JICA,Adviser,Forest policy )RIHN( Taisho University; International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural
Resources(IUCN),Professor; Coordinator,International affairs, Developing incentives andinstitutions )MIYAJI, Mari
( Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University,Graduate
Student,Architecture )YAMAMOTO, Akiko ( Takashima city board of education,Supervisor,Regional history )YOSHIDA, Takehito ( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN) & Department of General Systems Studies,
University of Tokyo,Associate Professor,Project management, Transdisciplinary platforms, TLK
research )WATANABE, Keiichi ( Lake Biwa Museum, Shiga Prefecture,Curator,Folkloristics )42
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spatial distribution of population and land use. The model will be used for evaluating the change of ecosystem services for thedifferent scenarios of land use to assess the potential multi-functionality of Eco-DRR in the scenario analysis conducted together
with the research component 1. The spatial scale of this research ranges from the local research sites of this project to the all areaof Japan.
Research component 3) Transdisciplinary scenario analysis and developing social and economic incentives of Eco-DRR
Together with local communities and local governments, transdisciplinary platforms were formed at each of the local researchsites of this project by taking advantage of existing platforms such as a Nature Restoration Committee based on the law, aregional association and a watershed management committee, etc. This transdisciplinary platforms are functioning to deepen
the understanding, discuss the future options, and build the consensus of Eco-DRR among local stakeholders. Transdisciplinary
scenario analysis will be conducted in the platform in consideration of climate change and aging and shrinking population inorder to stimulate the understanding and discussion. Multiple scenarios of the future local community will be developed in theplatform by using participatory and other approaches, and the risks of natural disasters and ecosystem services will be modelled
for each scenario using the research outcomes of the research components 1 and 2. Then, the results of the scenario analysis will
be shared and discussed in the platform, and if
necessary, the analysis will be repeated for the different scenarios to stimulate consensus building. Other research outcomes of
the research components 1 and 2 will also be shared in the platform. Depending on the consensus building in the platform, we
will support the social implementation of Eco-DRR by making policy recommendations, contributing to land use planning, etc.
We continue the inventory of traditional and local knowledge of Eco-DRR, and we will evaluate the multi-functionality using
the methodology of the research components 1 and 2. We are planning to publish the first booklet of the series that will make thetraditional and local knowledge of Eco-DRR accessible to the general public.
As for the social and economic incentives, we will complete the analysis of natural disaster insurance in terms of the role ofstimulating the implementation of Eco-DRR, and other incentives such as financial and investment schemes will be further
examined. Also, various laws and institutions in the national and local governments related to disaster risk reduction and land use
will be further assessed to examine the possibility of using existing legal frameworks for the promotion of Eco-DRR and to findthe gaps that the existing laws and institutions do not secure.
Integration of the research outcomes
As research outcomes of each group and sub-group accumulate, we will start discussions toward the integration into a single,
common scheme in order to simulate further discussions on better research directions and to identify the research gaps that thepresent research plan is not covering. As the first step, we will have a questionnaire survey among 120 members of the project
covering a wide range of different disciplines and identify the common understanding of important concepts and major research
agendas associated with Eco-DRR.
Study Area
Local research sites of the project include the Mikatagoko lakes and other areas in Fukui Prefecture, the Otsu and Takashima
areas in Shiga Prefecture, and the Lake Inba area in Chiba Prefecture. Also, several research components will be conducted at anational scale of Japan.
Research schedule
Research subjects aiming at the goal 1 (methodology development and assessing Eco-DRR) will be conducted mostly in theearlier phase of the project, while those aiming at the goal 2 (implementation of Eco-DRR by transdisciplinary approaches) have
longer scope of research development.

●Achievements○Papers【Original Articles】

・Yamamichi M, Kazama T, Tokita K, et al. 2018 A shady phytoplankton paradox: when phytoplankton increases under low
light. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 285(1882). DOI:10.1098/rspb.2018.1067 (reviewed).

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・Shoyama K, Braimoh AK, Avtar R, Saito O. 2018 Land Transition and Intensity Analysis of Cropland Expansion in Northern
Ghana. Environmental Management 62(5):892-905. DOI:10.1007/s00267-018-1085-7 (reviewed).
・Saito O, Kamiyama C, Hashimoto S. 2018 Non-Market Food Provision and Sharing in Japan’s Socio-Ecological Production
Landscapes. Sustainability 10(1):213. DOI:10.3390/su10010213 (reviewed).

・Ngwese NM, Saito O, Sato A, et al. 2018 Traditional and Local Knowledge Practices for Disaster Risk Reduction in Northern
Ghana. Sustainability 10(3):825. DOI:10.3390/su10030825 (reviewed).

・Onitsuka K, Ninomiya K, Hoshino S. 2018 Potential of 3D Visualization for Collaborative Rural Landscape Planning withRemote Participants. Sustainability 10(9):3059. DOI:10.3390/su10093059 (reviewed).
・Kitagawa J, Kojima H, Yoshida T, Yasuda Y. 2018 Adaptations of the Early Jomon people in their settlement relocation toclimate change around Lake Mikata, Central Japan. Archaeological Research in Asia 16:66-77. DOI:10.1016/j.ara.
2018.03.002 (reviewed).
・Furuta N, Shimatani Y. 2018 Integrating ecological perspectives into engineering practices – Perspectives and lessons fromJapan. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 32:87-94. DOI:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2017.12.003 (reviewed).
・Tashiro A, Uchiyama Y, Kohsaka R. 2018 Internal processes of Geographical Indication and their effects: an evaluation
framework for geographical indication applicants in Japan. Journal of Ethnic Foods 5(3):202-210. DOI:10.1016/j.jef.
2018.07.004 (reviewed).
・Tashiro A, Uchiyama Y, Kohsaka R. 2018 Marine Circular Economy towards Post-Disaster Reconstruction for Sustainability:
Experiences in a Small Coastal Town of Northeast Japan. European Journal of Sustainable Development 7(3):81-89. DOI:
10.14207/ejsd.2018.v7n3p81 (reviewed).
・Tashiro A, Sakisaka K, Okamoto E, Yoshida H. 2018 Differences in infant and child mortality before and after the Great East
Japan Earthquake and Tsunami: a large population-based ecological study. BMJ Open 8(11):e022737. DOI:10.1136/
bmjopen-2018-022737 (reviewed).
・Miyamoto Y, Seikai T, Yoshida T. 2018 Habitat restoration for Shijimi clam using local knowledge in the brackish lagoon
Kugushi-ko. Proceedings of the 17th World Lake Conference, Lake Kasumigaura, Ibaraki, Japan:253-255.
・Kikuchi N. 2018 Co-creation of Local Values: Reintroduction of Oriental White Storks into the Wild. Sato T, Chabay I,
Helgeson J (ed.) Transformations of Social-Ecological Systems. Ecological Research Monographs. Springer, Singapore, pp.
97-117. DOI:10.1007/978-981-13-2327-0_6 (reviewed).
・Sahle M, Saito O, Fürst C, Yeshitela K. 2018 Quantification and mapping of the supply of and demand for carbon storage andsequestration service in woody biomass and soil to mitigate climate change in the socio-ecological environment. Science of
The Total Environment 624:342-354. DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.12.033 (reviewed).
○Research Presentations【Oral Presentation】

・Yamada Y, Yoshida T, Taki K, Ichinose T. Evaluation of multiple functionality - habitat gain and mitigation for flood risk.
Training of Instructors on Ecosystem-based Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation in Asia Pacific,
2019.03.18-2019.03.22, Faculty of Geography, Univesitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
・ Shimada K. Community disaster resilience - A case of Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011. 16th ASIA PACIFICCONFERENCE, 2018.12.01-2018.12.02, 立命館アジア太平洋大学（大分県別府市）.
・Furuta N. The Role of Wetlands for Disaster Risk Reduction. International Symposium on the Conservation of the Coastal
Areas of the Bay of Bengal, 2019.03.07, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
・Sawasaki T, Hashimoto S, Kishioka T. Unveiling voluntary farmland registration program to secure open-space for risk
reduction and post-disaster restoration from earthquake: lessons learned from practices in Chukyo and Kinki, Japan.
PAWEES-INWEPF International Conference Nara 2018, 2018.11.20-2018.11.22, Nara Kasugano International Forum (NaraCity, Nara Prefecture).

Research Projects

・Hara Y, Ohsugi T, Tsuchiya K, et al. 2018 Post-disaster recovery linked with pre-disaster land development and damage
density of Typhoon Yolanda: Toward better land-use planning in Tacloban City, the Philippines. Journal of Environmental
Information Science 2017(2):1-12. DOI:10.11492/ceispapersen.2017.2_1 (reviewed).

RIHN

・Park CY, Lee DK, Krayenhoff ES, et al. 2018 A multilayer mean radiant temperature model for pedestrians in a street canyon
with trees. Building and Environment 141:298-309. DOI:10.1016/j.buildenv.2018.05.058 (reviewed).

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・Hashimoto S, Sato Y, Morimoto H. Public-private collaboration in allotment garden operation has the potential to provide
ecosystem services to urban dwellers more efficiently. PAWEES-INWEPF International Conference Nara 2018,2018.11.20-2018.11.22, Nara Kasugano International Forum (Nara City, Nara Prefecture).
・Tashiro A, Uchiyama Y, Kohsaka R. Effect of Green Infrastructure on human health and natural disaster adaptation. The 12th
annual APRU Global Health, 2018.10.28-2018.10.30, University of Malay (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia).
・Miyamoto Y, Seikai T, Yoshida T. Habitat restoration for Shijimi clam using local Knowledge in the brackish lagoon
Kugushi-ko. 17th World Lake Conference, Lake Kasumigaura, Ibaraki, Japan, 2018.10.15-2018.10.19, つくば国際会議場（茨城県つくば市）.
・Ichinose T. Depopulation in rural areas and Japanese National Spatial Strategies. 2018 Korea-Japan Rural Planning Seminar,
2018.10.12-2018.10.13, Rural Research Institute, KRC, City of Ansan, Kyunggi province, Korea.
・Hanafusa M, Taki K, Akiyama Y, et al. A case study on the "Location Optimizing Plan” for implementing ecosystem-based
disaster risk reduction (Eco-DRR) measures in Shiga Prefecture, Japan. 9th Conference of the International Society for
Integrated Disaster Risk Management, 2018.10.02-2018.10.04, University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia).
・Morisaki M, Taki K, Managi S, et al. Estimation of economic value of Eco-DRR with hedonic approach. 9th Conference of
the International Society for Integrated Disaster Risk Management, 2018.10.02-2018.10.04, University of New South Wales(Sydney, Australia).
・Yamada Y, Itagawa S, Yoshida T, et al. Integrated quantification of flood damage risk and habitat gain potential. 9th
Conference of the International Society for Integrated Disaster Risk Management, 2018.10.02-2018.10.04, University of New
South Wales (Sydney Australia).
・Ichinose T, Itagawa S, Yoshida, T. Land use scenario analysis for ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction (Eco-DRR): a casestudy in Mikatagoko Area, Fukui Pref., Japan. 9th Conference of the International Society for Integrated Disaster Risk
Management, 2018.10.02-2018.10.04, University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia). (in Japanese)・Tashiro A, Uchiyama Y, Kohsaka R. Residents’ preferable options for Green Infrastructure. International IUFRO conference,
2018.09.17-2001.09.19, City Conference Center (Czech Republic).
・Tashiro A, Uchiyama Y, Kohsaka R. Marine Circular Economy towards Post-Disaster Reconstruction for Sustainability:
Experiences in a Small Coastal Town of Northeast Japan. ICSD 2018 : 6th International Conference on Sustainable
Development, 2018.09.12-2018.09.13, Rome, Italy.
・Yamada Y, Itagawa S, Yoshida T, et al. Predicting the distribution of released Oriental white stork (Ciconia boyciana) in
central Japan. 48th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland, 2018.09.10-2018.09.14,
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (Vienna, Austria).
・Muto Y, Kotani S, Miyoshi M, et al. Retarding Capacity Change of Wetland Paddy Fields due to House Land Development –toward Wise Land Use against Flood Utilising Paddy Fields as Green Infrastructure –. 21st Congress of International
Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR), Asia Pacific Division (APD),
2018.09.02-2018.09.05, Yogyakarta, INDONESIA.
・Yamamoto J, Muto Y, Anase Y, Tamura T. Influence of Vegetation Propagation Condition on Flood Flow. IAHRAPD 2018,2018.09.02-2018.09.05, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
・Shimada K. Community Disaster Resilience in Satoyama – Cases of Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011. 22nd Conferenceof Asian Studies Association of Australia in 2018, 2018.07.03-2018.07.05, the University of Sydney（Sydney, Australia）.
・Tashiro A, Uchiyama Y, Kohsaka R. Marine Circular Economy towards Post-Disaster Reconstruction: Experiences in a Small
Coastal Town of Northeast Japan. Circular Economy for Agri-Food Resource Management, 2018.06.12-2018.06.15, Hoam
Faculty House at Seoul National University (Seoul, South Korea).
・Kohsaka R, Kajima S, Tashiro A, et al. The political ecology of regional names on agricultural products; Governing
boundaries and qualities through Geographical Indications. Circular Economy for Agri-Food Resource Management,
2018.06.12-2018.06.15, Hoam Faculty House at Seoul National University (Seoul, South Korea).
・Uchiyama Y, Tashiro A, Kajima S, Kohsaka R. REDD+ for blue carbon ecosystems: A literature review. Circular Economy
for Agri-Food Resource Management, 2018.06.12-2018.06.15, Hoam Faculty House at Seoul National University (Seoul,
South Korea).
【Poster Presentation】

・Yoshida T, Furuta N, Khosaka R and colleagues Research and Social Implementation of Eco-DRR as Climate Change
Adaptation in Shrinking Society. International Symposium on the Conservation of the Coastal Areas of the Bay of Bengal,
2019.03.07, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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・Yoshida T, Furuta N, Khosaka R and colleagues Research and Social Implementation of Eco-DRR as Climate Change
Adaptation in Shrinking Society. PEDRR Fourth International Science-Policy Workshop, 2019.02.12-2019.02.14, UN
campus (Bonn, Germany).

・Tashiro A, Uchiyama Y, Kohsaka R. Residents' preferable option for Green Infrastructure: A case study of disaster-stricken
urban areas, Japan. Urban Transitions 2018, 2018.11.25-2018.11.27, Sitges, Barcelona Spain.

・Kohsaka R, Matsuoka H, Tashiro A, Uchiyama Y. Reflexivity and Ethics for ABS of the CBD: Empirical Analysis by
Network of Scientific Articles with NLP. ISBER 2018 Annual Meeting 2018, 2018.05.20-2018.05.24, Dallas, USA.
【Invited Lecture / Honorary Lecture / Panelist】

・Furuta N. Advancing Eco-DRR for Urban Resilience, Sharing output of Asian Wetland Symposium 2017: focusing onfunctions and roles of urban wetlands for disaster risk reduction. 13th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to theConvention on Wetlands Side Event, 2018.10.21-2018.10.29, United Arab Emirates.
・Tashiro A. Impact of Disasters on Disparities in Infant and Child Mortality: Lessons Learned from the 2011 Northeast Japan
Earthquake. The 14th Asia Pacific Conference on Disaster Medicine, 2018.10.16-2018.10.18, Seaside Hotel Maiko Villa
Kobe (Kobe, Hyogo).
・Ichinose T. Ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction in rural landscapes. Guest lecture of Environmental Management
Seminar A, 2018.05.11, Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University (Sakyo-ku, Kyoto).

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・Morisaki M, Ichinose T, Yoshida T, et al. Estimation of Economic Value of Green Infrastructure Using Hedonic Pricing
Method. JpGU Meeting 2018, 2018.05.20-2018.05.24, Chiba-City.

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・Uchiyama Y, Tashiro A, Kohsaka R. Sustainable managements of green and blue infrastructures in urban areas with rapid
aging: Citizens' attitudes toward their neighbouring environment. Urban Transitions 2018, 2018.11.25-2018.11.27, Sitges,
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Division Name: Fair Use and Management of Diverse Resources
Head of Division: NAKASHIZUKA Tohru○ Research Subject and Objectives

Program Goal
Taking tradeoffs into account, this program provides multifaceted options to stakeholders involved in production, distribution,and consumption of resources, in order to realize fair use, optimal management, and wise governance of diverse resources
including energy, water and ecological resources.
MissionAs has been pointed out in recent years by initiatives such as Future Earth, since global environmental problems are interlinked,
it is not effective to attempt to solve isolated issues and co-design and co-production of results together with a range ofstakeholders is essential. Recently, the nexus structure among energy, water and food has been emphasized as a resource issue,
but in order to build a highly sustainable society, we need to safeguard humanity’s base for survival through more comprehensive
understandings that take into account not only these resources, but also ecological resources including ecosystem services andcultural resources. In particular, the comprehensive management of diverse resources, taking into consideration cultural resourcesthat are related to high quality of life and spiritual abundance, has become important.
Resources are produced, circulated and consumed at different spatial scales by diverse stakeholders and throughout theseprocesses there is a need for arrangements for fair use and management and methods for their evaluation. Also when considered
as economic activities, the use of renewable natural resources is the key to the realization of a sustainable society and a transitionof values and action from conventional thinking centered upon manufacturing capital towards an understanding of prosperity that
includes hitherto externalized natural, human and social capital is needed. On the other hand, although in Asia large changes are
occurring against the background of rapid economic growth, population increase and urbanization, also remaining are highlysustainable traditions of resource use that are culturally connected with the abundant subsistence base and that provide importantsuggestions for the future image of resource use.
While such case studies have been accumulated at RIHN thus far, there remain areas that are under-researched (for example
resources such as energy, or enterprises as global stakeholders). In this program, we aim to explore resource use across multiple
resources and spatial scales and with diverse stakeholders by developing new projects to address such areas while at the sametime incorporating novel ideas from young scientists. Further, we will explore the conditions necessary for a transition of values
and transformation of human behavior and propose policies and socio-economic institutions for the realization of fair resource
management as well as criteria for their evaluation.

○ Progress and Results in 2018

Program 2 includes the following 3 projects (1 finished and 2 ongoing projects) up to now.
1) Creation of sustainable governance of new commons through formation of integrated local knowledge, lead by Dr.
Tetsu Sato (- Mar 2017).
This project aimed to integrate local environmental knowledge. They developed a conceptual model of knowledge-based
adaptive social transformation. One of important results is about the contribution of knowledge translators for community
transformation by meta-analyses of RIHN Projects. Here, they found that the existence of balanced translators is most effective,
while top-down translators are not effective. These results are very suggestive to consider the institutions for resource
management.
2) Human-environmental security in Asia-Pacific ring of fire: Water-Energy-Food Nexus, lead by D. Aiko Endo (- Mar2018).
This project aimed to sustainable management of Water-Energy-Food nexus, which is one of the key issues of Program 2. They
achieved a lot to meet the two primary objectives; A) to understand the complexity of the WEF nexus system, and B) to create
policy options to solve the identified nexus problems under scientific evidence and uncertainty. They developed a method toanalyze multiple resources among local stake holders the end of this this fiscal year.
3)
Biodiversity-driven Nutrient Cycling and Human Well-being in Social-Ecological Systems, lead by Dr. Noboru
Okuda (-Mar 2020).
The third project deals with biodiversity and nutrient cycling for well-being in watershed level. They aim to establish a method ofmulti-level governance for sustainable watershed system, which also include the management issues of multiple resources. In

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Other than these outputs from projects above, we made discussions among scientists on the concept of ‘fair use’of resources,
which is one of the critical points of last EREC. We reviewed international literatures on ‘equity’, which is one of the key
concepts relating to fairness. We are now preparing the method to describe the inter-linkages among multi-resources and multistakeholders (see sections below).
We identified the following challenging points.
1)

What kind of conceptual framework on ‘fairness’ is necessary?

We are now discussing to propose the framework on ‘fair use’ of resources considering from 3 aspects; efficiency, sustainability
and equity. At moment, we think efficiency could be evaluated by physical amount of wastes, economic costs sometimes
including index such as Inclusive Wealth, when we consider ecological resources. Sustainability may be evaluated by someindices such as ecological footprint, environmental impacts, or self-sustainability within a area. Equity is most difficult part toevaluate, though we should propose some indices which could be evaluate from the aspects of economy, quality of life,
happiness, well being and so on. Further discussions are needed to develop this idea.
2)
How we can develop the method to describe and analyze the inter-linkage among multi- resources and multistakeholders?
We repeated the discussions among researchers, and have started to develop a method to describe and analyze the inter-linkagesof multiple-resources by multi-stakeholders in various areas which have been studied by RIHN Project. At moment, the method
to describe the synergy and tradeoff among resources and stakeholders in complexed matrices. We want to develop the ideas
applying the method to some model areas of RIHN Project in the next fiscal year.
3)

How we could enlarge the scale of scope and studies into global?

We hosted seminars inviting speakers including stakeholders and researchers of private sectors. Through the discussion, we thepossibility of new research proposal to study global supply chain and environmental impacts. We would like to continue
encouraging the proposal in this direction in coming fiscal year.
Synergy Effects
The ongoing projects are directing different aspects which included in the scope of Program 2. Dr. Sato’s project (alreadyfinished) contributed to develop the meta-analysing methods on governance among multi- stakeholders, while Dr. Endo’s project
developed analytical methods on practical management system in local scale. Dr. Okuda’s project is providing another example
of multi-resource management (water, nutrient and ecological resources), which is rather different from Dr. Endo’s project. Thus,
integration of the results of these projects would make progress of Program 2 as a whole, though still the integrating roadmap is
not very clear.
Considering this situation, we made a discussion to propose the evaluation system on ‘fair use’of multi- resources by multistakeholders. We are developing a method to describe the situation of local resource use. We would like to this method to theareas of their study sites to detect the possibility of universal application. We would also like to invite new proposal of Incubation
Research, providing necessary information for the candidate of researchers.

○Project Members
Kunihiko Kobayashi( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature Program2,Researcher )Research Projects

Dr. Sato’s project contributed to develop the meta-analysing methods on governance among multi-stakeholders, while Dr. Endo’s
project developed analytical methods on practical management system in local scale. Dr. Okuda’s project is providing anotherexample of multi-resource management (water, nutrient and ecological resources), which is rather different from Dr. Endo’s
project. Since these projects are the studies mostly on local scale, we tried to make discussion on resource dynamics andstakeholders mostly in regional or local scales, including private sectors. Now we are inviting other projects to apply along thecontext of Program 2.

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particular, they think local biodiversity could be a driving force to manage water quality and nutrient cycling, and at the sametime, human well-being. They also want to refer the poverty and wealth disparity by comparing the two watersheds, one indeveloped (Japan) and another in developing countries (Philippines). After 2 year of Full Research period, they elucidated thelinkage between irrigation of paddy fields, biodiversity, and nutrient cycling. They have started the comparative researches in
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Takashi Haraguchi( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature Program2,Researcher )○ Future Themes

We invited research proposals which meet the concept of Program 2. In particular, I welcome the project to study the use ofmulti-resources by multi-stakeholders in global scale. In this sense we want to host some seminars to discuss this issue, includinginternational enterprise, as one of the important international stake holders. Also, we would like to encourage the development of
the proposed RIHN Feasible Studies to be admitted as Full Research, including a study on global supply chain and Benefit
sharing of genetic resources.

●Achievements○Papers【Original Articles】

・Takafumi Ohsawa, Naoya Furuta, Futoshi Nakamura, Taku Kadoya, Tohru Nakashizuka 2018,11 Challenges of post-Aichi
Biodiversity Ttargets from ecological perspectives. JAPANESE JOURNAL OF CONSERVATION ECOLOGY.
・Oguro,M., Taki, H., Konuma. A., Uno, M. & Nakashizuka, T. 2018,10 Importance of national or regional specificity in therelationship between pollinator dependence and production stability. Sustain Science Volume 13. DOI:10.1007/
s11625-018-0637-3
・Oka, C., Aibaa, M. & Nakashizukaa, T. 2018,09 Phylogenetic clustering in beneficial attributes of tree species directly linked
to provisioning, regulating and cultural ecosystem services. Ecological Indicators Volume 96(Part 1):477-495. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2018.09.035
・Nakagawa, M., Ushio, M., Kume, T. & Nakashizuka, T. 2018,08 Seasonal and long-term patterns in litterfall in a Bornean
tropical rainforest. Ecological Research.
・Imai, H. & Nakashizuka, T. 2018,08 An Analysis of 15 Years of Trends in Children’s Connection with Nature and its
Relationship with Residential Environment. Ecosystem Health and Sustainability Volume 4(Issue 8 ):177-187. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1080/20964129.2018.1511225
・Aiba, M., Shibata, R., Oguro, M. & Nakashizuka, T. 2018,07 The seasonal and scale-dependent associations between
vegetation quality and hiking activities as a recreation service. Sustainability Science:1-11. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/
s11625-018-0609-7○Research Presentations【Invited Lecture / Honorary Lecture / Panelist】

・Tohru Nakashizuka Climate change impacts on terrestrial ecosystems in Japan. ISPRS Technical Commission III WG III/2,
10 Joint Workshop, 2019.03.12-2019.03.14, Kyoto.

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Stage: Full Research
Project Name: Biodiversity-driven Nutrient Cycling and Human Well-being in Social-Ecological Systems
Project Leader: OKUDA Noboru
Program 2: Fair Use and Management of Diverse Resources / Diversity Program○ Research Subject and Objectives

Since the Anthropocene, overexploitation of basal resources due to mass production has led to disturbance of natural
biogeochemical cycles of macronutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorus, in watersheds (Sutton et al. 2013). Such nutrient
imbalances have caused serious environmental problems, contributing to cultural eutrophication and water pollution (Smith andSchindler 2009). The nutrient imbalances also skew biological communities toward overwhelming superiority of nuisancespecies, as in the case of harmful algal blooms. The anthropogenic disturbances in the nutrient cycling result in deterioration of
ecosystem services in quality and quantity through the loss of ecosystem functions provided by biodiversity (Anderson et al.
2002; Hoagland et al. 2002). At present, it has been recognized that nutrient imbalances and biodiversity loss are so common andprevalent throughout the planet, posing a risk to sustainable human development (Rockström et al. 2009). These are considered
global environmental issues, while their causes and effects vary among watersheds, in which there exist a variety of social issues
specific to local communities.
In the top-down oriented watershed management, in general, researchers elucidate causality of nutrient imbalances based on
scientific data, while governments take institutional, technological and economic approaches based on rationality to reduce
nutrient loadings for public health. However, the modern issues related to nutrient imbalances are complicated and elusive not
only because much of nutrients are loaded from non-point sources such as agricultural wastes but also because a driver ofnutrient resource exploitation is often remote from the source of nutrient loading. With the increasing complexity of society, thetop-down oriented watershed management solely has difficulty in inclusive solution of diverse issues related to nutrient
imbalances.
Researches on watershed management and governance tend to assess how institutions, technology and politics can improve
environmental deterioration at the watershed scale (Abell et al. 2002; ILEC 2005), often neglecting individual and community
viewpoints. By contrast, many community-based researches have regarded socioeconomic and ecological settings as constraints
for local communities and neglected feedbacks from community actions to a larger social-ecological system (but see Ostrom
2007, 2009). A limited number of researches have explicitly treated with interactions between local and watershed scales,
focusing on ‘watershed’ as a spatial unit in which waters and nutrients are cycled (Bressers and Kuks 2004; RIHN Project 3-1
2007; Wada 2009). However, a common goal is needed for multi-stakeholders at multi-organization levels to be involved in thesolution of diverse issues both at local and watershed scales. Expanding the concept of ‘adaptive governance of social-ecologicalsystems’ (Folke et al. 2005) to watershed systems, we aims to develop a method of ‘adaptive watershed governance’, in which
the stakeholders are involved in enhancement of three components, biodiversity, nutrient cycling and well-being, all of which areessential to social-ecological health of watershed system. For this purpose, two approaches are taken for the adaptive watershed
governance: one is institutional, technological and economic (ITE) approach by governments to solve issues at watershed scale
based on rationality and another social-cultural approach to empower for local environmental governance in the context of lifeand livelihood for local communities , in order to reduce discommunication among different stakeholders at different
organization levels.

○ Progress and Results in 2018
1.

Project Progress during the FR Period to Datea)

Synoptic research as macro-scopic approach at the watershed scale

Based on synoptic monitoring for biodiversity and nutrients in the whole catchment of Yasu River, we performed a structural
equation modelling to examine how human activities, especially land uses, can affect spatial pattern of water quality andbiodiversity, and then got preliminary analytical results. Analytical results of synoptic questionnaire survey on subjective wellbeing and environmental consciousness were fed back to upstream and coastal community workshops, in which action plans will
be and were discussed to empower for forest conservation and macrophyte composting, respectively.
b)

Action research as a micro-scopic community-based approach

In the middle-stream farmer community, we experimentally demonstrated that practice of winter irrigation is effective in
reduction of phosphorous loading as well as in enhancement of wetland biodiversity in rice paddies. In the coastal area, we foundResearch Projects

Key Words: Biodiversity, Ecosystem service, Human well-being, Nutrient balance, Watershed governance

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Abbreviated Title: Ecological Recycling Project (e-REC Project)

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RIHN Annual Report 2018that lagoon ecosystems have the high rate of biological P recycling, using the δ18Op analysis. In the coastal urban communities
which suffer from macrophyte overgrowth, we organized stakeholder workshops to know the potential need for macrophyte
resources and discuss how to promote the use of macrophyte resources, collaborating with a core project, entitled ‘Open Team
Science Project’ (PI: Yasuhisa Kondoh). Such research collaboration led to an idea to develop macrophyte portal as an internet
media which may be effective in facilitation of involvement by individualized urban residents in the macrophyte resource
recycling. In the middle-stream and downstream farmer communities, we held Local Cooperation Seminars to share scientificknowledge on how rehabilitation of habitat networks facilitates frog and fish spawning migration. In both areas, many
participants from out-communities as well as their own communities got interested in these conservation activities.
c)Construction of an integrated model for four gears

Compiling analytical data on synoptic researches on biodiversity, nutrients and well-being, we got a preliminary result of an
integrated model to visualize relationships among four components essential to social-ecological health of watershed system,
based on the structural equation modelling. After completion of this project, we expect that the model will be used as acommunication supporting tool for diverse stakeholders to envision the future of watershed.
d)Formation of watershed forum in the Silang-Santa Rosa sub-watershed

In the Silang-Santa Rosa sub-watershed, groundwater issues are relevant to stakeholders because their lives and livelihoods
greatly depend on groundwater resources. While sharing our assessment results on groundwater nitrogen pollution, we held atotal of nine workshops for stakeholders to identify their own specific issues related to groundwater and discuss solution strategy
and action plans. A watershed forum is being developed and a Stakeholders’ Assembly was co-organized with the watershedmanagement council. In this assembly, we took scientific and emotional approaches to visualize spatial pattern of groundwaterpollution on the map and to visualize connectivity among groundwater, life and livelihood using a short movie, respectively. A
questionnaire survey revealed that both approaches were effective in attracting participants’ interests in groundwater issues. This
assembly generated various commitments by local governments to develop and implement watershed related policies, increased
knowledge and awareness of watershed issues by participants and increased interest in collaboration in watershed governance.
2.

Progress since the last reportinga)Synoptic research as macro-scopic approach at the watershed scale

Based on synoptic monitoring for biodiversity and nutrients in the whole catchment of Yasu River, we performed a structural
equation modelling to examine how human activities, especially land uses, can affect spatial pattern of water quality andbiodiversity, and then got preliminary analytical results . Analytical results of synoptic questionnaire survey on subjective wellbeing and environmental consciousness were fed back to upstream and coastal community workshops, in which action plans will
be and were discussed to empower for forest conservation and macrophyte composting, respectively.
b)

Action research as a micro-scopic community-based approach

In the middle-stream farmer community, we experimentally demonstrated that practice of winter irrigation is effective in
reduction of phosphorous loading as well as in enhancement of wetland biodiversity in rice paddies. In the coastal area, we foundthat lagoon ecosystems have the high rate of biological P recycling, using the δ18Op analysis. In the coastal urban communities
which suffer from macrophyte overgrowth, we organized stakeholder workshops to know the potential need for macrophyte
resources and discuss how to promote the use of macrophyte resources, collaborating with a core project, entitled ‘Open Team
Science Project’ (PI: Yasuhisa Kondoh). Such research collaboration led to an idea to develop macrophyte portal as an internet
media which may be effective in facilitation of involvement by individualized urban residents in the macrophyte resource
recycling. In the middle-stream and downstream farmer communities, we held Local Cooperation Seminars to share scientificknowledge on how rehabilitation of habitat networks facilitates frog and fish spawning migration. In both areas, many
participants from out-communities as well as their own communities got interested in these conservation activities.
c)Construction of an integrated model for four gears

Compiling analytical data on synoptic researches on biodiversity, nutrients and well-being, we got a preliminary result of an
integrated model to visualize relationships among four components essential to social-ecological health of watershed system,
based on the structural equation modelling. After completion of this project, we expect that the model will be used as acommunication supporting tool for diverse stakeholders to envision the future of watershed.
d)Formation of watershed forum in the Silang-Santa Rosa sub-watershed

In the Silang-Santa Rosa sub-watershed, groundwater issues are relevant to stakeholders because their lives and livelihoods
greatly depend on groundwater resources. While sharing our assessment results on groundwater nitrogen pollution, we held atotal of nine workshops for stakeholders to identify their own specific issues related to groundwater and discuss solution strategy
and action plans. A watershed forum is being developed and a Stakeholders’ Assembly was co-organized with the watershed

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Research Projects○Project Members( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Associate Professor,Ecological Science )【River Research Working Group】○ IWATA Tomoya( Department of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences University of
Yamanashi,Associate Professor,Professor Aquatic Ecology )ISHIKAWA Naoto( Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology,Postdoctoral Fellow,Stream Ecology,
Limnology )ITOH Masayuki( Graduate School of Simulation Studies University of Hyogo,Associate Professor,Forest
Hydrology )KO Chia-Ying( National Taiwan University,Assistant Professor,Spatial Statistics )OHTE Nobuhito( Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University,Professor,Hydrology, Ecosystem Ecology )OKANO Junichi( Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University,Postdoctoral Fellow,Stream Ecology,
Behavioural Ecology )OSAKA Ken’ichi( School of Environmental Science, The University of Shiga Prefecture,Associate Professor,Forest
Hydrology )TOGASHI Hiroyuki( Tohoku National Fisheries Research Institute, Fisheries Research Agency,Researcher,Community
Ecology )【Lake Research Working Group】○ BAN Syuhei( School of Environmental Science, The University of Shiga Prefecture,Professor,Plankton Ecology,
Limnology )INOUE Eiso
( Lake Biwa Environmental Research Institute, Shiga Prefectural,Senior Researcher,Freshwater
Biology, Aquatic Entomology )ISHIKAWA Kanako( Lake Biwa Environmental Research Institute, Shiga Prefecture,Researcher,Environmental
Microbiology. Limnology )JIN Guangzhe( Guangdong Ocean Universty,Researcher,Limnology )KAGAMI Maiko( Yokohama National University,Professor,Limnology, aquatic biology )KAMIYA Hiroshi( Shimane Prefectural Institute of Public Health and Environmental Science,Division
Chief,Analytical Chemistry )KATO Toshikuni( Shimane Prefectural Institute of Public Health and Environmental
Science,Researcher,Environmental Analytical Chemistry )KUMAGAI Michio( Lake Biwa Sigma Research Center, Ritsumeikan University,Professor,Geophysics )MIZUNO Katsunori( Underwater Technology Collaborative Research Center, IIS, The University of Tokyo,AssistantProfessor,Underwater acoustic )NAKANO Shin’ichi ( Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University,Professor,Ecological Science )NISHIHIRO Jun( Department of Environmental Science, Faculty of Science, Toho University,Associate
Professor,Conservation Ecology )ONODERA Shin’ichi ( Graduate School of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Hiroshima University,Professor,Hydrology )SAITO Mitsuyo( Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science, Okayama University,AssistantProfessor,Hydrology )SAKAI Yoichiro( Lake Biwa Environmental Research Institute Shiga Prefecture,Researcher,Limnology )SEIKE Yasushi( Interdisciplinary Faculty of Science and Engineering, Shimane University,Professor,Environmental
Analysis )Tomozawa Yusuke( Department of Environmental Science, Faculty of Science, Toho University,Doctor’s course
student,Underground water chemistry )UCHII Kimiko( School of Medicine, Osaka Ohtani University,Assistant Professor,Microbial Ecology )WANG Kunyang( Graduate School of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Hiroshima University,Master’s course
student,Limnology )YI Rong( School of Environmental Science, The University of Shiga Prefecture,Doctor’s course
student,Plankton Ecology, Limnology )Research Projects【Leader】◎ OKUDA Noboru

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management council. In this assembly, we took scientific and emotional approaches to visualize spatial pattern of groundwaterpollution on the map and to visualize connectivity among groundwater, life and livelihood using a short movie, respectively. A
questionnaire survey revealed that both approaches were effective in attracting participants’ interests in groundwater issues. This
assembly generated various commitments by local governments to develop and implement watershed related policies, increased
knowledge and awareness of watershed issues by participants and increased interest in collaboration in watershed governance.

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【Terrestrial Research Working Group】○ OSONO Takashi( Doshisha University,Professor,Ecological Science )HIROSE Dai( School of Pharmacy, Nihon University,Assistant Professor,Mycology )HOBARA Satoru( College of Agriculture, Food and Environment Sciences, Rakuno Gakuen
University,Professor,Biogeochemistry )ISHIDA Atsushi( Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University,Professor,Plant Ecophysiogy )MATSUOKA Shunsuke ( Graduate School of Simulation Studies University of Hyogo,Researcher,Ecological Science )USHIO Masayuki( Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University,Rresearcher,Ecosystem Ecology, Microbial
Ecology )【Analytical Research Working Group】○ TAYASU Ichiro( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Professor,Ecological Science )AMANO Yosuke( Tohoku National Fisheries Research Institute, Fisheries Research Agency,Technical assistant,Fish
Biology Ecological Science )FUJIYOSHI Rei( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Researcher,Stable Isotope Ecology )HYODO Fujio( Research Core for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Okayama University,Associate Professor,Forest
Ecology )IDE Jun’ichiro( Institute of Decision Science for a Sustainable Society, Kyushu University,AssistantProfessor,Forest Hydrology )KITAZAWA Daisuke ( Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo,Associate Professor,Marine Ecosystem
Engineering )KOBAYASHI Yuki
( Graduate School of Medicine of Yamaguchi University,Lecturer,Health sciences )KOKITA Tomoyuki( Faculty of Marine Science and Technology, Fukui Prefectural University,Associate
Professor,Ecology, Evolutionary Biology )MARUO Masahiro( School of Environmental Science, University of Shiga Prefecture,Professor,Analytic Chemistry )MATSUBAE Kazuyo ( Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University,Professor,Industrial Ecology )MANO Yuko( Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University,Master’s course student,Industrial ecology )MINAMOTO( Graduate School of Human Development and Environment, Kobe University,Associate
Toshifumi
professor,Molecular Ecology )OMODA Azusa( Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University,Researcher,Industrial ecology )OTAKE Tsuguo( International Coastal Research Center, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University ofTokyo,Professor,Fish Biology Ecological Science )PAYTAN Adina( IMS, University of California Santa Cruz,Professor,Biogeochemistry )SONG Uhram( College of Applied Life Sciences, Jeju National University,Assistant Professor,Ecological Science )Wu Qianqian( Graduate School of Human Development and Environment, Kobe University,Doctor’s course
student,Evolutionary Ecology )YAMANAKA Hiroki ( Department of Environmental Solution Technology, Ryukoku University,Lecturer,Fish
Physiology )【Network Research Working Group】○ ASANO Satoshi( Kyoto University Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies,Assistant Professor,Regional
Planning )ASAMI Masato( Shiga Prefectural Government, Kotou Environmental office )Okuda Kazuomi( Shiga Prefectural Government,Lake Biwa Policy Division )Fukui Haruo( Omi Environmental Conservation Foundation )SATO Yuichi( Lake Biwa Environmental Research Institute,Researcher,Environmental Modelling )KAWABATA Takahiro ( Omi Environmental Conservation Foundation,Assistant Section Chief,Environmental Policy )KATAOKA Yoshitaka ( Fishery Experiment Station, Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Shiga Perfecture,AssistantSection Chief,Fisheries Science )KIKKO Takeshi( Fisheries Management Division, Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Shiga
Perfecture,Assistant Section Chief,Fisheries Science )OHTSUKA Taisuke( Lake Biwa Museum,Curator,Algal biology )KANAO Shigefumi( Lake Biwa Museum,Curator,Fish Ecology )【Human Research Working Group】○ WAKITA Kenichi( Faculty of Sociology and Social Welfare, Ryukoku University,Professor,Environmental Sociology )53
Research Projects【Advisory Board】□ FUJITA Noboru□ ISHII Reiichiro□ KAWABATA Zen’ichiro□ NAGASAKA Akiko( Center for Restoration of Regional Nature,Director,Plant Community Ecology )( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Associate Professor,Theoretical Ecology )( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Emeritus Professor,Aquatic Ecosystem Ecology )( Hokkaido Research Organization Forestry Research Institute,assistant section chief,Watershed
Conservation )□ NAKASHIZUKA Toru ( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Professor,Forest ecology, biodiversity )□ SAKAI Shoko( Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University,Associate Professor,Plant Ecology )□ KOBAYASHI Kunihiko( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Researcher,International Environmental law )□ URABE Jotaro( Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University,Professor,Aquatic Ecology )【Secretariat】
IKEYA Toru
ISHIBASHI Hiroyuki
ISHIDA Takuya
LAMBINO Ria
Adoracion A.

( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Researcher,Aquatic ecology, Environmental science )( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Researcher,Area study and historical study on forested
areas )( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Researcher,Forest Environmental Science )( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Researcher,Environmental Governance )Research Projects【Nutrient Management Working Group】○ SANTOS-BORJA( Office of the General Manager, Laguna Lake Development Authority,Division Chief III,
AdelinaInternational Linkages and Research Developme nt Unit,Limnology Environmental Science
Integrated Lake Basin Management )MAGBANUA Francis ( Institute of Biology, College of Science, University of the Philippines Diliman,AssistantProfessor,Zoobenthos Diversity )MENDOZA Norman ( Philippine Nuclear Research Institute,Researcher,Hydrology )PAPA Rey Donne( Department of Biological Sciences and Research Center for the Natural Sciences, University ofSanto Tomas,Assistant Professor,Plankton Ecology, Limnology )SEVILLA Fortunato B ( Department of Chemistry and Research Center for the Natural and Applied Sciences, University ofIII
Santo Tomas,Professor,Instrumentation and Analytical Chemistry )RIHN

FUKUSHIMA Shintaro ( Tokyo Woman’ｓ Christian University.Department of Communication School of Arts andSciences,Lecturer,Social Science )HIRATSUKA Junichi ( NA,Former Director of Research Organizatio n of Nature and Humanity,Lake Science )HIRAYAMA Naoko( School of Environmental Science, The University of Shiga Prefecture,AssistantProfessor,limnology Policy )KAGOHASHI Kazuki ( Institute for Social Ethics, Nanzan University,Researcher,Environmental Economics )KASHIO Tamaki( Lake Biwa Museum,Researcher,Rural sociology )KONDO Yasuhisa( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Associate Professor,Archaeology, GIS )MATSUSHITA Kyohei ( Shiga University,Associate Professor,Environmental Economics )NAKAHARA Satoe( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Researcher,cultural anthropology )NONAMI Hiroshi( School of Sociology, Kwansei Gakuin University,Professor,Social Psychology )OHNO Tomohiko( Institute of Human and Social Sciences, Kanazawa University,Associate Professor,Environmental
Policy )SAIZEN Izuru( Kyoto University Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies,Associate Professor,Regional
Planning )SAKAGAMI Masaji( Faculty of Health Sciences, Nihon Fukushi University,Professor,Applied Economics )SANO Shizuyo( Faculty of Letters, Doshisha University,Professor,Historical Geography )TAKAHASHI Takuya ( The University of Shiga Prefecture,Professor,Forest policy and planning; corporate
environmentalism )TAKEMURA Kosuke ( Shiga University,Associate Professor,Social Psychology )TANAKA Takuya( Environmental Partnership Office Kinki,Creative Director,Environmental Science & Technology )TANIGUCHI( Department of Biological Environment, Akita Prefectural Universiy,Professor,Sociology )Yoshimitsu
UCHIDA Yukiko( Kokoro Research Center, Kyoto University,Associate Professor,Social Psychology )○ YACHI Shigeo( Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University,Associate Professor,Theoretical Ecology )ZHENG Yuejun( Faculty of Cultural and Information Science, Doshisha University,Professor,Sociometrics )54
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UEHARA Yoshitoshi( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Resarch Associate,Ecology )○ Future Themes

With the reduced budget, it is not realistic to practice and compare our watershed governance across all of our study watersheds.
Thus we will not conduct intensive field researches in three domestic watersheds (Hachiro Lagoon, Inba Marsh and Lake Shinji)
other than Lake Biwa. Based on archives and documents, however, we will examine how governmental politics on development
and environmental conservation have affected these four domestic watershed systems and how their social-ecological status havevaried among these watersheds through interactions with each other, according to Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) as wellas to Institutional Analysis and Developmental (IAD) Framework. We expect to find what is a turning point for the watershed
governance to drive into the good relationship between humanity and nature through our comparison. If time and budget permit
us, we may also use Social-Ecological System (SES) Framework to analyse cross-scale linkages of the natural resource
governances within and between watershed systems.

●Achievements○Papers【Original Articles】

・Wu, Q., K. Kawano, Y. Uehara, N. Okuda, M. Hongo, S. Tsuji, H. Yamanaka & T. Minamoto 2018,04 Environmental DNA
reveals nonmigratory individuals of Palaemon paucidens overwintering in Lake Biwa shallow waters. Freshwater Science
37.0. DOI:10.1086/697542○Research Presentations【Oral Presentation】

・Uehara, Y., H. Takayama, Y. Kataoka, T. Kikkou, M. Nemoto, T. Kokita, T. Otake & N Okuda Remarkable homing ability ofa pelagic crucian carp “ Carassius auratus grandoculis. 6th International Otolith Symposium, 2018.04.15-2018.04.20,
Keelung, Taiwan.
・Peralta, E. M., C. B. Bacinillo, J. C. A. Balani, S. E. Basmala, E. J. S. S. Calalin, M. A. G. Calleja, J. B. C. Go, M. T. S.
Gosiengfiao, F. A. T. Valdecañas, J. N. Gregorio, N. Mendoza, T. Ishida, F. S. Magbanua, J. C. A. Briones, R. D. S. Papa &N. Okuda ”Interactions between humanity and carps in view of alienologyLittoral food web analysis: Stable isotopes reveal
anthropogenic impacts on Oreochromis niloticus and its food sources in Laguna de Bay”. The 8th Fisheries Science
Conference, 2018.09.05-2018.09.06, Pasay City, Philippines.
・Saitoh, Y., T. Nakano, K.-C. Shin, K. Yamashita, H. Amakawa, C. Yoshimizu, J. Matsubayashi, Y. Kato, H. Togashi, Y.
Amano, Y. Kurita, N. Okuda & I. Tayasu Spatial variation of neodymium and strontium isotope ratios of shellfish soft bodies
in the coastal sea of eastern Tohoku District. JpGU Meeting 2016, 2016.05.22-3016.05.26, Makuhari Messe.

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Research Program3: Designing Lifeworlds of Sustainability and Wellbeing
Program Director: SAIJO Tatsuyoshi

Missions
More than 60% of the world’s population resides in Asia and the regions surrounding it. Over a third of global environmental
activity occurs there. Within these places lies an incredible diversity of cultures, histories, societies, economies, livelihoods, andecologies. It is also affected by myriad global and local environmental issues such as population increase, air, water, soil, andcoastal pollution, increasing greenhouse gas emissions, and biodiversity loss. At the same time, growing wealth disparity, social
isolation, rising levels of poverty, and the disappearance of traditional culture and knowledges are emerging.

Within these processes, the combination of migration between the countryside and cities, and rural depopulation with urban
concentration is accompanied by rapid socio-cultural change, resource over-use, and the deterioration of the naturalenvironment. Both urban and rural lifeworlds are disintegrating rapidly. Consequently, through the reconstruction of the
lifeworld concept and by highlighting the reciprocal linkages between rural and urban spaces, Program 3 designs lifeworlds ofsustainability and wellbeing and co-creates concrete pathways for their realization.

In these same places, diverse world-views and experiences related to the ways in which humanity and nature can exist haveaccumulated. Pre-existing, yet latent, diverse socio-cultural elements, such as livelihood styles, lay knowledge, conflict
resolution strategies, and the vitality of the people themselves can be called upon to address problems and help to chart a course
toward possible future societies. Program 3 builds upon these experiences and knowledges of human-nature interaction to
propose concrete changes needed to achieve a sustainable society.

Through the transformations and frameworks leading to sustainable urban and rural lifeworld design, the existing economic
systems, markets, and political decision making systems will also require fundamental shifts in the way they are conceived.
However, Program 3 will not investigate top-down approaches to system change, but will work with local residents, government
officials, companies, citizen groups and other various stakeholders to propose sustainable alternatives and gauge their feasibility.

In order not to run the risk of developing proposals that are only applicable to specific regions or sites, Program 3 will aim forresearch results that are generalizable, but retain their diversity.

○ Progress and Results in 2018

1. General Structure of Activities in Program 3
One of our underlying activities of program 3 is a monthly meeting with members of the FEAST project (Lifeworlds of
Sustainable Food Consumption and Production: Agrifood Systems in Transition) led by Steven R. McGreevy, the Sanitation
Value Chain project (The Sanitation Value Chain: Designing Sanitation Systems as Eco-Community-Value System) led by Taro
Yamauchi and the SRIREP project (Co-creation of Sustainable Regional Innovation for Reducing Risk of
High-impact Environmental Pollution) led by Masayuki Sakakibara. In each meeting, members reported problems of on-going
research projects, gave mini-lectures of their current research results, publication information, forthcoming events, and so on. The
discussion always went beyond each project, and members of each project began to share the idea of members of other projects
and research methods. I also organized a research workshop for each project independently with spending many hours for each,and gave numerous comments.

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Our “lifeworlds” are composed of the physical spaces and socio-cultural spheres of our everyday lives. They are continually
reproduced, reimagined, and evolving through an interactive and reflexive relationship with society, culture, and nature. Program
3 proposes research aimed at illuminating reciprocal linkages between diverse rural and urban lifeworlds and contributing to thesolution of sustainability problems by working with various societal partners such as governments, companies, and citizen
groups. Special emphasis is placed on envisioning sustainable futures that improve wellbeing and gauging their feasibility.

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2. Support for IS and FS projects
I participated in numerous workshops of IS and FS projects that intended to be projects of Program 3 and gave comments andadvices. As for FS projects aiming at Program 3, I organized several presentations with at least three hours. I supported the
Okabe project (Future Image of Living Sphere by Restructuring Sustainable Relation between Humans and Land), the Mori
project (Developing Interactive Rural-Urban Systems to Improve Human Well-being: Migration for Humanities and Nature), andthe Matsuda project (Transformation and Reconstruction of Agricultural Diversity in Southeast Asia). Each project was improved
quite a lot during this year.
3. A New Tool for Program 3: An Intergenerational Retrospective Approach
I started introducing Future Design for projects in Program 3 from the last year, and “future” is now one of key words in addition
to lifeworlds, sustainability, wellbeing and design in program 3’s mission statement. In addition to usual Future Design
approach, I found that an intergenerational retrospective approach is effective for our sustainable future. In this approach, several
newspaper articles (or events) of the past are given to a person. This person is asked to suppose that he/she can give advices forthe past people who were related to the articles or events. After this experience, this person is asked to suppose that he/she would
be an imaginary future person and then give advices to the current generation. We call this an intergenerational retrospective
approach. The following two projects show that this approach is very effective.
Let me explain them. The first one is by Nakagawa, Arai, Kotani Nagano and Saijo (2018). Nakagawa et al. (2018) recruited 379
ordinary people from Kochi Prefecture in Japan and conducted a deliberation experiment in which teams of four were createdwith current generation teams and imaginary future generation teams in which all four members were in the imaginary future
generation. Employing the Harvard case method in business schools, teaching materials were developed to teach national andprefectural financial administration in a short time. Among these, as national policies, maintaining the status quo or reducing theamount of money given to local prefectures (two policies) were proposed, and as prefectural policies, maintaining the status quoor supporting for specific regional agglomeration aimed at regional self-reliance (two policies) were proposed. The participants
assigned to the current generation group debated about the most favorable policies among the four (2 x 2) for society in 2047 andthen chose one of the four, and then reported their preference as an individual. Meanwhile, the participants assigned to theimaginary future generation group was asked to undertake two procedures. First, before the debate, they were asked to have the(retrospective) experience of reading newspapers from 30 years ago and sending advice to the people of 30 years ago. They then“time-shifted” to 30 years in the future, as a group debating from the perspective of the year 2047, which of the four policies
they would want people to choose in 2017 and then chose one of the four. After this stage, they reported their selection as anindividual living in 2047. After the experiment, they filled in questionnaires designed to measure the qualities of “generativity”(engaging actively in behavior that creates value for the next generation) and “critical thinking” (the quality of being able tothink logically without bias). If their score was higher than the median value in at least one of these two indicators, an imaginary
future person was more likely than a current generation person to choose to support specific regional agglomeration aimed atregional self-sustainability. In other words, people with a high score in at least one of these indicators came to choose a scenariothat took account of future generations, owing to the experience of the “social mechanism” of becoming a future generation
person in the twin procedures.
The second one is by Nakagawa, Kotani, Matsumoto and Saijo (2019). Nakagawa et al. (2018) recruited 155 ordinary
participants in Kochi Prefecture—where 84% of the land area is forested—using the case method to present them with thehistory, current situation, and issues for debate surrounding Kochi’s forests, and also with five relevant policy options or
scenarios (maintenance of the status quo; intentional neglect of inefficient forests; minimum care for inefficient forests; provisionof forest roads allowing the continuance of forestry business; and turning the forested land into recreation forests). When no
conditions were imposed, before debate, the current generation groups’ most favored option was turning the forested land into arecreational forest. When asked to debate the future of Kochi’s forests in the four-person team, their most favored scenariochanged to minimum care for inefficient forests. Meanwhile, the future generation persons were asked to undertake the sametwin procedures as in Nakagawa et al. (2018). The scenario selected by most individuals after giving advice to people of 30 years
ago was to provide forest roads to continue the forestry business, and the scenario selected most frequently after they had
subsequently debated as an imaginary future generation was also the provision of forest roads. In other words, in this experiment,
it was found that even without debate, the “social mechanism” of looking back at the past had a big effect on scenario selection.

○Project Members
Every member of
FEAST, Sanitation, and
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1. The Mission Statement of Program 3

This is related to 1. I will find “Future Design” elements in on-going research projects in program 3’s projects as well as otherprojects, and then find mutually beneficial small projects. Since I find that members of each project is so busy that they do nothave any time to do other than their own assignments, this approach will be effective.

3. Recruiting good projects
Although the current scheme of RIHN’s projects is not attractive to science scholars, it is quite attractive to social sciencescholars and hence I would like to recruit good projects around the world. We changed our selecting process of projects thisacademic year so that each program director has relatively more voice than before. In other words, we will be able to avoid
situations such that a project is chosen even if the director does not want to get it, or a project is not chosen even if the director
would like to choose it.

4. The Development of Future Design
Future Design is a methodology to incorporate future in designing social systems so that it can apply many possible situations.
Since Kyoto prefecture, Uji city in Kyoto, Nagaokakyo city in Kyoto, and many other locations such as Suita city in Osaka,Matsumoto city in Nagano, Yahaba town in Iwate and the Ministry of Finance asked us to help them regarding their own
problems, we started cooperation with them using our own Future Design approach. We have been accumulating many examples
of social systems so that many other locations in Japan may have benefits from them. At least four newspapers featured Future
Design in their editorials of new year’s day this year. We would like to propose our method to the Ministry of Internal Affairs
and Communications in near future, and then we hope that the Ministry will ask all local cities and towns to use our Future
Design approach since Japan is a centralized country in this respect. At the same time, we would like to disseminate theexperiences and information to members of RIHN so that they will be able to incorporate them in their projects.

●Achievements○Papers【Original Articles】

・Jingchao Zhang, Koji Kotani, Tatsuyoshi Saijo 2019,02 "Low-quality or high-quality coal? Household energy choice in rural
Beijing Energy Economics". Energy Economics 78:81-90. DOI:10.1016/j.eneco.2018.11.005 (reviewed).
・ Yoshinori Nakagawa, Koji Kotani, Mika Matsumoto, and Tatsuyoshi Saijo 2019,01 "Intergenerational retrospective
viewpoints and individual preferences of policies for future: A deliberative experiment for forest management". Futures
105:40-53. DOI:10.1016/j.futures.2018.06.013 (reviewed).
・Junyi Shen, Takako Nakashima, Izumi Karasawa, Tatsuro Furui, Kenichiro Morishige, Tatsuyoshi Saijo 2018,10 Examining
Japanese women's preferences for a new style of postnatal care facility and its attributes. International Journal of Health
Planning and Management:1-12. DOI:10.1002/hpm.2544 (reviewed).
・Zhang Jingchao, Koji Kotani, Tatsuyoshi Saijo 2018,06 "Public acceptance of environmentally friendly heating in Beijing: A
case of a low temperature air source heat pump". Energy Policy 117:75-85. DOI:10.1016/j.enpol.2018.02.041 (reviewed).

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The mission statement is not mine, but is roughly given by RIHN from the very beginning. As I showed in the previous section,
we will try to rewrite the mission statement using plain and concrete words and definitions including “future” elements. Of
course, this depends upon how we agree upon the rewriting. This rewrite will attract new incoming projects that I will beinterested in. Even though this rewriting is successful, each project might not be fit into the mission statement. For this reason, I
will seek soft cooperation among all projects and members in RIHN. Of course, the current members of program 3 will be majorpart of program 3.

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○Research Presentations【Oral Presentation】

・ Tatsuyoshi Saijo Future Design. Future Design: Exploring Affirmative Futures through an Intergenerational Outlook,2019.01.08-2019.01.09, Arizona State University, America.
・Tatsuyoshi Saijo Future Desigh. 地球研-SRC との共同ワークショップ, 2018.10.29-2018.10.30, Stockholm , Sweden.
・Tatsuyoshi Saijo Future Design. Future Earth Special Seminar, 2018.10.03, 総合地球環境学研究所、京都市.
・ Tatsuyoshi Saijo Future Design: An Overview. World Social Science Forum 2018, 2018.09.25-2018.09.28, Fukuoka
International Congress Center, Fukuoka, Japan.
・ Tatsuyoshi Saijo Future Design: Bequeathing Sustainable Natural Environments and Sustainable Societies to Future
Generations. , 2018.09.07, Duke Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, Durham, America.
【Invited Lecture / Honorary Lecture / Panelist】

・ Tatsuyoshi Saijo An Overview of Future Design. Futurability: Intergenerational Equity and Sustainable Governance,
2019.03.22, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
・ Tatsuyoshi Saijo Future Design: Bequeathing Sustainable Natural Environments and Sustainable Societies to Future
Generations. Annual Scientific Conference and 86th General Membership Assembly, 2019.03.11, Phillippine Intenational
Convention cemter, Phillippine.
・Tatsuyoshi Saijo Future Desigh. Future Earth Philippines Program, 2018.11.19, Manila, Philippines.
・Tatsuyoshi Saijo Future Design . HKUST Workshop on Experimental Economics, 2018.10.20, The Hong Kong University of
Science and Technology, HongKong.
・Tatsuyoshi Saijo Future Design. New Directions in Economic Theory and Empirical Economics, 2018.08.17-2018.08.18,
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Stage: Full Research
Project Name: Lifeworlds of Sustainable Food Consumption and Production: Agrifood Systems in Transition
Project Leader: Steven R. McGreevy
Program 3: Designing Lifeworlds of Sustainability and Wellbeing
Key Words: agrifood transition, sustainable food consumption and production, foodshed mapping, participatory
backcasting, Asian food ethics, social change, social practice○ Research Subject and Objectives

Agrifood systems in Asia face a myriad of sustainability challenges related to declining environmental health (GHG, resource
overuse, pollution, soil fertility), loss of diversity (biological, cultural, knowledge), and the deterioration of small-scale farming
due to globalizing market forces (Wegner & Zwart 2011; McIntyre et al. 2009). On the consumption side, over-reliance on
globalized food flows limit consumer agency and decrease food security and sovereignty, while diets shift to more processed
food, creating public health impacts (rise in diabetes, obesity) (Carolan 2011, Ezzati et al. 2005, ICN2 2014). The ways in whichfood is provided, consumed and governed need urgent change, but we lack understanding of how agrifood transitions emerge andtake root (e.g. Bui et al 2016), and the role of existing and alternative institutions and policy (e.g. Meadowcroft 2011), social
practices (e.g. Shove et al. 2012, Spaargaren 2011), and economic arrangements in advancing sustainable transitions (DeAlisa et
al. 2014, Infante & Gonzalez de Molina 2013).
The FEAST project takes a transdisciplinary approach to explore the realities and potential for sustainable agrifood transition atsites in Japan, Thailand, Bhutan, and China with significance for the entire region. We analyze patterns of food consumption,
food-related social practices and their socio-cultural meanings, and consumer-based agency to change deeply-held culturaldimensions. We map and evaluate food systems specific to national, regional, and local production, distribution, andconsumption contexts. Building upon that work, we engage in action research to partner with stakeholders to vision desirable andplausible futures and to initiate food citizenship-oriented experiments and actions. FEAST co-designs and co-produces sociallyrobust knowledge and mechanisms that challenge mainstream economic thinking on consumption and growth, work to redefine
the notion of long-term food security at the regional level, and engage society in a public debate on our relationship with foodand nature that questions shared beliefs and values to reacclimatize consumers as citizens and co-producers in the foodscapesaround them. FEAST will contribute to a growing body of research that merges the literatures of sustainable food consumption(iPES-Food 2015, Lykke Syse & Lee Muller 2015, Reisch et. al 2013) and social transformation/transitions (Grin et al. 2010,
Spaargaren et al. 2012).
FEAST Working Groups will produce four types of knowledge relevant to catalyzing agrifood transitions. These are: 1)
contextual knowledge of contemporary national, regional, and local food systems (production, distribution, and consumption); 2)
co-produced visions of alternative food consumption and production practices and corresponding municipal-level transition plans
identifying research, education, and policy needs; 3) modeling- and scenario-based knowledge supporting deliberation andplanning processes; and 4) knowledge of two intervention strategies: the social learning dynamics affecting execution andeffectiveness of workshop-based consensus-building for collective food action; and the significance of new methods of market
transparency (e.g. eco-labels, food impact smartphone apps) in food system change. A significant portion of the research istransdisciplinary in nature and many final outputs are geared for public use‐including collective visioning and creation of new,empowered institutions to implement food policy. These “lighthouses” enable this project to have real-world impact beyond thefive-year research period.
Contribution to Program 3
FEAST helps to achieve P3’s mission by exploring the human and social dimensions of existing and alternative lifeworlds inboth rural and urban spheres as they relate to food. FEAST also looks closely at the future and how social change and planning(design) processes can be co-initiated in society.
So far, FEAST has contributed significantly to the program mission, title (lifeworlds is a concept that FEAST deals with), and inproviding intellectual space to co-develop concepts and methods for the program at large. In particular, FEAST brings
intellectual robustness to the program (as well as to the entirety of RIHN) by way of introducing concepts and theories that have
not yet been sufficiently absorbed by ongoing projects and the institute. FEAST has initiated discussion on key concepts such as
lifeworld, sustainability, and well-being; on theories of social (ie. transition, transformation) and mindset change (ie. individual,social, and mutual learning); economic (degrowth, doughnut economics, commons, value chains) and political (decentralized,

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participatory governance & new institutions) alternatives; and design and planning (food waste to production & rural-urban
linkages; food and energy co-production; urban greenspace and infrastructure; self-reliant local food production systems). All ofthese concepts are available as integrative spaces to coalesce individual research project trajectories and results into a broad, butcoherent narrative around the challenging program task of “designing lifeworlds of sustainability and wellbeing.”
One example of project-to-project collaboration was evident at the World Social Science Forum 2018, held in Fukuoka, where
FEAST and the Sanitation Value Chain Project co-organized a session entitled “Lifeworlds of sustainability and well-being in ashrinking Japan.” Papers in the session explored the ways in which shrinking urban and rural societies experiencing economic
decline are enhancing sustainability and enabling new, more satisfying ways of living counter to contemporary adherence to massconsumerism and economic growth. An edited volume for RIHN’s Springer Book series is planned as a concrete output of thiscollaboration.
<References>Bui, S., A. Cardona., C. Lamine, & M. Cerf. 2016. Sustainability transitions: Insights on processes of niche-regime interaction
and regime reconfiguration in agri-food systems. Journal of Rural Studies 48: 92-103.
Carolan, M. 2011. The Real Cost of Cheap Food. Routledge.
D’Alisa, Giacomo, Federico Demaria & Giorgos Kallis (eds). 2014. Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Era. Routledge.
Ezzati M., Vander Hoorn S., Lawes C.M.M., Leach R., James W.P.T., et al. 2005. Rethinking the “Diseases of Affluence”
Paradigm: Global Patterns of Nutritional Risks in Relation to Economic Development. PLoS Med 2 5: e133.
Grin, John, Jan Rotmans, & J.W. Schot. 2010. Transitions to sustainable development: new directions in the study of long termtransformative change. Routledge.
2nd International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2). 2014. “Conference Outcome Document: Rome Declaration on Nutrition.”
FAO, WHO. Rome, 19-21, November, 2014. Retrievable online at: http://www.fao.org/3/a-ml542e.pdf.
Infante Amate, Juan & Manuel Gonzalez de Molina. 2013. ‘Sustainable de-growth’ in agriculture and food: an agro-ecologicalperspective on Spain's agri-food system. Journal of Cleaner Production 38: 27-35.
iPES-Food (International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems. 2015. “The New Science of Sustainable Food Systems:
Overcoming Barriers to Food System Reform.” iPESFood.
Lykke Syse, Karen & Martin Lee Mueller (eds). 2015. Sustainable Consumption and the Good Life: Interdisciplinary
Perspectives. Routledge.
McIntyre, B. D. et al. (ed). 2009. International assessment of agricultural knowledge, science and technology for development(IAASTD): global report. Washington D.C: IAASTD .
Meadowcroft, James. 2011. Engaging with the politics of sustainability transition. Environmental Innovations and Societal
Transitions 1: 70-75.
Reisch, Lucia, Ulrike Eberle, & Sylvia Lorek. 2013. Sustainable food consumption: an overview of contemporary issues andpolicies. Sustainability, Science, Practice, & Policy 9, 2.
Shove, Elizabeth, Mika Pantzar, & Matt Watson. 2012. The Dynamics of Social Practice: Everyday Life and How is Changes.
Sage.
Spaargaren, Gert. 2011. Theories of practices: Agency, technology, and culture. Global Environmental Change 21, 3: 813-822.
Spaargaren, Gert, A.M.C. Loeber, & Peter Oosterveer. 2012. Food Practices in Transition-Changing Food Consumption, Retailand Production in the Age of Reflexive Modernity. Routledge.
Wegner, L. & G. Zwart. 2011. Who Will Feed the World? The production challenge. Oxfam Research Report. Oxfam.

○ Progress and Results in 2018

Each project working group (WG) has made progress on their research plans for FR3.
WG1: Food System Mapping & Modelling
To date, WG1 has used GIS datasets, public statistics, and consumer surveys to map “origins” and “destinations” of food flowfrom international and domestic wholesale markets to their place of consumption at the regional/city level (Kyoto, Noshiro, andNagano). Consumer surveys and “personal foodsheds” have also provided a baseline regarding food consumption habits andlocalized spatial patterns for food procurement that are used by other WGs. Using satellite imagery, the current condition andpotential for urban agriculture in Kyoto City was analyzed and saw a 10% decrease over a ten-year period. WG1 is also tasked
with measuring the environmental impact of food consumption using ecological footprint (EF) calculations. Last year, the EF offood consumption for all 47 prefectures in Japan was calculated, as well as the EF of food imports and exports. Building fromprior work on food system statistical mapping of inter-regional food flow, we moved to asking the question “how much of areduction in the size of the EF associated with food can we conceive through changes in production (agroecological), distribution

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Last year, six workshops were held across the four Japanese sites (Kyoto: 3, Kameoka: 1, Nagano: 1, Akita: 1) on a range ofissues relevant to local food policy and the issues stakeholders feel are urgent and actionable. In Kyoto, FEAST partnered withorganic farming organizations to hold visioning and backcasting workshops on ideal and desirable rural futures. FEAST worked
closely with Kyoto Organic Action, a new organization struggling with fair and logistically feasible organic food distribution.
Building on past work and new and emerging networks, new initiatives with children’s canteens, organic product distributors,
and school lunch program advocates were discussed and plans for concrete policy undertakings are being conceived.

WG3: Agroecological strategies in policy and practice
WG3 explores policy and practice dimensions of agrifood transitions toward agroecological production in Japan and Bhutan.
Fieldwork and analysis on support structures for new farmers in Japan as well as a typology of pathways into farming was
conducted and found that support for agroecological-styled farming is limited in both countries and that new entry farmers must
experiment with hybridized and peasant-like modes of farming and agrarian lifestyles. Building on a pilot study from last year,
municipal level agricultural policies are currently being assessed as to their orientation to agroecological principles. At the farmlevel, fieldwork and interviews with farmers and food producers practicing seed saving and sharing throughout Japan revealed
multiple patterns of seed handling and values associated with the practice. Through our partnership with Royal University of
Bhutan, College of Natural Resources, a multi-site household survey (n=249) was conducted in Bhutan focusing on
agroecological practices and food consumption habits and how they have changed over the past 20 years.

WG4: Supporting tools for sustainable regional production
WG4 research is concerned with conducting innovative experiments for supporting the sustainable development of small-scale
farming and farmer livelihoods via carbon offsetting techniques and co-designed marketing schemes. Over the first two years,
stakeholder meetings have been held to incorporate their knowledge into the designing of an eco-branding tool-kit‐a betaversion “open-brand starter kit” aimed at local governments is being drafted. Last year, agricultural yield experiments continued
to gauge the effectiveness of solar-sharing vegetable growing conditions (under solar panels) in Kameoka City and the potential
for farmer income. Field trials of biochar amended vegetables in Shanghai were conducted, and the results of a survey to gauge
the receptivity of Chinese consumers to accept eco-friendly products versus products that are assured to have a high food safety
standard were analyzed.

WG5: Transparent food chains
WG5 strives to measure the environmental, social, and health impacts of food products and disseminate this information to the
public through a smartphone app. A prototype for the app was developed using a redacted version of a 1.6 million entry databaseand uploaded to Apple’s Testflight service. Environmental impact data from various fresh products produced in Japan (marine,
meat, dairy, vegetables, fruits) were calculated (LCA-CO2). Inquiries were made on corporate social responsibility data forJapanese food companies, but not many options are available beyond self-sourcing. Consumer-side app user testing will be
underway soon.

Here is a brief overview of some of the many FEAST 2018 research results.
－analyzed the Ecological Footprint of Japan’s food consumption by sector and COICOP category for all 47 prefectures, by age
and income group. Found that processed foods linked with importation are most impactful along with high income households.

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WG2 is interested in the development of civic food networks (CFN) and their impact on food policy and agrifood systemtransition at the regional scale. Stakeholder workshops are used to form and extend civic networks and to build consensus on
legitimate policy and planning frameworks for food in the future. After fieldwork in North America to profile and analyze one
form of CFN—food policy councils (FPC)—and its relevance to the Japanese context, stakeholder workshops and reflexive
action research methods have been used to explore consensus building, legitimization processes, and the role of future visions inplanning and policy undertaking. Over 20 workshops have been held over the course of the project and many forms of workshop
facilitation and mediating/exploratory tools have been developed (games, role-playing).

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in creating impacts. China, USA, and Australia compose over 50% of Japan’s imported food ecological footprint with cropland,grazing land, and fishing ground usage being very high.
－examined and mapped agricultural land use in Kyoto City (2007-2017) to better understand the status and transition ofagricultural land for potential use in urban agriculture under future conditions of population decline. Results showed a decline of
209 ha or 10% agricultural land use over ten years. Post-agricultural land uses were residential (40%) and vacant land (28%),
which have implications for localizing food production and food system planning.
－conducted survey in three rural Bhutanese districts on agricultural and food consumption change (n=249) with the help of theRoyal University of Bhutan, College of Natural Resources (MOU). Results are wide-ranging and pertain to changing patterns ofmeat consumption and the relationship to imported foods, generational gap in what is consumed, insights into how people eat
food, strong seasonal variance in how people procure food, and perceptions of organic. Follow-up surveys planned in 2019 ingrowing urban Thimphu, towns bordering India, and remote districts to the East.
－ held two-day scenario-building workshop with colleagues from Mahidol (MOU with Faculty of Social Sciences andHumanities) and Chulalongkorn Universities to follow-up on consumer visioning workshops held in Bangkok in 2017. The social
practices of food purchasing, eating out, and home cooking were “storified” into narratives and pathways were created toreassemble socio-technical dimensions (materials, competencies, meanings eg. Shove et al. 2012) into the future.
－summarized the experience of re-agrarianisation in Japan and the farming modes typical to Japan from the post WWII period
to now. Unlike many countries, hybridized farming modes that embrace elements of peasant-like orientations remain in Japan tothis day and the strong presence of community mindsets and logics influences this reticence.
－developed a series of pathways into agrarian lifestyles for the next generation of farmers in Japan. Using mixed methods, casesof new farmers establishing themselves in Kyoto and Nagano were examined to develop representative pathways travelled by
new farmers. Local community was found to play a critical role in the progression of farmers along pathways into agriculture.
－developed prototype for open source FEAST Food Transparency App and 1.6 million food item database. App will allow
consumers to receive environmental, social, and health impact data on the food products they purchase. App is now being tested,
but is online via the Apple Testflight interface.
FEAST is comprised of five working groups (WG), each with two WG chairpersons, and at least one RIHN research staff as
WG liaison and contributor. FEAST headquarters, located at RIHN, acts as both a project managerial team and active researchstaff. This year we added two more HQ members to assist in coordinating bottom-up action research activities in Japan andproduction-side socio-ecological research.
Over the course of the first and second year of research, we found that a particular theme was resonating with many of the WG:
informal food practices. Examples include hobby gardening, seed sharing, urban foraging, and gathering edible wild plants,
alongside rediscovered activities such as raising urban livestock (chickens and beekeeping). Put together, they also make up an
informal food system, largely invisible in official food-related statistics, and contribute to local food security as well as individualand cultural wellbeing. A new inter-WG collaboration was initiated on this topic including multiple Kaken applications.

○Project Members◎ MCGREEVY, Steven
Robert○ AKITSU, Motoki○ SHIBATA, Akira( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Associate Professor,Environmental Sociology )( Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University,Professor,Sociology of Agriculture and Food )( Research Organization of Open Innovation & Collaboration, Ritsumeikan
University,Professor,Policy Science )○ TAMURA, Norie( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Senior Researcher,Natural Resource Management )○ SUDO, Shigeto( Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, National Agriculture and Food Research
Organization,Principal Researcher,Soil Science, Irrigation and Water Management, Environmental
Science )○ TACHIKAWA, Masashi( Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University,Professor,Sociology of Agriculture
and Food )○ TANIGUCHI,( Dept. of Biological Environment, Akita Prefectural University,Professor,Environmental Sociology )Yoshimitsu○ HARA, Yuji
( Faculty of Systems Engineering, Wakayama University,Associate Professor,Landscape Ecology )○ TSUCHIYA, Kazuaki ( Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo,AssistantProfessor,Urban Ecology, Social Ecological Systems )63
Research Projects○ TANAKA, Keiko( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Researcher,Environmental Management )Research Projects( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Researcher,Environmental Sociology, Environmental
Studies )OTA, Kazuhiko( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Researcher,Japanese Environmental Ethics )NILES, Daniel( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Associate Professor,Geography )KUMAZAWA,( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Associate Professor,Environmental Planning, Regional
Terukazu
Informatics )TERADA, Masahiro( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Visiting Associate Professor,History, Metahistory )YAGASAKI, Yasumi ( Fukushima Agricultural Technology Centre,Senior Researcher,Environmental Agriculture )WATANABE, Kazuhito ( Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Policy Division, Miyagi Prefectural Government,TechnicalManager,LCA )SHIRATO, Yasuhito( Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, National Agriculture and Food Research
Organization,Research Manager for Climate Change,Agricultural Policy Science, Soil Science )HAYASHI, Kiyotada ( Central Region Agricultural Research Center, National Agriculture and Food Research
Organization,Team Leader,LCA )TAHARA, Kiyotaka( National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology,Laboratory Leader,LCA )HORIGUCHI, Makoto ( Industry-Information Collaboration Research Center Corp,Principal Researcher,LCA )OSAWA, Takeshi( Faculty of Urban Environmental Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University,Associate
Professor,Biodiversity Informatics )NISHIYAMA, Mima ( Dept. of Agricultural Economies, Utsunomiya University,Associate Professor,Agrifood Systems )NISHINUMA, Tatsuo ( Dept. of Environmental Engineering, Utsunomiya University,Associate Professor,LCA )OISHI, Takanori( ASC African Studies Center, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies,Lecturer,Anthropology )WATANABE, Manabu ( Dept. of Food Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Marine Science andTechnology,Associate Professor,LCA )HISANO, Shuji( Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University,Professor,International Political Economy ofAgriculture )HIRAGA, Midori( Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University,Ph.D. Student,Political Economy )IWAHASHI, Ryo( Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University,Ph.D. Student,Sociology of Agriculture andFood )
ODA, Kimisato( Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University,Ph.D. Student,River Ecosystem )NOMURA, Ayaka( Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies in Human Survivability (Shishu-Kan), Kyoto
University,Ph.D. Student,Food Waste Management )ASHIDA, Yusuke( Faculty of Regial Innovation, University of Miyazaki,Lecturer,Regional Sociology )DOI, Yohei( Faculty of Tourism and Community Studies, Atomi University,Associate Professor,Rural
Sociology )SHOBAYASHI,( Dept. of Intercultural Communication, Gakushuin Women's University,Professor,Agricultural
Mikitaro
Policy )TANABIKI, Yusuke( Dept. of Sociology, Rikkyo Universiy,Assistant Professor,Social Statistics )OGA, Momoe( Graduate School of Policy and Management, Doshisha University,Former Ph.D. Student,Policy
Science )NI, Hui( Language Education Center, Ritsumeikan University,Lecturer,Agricultural Economics )YOSHIKAWA, Naoki ( Dept. of Environmental Systems Engineering, Ritsumeikan University,Lecturer,LCA )FUJIWARA, Natsumi ( Research Organization of Science and Technology, Ritsumeikan University,AssistantResearcher,Social Engineering )HAMADA, Shingo( Dept. of Life Planning, Osaka Shoin Women's University,Lecturer,Cultural Anthropology )IHA, Katsunori( Global Ecological Footprint Network,Researcher,Modelling )SUMOTO, Edward( RenEnergy Crossboarder,Innovation Studies )KAWASHIMA, Yumie ( AEON Co., Ltd. )NGUYEN, Philip( Gochiso Inc.,CEO,App Design )OZAWA, Fumihiro( Coolvege Association,Director of General Affairs Division )RIHN○ KISHIMOTO-MO,
Ayaka○ NAKAMURA, Mari
○ INABA, Atsushi
RUPPRECHT,
Christoph D.D.
SPIEGELBERG,
Maximilian
KOBAYASHI, Mai( College of Arts and Sciences, University of Kentucky,Professor,Sociology of Agriculture andFood )( Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, National Agriculture and Food Research
Organization,Principal Researcher,Ecosystem Ecology, Agricultural Economics )( Dept. of Food Business, Nagoya Bunri University,Professor, Department Chair,Sociology of Food )( School of Advanced Engineering, Kogakuin University,Professor,LCA )( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Senior Researcher,Geography )64
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MATSUDAIRA, Naoya ( AM Net,Director,Organic Farming )NISHIDA, Natsuyo( NPO Ba to Tsunagari Lab home's vi,Coordinator,Facilitation )KATANO, Naoko( Kitchen Zukan,Childcare Worker,Childcare )KANTAMATURAPOJ, ( International Health Policy Program, Mahidol University,Lecturer,Sociology )KanangWIBULPOLPRASERT, ( International Health Policy Program Foundation, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand,Vice
Suwit
President,Publich Health )THAITAKOO, Danai ( Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Chulalongkorn University,Associate Professor,Landscape )SRITHANYARAT,( Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Chulalongkorn University,Lecturer,Landscape )Suebsiri
CHOW, Sungming( Dept. of Applied Social Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University,SeniorLecturer,Socioeconomics )ZHOU, Sheng( Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences,Group Leader,Soil Studies )MA, Jia( Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences,Associate Researcher,Land Resource Economics,
Urban Agricultural Economic Management )CHHETRI, Rekha( College of Natural Resources, Royal University of Bhutan,Assistant Professor,Organic Farming )Sonam Tashi( College of Natural Resources, Royal University of Bhutan,Associate Professor,Organic Farming )Katel Om
( College of Natural Resources, Royal University of Bhutan,Lecturer,Climate Change )DUMONT, Antoinette ( Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California,
M.
Berkeley,Postdoctoral Researcher,Agronomic Sciences, Bioengineering )KAWAI, Ayako( College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, Australian National University,Ph. D.
Student,Sociobiology, Environmental Studies )□ KOOHAFKAN,( World Agricultural Heritage Foundation,President,Integrated Natural Resource Management )Abolghassem Parviz○ Future Themes

FEAST will be entering its four year and we will begin to enter a phase of winding-down the project with an emphasis oncompleting fieldwork and beginning publication in earnest. The following is a rough outline of what is expected to occur in
2019-2020.

Agroecology in Asian contexts: a focus on practices, farmer livelihoods, traditional knowledge, and drivers for scaling up:
A host of fieldwork and analytical-oriented research on agroecology is scheduled for next year, in partnership with colleagues atUniversity of California, Berkeley and College of Natural Resources, Royal University of Bhutan. Preeminent agroecology
scholar Miguel Altieri, along with Clara Nicholls (Permanent Lecturer) and Antoinette Dumont (Post-doc, Alistair Iles advising),
will work closely with FEAST to assess a set of agroecological farming initiatives in Japan to develop a series of socioecological indicators relevant to sustainability, resiliency, biodiversity, productivity, autonomy, stability, labor conditions, andfood self-sufficiency. We expect this assessment will lead to better understanding of the drivers pushing or deterring agroecology
forward in Japan. Similarly, a large-scale assessment (n=400) of Bhutanese farms in five, diverse provinces will add to an overall
analysis relevant to the region at large.
Bhutan urban food transitions: In addition to the rural focus on agroecology, a survey and assessment of Bhutan’s urban foodtransitions will take place in the nation’s capital, Thimphu, one of the fastest urbanizing regions in South-Asia. The research will
examine how food consumption habits as well as new, more global food markets are changing. There will be a focus on theyounger generation and their values and perceptions around food-related social practices and the future of food consumption, as
well as an appraisal of food flowing into the country via border town trading areas, such as Phuntsholing.
Evaluation of future social practice scenarios with Bangkok food stakeholders: Following up with colleagues at Mahidol andChulalongkorn Universities in Thailand, we will conduct workshops with food stakeholders in Bangkok on the future scenarios
we generated at the workshop in FY2018. The three storified narratives for food purchasing, eating out, and home cooking andthe future pathways developed for each will be assessed by stakeholders, and their feedback will be reintegrated into thescenarios and eventually used for urban food system planning proposals for the city. At a minimum, we plan on presenting our
findings to the Thai Ministry of Public Health.
Exploring innovative urban food security through serious games, food futures, scenarios: Working closely with ourcolleagues at Utrecht University, we plan on continuing to work with stakeholder groups at our Japanese sites to develop

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Food policy for sustainable food transition reports: As a culmination of various assessments of sustainable food policyrelevant research at our Japanese sites, reports for the public will be co-authored with stakeholders. The reports will include sitespecific research results on current conditions around food and agriculture change, environmental and social assessments of theimplications of the current trajectories, desirable future food visions generated at each site, and possible policy and planninginterventions to reach said future states. It is hoped that these reports will create an educational opportunity for learning aboutfood and agriculture and generate bottom-up support for food policy actions.
Informal food lifeworlds and food future fictions: Ethnographic research on consumers and food producers operating within“informal” food systems will continue at sites in Japan with an emphasis on the significance of informal food practices on
individual and cultural wellbeing and quality of life. In addition, Christine Barnes from King’s College London will work with us
to examine the impacts of digital foodscapes on the future food imaginaries of Japan. First, a digital food taxonomy will identify
key voices and themes that influence digital food culture across a range of social media platforms, and then, in collaboration withlocal artists and university students, an “interactive dining experience” will combine art, digital media, and fictional food futures
as a way to critically interrogate the role of digital media in shaping the contemporary and future cultural politics of Japans foodculture.
Consumer app prototype testing: After producing a prototype of the FEAST ShokuMieruka (Food Transparency) app andpublishing it online, we will take the next steps in seeing the app released fully to the public via the Apple App Store. Before thisis possible, target user group testing of the app design, data availability, and information platform functions will take place totune the app to user preferences. At the same time, data for the health impacts of processed foods will be included in the app aswell as seasonal fresh produce, fish, meat, and dairy LCA-CO2 data for Japan.

●Achievements○Books【Chapters/Sections】

・Niles, Daniel 2018,04 Agricultural Heritage and Conservation Beyond the Anthropocene. Angela M. Labrador and Neil Asher
Silberman (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Public Heritage Theory and Practice . Oxford University Press. DOI:10.1093/
oxfordhb/9780190676315.013.2
・Ota, Kazuhiko, Tomoyoshi Murata, Hamada Ryosuke 2018,08 What Does “Soil Is Valuable” Mean? Institutional Design andEthics for Sustainable Use of Soil Resources. Paul B. Thompson, Kirill O. Thompson (ed.) Agricultural Ethics in East Asian
Perspective: A Transpacific Dialogue. Springer, pp.197-211.

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Foodshed planning workshops and regional diet scenario modelling: Field sites in Japan will shift from visioning to concrete
backcasting and planning workshops. Planning potential foodsheds will go hand in hand with facilitated discussions on diettypes, policy intervention, and educational goals over 10-20-30 year time horizons and fed into site-specific reports for the
public. At the same time, using contextual research and desirable food future visions as a basis, Japanese diet scenarios consistent
with plausible distribution channels, land use and crop options, as well as alternative lifestyles (self-production, communal
consumption, etc) will be modelled. Stakeholder feedback on the model scenarios will also be measured.

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plausible and desirable food future scenarios and serious games as both planning tools and exploratory educational methods. For
use in planning and policy, the environmental and social impacts of these scenarios will be measured with various assessment
techniques (EF, IO tables) and incorporated into future scenario modelling for regional/city-level foodsheds. Educational andexperimental gaming methods will be developed in conjunction with domestic university colleagues and game development
studios and released to the public at large. FEAST plans to lead a group of game scholars and industry partners to host the first
official “Games for Change” event in Asia by the end of the project period.

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○Papers【Original Articles】

・Iwashima, Fumi 2018,09 Transformation in Reproductive Labor Process in Post War Rural Japan:Housewife Ideology andHousehold Technology. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference of the East-Asian Agricultural History:
Government and Farmers in East Asian Agricultural History:107-115.
・Hara, Yuji, Yuki Sampei, Hirotaka Tanaka 2018,04 The Minabe-Tanabe Ume System: Linkage of Landscape Units byLocals. Sustainability 10(4). DOI:10.3390/su10041079 (reviewed).
・Kantamaturapoj, Kanang 2018,06 Future Vision of Thai Consumers on Sustainable Food Purchasing. Veridian E-Journal,
Silpakorn University 11(4):438-452. (reviewed).
・Kim, M., Rupprecht, C. D. D., Furuya, K. 2018,09 Residents’ Perception of Informal Green Space—A Case Study ofIchikawa City, Japan. Land 7(３):102. DOI:10.3390/land7030102 (reviewed).
・McGreevy R. Steven, Mai Kobayashi & Keiko Tanaka 2018,09 Agrarian pathways for the next generation of Japanese
farmers. Canadian Journal of Development Studies. DOI:10.1080/02255189.2018.1517642 (reviewed).
・ Oda, Kimisato, Christoph D. D. Rupprecht, Kazuaki Tsuchiya, Steven R. McGreevy 2018,04 Urban agriculture as asustainability transition strategy for shrinking cities? Land use change trajectory as an obstacle in Kyoto City, Japan.
Sustainability 10(4). DOI:10.3390/su10041048 (reviewed).
・Schröder, S, Vergragt, P., Brown, H. S., Dendler, L., Gorenflo, N., Matus, K., Quist, J., Rupprecht, C. D. D., Tukker, A.,
Wennersten, R. 2018,12 Advancing sustainable consumption and production in cities - A transdisciplinary research andstakeholder engagement framework to address consumption-based emissions and impacts. Journal of Cleaner Production.
DOI:10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.12.050 (reviewed).
・Watanabe, Kazuhito 2018,10 Environmental burden of Japanese fishery. Proceedings of LCA FOOD 2018:531-534.
・Zhang J N, Zhou S, Sun H F, Zhang X X. 2018 Research progress and prospects on the biochar’s application in Chinesevegetable field. Research of Agricultural Modernization (农业现代化研究) 39(4):543-550. (in Chinese) in Chinese withEnglish abstract○Research Presentations【Oral Presentation】

・ Fujiwara, Natsumi, Masashi Tachikawa, Naoki Yoshikawa, Steven R. McGreevy, & Atsushi Inaba Sustainable foodconsumption: environmental, social, and public health issues. Ecobalance 2018, 2018.10.09-2018.10.12, KFC Hall, Tokyo.
・Hara, Yuji Assessing supply-demand balance of nitrogen toward local-scale organic material circulation: a case studyof
suburban residential district in Metro Manila. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting 2018,2018.04.10-2018.04.14, New Orleans, Lousiana, USA.
・Iwashima, Fumi Transition of Reproductive Work in Post War Rural Japan: Housewife Ideology and Household Technology.
The 15th International Conference of the East-Asian Agricultural History, Government and Farmers in East Asian
Agricultural History, 2018.09.12-2018.09.15, Seoul National University, the Republic of Korea.
・Kawai, Ayako Why farmers engage in seed saving practice in an industrialized country – motivations and values. American
Association of Geographers Annual Meeting 2018, 2018.04.10-2018.04.14, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
・Kawai, Ayako Informal management and sharing of seeds in Japan. World Social Science Forum 2018 - CS4-07 Building a
new food economy in Japan through sharing, collaboration, and commoning, 2018.09.25-2018.09.28, Fukuoka Convention
Center, Fukuoka.
・Kim, Minseo, Christoph D. D. Rupprecht and Katsunori Furuya Residents’ perception of the possibility of informal green
space as an alternative urban green space – A case study of Ichikawa City, Japan. American Association of Geographers
Annual Meeting 2018, 2018.04.10-2018.04.14, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
・Kobayashi, Mai Bhutan’s Changing Landscape of Food Sharing: what persists and resisted within the nation’s modernizing
efforts. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting 2018, 2018.04.10-2018.04.14, New Orleans, Lousiana, USA.
・Kobayashi, Mai The dragon's tryst with happiness: meat sovereignty, and Bhutan's culture of sin. 6th Degrowth Conference,
2018.08.21-2018.08.25, Malmö, Sweden.
・Kobayashi, Mai The dragon's tryst with happiness: meat sovereignty, and Bhutan's culture of sin. The First North-South
Conference on Degrowth-Descrecimiento, 2018.09.03-2018.09.07, Mexico City, Mexico.

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・Kobayashi, Mai A look in to Bhutan’s transitions in wild food security. World Social Science Forum 2018 - CS3-02 The wild
food basket: recreating urban and rural ecosystems as food sources, 2018.09.25-2018.09.28, Fukuoka Convention Center,
Fukuoka.

・Mangnus, Astrid From imagination to transformation? Evaluating the long-term impacts of visioning, back-casting andgaming on the Kyoto food system. World Social Science Forum 2018 - CS4-05 Using game-based methods for sustainability
transformations : lessons from practice and theory, 2018.09.25-2018.09.28, Fukuoka Convention Center, Fukuoka.
・McGreevy, Steven R. Lifeworlds of sustainable food consumption and production: agrifood systems in transition. 4th Kyoto
University - Wageningen University International Graduate Workshop on Food, Farm, and Rural Development, 2018.05.09,
Kyoto University, Kyoto.
・McGreevy, Steven R. Social practices, food futures, and "sticky knowledge" -- motivating change in everyday life?. Society
for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, 2018.06.23-2018.06.25, Doshisha University, Kyoto. Session on "Alternatives to
Capitalism; Changing everyday life-- changing capitalism"
・McGreevy, Steven R. Redefining wellbeing amongst new settlers in a withering rural Japan. World Social Science Forum2018 - CS1-03 Lifeworlds of Sustainability and Wellbeing in a Shrinking Japan, 2018.09.25-2018.09.28, Fukuoka
Convention Center, Fukuoka.
・Oda, Kimisato and Christoph D. D. Rupprecht Mapping agricultural land use change in Kyoto City (Japan) from 2007 to
2016. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting 2018, 2018.04.10-2018.04.14, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
・Ota, Kazuhiko How do we describe the enjoyment of informal food practices?: Analysis of theoretical framework and key
concepts. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting 2018, 2018.04.10-2018.04.14, New Orleans, Lousiana,
USA.
・Ota, Kazuhiko Develop Food Strategies and Plans through Gaming Methods in Kyoto. World Social Science Forum 2018 CS4-05 Using game-based methods for sustainability transformations : lessons from practice and theory,
2018.09.25-2018.09.28, Fukuoka Convention Center, Fukuoka.
・Ota, Kazuhiko What is Food Citizenship?: Empowerment, Political Participation, Cosmopolitanism. The 11th International
Conference on Applied Ethics, 2018.12.15-2018.12.16, Kyoto University.
・Ota, Kazuhiko Analysis of Sustainability Transitions Pathways Using the Concept of Milieu: Structuring Socio-technicalecological Complexity. ACERP2019, 2019.03.21-2019.03.23, City Center Hotel, Tokyo.
・Ota, Kazuhiko & Steven R. McGreevy Games and gaps for normative food futures: The role of researchers in facilitating
creative transdisciplinary processes. Asia-Pacific Society for Agriculture and Food Ethics (APSafe), 2018.05.10-2018.05.12,
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
・Ota, Kazuhiko, Sevilla Anton, Oh Tomohiro, Akihiro Miyata, Laÿna Droz Fudo and Interdisciplinary Research: Envisioning a
Sustainable Society in the Era of Globalism and Localism. ACERP2019, 2019.03.21-2019.03.23, City Center Hotel, Tokyo.
・Rupprecht, Christoph. D. D. Food and informality: Conceptualizing the other food systen(s). American Association of
Geographers Annual Meeting 2018, 2018.04.10-2018.04.14, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
・Rupprecht, C. D. D. Unintentional radicals? Informal gardening and changing social imaginaries in shrinking Japanese cities.
Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics 30th Annual Conference, Alternatives to Capitalism: Changing Everyday
Life, Changing Capitalism session, 2018.06.23-2018.06.25, Doshisha University, Kyoto.
・Rupprecht, C. D. D. Subsist and thrive: caring for people and nature in post-growth urban Japan. World Social Science Forum2018 - CS1-03 Lifeworlds of Sustainability and Wellbeing in a Shrinking Japan, 2018.09.25-2018.09.28, Fukuoka
Convention Center, Fukuoka.
・Rupprecht, C. D. D., Kawai, A. Decolonizers of the imaginary: Future and past generations, non-humans and spiritual beings.
6th International Degrowth Conference, 2018.08.21-2018.08.25, Malmö.
・Rupprecht, C. D. D., Kawai, A. Decolonizers of the imaginary: Future and past generations, non-humans and spiritual beings.
First North-South Conference on Degrowth, 2018.09.03-2018.09.07, Mexico City.

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・Ma, Jia Metropolitan residents’ willingness to payment and factors affecting low-carbon agricultural products: an empiricalanalysis on low-carbon vegetables in Shanghai. 4th International Conference on Agricultural and Biological Sciences,
2018.06.26-2918.06.29, Hangzhou, China. Best Oral Presentation Award

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・Kobayashi, Mai and Takanori Oishi The informal food economy of Tsushima Island. World Social Science Forum 2018 CS4-07 Building a new food economy in Japan through sharing, collaboration, and commoning, 2018.09.25-2018.09.28,
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・Rupprecht, C. D. D., Mangnus, A., Vervoort, J., Kantamaturapoj, K., Ota, K., McGreevy, S., Taniguchi, Y. et al. Empoweringresidents to co-design their food systems: experimenting with future-oriented methods in Japan and Thailand. European
Association of Social Anthropologists Meeting, 2018.08.14-2018.08.17, Stockholm.
・Rupprecht, C. D. D., Oda, K., Tsuchiya, K., McGreevy, S. Urban agricultural land loss in Kyoto, Japan: human wellbeing
implications beyond food security. . RGS-IBG Annual Meeting, 2018.08.28-2018.08.31, Cardiff.
・Spiegelberg, Maximilian The new force of beekeeping is an old one: about hobby beekeepers in Japan. The 14th Asian
Apicultural Association Conference: Bees, Environment and Sustainability, 2018.10.22-2018.10.25, Jakarta, Indonesia.
・Spiegelberg, Maximilian Prospectus of the seminar. The 23rd RIHN Regional Community Seminar: Towards bee-friendly
cities - Co-creating urban futures, 2018.11.04, Nakagyo Ward Office, Kyoto.
・Spiegelberg, Maximilian, Christoph D. D. Rupprecht, Rika Shinkai and Jinchao Gan Trespassing foragers: Urban beekeeping
in Japan on a formal-informal gradient. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting 2018,2018.04.10-2018.04.14, New Orleans, Lousiana, USA.
・Spiegelberg, Maximilian, Christoph D. D. Rupprecht, Rika Shinkai and Jinchao Gan Honey bees in urban Kyoto—a revival
story? Bee super-highways and potential impact on urban agriculture. World Social Science Forum 2018 - CS3-02 The wild
food basket: recreating urban and rural ecosystems as food sources, 2018.09.25-2018.09.28, Fukuoka Convention Center,
Fukuoka.
・Tamura, Norie Light the fire of “Degrowth” –towards the transition of agrifood systems in Japan. The 6th International
Degrowth Conference in Malmö, 2018.08.21-2018.08.25, Malmö, Sweden.
・Tamura, Norie Wild food basket and rural revitalization. World Social Science Forum 2018 - CS3-02 The wild food basket:
recreating urban and rural ecosystems as food sources, 2018.09.25-2018.09.28, Fukuoka Convention Center, Fukuoka.
・Vervoort, Joost How can societal game design capacities contribute to anticipatory governance? Comparing the Netherlands
and Japan. World Social Science Forum 2018 - CS4-05 Using game-based methods for sustainability transformations :lessons from practice and theory, 2018.09.25-2018.09.28, Fukuoka Convention Center, Fukuoka.
【Poster Presentation】

・Watanabe, Kazuhito Estimation of Carbon Footprint Associated with Bonito Consumption. Ecobalance 2018（The 13th
Biennial International Conference on EcoBalance）, 2018.10.09-2018.10.12, KFC Hall & Rooms, Ryogoku, Tokyo.
・ Watanabe, Kazuhito & Kiyotaka Tahara Environmental burden of Japanese fishery. LCA FOOD 2018,2018.10.17-2018.10.19, The SUKOSOL BANGKOK, Bangkok, Thailand.
【Invited Lecture / Honorary Lecture / Panelist】

・McGreevy, Steven R. Special Symposium: Realizing Sustainable Food (Panelilst). Kyoto University International Symposium“Food & Sustainability”, 2018.10.29-2018.10.30, . DOI:Kyoto University Clock Tower Centennial Hall・Rupprecht, C. D. D. Residents’ appreciation and management preferences of informal green space across four major Japaneseshrinking cities. Japan Geoscience Union Annual Meetin 2018, 2018.05.20-2018.05.24, Makuhari Messe.
・Rupprecht, C. D. D. From residents' view of nature to more-than-human urban planning. Japanese Institute for LandscapeArchitecture, mini-forum Ecological Design of Urban Landscapes (pannelist), 2018.05.26-2018.05.27, Kyoto University. (inJapanese)・Rupprecht, C. D. D. Applying residents' views of informal greenspace to urban green design. 5th Research Meeting, Road
Ecology Research Society of Japan, 2018.06.09-2018.06.09, Tokyo. (in Japanese)
・Rupprecht, C. D. D. MC for Panel Discussion. The 23rd RIHN Regional Community Seminar: Towards bee-friendly cities Co-creating urban futures, 2018.11.04, Nakagyo Ward Office, Kyoto. (in Japanese)
・Rupprecht, C. D. D. Beyond anthropocentrism - Towards a multispecies concept of sustainability. RIHN-Peking University
Lectures, 2019.03.19, Beijing.
・Spiegelberg, Maximilian Honeybee Geographies: Exploring new productions of nature, space, knowledge, and power.
American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting 2018, 2018.04.10-2018.04.14, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
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Stage: Full Research
Project Name: The Sanitation Value Chain: Designing Sanitation Systems as Eco-Community-Value System
Project Leader: YAMAUCHI Taro
Program 3: Designing Lifeworlds of Sustainability and Wellbeing
Key Words: resources oriented sanitation; value chain○ Research Subject and Objectivesa) Problem, background, and objectives
Global environmental problem discussed in the project:
The word “sanitation” refers to the provision of facilities and services for the safe disposal and resource recovery of humanurine, feces, and wastewater. Sanitation is essential for promoting health, preventing environmental pollution, conserving
ecosystems, and recovering and recycling resources. Therefore, it can be said that sanitation is closely related to such current
global issues as poverty, urban slums, conservation of ecosystems, and resource management. In the developing world, thepopulation is growing rapidly, especially in urban slums, and there is high child mortality and poverty issues (see Supplementary
Fig. 0-1). It has been reported that as of 2015, 2.4 billion people were still using unimproved sanitation facilities, including 946
million people who were still practicing open defecation (UN, 2015). On the other hand, depopulation and aging are progressing,
especially in the rural parts of the developed world (see Supplementary Fig. 0-2), and the financial capabilities of municipalities,
who manage sanitation systems, are becoming weaker and weaker.
Key question of the project:
The questions “How can we handle the waste from 10 billion people in the future?” and “How can we achieve the water andsanitation targets in the sustainable development goals (SDGs)?” are global environmental problems that need to be solved.
Working hypothesis of the research:
Hypothesis-1: Current sanitation issues are caused by the dissociation between the value that they provide and the values ofindividual people and/or communities.
Hypothesis-2: Sanitation technologies cannot work well without a support system. The mismatch between the prerequisites oftechnologies and local characteristics makes sanitation issues more complicated.
Key concept - Sanitation value chain:
The project proposes a sanitation value chain, which entails the following basic policies: 1) Put the values of people andcommunities at the center of the discussion, and prepare a sanitation system to drive this value chain; 2) design the sanitation
system by focusing on direct incentives for individual users and communities; 3) recognize that a sanitation system is an
integrated system with social and technical units; and 4) design the sanitation system by making a good match between social
characteristics and the prerequisites of technologies.
Why a value chain?:
We strongly believe that 1) the planning and installation of infrastructures such as sanitation systems is nothing, but planning andinstalling a value chain, as shown in Supplemental Fig. 0-3, is more valuable; and 2) because of the weakening of municipalities,
the prerequisites of the current management model for water and sanitation systems will be no longer be met in the future.
b) Methodology
Four research steps to achieve the goal:
In Topic 1 (Life), field and literature surveys are performed to 1) analyze the values and happiness of people; 2) understandnorms relating to human excreta in the current situation, as well as historical changes; 3) re-evaluate the value of sanitation
systems; 4) analyze the mismatch between the prerequisites of sanitation technologies and the region-specific characteristics ofhumans and communities by gathering failed cases; 5) understand historical changes in the sanitation systems of target areas; and6) match the values of people and communities to the value provided by sanitation systems. In Topic 2 (Technology), four
research activities are planned: 1) Summarizing the prerequisites of sanitation technologies; 2) re-evaluating the value ofsanitation systems; 3) analyzing the mismatch between the prerequisites of sanitation technologies and the region-specificcharacteristics of humans and communities by gathering failed cases; and 4) developing required technologies. In Topic 3 (Cocreation), the following three steps will be adapted: 1) identifying stakeholders and understanding the structure of the values of

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people and communities using a field survey; 2) analyzing the hierarchy and structure of stakeholders’ value chain andevaluating their mutual affinity; and 3) developing the co-creation process. In Topic 4 (Visualization), the main activity isdeveloping visualization methods for our concept and research results using various media and techniques. We strongly
recognize the importance of visual images in the trans-disciplinary (TD) approach.
Field study:
The project will involve field studies in 1) the rural area of Ishikari River Basin, 2) rural and urban areas in Burkina Faso, 3) an
urban slum in Indonesia, and 4) an urban slum in Zambia.
c) Goals and Expected results
The goals of this research project are 1) to propose that a sanitation value chain is relevant to both developing and developed
countries; 2) to design several pilot studies demonstrating the significance of societal, academic, and professional involvement in
the co-creation of this value chain; and 3) to contribute to the establishment of a new interdisciplinary academic foundation
regarding sanitation. Examples of the sanitation value chain will be demonstrated and co-created at the pilot study sites.
d) Project organization and membership
For project management, a coordination group has been organized. Four research teams have also been organized.
e) Current status of research on resource oriented sanitation
Research groups in Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, Norway, and Finland are studying resource recovery-type sanitation. The
specialist groups of the International Water Association (IWA) jointly held an international conference (S2SMALL) in October
2017. Also, the topics of the 6th Dry Toilet conference (DT2018) held in August 2018 were as follows: research on the safe useof excreta and/or urine; social and cultural aspects of sustainable sanitation; sanitation and nutrient recycling in business; crossorganizational cooperation and co-creation; hi- and low-tech solutions in urban/rural environments; “ecosan” meets the waterfood-energy nexus; promoting sustainable sanitation and nutrient recycling among different stakeholders; and community
engagement. Seven members of the project including the leader, sub-leader, and core members contributed to DT2018. The four
research topics included in the project can make a big contribution to global research on sanitation.
Program 3 Goal
Our “lifeworlds” are composed of the physical spaces and socio-cultural spheres of our everyday lives. They are continually
reproduced, reimagined, and evolved through an interactive and reflexive relationship with society, culture, and nature. Program
3 proposes research aimed at illuminating the reciprocal linkages between diverse rural and urban lifeworlds and contributing tosolving sustainability problems by working with various societal partners such as governments, companies, and citizen groups.
Special emphasis is placed on envisioning sustainable futures that improve wellbeing and gauging their feasibility.
Contribution to Program 3
In the mission statement of Program 3, there is the following message: “Through the reconstruction of the lifeworld concept andby highlighting the reciprocal linkages between rural and urban spaces, Program 3 designs lifeworlds of sustainability andwellbeing and co-creates concrete pathways for their realization.” We think that sanitation is an essential system for lifeworlds.
Sanitation contributes to human public health, material/resource recycling by society, and environmental pollution/ecosystemmanagement. In our project, sanitation value chains for not only rural areas but also for urban areas are discussed. When it comesto the sanitation value chain for urban areas, we design material and value flows between rural and urban spaces.
Our Program 3 mission statement also says that “Pre-existing, yet latent, diverse socio-cultural elements, such as livelihood
styles, lay knowledge, conflict resolution strategies, and the vitality of the people themselves can be called upon to address
problems and help to chart a course toward possible future societies. Program 3 builds upon these experiences and knowledge ofhuman-nature interaction to propose concrete changes needed to achieve a sustainable society.” We could not succeed ininstalling a practical scale sanitation system in Burkina Faso as part of the SATREPS project, and we think that the reason forthis was the lack of analysis of the human and social aspects. In our project, we carefully examine the values of people andcommunities, as well as norms related to human excreta at our field sites.
The mission statement includes the following message: “Program 3 will not investigate top-down approaches to system change,
but will work with local residents, government officials, companies, citizen groups and other various stakeholders to propose
sustainable alternatives and gauge their feasibility.” The co-creation of a “sanitation value chain” is one of the important points
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Project Progress during the FR Period to Date
The international online journal “Sanitation Value Chain” was launched in November 2017. The ISSN is 2432-5066 (online) andthe journal web site is http://www.chikyu.ac.jp/sanitation_value_chain/journal.html. We established an international editorial
board of sanitation specialist from seven countries. The second volume of the journal was successfully issued in November 2018.
(2) Achievement-2: Holding and co-hosting 22 international and domestic conferences and workshops:
We organized 11 meetings each in 2017 and 2018 (Annex 2). Typical meetings include the Zambia Water Forum and Exhibition(ZAWAFE2017 and 2018), the International Symposium on Green Technology for Value Chains (GreenVC2017 and 2018),
Workshops on Science Communication, and the Indonesia & Philippine & Japan Joint International Seminars on Water andSanitation (Bandung, October 2017 and Manila, January 2019).
(3) Achievement-3: Conclusion of research agreement:
Implementation agreements (IAs) and research contracts (RCs) were concluded in accordance with the signing of MOUs between
the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) and RIHN, University of Zambia (Zambia) and RIHN, and AJPEE (Burkina Faso) and
RIHN.
(4) Achievement -4: Toilets that can concentrate urine:
In order to co-create a sanitation value chain for managing human urine in urban areas, transporting urine to rural farm land isessential. The technology required for transporting urine is volume reduction technology for cost reduction. As a technology toconcentrate urine, we examined the forward osmosis (FO) process this year. The results obtained were as follows: 1) The area ofthe forward osmotic membrane required to concentrate 1 L of urine is 55.6 cm2. This area is small enough to install the urine
concentration device in a toilet bowl. 2) It was shown that 78.6% of ammonia, 97.8% of potassium, and 99.6% of phosphate canbe recovered.
(5) Achievement -5: Toilets that can produce phosphorus fertilizer:
It was confirmed that the phosphorus in urine can be recovered directly from urine as calcium phosphate (DCPD) using shell as a
calcium source, and we clarified the reaction pathway and rate. Thus, by installing a simple shell-packed column in the urine
collection pipe of a toilet, it has become possible to make a toilet that produces phosphorus fertilizer. We set up a compost toilet
with a phosphorus recovery function at RIHN and started demonstration experiments from March 2018.
(6) Achievement-6: New method for analyzing exposure pathways of pathogens using molecular biology:
We developed a new method for analyzing the infection route from feces to people. In this method, pathogenic Escherichia coli
was separated and quantified using the PCR method, and the pathway was identified from the pathogenic Escherichia coli type.
As a result, it was found that the type of Escherichia coli in drinking water and in feces was different, as shown in Supplementary
Fig. 2-1, suggesting the importance of other sources of contamination such as livestock. Also, three prioritized exposure
pathways were identified: pond bathing, outdoor playing, and drinking,(7) Achievement-7: Evaluation of inactivation mechanism of virus during urine concentration:
The real-time qPCR method was applied to six target genome regions for monitoring MS2 (an indicator of virus) infectivity
during the urine concentration process, and we found that 1) uncharged ammonia is the predominant factor in MS2 inactivation,2) genome damage is the main mechanism of MS2 infectivity loss, and 3) MS2 infectivity loss in urine can be predicted by ion
composition and speciation.

Research Projects(1) Achievement – 1: The launch of an international journal on sanitation and publication of the second volume:

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We will contribute to the mission by aiming to design lifeworlds; showing solutions; proposing a social transition; realizing theco-creation of a sanitation value chain with diverse stakeholders; and establishing an academic foundation for sanitation. Our
program director, Dr. Saijo, has proposed the concept of “future design,” and he stresses the importance of a “virtual future
generation” in design. Our sanitation project has started the discussion on how to include the “virtual future generation” in thedesign process of a sanitation value chain.

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Salinity management of soil is essential when compost, urine, and reclaimed gray water are reused on farm land. A mathematicalsimulation model was developed for describing the fate of salts in a soil system, and the leaching requirement for removing salts
was evaluated using this model. The fate of pathogens in the soil system was evaluated, and the health risk to farm workers wasestimated.
(9) Achievement-9: Acceptability of the sanitation system was evaluated from the technical side:
We conducted a survey on a new prototype model of a composting type toilet at the LIPI and a mosque in Sapporo. The results
were as follows: 1) Half of the people answered that the bad smell was a point to be checked; 2) 70% of respondents worried
about excreta sticking to the toilet bowl; 3) the new-type toilet was acceptable; and 4) 70% were unsatisfied with its size and 40%
felt discomfort when sitting on the toilet seat, feeling like they might fall into the hole. We also conducted a survey on dewatereddigested sludge for use as a soil conditioner in Iwamizawa, Japan.
(10) Achievement-10: Visualization of research:
1) The video “Samurai-kun Sanitation Value Chain” (Indonesian version) was produced and screened at Bandung in 2017. In
2018, the video was revised and screened at a junior high school and among flower farmers in Bandung. The Japanese version
was screened at RIHN’s Open House event; 2) the playlist of SVC video archives has been opened up to the public on YouTube.
Eight presentation videos have been distributed. 3) Original toilet paper was produced as a promotional item for the project using
illustrations to make our research concept visible. 4) We participated in RIHN’s project on visualization of state-of-the-art
research.
(11) Achivement-11: Intensive fieldwork at field sites:
Indonesia site: 1) Health of infants and their fecal management by caretakers; 2) norms, consciousness, and values relating tohuman waste; 3) mental health and living conditions of urban slum dwellers; and 4) presentation of research results at aninternational conference (GreenVC2018).
Ishikari site: 1) Design of a water source management system coordinated with local high schools and local governments and its
demonstration; 2) technology packages suitable for regional autonomous water supply (membrane treatment, sensor rings, data
handling) installed locally, data collection; 3) interviewed the Furano city water supply and sewer division on the issue of septictank management.
Burkina Faso site: 1) Conducted surveys on the private sector’s removal of sludge from households in the capital city and rural
areas, revealing that the number of private companies was rapidly increasing in the capital city, whereas in rural areas, a few
workers independently removed the sludge by developing manual techniques through their own efforts; 2) concluded an MOU,
IA, and RC with a local non-governmental organization (NGO).
Zambia site: 1) Implemented a session and an exhibition booth at ZAWAFE2018; 2) conducted field surveys and held
workshops; 3) based on MOU, concluded IA and RC with the Integrated Water Resource Management of the University ofZambia.
Progress since the last reporting(1) Achievement 1: Overall achievements of the project:
1) Reviewed the concepts of the “sanitation value chain,” conventional “value chain analysis,” and “value flow analysis” toexamine the methodology to co-create value chains with local stakeholders. Consequently, constructed a framework consisting of
three values (health and well-being, materials, and socio-culture). 2) Published the second volume of the international journal
Sanitation Value Chain. 3) Published an academic book (“Resources Oriented Agro-Sanitation Systems,” by Springer). 4) Held(including co-hosting) international and national conferences (11 in total). 5) Based on MOU with the University of Zambia, IA
and RC were concluded. Also, concluded MOU, IA, and RC with an NGO in Burkina Faso.
(2) Achievement 2: Historical changes in sanitation problems in India:
A cultural anthropologist who had been studying Dalits (Untouchables), scavengers in India, joined our project. Her study,
published in our journal, revealed the historical process of the development of low-cost flush toilets in contemporary India, as apart of the “liberation of manual scavengers,” led by Gandhi and his followers (Gandhians). While Gandhi attempted to focus on
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eradicate untouchability, the Gandhians intended to change the structure of toilets so that one could not look at his own dirt. In
that process, modern sanitation discourse spread to the public and it was related to discrimination.

(4) Achievement 4: Value chain co-creation scheme:
In order to know how the co-creation of a sanitation value chain can be achieved, 1) in Ishikari river basin, we analyzed thecurrent value chain of the community-based water management system, and conducted some trials with related local actors,
including high school students, to co-create a new value chain for a community-based water management system. This process
seems to be applicable to the co-creation of a sanitation value chain. 2) In Indonesia, we discussed with candidate actors asanitation value chain trial in Bandung city, and we revealed their motivations, requirements, and concerns. The actors included
garbage collectors, farmer, agri-business companies, religious educators, etc.
(5) Achievement 5: Visualization of the research:
1) The video “Samurai-kun Sanitation Value Chain” (Indonesian version) was revised and screened at Smp negeri 1 lembang (ajunior high school in Lembang, Bandung) and flower farms in Lembang, Bandung; 2) The playlist of SVC video archives has
been opened up to the public on YouTube. Eight presentation videos have been distributed; 3) we produced original toilet paper
as a promotional item using illustrations to visualize our concept.
Most Notable Outputs to DateAward
1.
Ito R, Funamizu N: The best paper award: The full authors are Guizani M, Yajima K, Kawaguchi T, Ito R, Funamizu N.
The title of the paper is Morphological, chemical and Electro chemical carbon based and novel metal electrode characterization
for use in water electrochemical disinfection, 1st Euro-Mediterranean Conference for Environmental Integration, November
22-25, 2017, Sousse, Tunisia.
2.
Funamizu N: Environment Reconstruction and Recycling Bureau Director Award, Ministry of the Environment. October
10, 2017.
3.

Funamizu N: Hokkaido Social Contribution Award, Hokkaido Government. August 4, 2018.

External fund
4.
Ushijima K: Title: Transition to regional autonomous next-generation type water infrastructure management system.
Source: The Cabinet Office "Strategic Innovation Creation Program (SIP)" "Infrastructure Maintenance / Update / Management
Technology" (JST Management, Period: from September, 2016 to March, 2019).
Journal publication
5.
The international scientific journals “Sanitation Value Chain” ISSN 2432-5058 (print), ISSN 2432-5066 (online). Editor inchief: Yamauchi T. Vol. 1 and Vol. 2. (http://www.chikyu.ac.jp/sanitation_value_chain/journal.html)
Videos/Photographic Works
6.
Sanitation Education Program (Free lecture series), SVC Video Archives on ‘YouTube’. (https://www.youtube.com/
channel/UCcDLZXSBauZWQSGE29x7lYg). (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP5lF0CgqTWUqv9nUKE_R8A/playlists)
Symposia/Conferences/Workshops (Organized or Co-organized)
7.
The International Symposium on Green Technology for Value Chains. The first symposium: 3-5 October, 2016, the second
symposium October 23-24, 2017, Jakarta, Indonesia.
8.
Zambia Water Forum and Exhibition (ZAWAFE) 2017, RIHN project session, 12 June 2017, RIHN project session andDziko Langa booth, 12 June 2018, Lusaka, Zambia.

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The urine concentration process is important as it can increase the value of urine by reducing transportation and application costs.
We developed a urine concentration system using the FO process; it showed a five-fold concentration of urine. In this year, weinvestigated 1) the diffusivity of ammonia in the solutions through the FO membrane and 2) the fouling of the membrane withrepetitive concentrations of urine. As a result, we found the diffusivity depends on pH and the repetition of urine concentration
caused fouling by scale generation and absorption of saccharides into the membrane.

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9. International workshop for Sanitation Value Chain 2019 in Philippine “Social Acceptance of New Technology”. 26 January
2019, De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines.
Book
10.
Funamizu N (ed.) (2018) Resource-Oriented Agro-sanitation Systems: Concept, Business Model, and Technology.
Springer Japan, Tokyo, 314pp.
Academic Papers
11.
Ushijima K., Funamizu N, Nabeshima T, Hijikata N, Ito R, Sou M, Maiga AM, Sintawardani N (2015) The Postmodern
Sanitation - Agro-sanitation Business Model as a New Policy -, Water Policy, 17(2); 283-298. DOI:10.2166/wp.2014.093
12.
Hijikata N, Tezuka R, Kazama S, Otaki M, Ushijima K, Ito R, Okabe S, Sano D, Funamizu N (2016) Bactericidal andvirucidal mechanisms in the alkaline disinfection of compost using calcium lime and ash, Journal of Environmental Management,
Journal of Environmental Management, Vol.181, 721-727. DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2016.08.026
13.
Ito R, Funamizu N (2016) Phosphate Recovery from synthetic Urine with shell of Mizuhopecten Yessoensis, Journal of
Water and Environment Technology, 14(6), 437-446 .
14.
Ito R, Tanie M, Ushijima K, Nilawati D, Sintawardani N, Funamizu N (2017) Evaluation of acceptance of a composting
toilet prototype for people in slum area in Indonesia, Desalination and Water Treatment. DOI: 10.5004/dwt.2017.20880
15.
Otsuka Y, Agestika L, Widyarani, Sintawardani N, Yamauchi T (2018) Risk factor for undernutrition and diarrhea
prevalence in an urban slum in Indonesia: Focus on water, sanitation, and hygiene. American Journal of Tropical Medicine andHygiene, 100(3):727-732. DOI:10.4269/ajtmh.18-0063○Project Members○ FUNAMIZU Naoyuki○ IKEMI Mayu

( Muroran Institute of Technology,Director / Vice president,Sanitation Technology )( Graduate School of Economics and Business Administration, Hokkaido University,Assistantprofessor,Sanitation & Life )○ ITO Ryusei( Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University,Assistant professor,Sanitation Technology )○ USHIJIMA Ken( Hokkaido Research Organization,Research chief,Co-creation of Value Chain )○ KATAOKA Yoshimi ( Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University,Technical staff,Visualization )○ SANO Daisuke( School of Engineering, Tohoku University,Associate professor,Sanitation Technology )○ NAKATANI Tomoaki ( Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University,Associate professor,Sanitation & Life )○ NABESHIMA Takako ( Research Faculuty of Media and Communication, Hokkaido University,Professor,Sanitation &Life )○ HARADA Hidenori( Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University,Assistant professor,Sanitation
Technology )○ FUJIWARA Taku
( Research and Education Faculty, Natural Sciences Cluster, Agriculture Unit, Kochi
University,Professor,Sanitation Technology )○ HAYASHI Koji
( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Researcher,Sanitation & Life )○ NAKAO Seiji( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Senior Researcher,Sanitation & Life )INOUE Takashi( Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University,Professor,Co-creation of Value Chain )SEKIMOTO Koichi( Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University,Grauduate student,Co-creation of Value
Chain )SHIMIZU Takao( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Researcher,Sanitation & Life )HAKOYAMA Fumiko ( Fuji Women's University,Lecturer,Sanitation & Life )OKOSHI Ango
( Hokkaido Research Organization,Research chief,Sanitation Technology )KUSUDA Tetsuya( Advanced Institute, Kyushu University,Senior Adviser,Sanitation Technology )FUJII Shigeo( Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University,Professor,Sanitation
Technology )WATANABE Kazuo ( Enter for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University,Affiliated Associate Professor,Sanitation
Technology )NISHI Makoto( Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University,Associate
Professor,Sanitation & Life )KAKUI Hironori( Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University,Technical staff,Visualization )HASEGAWA Yoshiki ( Hokkaido Research Organization,Researcher,Co-Creation of Value Chain )AKAO Satoshi( Faculty of Science and Engineering, Doshisha University,Associate Professor,Sanitation
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TOKUDA Kohei
SHIGEI Makoto
OTSUKA Yumiko
MASUKI Yui

Lina AGESTIKA
CHUA Min Li

GUIZANI Mokhtar
Neni Sintawadani
HAMIDAH Umi
Widyarani
Aswatini Manaf
Carolina
Syam Surya
Rizkiana Restu Utami
Imasiku Anayawa
NYAMBE
Joseph Zulu
( University of Zambia,Lecturer,Sanitation Technology )Amadou Hama MAIGA ( International Institute of Water and Environmental Engineering,Professor,Sanitation Technology )Lopez Zavala Miguel ( Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey,Professor,Sanitation Technology )Angel
Aileen ORBECIDO( DE LA SALLE UNIVERSITY,Associate Professor,Sanitation Technology )Marlon ERA( DE LA SALLE UNIVERSITY,Associate Professor,Sanitation & Life )Diana Rahayuning( Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI),Researcher,Sanitation Technology )WULAN
Nilawati DEWI
( Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI),Researcher,Sanitation Technology )Joseph WETHE( The University of Ouagadougou New Dawn,Professor,Sanitation Technology )Benedicte NIKIEMA ( Sanitation Technology )INOUE Takao( Hokkaido University,Assistant Professor,Sanitation & Life )OISHI Wakana( Tohoku Univerisuty,phD student,Sanitation Technology )SAI Akira( Hokkaido University,Research Fellow,Co-creation of Value Chain )ENDO Takahiro( Hokkaido University,Master Student,Co-creation of Value Chain )Hermes DINALA( Hokkaido University,Graduate School Student,Sanitation & Life )○ Future Themes(1) Four Research Topics to achieve the goals
The project is proposing a new concept, a sanitation value chain, which has the following basic policies: 1) Put the values ofpeople and communities at the center of the discussion, and prepare a sanitation system to drive this value chain; 2) design thesanitation system by focusing on direct incentives for individual users and communities; 3) recognize that a sanitation system isan integrated system with social and technical units; 4) design the sanitation system by making a good match between the social
characteristics and prerequisites of technologies. Accordingly, the goals of this research project are to 1) propose the concept of asanitation value chain as relevant to both developing and developed countries; 2) design several pilot studies to demonstrate thesignificance of societal, academic, and professional involvement in the co-creation of this value chain; and 3) contribute to theestablishment of a new interdisciplinary academic foundation regarding sanitation. In order to achieve the goals, we will adopt
four points of view (Topics 1, 2, 3, and 4).
In Topic 1(Life), the following six research activities are planned: (1-1) Field survey for analyzing people’s values andhappiness; (1-2) field and literature survey on norms related to human excreta in current contexts as well as historical changes;(1-3) field and literature survey to re-evaluate the value of sanitation systems; (1-4) field and literature survey to analyze the

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HONNA Saki
KIMURA Ayako
Sikopo P NYAMBERIHNMIFUNE Rin( Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University,Technical staff,Visualization )( Graduate School of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University,Master Student,Sanitation Technology )( Graduate School of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University,Doctoral Student,Co-creation of Value
Chain )( Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University,JSPS Research
Fellow,Sanitation & Life )( Graduate School of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University,Grauduate student,Co-creation of Value
Chain )( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Research associate,Visualization )( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Research associate,Visualization )( Graduate School of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University,Doctoral Student,Co-creation of Value
Chain )( Graduate School of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University,Grauduate student,Co-creation of Value
Chain )( Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University,Doctoral Student,Sanitation
Technology )( Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University,Assistant professor,Sanitation Technology )( Research Unit for Clean Technology, LIPI, Indonesia,Senior Researcher,Sanitation Technology )( Research Unit for Clean Technology, LIPI, Indonesia,Researcher,Sanitation Technology )( Research Unit for Clean Technology, LIPI, Indonesia,Researcher,Sanitation Technology )( Research Unit for Clean Technology, LIPI, Indonesia,Professor,Sanitation & Life )( Research Unit for Clean Technology, LIPI, Indonesiav,Senior researcher,Sanitation Technology )( University of Surya,Lecturer,Sanitation & Life )( Polteknik Kesehatan Bandung,Research assistant,Sanitation & Life )( University of Zambia,Professor,Sanitation Technology )76
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mismatch between the prerequisites of sanitation technologies and the region-specific characteristics of humans and communities
by gathering failed cases; (1-5) field and literature survey on historical changes in sanitation systems of target areas; and (1-6)
matching the values of people and communities to the value provided by sanitation systems.
In Topic 2 (Technology), the following four research activities are planned: (2-1) Literature survey on the prerequisites ofsanitation technologies; (2-2) field and literature survey on the prerequisites of sanitation technologies by gathering successstories; (2-3) field and literature survey to re-evaluate the value of sanitation systems; and (2-4) field and literature survey toanalyze the mismatch between the prerequisites of sanitation technologies and region-specific characteristics of humans andcommunities by gathering failed cases.
In Topic 3 (Co-creation), the following four activities are planned: (3-1) Identifying stakeholders and understanding the structureof the values of people and communities; (3-2) analyzing the hierarchy and structure of stakeholders’ value chain and evaluating
their affinity; (3-3) developing the co-creation process; and (3-4) demonstrating the co-creation of a sanitation value chain.
In Topic 4 (Visualization), we will develop a transmission method using various media and methods related to our concept andresearch results. We strongly recognize the importance of visual images as one way to express the outcome.
(2) Fields
The project involves field studies in 1) a rural area in Ishikari River Basin, 2) a rural area in Burkina Faso, 3) an urban slum inIndonesia, and 4) an urban slum in Zambia.
(3) Activities in 2019
Topic 1 Life group:
1) Fieldwork by cultural anthropologists in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, and India; 2) analysis of questionnaire survey on norms
related to human excreta in Japan, Indonesia, and Burkina Faso; and 3) a theoretical study on the notion of value for comparison.
Topic 2 Technology group:
1) Analysis of prerequisites and material flow of sanitation technologies; 2) developing new methodology for identifying
exposure pathways of pathogens; 3) analysis of Sanitation value chain of wastewater treatment and sludge reuse for agriculture in
Ishikari; and 4) developing new sanitation technologies with different prerequisites (disinfection method for solids, nutrient
recovery from urine).
Topic 3 Co-creation group:1) Conducting trial of co-creation process with actors who may relate to the sanitation value chains in Indonesia and Hokkaido;
2) analyzing the findings from the co-creation experience from three value viewpoints; and 3) proposing several crude models of
the approach and methodology for sanitation value chain co-creation.
Topic 4 Visualization group:
1) Prototyping a short concept video utilizing the characteristics of several image expressions; 2) archiving video of events forthe sake of sharing information among researchers in remote areas; and 3) conducting a qualitative survey of science
communication aiming for concept visualization in transdisciplinary research among researchers in different disciplines.
Indonesia team:
Based on the team’s aim of developing a mechanism for a sanitation value chain for the local residents in the slums and suburbsof Bandung city, we have conducted field surveys with potential participants who can be players in the demonstration of thesanitation value chain. In 2019, we will 1) select a specific target area and community as the pilot site for co-creating a sanitation
value chain, 2) decide which sanitation technology should be introduced experimentally to the pilot site, and 3) make concreteplans for the following questions on co-creating a sanitation value chain: “How can the players utilize sanitation technology suchas composting toilets?,” “How can they collect and transport human feces and urine?,” and “How are they able to gain economic
and non-economic benefits by using compost fertilizer?”
Ishikariteam:
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will 1) analyze our co-creation experience and propose a water management system in light of the structure of the problem, theprocess to reach a solution, and the arrangement of real activities to drive the system; 2) make a plan for the co-creation of asanitation value chain on the basis of that analysis; and 3) conduct some trials on the co-creation.

Zambia team:In the Peri urban area of Lusaka city, it has been necessary to both raise the awareness of residents and pursue sanitation
improvement. In FY 2019, we plan to 1) begin preparation for building a business model through the co-creation process withlocal children and a youth group called ‘Dziko Langa (my community),’ who will be the main body and will continue theactivities. 2) We will investigate the correlation between sanitation and health damage (e.g., cholera outbreaks in the rainyseason) by aiming to identify the source and pathway of infection by investigating the sanitary environment.

●Achievements○Books【Authored/Co-authored】

・Mangané IK (in collaboration with Nakao S) 2018,12 La mémoire d‘El Hadj Beinké Souleymane Mangané. ResearchInstitute for Humanity and Nature, kyoto, Japan, 152pp. (in French)【Chapters/Sections】

・Do K, Harada H, Saizen I 2018,08 Enhancement of biogas production from anaerobic digestion of disintegrated sludge: atechno-economic assessment for sludge management of wastewater treatment plants in Vietnam. Chan HY & Sopian K (ed.)
Renewable energy in developing countries: local development and techno-economic aspects. Green Energy and Technology.
Springer. DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-89809-4○Editing【Editing / Co-editing】

・Yamauchi T et. al. (ed.) 2018,11 . Sanitation Value Chain, 2(1). Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, 54pp.
・Funamizu N (ed.) 2018,07 Resource-Oriented Agro-sanitation Systems: Concept, Business Model, and Technology. Springer
Japan, Tokyo, 314pp.
○Papers【Original Articles】

・Tsuyoshi Kato, Ayano Kobayashi, Wakana Oishi, Syun-suke Kadoya, Satoshi Okabe, Naoya Ohta, Mohan Amarasiri,
Daisuke Sano 2019,03 Sign-constrained linear regression for prediction of microbe concentration based on water quality
datasets. Journal of Water and Health. (reviewed). Accepted・Mokhtar Guizani, Megumi Saito, Ryusei Ito, Naoyuki Funamizu 2019,03 Combined FO and RO system for the recovery ofenergy from wastewater and the desalination of seawater. Desalination and Water Treatment. (reviewed). Accepted・ Mokhtar Guizani, Takeru Maeda, Ryusei Ito, Naoyuki Funamizu 2019,03 Engineering of size-controlled magnetic
nanoparticles for use as draw solution in forward osmosis process. Desalination and Water Treatment. (reviewed). Accepted・Yumiko Otsuka, Lina Agestika, Widyarani, Neni Sintawardani, Taro Yamauchi 2019,01 Risk factor for undernutrition anddiarrhea prevalence in an urban slum in Indonesia: Focus on water, sanitation, and hygiene. American Journal of Tropical
Medicine and Hygiene 100(3):727-732. DOI:10.4269/ajtmh.18-0063 (reviewed).

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1) Interviews with a president and workers at private company who remove fecal sludge in an urban area (Ouagadougou),
especially regarding their areas of activity and their development; 2) interviews with workers engaged in the removal of fecal
sludge in a rural area (Kongoussi), especially regarding the cultural aspects of their activities and their historical development; 3)preparation of workshop about sanitation and compost from human excreta for local NGOs and residents at the pilot farm, where
the use of compost from human excreta has already been introduced with our project’s cooperation in a rural area (Kongoussi).
Regarding these activities, we will study the cultural and social aspects of fecal sludge management in Burkina Faso.

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・Syun-suke Kadoya, Daisuke Sano 2019,01 Assays for specific growth rate and cell-binding ability of rotavirus. Journal of
Visualized Experiments 143:E58821. DOI:10.3791/58821 (reviewed). accepted・Wutyi NAING, Hidenori HARADA, Shigeo FUJII, Chaw Su Su HMWE 2018,12 Nitrogen and phosphorus flow analysis
with focus on anthoropogenic organic wastes: a case study in Mandalay, Myanmar. Doboku Gakkai Ronbun-shu G(Environment) 74(7):III_367-III_374. (reviewed).
・Yui MASUKI 2018,11 Historical Development of Low-Cost Flush Toilets in India: Gandhi, Gandhians, and “Liberation of
Scavengers”. Sanitation Value Chain 2(1):3-26. DOI:10.20568/00002638 (reviewed).
・Hasegawa J, Suzuki H, Yamauchi T 2018,11 Impact of season on the association between muscle strength/volume andphysical activity among community-dwelling elderly people living in snowy-cold regions. Journal of Physiological
Anthropology 37:25. DOI:10.1186/s40101-018-0186-6 (reviewed).
・ Yumiko OTSUKA, Ken USHIJIMA, Mayu IKEMI, Dewi NILAWATI, Neni SINTAWARDANI, Taro YAMAUCHI
2018,11 Mapping of water, sanitation, hygiene and child health in an urban slum of Indonesia. Sanitation Value Chain 2(1):27-37. DOI:10.20568/00002639 (reviewed).
・Sikopo NYAMBE, Koji HAYASHI, Joseph ZULU, Taro YAMAUCHI 2018,11 Water, Sanitation, Hygiene, Health and Civic
Participation of Children and Youth in Peri-Urban Communities: An Overview of Lusaka, Zambia. Sanitation Value Chain
2(1):39-54. DOI:10.20568/00002640 (reviewed).
・Zorica Srdjevic, Naoyuki Funamizu, Bojan Srdjevic and Ratko Bajčetić 2018,10 Public Participation in Water Managementof Krivaja River, Serbia: Understanding the Problem through Grounded Theory Methodology. Water Resources
Management:1-12. DOI:10.1007/s11269-018-2132-0 (reviewed).
・Timothy R. Julian, Hasitha S.K. Vithanage, Min Li Chua, Matasaka Kuroda, Ana K. Pitol, Pham Hong Lien Nguyen, Robert
A. Canales, Shigeo Fujii, Hidenori Harada 2018,09 High time-resolution simulation of E. coli on hands reveals large
variation in microbial exposures amongst Vietnamese farmers using human excreta for agriculture. Science of The Total
Environment(635):120-131. DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.04.100 (reviewed).
・Mai Tanaka, Hidenori Harada, Shigeo Fujii, Min Li Chua, Nguyen Duy Hung, Nguyen Pham Hong Lien, Nghiem Trung
Dung, Ryota Gomi 2018,09 Fecal contamination and the proportion of human-associated E.coli along Nhue river, Viet Nam.
Vietnam Journal of Science and Technology 56(2C):23-29. (reviewed).
・Nagahori C, Kinjo Y, Vodounon AJ, Alao MJ, Padounou Batossi G, Hounkpatin B, Amoule Houenassi E, Yamauchi T
2018,09 Possible effect of maternal safe food preparation behavior on child malnutrition in Benin, Africa. Pediatrics
International 2018(60):875-881. DOI:10.1111/ped.13656 (reviewed).
・Taisuke Takayama, Atsushi Horibe and Tomoaki Nakatani 2018,09 Women and farmland preservation: The impact ofwomen’s participation in farmland management governance in Japan. Land Use Policy(77):116-125.
・Taisuke Takayama, Hirotaka Matsuda and Tomoaki Nakatani 2018,07 The determinants of collective action in irrigation
management systems: Evidence from rural communities in Japan. Agricultural Water Management(206):113-123.
・M. Tanaka, H. Harada, S. Fujii, M. Chua, H. Nguyen, L. Nguyen, D. Nghiem, R. Gomi 2018,07 Source identification ofEscherichia coli by using a Human-associated genetic marker: A case study in Nhue River, Vietnam. Proceedings of the 27th
Joint KAIST-KU-NTU-NUS Symposium on Environmental Engineering(27):118. DOI:124・Min Li Chua, Hidenori Harada, Shigeo Fujii, Md. Nazmul Ahsan, Akira Sakai, Michiya Kodera, Shotaro Goto, Shohagi Rani
Saha 2018,07 Multi-pathway fecal exposure assessment on total and human specific E. coli in a Bangladeshi slum.
Proceedings of the 27th Joint KAIST-KU-NTU-NUS Symposium on Environmental Engineering(27):110-117.
・Hidenori Harada, Yuji Fujimori, Ryota Gomi, Md. Nazmul Ahsan, Shigeo Fujii, Akira Sakai, Tomonari Matsuda 2018,06
Pathotyping of Escherichia coli isolated from community toilet wastewater and stored drinking water in a slum in
Bangladesh. Letters in Applied Microbiology. DOI:10.1111/lam.12878 (reviewed).
・Eisuke Ito, Takaaki Sato, Daisuke Sano, Etsuko Utagawa, Tsuyoshi Kato 2018,06 Virus particle detection by convolutional
neural network in transmission electron microscopy images. Food and Environmental Virology 10(2):201-208. DOI:10.1007/
s12560-018-9335-7 (reviewed).
・M. Ikemi, K. Ushijima, Y. Otsuka, T. Yamauchi, D. Nilawati, D. R. Wulan, and N. Sintawardani 2018,06 Economic situationof value chain actors in urban slums of Bandung: A case of Kiaracondong. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental
Science 160(012019). (reviewed).
・Eiji Haramoto, Masaaki Kitajima, Akihiko Hata, Jason R. Torrey, Yoshifumi Masago, Daisuke Sano, Hiroyuki Katayama
2018,05 A review on recent progress in the detection methods and prevalence of human enteric viruses in water. Water
Research(135):168-186. DOI:10.1016/j.watres.2018.02.004 (reviewed).

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・Mamoru Oshiki, Takayuki Miura, Shinobu Kazama, Takahiro Segawa, Satoshi Ishii, Masashi Hatamoto, Takashi Yamaguchi,
Kengo Kubota, Akinori Iguchi, Tadashi Tagawa, Tsutomu Okubo, Shigeki Uemura, Hideki Harada, Naohiro Kobayashi,Nobuo Araki, Daisuke Sano 2018,04 Microfluidic PCR amplification and MiSeq amplicon sequencing techniques for highthroughput detection and genotyping of human pathogenic RNA viruses in human feces, sewage, and oysters. Frontiers in
Microbiology(9):830. DOI:10.3389/fmicb.2018.00830 (reviewed).
・Andri Taruna Rachmadi, Masaaki Kitajima, Kozo Watanabe, Sakiko Yaegashi, Joeselle Serrana, Arata Nakamura, Toyoko
Nakagomi, Osamu Nakagomi, Kazuhiko Katayama, Satoshi Okabe, Daisuke Sano 2018 Free chlorine disinfection as aselection pressure on norovirus. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. DOI:10.1128/AEM.00244-18 (reviewed).
(accepted)

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・Wang P, Hao M, Han W, Yamauchi T 2018 Factors associated with nutritional status and motor development among young
children in suburban Northeast China. Nursing & Health Sciences. (reviewed). in press

Research Projects○Research Presentations【Oral Presentation】

・ Hidenori Harada Excreta and sanitary wastewater management in Asian and African countries. Special Seminar on
Environmental Engineering, 2019.03.27, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
・Taro Yamauchi Designing Sanitation Systems as Eco-Community-Value System. A Seminar of "Dialogue of Indigeneity:
Perspectives from Archaeology and Anthropology", 2019.03.21-2019.03.22, University of Oxford, UK.
・Hermes Dinala, Atupelye Komba, Sikopo Nyambe Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Urban South, East Africa. Seminar on
JAAS Hokkaido Branch, 2019.02.08, Hokkaido University, Sapporo.
・Sikopo Nyambe Dziko Langa: Action Research study in peri-urban Lusaka, Zambia. Seminar on JAAS Hokkaido Branch,2019.02.08, Hokkaido University, Sapporo.
・ Ikuo Kato, Mohan Amarasiri, Daisuke Sano Model development of natural decay of waterborne viruses in water
environments. Tohoku University Environmental Studies Seminar 2018 in Institut Teknologi Bandung, 2018.12.19, Institut
Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia.
・Ken Ushijima Value flow analysis approach for local water management system. 3rd International Symposium on GreenTechnology for Value Chains 2018, 2018.11.01-2018.11.02, Tangerang, Indonesia.
・Mayu Ikemi The Effect of Government Projects on Water Supply Improvement and Local Residents’Efforts : A Case Studyof Rural Senegal. 3rd International Symposium on Green Technology for Value Chains 2018, 2018.11.01-2018.11.02,
Tangerang, Indonesia.
・Taro Yamauchi Influence of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) on child health in an urban slum of Indonesia. 3rd
International Symposium on Green Technology for Value Chains 2018, 2018.11.01-2018.11.02, Tangerang, Indonesia.
・Khac-Uan Do, Hidenori Harada, Izuru Saizen Application of sludge disintegration to improve biogas production from sludge
wasted from wastewater treatment plants in Vietnam. The 3rd International Symposium on Conservation and Management of
Tropical Lakes, 2018.09.27-2018.09.28, Phnom Penh.
・Ken Ushijima, Naoyuki Funamizu, Taro Yamauchi Water and Sanitation System For A Shrinking Society. World Social
Science Forum 2018, 2018.09.25-2018.09.28, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
・Syun-suke Kadoya, Syun-ichi Urayama, Takuro Nunoura, Masaaki Kitajima, Satoshi Okabe, Toyoko Nakagomi, Osamu
Nakagomi, Daisuke Sano Neutral evolution rate of rhesus rotavirus. 13th International dsRNA Virus Symposium,
2018.09.24-2018.09.28, Houffalize, Belgium.
・Daisuke Sano Wastewater reclamation/reuse and antimicrobial resistance. Workshop for the Global Water Pathogen Project
and WHO: The Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance and Water Environment, IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition
2018, 2018.09.16-2018.09.20, Tokyo Big Sight, Tokyo, Japan.
・Mohan Amarasiri, Masaaki Kitajima, Satoshi Okabe, Daisuke Sano Contribution of specific interactions between humanenteric viruses and wastewater solids on virus removal. Technical Session for Water Reclamation for Non-potable Reuse,
IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition 2018, 2018.09.16-2018.09.20, Tokyo Big Sight, Tokyo, Japan.
・Tim Julian, Hasitha S. K. Vithanage, Min Li Chua, Masataka Kuroda, Ana K. Pitol, Pham Hong Lien Nguyen, Robert
Canales, Shigeo Fujii, Harada Hidenori High time-resolution simulation of E. coli on Vietnamese farmers' hands based onvideography and environmental microbial sampling. Annual congress of the Swiss Society for Microbiology 2018,2018.08.28, Lausanne.

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・Nyambe S, Hayashi K, Zulu J, Yamauchi T The image of peri-urban sanitation and health through the eyes of the young:
Understanding community sanitation and health in Lusaka, Zambia. Dry Toilet Conference 2018, 2018.08.22-2018.08.24,
Hiedanranta, Tampere, Finland.
・Guizani Mokhtar, Hassan Hamidah, Nikiema Benedicte Carolle, Ito Ryusei, Funamizu Naoyuki Ammonia Diffusion througha semipermeable membrane during Forward osmosis process. Dry Toilet Conference 2018, 2018.08.22-2018.08.24,
Hiedanranta, Tampere, Finland.
・Haruna Onodera, Ryusei Ito, Naoyuki Funamizu, Koichi Yamaki, Takayoshi Konishi Inactivation of SAP in disposable
diapers by acid solutions. Dry Toilet Conference 2018, 2018.08.22-2018.08.24, Hiedanranta, Tampere, Finland.
・ Takato Matsuda, Ryusei Ito, Guizani Mokhtar, Naoyuki Funamizu Foulant analysis of FO membrane used for urine
concentration. Dry Toilet Conference 2018, 2018.08.22-2018.08.24, Hiedanranta, Tampere, Finland.
・Ken Ushijima, Dewi Nilawati, Diana Rahayuning Wulan, Jovita Tri Astuti, Neni Sintawardani, Mayu Ikemi, Naoyuki
Funamizu Comprehensive approach for improvement of living environment in urban slum of Indonesia – Analysis on urban
metabolism and its harmonization with people ’ s value system. Dry Toilet Conference 2018, 2018.08.22-2018.08.24,
Hiedanranta, Tampere, Finland.
・Hidenori Harada, Doris A. Mchwampaka, Shigeo Fujii Long-term acceptability of urinediversion toilets in rural Malawi. Dry
Toilet Conference 2018, 2018.08.22-2018.08.24, Hiedanranta, Tampere, Finland.
・Ryusei Ito, Minami Fujioka, Naoyuki Funamizu Production of nitrogen and potassium fertilizers from liquid waste of cattle
barns. Dry Toilet Conference 2018, 2018.08.22-2018.08.24, Hiedanranta, Tampere, Finland.
・Koji HAYASHI, Seiji NAKAO and Taro YAMAUCHI Defecation without toilets - Toward the study of sanitation activities
in the hunter-gatherers. The Twelfth International Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies (CHAGS 12),2018.07.23-2018.07.27, The School of Social Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia.
・Taro Yamauchi Co-Creating the Sanitation Value Chain: Designing Sanitation Systems as Eco-Community-Value Systems.
International Conference Society for Human Ecology, 2018.07.07-2018.07.10, Lisbon, Portgal.
・Takao SHIMIZU The Process for Co-Created Technology for Combat Desertification: Collaboration of African Farmers andJapanese Scientists. 30th annual Meeting, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, 2018.06.22-2018.06.24,
Doshisha University, Kyoto.
・Taro Yamauchi Co-creating the Sanitation Value Chain in Lusaka, Zambia by Designing Sanitation Systems as EcoCommunity-Value Systems. Zambia Water Forum and Exhibition (ZAWAFE) 2018, 2018.06.11-2018.06.13, Government
Complex, Lusaka, Zambia.
・Sikopo Nyambe, Koji Hayashi, Joseph Zulu,Taro Yamauchi Dziko Langa Kilo! A health living, I see you!: Incorporating
children and youth in peri-urban sanitation and health in Lusaka. Zambia Water Forum and Exhibition (ZAWAFE) 2018,2018.06.11-2018.06.13, Government Complex, Lusaka, Zambia.
・Nyambe S, Hayashi K, Zulu J, Yamauchi T Dziko Langa Kilo! A health living, I see you!: Incorporating children and youth
in peri-urban sanitation and health in Lusaka. Zambia Water Forum and Exhibition (ZAWAFE) 2018,2018.06.11-2018.06.13, Government Complex, Lusaka, Zambia.
【Poster Presentation】

・Min Li Chua, Hidenori Harada, Shigeo Fujii, Md. Nazmul Ahsan, Akira Sakai, Michiya Kodera, Shotaro Goto, Shohagi Rani
Saha Comparison of fecal exposure assessment in living environment between boy, girl and male adult in a slum in Khulna
city, Bangladesh. IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition, 2018.09.20, Tokyo.
【Invited Lecture / Honorary Lecture / Panelist】

・Daisuke Sano Water Infrastructure & Virus Evolution. Seminar on Water Infrastructure & Virus Evolution, 2019.02.25,
Faculty of Engineering, National University of Singapore.
・Daisuke Sano Inactivation and removal of viruses: is this a matter of virus evolution?. 6th International Society for Food andEnvironmental Virology (ISFEV) Conference, 2018.10.07-2018.10.10, Arizona State University, Phoenix, USA.
・Tetsuya Kusuda Choice Methodology of Optimum Solution for Efficient Water Use. The Special Seminar in Ege University,
2018.09.26, Izmir, Turkey.
・Hidenori Harada Lessons learnt from long-term NSS and FSM experiences in Japan, Developments in Faecal Sludge
Management and Non-sewered sanitation. IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition, 2018.09.18, Tokyo.

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Core Program
Program Director: TANIGUCHI Makoto

Mission

The Core Program develops comprehensive and systematic concepts and methodologies for transdisciplinary andinterdisciplinary research. Core Projects produce conceptual and methodological frameworks together with RIHN Research
Projects based on individual methods, techniques, and tools from the divisions in the RIHN Center. Core Projects collaborate
with Research Projects, building on the case studies developed by these projects, and develop comprehensive and systematic
methodologies beyond an individual Research Program or Project. Core Projects also deliver completed concepts andmethodology to Research Programs and Projects, the RIHN Center, and related stakeholders.

○ Progress and Results in 2018

The Core Program affiliates two Core Projects, “Environmental traceability project (FR2-PI: Ichiro Tayasu)”and “Information
Asymmetry Reduction in Open Team Science for Socio-environmental Cases (FR1-PL: Yasuhisa Kondo)”, and one Core FS,“ Co-design and stakeholder engagement according to geographical scales (FS-leader: Yuko Onishi) ” . The Core Program
develops comprehensive and systematic concepts and methodologies for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research to solve
global environmental problems in collaboration with society, which will be widely applicable to global environmental issues, andaccessible to related stakeholders. One of the cities collaborating with the Core Projects is Ohno City and RIHN reached anagreement to establish the RIHN Liaison Office in Ohno City. This new office will become a shared-use facility for joint
research.

The Core Projects produce conceptual-methodological frameworks together with Research Projects, based on individual
methods/techniques/tools from the divisions in the RIHN Center. In the case of the “Traceability Core Project (PI: Tayasu)”, theconceptual framework of “trust” has been developing between scientists and non-scientists (governors and citizens) as well as
between consumers and producers, based on stable isotope techniques from the RIHN Center. The Core Projects collaborate with
Research Projects, building on case studies of these Projects, and developing comprehensive and systematic methodologies
beyond Research Programs-Projects. The “Traceability Core Project (PI: Tayasu)” has been studying this framework of “trust”
in the Research Projects “FEAST (program 3, PI: McGreevy)” for consumers and producers and “Nutrient Cycling (program 2,
PI: Okuda)” for scientists and non-scientists. Core Projects will deliver completed concepts/methodology to Research ProgramsProjects, RIHN Center, and related stakeholders at the end of project. The Traceability Core Project is now in the FR2 stage,
therefore the final results of this Core Project are currently in progress.
“Open team Science Core Project (PI: Kondo)” has been studying this of “trust” in the Research Projects “Historical Climate
Adaptation (program 1, PI: Nakatsuka)” and “Nutrient Cycling (program 2, PI: Okuda)”. Core Projects will deliver completed
concepts/methodology to Research Programs- Projects, RIHN Center, and related stakeholders at the end of project. The
Traceability Core Project is now in the FR1 stage, therefore the final results of this Core Project are currently in progress.

Other activities of the Core Program are research developments, including Core FSs developments. The Core Programorganized four core program seminars for research developments through discussion of comprehensive and systematic concepts
and methodologies. Seminars, including collaboration with RIHN Research Projects as well as with the RIHN Center, featured
speakers with the potential to further RIHN’s innovation. In addition, international alliances such as with SRC (Stockholm
Resilience Center), opened the possibility for disseminating and sharing the fruits of research results.
We have made the following 4 Core Program seminar:
16th (Dec. 26, 2018):"Core FS workshop: Co-design and stakeholder engagement according to geographical scales" Yuko Onishi (FS-leader)
15th (Dec. 19, 2018):"Discussion for the workshop in EREC 2019" Core program all member

Research Projects

Based on the mission of RIHN and in order to execute the strategies and policies formulated by the Council for Research
Strategy, the Core Program undertakes research on an ongoing basis. During Phase III (2016-2021) of RIHN, the Core Program
will develop concepts and methodologies to solve global environmental problems in collaboration with society.

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We discussed how to make synergy of core program/projects with research projects and RIHN center.
14th (Oct. 16, 2018):"Progress report from Environmental traceability Project" IchiroTayasu (FR2-PI)"Progress report from Target of Open team science Project" Ysuhisa Kondo (FR1-PI)"Research Strategy for Core Program and Future plans for core program research" MakotoTaniguchi (Core program director)"Correspondence of Core program to SDGs workshop" MakotoTaniguchi (Core program director)
13th (Apr. 25, 2018):"Core program seminar procedures in 2018" MakotoTaniguchi (Core program director)"Target of Environmental traceability Project and collaboration with research programs and RIHN center" IchiroTayasu (FR2-PI)"Target of Open team science Project and collaboration with research programs and RIHN center" Ysuhisa Kondo (FR1-PI)○Project Members
Makoto TANIGUCHI
Ichiro TAYASU
Yasuhisa KONDO( RIHN,Professor )( RIHN,Professor )( RIHN,Associate Professor )○ Future Themes
Future Plan

1) The Core Program will synthesize the Core Projects and Core FSs to create synergy in the program, and to identify gaps
within the existing Core Projects and FSs.
2) The Core Program will work more closely with the strategies and policies formulated by the Council for Research Strategy of
RIHN.
3) The Core Program will seek opportunities to apply the developing concepts and methodologies to other Research Projects
with relevant stakeholders.
4) The Core Program will work more closely with international alliances related to “Humanity and Nature” such as the Future
Earth alliance, Resilience alliance, and Sustainability alliance to disseminate the results of Core Projects.

●Achievements○Papers【Original Articles】

・ Benz, S, A., Bayer, P., Hamamoto, H., Blum, P., Arimoto, H., Taniguchi, M. 2018 Anthropogenic heat input and resulting
heat storage increase in the urban groundwater of Osaka, Japan. STOTEN(643):1127-1136.
・Burnett, K., Wada, C., Taniguchi, M. Sugimoto, R., Tahara, D. 2018 Evaluating tradeoffs between groundwater pumping forsnow-melting and nearshore fishery productivity in Obama City, Japan. Water 10:1556. DOI:doi:10.3390/w10111556
・Lee S., Taniguchi, M., Choi, J.Y., Mohtar, R.H., Yoo, S.H. 2018 An Analysis of the Water-Energy-Food-Land Requirements
and CO2 Emissions for Food Security of Rice in Japan. Sustainability 10:3354.
・Taniguchi, M., Masuhara, N., Teramoto, S. 2018 Tradeoffs in the water-energy- food nexus in the urbanizing Asia-PacificRegion. Water International 43(6):892-903. DOI:10.1080/02508060.2018.1516104○Research Presentations【Oral Presentation】

・Taniguchi, M., Lee, S., Masuhara, N. Multi-scale water-energy-food nexus. American Geophysical Union, 2018.12.13,
Washington, D.C., USA.
・Taniguchi, M., Lee, S., Masuhara, N. Urban water-energy-food nexus. Urban Nexus workshop, 2018.11.05, Research Institutefor Humanity and Nature, Kyoto.

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・Taniguchi, M. Water-energy-food nexus. RIHN-SRC joint workshop, 2018.10.29, Stockholm Resilience Center, Stockholm,
Sweden.
・Taniguchi, M., Lee, S., Masuhara, N. Groundwater-energy-food nexus for sustainability. RFG, 2018.06.17, Vancouver,
Canada.

【Invited Lecture / Honorary Lecture / Panelist】

・Taniguchi, M. International Symposium on Resources Nexus. 2019.03.06, RIHN, Kyoto.
・ Taniguchi, M. Multi-scale water-energy-food nexus in Asia. THA2019, 2019.01.24, Bangkok.
・Taniguchi, M. Sustainable groundwater management in Anthropocene. THA2019, 2019.01.23, Bangkok.
・Taniguchi, M. Water-energy-food nexus for sustainability. Nexus KAN Steering Committee Meeting, 2019.01.14, Paris.
・Taniguchi, M. Nexus-KAN,Strategy for SDGs in Asia. Science Council in Asia, 2018.12.07, Science Council in Japan.
・ Taniguchi, M. Integrated Management of Energy, Water and Food Supplies in Asia: Understanding Synergies and Trade-offs
of ‘Nexus’ in National and Regional Contexts. World Social Science Forum, 2018.09.25-2018.09.25, Fukuoka, Japan.
・ Taniguchi, M., Lee, S., and Masuhara,N. Multi-scale water-energy-food nexus for sustainability. Korean Water-Energy-Food
Nexus symposium, 2018.09.13-2018.09.13, Seoul National University, Korea.
・Taniguchi, M. Global Sustainability with Groundwater in Asia. Keynote Speech in Sustainable Development of Water
Resources to Achieve Water Security and Sustainable Growth. 45th Conference of International Association of
Hydrogeologists, 2018.09.11, Daejeon, Korea.
・ Taniguchi, M. Multi-scale Water-Energy-Food Nexus for Sustainability. ISAP2018, 2018.07.18, Pacifico Yokohama
2018,7,18, Yokohama.
・Taniguchi, M. Water projects in RIHN, invited video presentation. Water Resilience Workshop, 2018.05.03, Stockholm
Resilience Center, Stockholm, Sweden.
・ Taniguchi, M. Historical literacy on hydrology with humanity and nature interaction. European Geoscience Union,
2018.04.12, Vienna, Austria.

Research Projects

・ Taniguchi, M. Water-Energy-Food Nexus; An integrated governance of resources, economy and environment forsustainability. 2019.03.14, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia.

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・Taniguchi, M. Groundwater-energy-food nexus for sustainability. European Geoscience Union, 2018.04.09, Vienna, Austria.

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Stage: Full Research
Project Name: Proposal and verification of the validity of isotope environmental traceability methodology inenvironmental studies
Project Leader: Ichiro Tayasu○ Research Subject and Objectives

We consider that water security, food security and environmental security are fundamental to the sustainability of humansociety in a changing world. In this project, we hypothesize that environmental traceability is a key concept in solving
environmental issues for various stakeholders. For example, one certainly refuses to drink well water if it is obvious that thewater comes from polluted drainage. Environmental traceability is an extension of the metaphor. However, it is usual that causeand-effect relationships or even correlations are unclear. Stable isotope ratios of elements, together with the concentrations ofelements, can trace a matter flow, the environmental condition of sites, ecosystem structure and food products. Spatio-temporalvariation of multiple isotope ratios can be used for studying the earth systems from local to global point of view. The information
may serve as a key for local people to consider water security, food security and environmental security, which are fundamental
for the sustainability of human society, in terms of global viewpoint. Multi-isotope approach has successfully been applied tomany previous projects in RIHN. Furthermore, the fact that RIHN is equipped with advanced isotope ratio mass spectrometersand elemental analysis systems confirms the advantage of adopting the approach and developing a new type of application of
isotope tools for transdisciplinary approach.
How to use the environmental traceability concept is a methodology that we seek to establish in this study. However, how to
use the methodology in the transdisciplinary point of view is not well studied so far, and we hypothesize the process should be
different among the stakeholders, especially “who” considered the approach is applicable to the environmental issue. “MultiIsoscapes” (use of multiple elements and multiple isotope ratios, and GIS based mapping technique), interview, workshop andquestionnaire are methods for adopting environmental traceability in a given environmental issue.
In this project, we test if the environmental traceability concept is valid in environmental studies, I) Effectiveness of theenvironmental traceability concept, and II) Comparison with food traceability. For the research I), we test if there are any
differences among three types of initiatives, (1) decision makers (2) citizens, and (3) researchers, in transdisciplinary research
process by using environmental traceability methodology. For the research II), we test if to what extent are the two types of“traceability concept” different between food traceability and environmental traceability.

○ Progress and Results in 2018

Using the basic structure of the questionnaire to evaluate the validity of the use of environmental traceability methodology, which
was determined in the previous year (2017), we applied the questionnaires to the symposiums in (1) Chikusa river watershed in
Hyogo prefecture, (2) Otsuchi Town in Iwate prefecture, and (3) Saijo City in Ehime prefecture. Also, in collaboration with eREC project, we took questionnaire in a forum in (4) Silang-Santa Rosa watershed in the Philippines. Furthermore, incollaboration with FEAST project, we took (5) an online survey related to food traceability among two countries (China andThailand).
(1) Symposium and the questionnaire in Chikusa river watershed, Hyogo
On the 17th June 2018, the Lions Clubs within Chikusa river watershed held “Chikusa river forum” in Sayo town, Hyogo. In this
symposium, we showed the origin and movement of dissolved ions of Chikusa river using stable isotope techniques, andevaluated the validity of the use of environmental traceability methodology by a questionnaire. We collected 66 sheets, consisting
the recovery rate of 61%.
(2) Symposium and the questionnaire in Otsuchi Town, Iwate
On the 1st December 2018, Otsuchi Town held a symposium entitled “Symposium for application of spring water in Otsuchi
Town” in Otsuchi Town, Iwate cosponsored by Otsuchi Town and its board of education. In this symposium, we showed theorigin and movement of groundwater and also migration of three-spined stickleback using stable isotope techniques, andevaluated the validity of the use of environmental traceability methodology by a questionnaire. We collected 31 sheets, consisting
the recovery rate of 57%.
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On the 3rd March 2019, Saijo City held a symposium entitled “Groundwater symposium in 2019” in Saijo City, Ehime. In this
symposium, the researches to solve the salinization and nitrogen pollution of groundwater using ion concentrations and stable
isotope techniques were introduced, and we evaluated the validity of the use of environmental traceability methodology by aquestionnaire. We collected 237 sheets, consisting the recovery rate of 64%.

(5) Online survey related to food traceability (in collaboration with the FEAST project)
We carried out online survey related to food traceability among two countries (China and Thailand) in collaboration with the
FEAST project as a series of investigation from last year. In this survey, we set five sources of information on food (Farmers, theGovernment, Producer associations, Experts, and Consumers). The experts were defined as independent, neutral researchers who
use environmental traceability methods to test and analyze foods. We made five kinds of labels which include information andthe source of the information shown above. These labels were combined with each of four food types: daily foods (milk, cookingoil) and expensive foods (wine, honey), and asked about consumers’ trust. We will investigate differences in consumers’ trust
among labels, among food types, and among countries.
About the other study sites, we have studied the origin and dynamics of dissolved ions (nitrate and sulfate) in Chikusa riverwatershed, Hyogo by collecting water samples in August 2018 and February 2019.

○Project Members◎ TAYASU Ichiro( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Professor,Developing environmental traceability
methodology )FUJIYOSHI Lei( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Project Researcher )TANIGUCHI Makoto ( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Professor )YABUSAKI Shiho( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Center Researcher )NAKANO Takanori( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature / Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda
University,,Professor Emeritus / Visiting Professor,Developing environmental traceability
methodology )SHIN Ki-Cheol( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Assistant Professor,Developing environmental
traceability methodology )KONDO Yasuhisa( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Associate Professor,Developing GIS platform forenvironmental traceability methodology )ENDO Aiko( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Associate Professor )MASUHARA Naoki( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Project Researcher )OKUDA Noboru( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Professor )UEHARA Yoshitoshi ( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Researcher )MCGREEVY Steven R ( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Associate Professor )RUPPRECHT Christoph( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Project Researcher )DD
NAKATSUKA Takeshi ( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Professor )MORI Seiichi( Gifu-Keizai University,Professor )YOKOO Yoriko( Doshisha University,Professor )YAMADA Yoshihiro ( Kagawa University,Professor )AKIMICHI Tomoya( Fujisan World Heritage Center/ Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Director/ Emeritus
Professor )NISHIMURA Takeshi ( Sanyo Gakuen University,Lecturer )KATO Takaaki( The University of Kitakyushu,Professor )FUKUSHIMA Shintaro ( Aoyama Gakuen University,Assistant Professor )KAERIYAMA Toshiaki ( Ono City Office,Manager )TOKUMASU Minoru ( Saijo City Office,Senior Official Staff )Research Projects

On the 8th November 2018, e-REC project and multi-stakeholders in the Philippines held a forum entitled “Santa Rosa
Watershed Stakeholders Assembly” in Binan City, the Philippines. In this forum, scientific approaches to clarify river condition
and also nitrogen pollution and the origin of nitrogen in groundwater were introduced, and we evaluated the ideas of participants
toward scientific research and watershed conservation by a questionnaire. We collected 121 sheets, consisting the recovery rateof 67%.

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OOMORI Noboru( Oshino village Office,Section Chief )GOTOH Ken
( Oshino village Office,Senior Manager )WATANABE Soichiro ( Oshino village Office,Senior Staff )YOKOYAMA Tadashi ( Hyogo prefectural Ako School for Students with Special Needs,Teacher )MITSUHASHI( University of Hyogo / Museum of Nature and Human Activities, Hyogo,Lecturer )Hiromune
OHKUSHI Ken’ich ( Kobe University,Associate professor )ITOH Masayuki( Kobe University,Professor )BOWEN Gabriel J( University of Utah,Professor )OHTE Nobuhito( Kyoto University,Professor )NAKAGIRI Takao( Osaka Prefecture University,Associate professor )SAKURAI Shinji( Osaka Prefecture University,Lecture )YOSHIOKA Yumi
( Shimane University,Assistant Professor )○ Future Themes

To verify the validity of the isotope environmental traceability methodology in environmental studies, we need to compare andanalyze the results among sites. We are planning to hold a workshop in collaboration with various stakeholders
especiallyadministrative people and researchers to find connections between environmentally traceable tools and various
environmental problems. Through these works, we will establish a web-page and make a final report as a product of our project.
As research achievements, the results of questionnaire in a symposium will be submitted to an academic paper in social science,
the results of research in Chikusa river watershed will be submitted to an academic paper in natural science. Furthermore, theresult of online questionnaire in collaboration with FEAST project has been prepared for an academic paper in social science.

●Achievements○Books【Chapters/Sections】

・Mori S 2018 Utilization of Environmental Water Resources in the Reconstruction of Otsuchi Town After the 2011 Tsunami. .
Endo A. and Oh T (ed.) The Water-Energy-Food Nexus. Global Environmental Studies. Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd,
pp.175-193.
○Papers【Original Articles】

・Kato Y, Kondoh M, Ishikawa NF, Togashi H, Kohmatsu Y, Yoshimura M, Yoshimizu C, Haraguchi TF, Osada Y, Ohte N,
Tokuchi N, Okuda N, Miki T, Tayasu I 2018 Using food network unfolding to evaluate food-web complexity in terms of
biodiversity: theory and applications. Ecology Letters 21:1065-1074.
・Kume M, Mori S, Kitano J, Sumi T, Nishida S 2018 Impact of the huge 2011 Tohoku-oki tsunami on the phenotypes andgenotypes of Japanese coastal threespine stickleback populations. Scientific reports 8:1684.
・Endo H, Fukuda H, Takahashi D, Okumura Y, Inomata E, Yoshimizu C, Tayasu I, Nagata T 2018 Influence of isotope
fractionation on the nitrogen isotope composition of the brown macroalga Undaria pinnatifida. Phycological Research
66:262-268.
・Saitoh Y, Nakano T, Shin K-C, Matsubayashi J, Kato Y, Amakawa H, Osada Y, Yoshimizu C, Okuda N, Amano Y, Togashi
H, Kurita Y, Tayasu I 2018 Utility of Nd isotope ratio as a tracer of marine animals: regional variation in coastal seas andcausal factors. Ecosphere 9(8):e02365.
・Ishikawa NF, Chikaraishi Y, Takano Y, Sasaki Y, Takizawa Y, Tsuchiya M, Tayasu I, Nagata T, Ohkouchi N 2018 A new
analytical method for determination of the nitrogen isotopic composition of methionine: its application to aquatic ecosystems
with mixed resources. Limnology and Oceanography. Methods 16(9):607-620.
○Research Presentations【Oral Presentation】

・ Ichiro Tayasu “Current topics of Environmental Isotope Study in RIHN”. 8th Symposium on Environmental Isotope Study,
2018.12.21, RIHN, Kyoto.

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・Hiroyuki Sase, Tsuyoshi Ohizumi, Takanori Nakano, Ichiro Tayasu, Masayuki Morohashi, Masaaki Takahashi, Naoyuki
Yamashita, Yayoi Inomata, Tatsuyoshi Saito, Ki-Cheol Shin, Shiho Yabusaki “Application of the multi-isotopic analysis tothe monitoring samples on transboundary air pollution and acid deposition”. 8th Symposium on Environmental Isotope
Study, 2018.12.21.

・Keisuke Kishimoto, Katsuyuki Yamashita, Osamu Okano, Hitoshi Chiba, Takanori Nakano “Water quality survey at Ono
city, Fukui Prefecture”. 8th Symposium on Environmental Isotope Study, 2018.12.21, RIHN, Kyoto.
・Minoru Tokumasu, Ki-Cheol Shin, Yoshihiro Yamada “Origin of Saijo plain surface water analyzed from antimony”. 8th
Symposium on Environmental Isotope Study, 2018.12.21, RIHN, Kyoto.
・Lei Fujiyoshi, Ichiro Tayasu, Shiho Yabusaki, Takashi Haraguchi, Chikage Yoshimizu, Kenichi Ohkushi, Fumiko Furukawa,
Masayuki Itoh, Yudai Yamamoto, Tadashi Yokoyama, Hiromune Mitsuhashi “Dynamics of sulfate and nitrate inferred fromstable isotope techniques in Chikusa river watershed, Hyogo Prefecture” . 8th Symposium on Environmental Isotope Study,
2018.12.21, RIHN, Kyoto.
・Kazuki Iwasa, Yoriko Yokoo, Chiharu Takeuchi, Miho Kawashima, Ichiro Tayasu “Sulfur isotope ratios of sulfate in
Maruyama River”. 8th Symposium on Environmental Isotope Study, 2018.12.21, RIHN, Kyoto.
・Yoshitoshi Uehara, Osbert Leo A. Privaldos, Ria A. Rambino, Ken’ichi Osaka, Satoshi Asano, Rei Fujiyoshi, Yoshimizu
Chikage, Takuya Ishida, Ichiro Tayasu, Adelina C. Santos-Borja, Noboru Okuda “How can we use stable isotope information
for Transdisciplinary Research?-Case study for groundwater research in Silang Santa Rosa watershed in Philippines-“. 8th
Symposium on Environmental Isotope Study, 2018.12.21, RIHN, Kyoto.
・Yunosuke Goto, Kiyoaki Kawai, Yasuharu Takashima, Ki-Cheol Shin, Ichiro Tayasu “Determination of the geographic origin
of Welsh onion（Allium fistulosum L.）by Sr and Pb isotope ratio analysis”. 8th Symposium on Environmental Isotope Study,
2018.12.21.
・Christoph Rupprecht, Lei Fujiyoshi, Steven Mcgreevy, Ichiro Tayasu “Consumer trust in expert product labels: preliminary
results of a five-country survey”. 8th Symposium on Environmental Isotope Study, 2018.12.21, RIHN, Kyoto.
・Hidetoshi Someda, Takashi Gakuhari, Ki-Cheol Shin, Ichiro Tayasu, Yasushi Kobayashi, Minoru Yoneda, Hajime Ishida“Estimation of geographic origin based on elementary analysis in human hard tissue 5th Report: Trial application of oxygen,carbon and sulfur isotope analysis in collagen for discriminating between Pilipino, Japanese and American”. 8th Symposium
on Environmental Isotope Study, 2018.12.21, RIHN, Kyoto.
・Ichiro Tayasu “Use of multi-isotope ratios to study ecological and environmental science” . 6th Taiwan-Japan Ecology
Workshop, 2018.11.24, National Cheng Kung University,Taiwan.
・Lei Fujiyoshi, Ichiro Tayasu, Shiho Yabusaki, Takashi Haraguchi, Chikage Yoshimizu, Kenichi Ohkushi, Fumiko Furukawa,
Masayuki Itoh, Yudai Yamamoto, Tadashi Yokoyama, Hiromune Mitsuhashi “Dynamics of nitrate and sulfate inferred fromstable isotope techniques in Chikusa river watershed, Hyogo Prefecture”. Symposium on Management of Land and Water
Resources: Studies in Europe and Asia., 2018.11.22, Yamagata University, Yamagata.
・Nobuhito Ohte, Ken’ichi Osaka, Kazuo Isobe and Ichiro Tayasu “From leaves to lakes: Revealing the nitrogen dynamics incatchment ecosystems using stable isotope techniques” . The 17th World Lake Conference., 2018.10.18.
・Osbert Leo A. Privaldos, Ken’ichi Osaka, Yoshitoshi Uehara, Asano Satoshi, Lei Fujiyoshi, Chikage Yoshimizu, Ichiro
Tayasu, Adelina C. Santos-Borja, Maria Pythias B. Espino, Noboru Okuda “Identification of nitrate sources in ground watersof Silang-Sta. Rosa subwatershed: an application of denitrifier method” . The 17th World Lake Conference, 2018.10.16.
・Noboru Okuda, Irisse Bianca De Jesus, Osbert Leo A. Privaldos, Tomoya Iwata, Yoshitoshi Uehara, Takuya Ishida, Satoshi,
Asano, Ken’ichi Osaka, Lei Fujiyoshi, Chikage Yoshimizu, Ichiro Tayasu, Jonathan Carlo A. Briones, Francis S. Magbanua,Maria Pythias B. Espino, Adelina C. Santos-Borja, Rey Donne S. Papa “Nutrient cycling in the Laguna de Bay Watershed,
the Philippines, in comparison with the Lake Biwa Watershed, Japan”. 2018 Japanese Association of Hydrological Sciences,
2018.10.13, RIHN, Kyoto.

Research Projects

・Shiho Yabusaki, Makoto Taniguchi, Ichiro Tayasu, Tomoya Akimichi, Noboru Ohomori, Ken Goto, Hitoshi Watanabe,
Souichirou Watanabe “ Study on groundwater flow system at Oshino Village in Yamanashi Prefecture— Report 4.
Continuous observation of water temperature and EC on the Oshino-Hakkai from August to September, 2018 －”. 8th
Symposium on Environmental Isotope Study, 2018.12.21, RIHN, Kyoto.

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・Ken’ichi Ohkushi, Ichiro Tayasu, Lei Fujiyoshi, Yabusaki Shiho, Ki-Cheol Shin, Tadashi Yokoyama, Hiromune Mitsuhashi,
Kazuki Yasugi, Fumiko Furukawa, Masayuki Itoh “δ2H and δ18O results in the Chikusa River”. 8th Symposium on
Environmental Isotope Study, 2018.12.21, RIHN, Kyoto.

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・ Sase, H., Morohashi, M., Takahashi, M., Saito, T., Yamashita, N., Inomata, Y,. Ohizumi, T., Shin, K-C., Tayasu, I. andNakano, T. “Multi-isotopic approach for monitoring on atmospheric deposition in forests in Japan” . 7th ICP Forests
Scientific Conference "Air pollution, climate change and forest ecosystems: Evidence for effects, adaptation, and mitigation
strategies", 2018.05.22, Riga, Latvia.
・Ichiro Tayasu, Lei Fujiyoshi, Shiho Yabusaki, Ki-Cheol Shin, Takanori Nakano, Makoto Taniguchi “Multi-Isoscape approachto realize environmental traceability”. JpGU Meeting 2018, 2018.05.22, Makuhari-Messe, Chiba.
・Takashi F Haraguchi, Ryosuke Koda, Ichiro Tayasu “Evaluating the utility of nitrogen stable isotope measurements of feces
as an indicator of crop damaging sika deer”. JpGU Meeting 2018, 2018.05.22, Makuhari-Messe, Chiba.
・Yoshikazu Kato, Noboru Okuda, Chikage Yoshimizu, Ichiro Tayasu “Biological specimens reveal centurial tropho-dynamics
of predatory fishes”. JpGU Meeting 2018, 2018.05.22, Makuhari-Messe, Chiba.
・Shiho Yabusaki, Makoto Taniguchi, Ichiro Tayasu, Tomoya Akimichi, Noboru Ohomori, Ken Gotou, Hitoshi Watanabe,
Souichirou Watanabe “ Study on groundwater flow system at Oshino Village in Yamanashi Prefecture – Report 3.
Characteristics of groundwater flow at Oshino Village by using observations of 2017” . JpGU Meeting 2018, 2018.05.22,
Makuhari-Messe, Chiba.
・Lei Fujiyoshi, Kenichi Ohkushi, Yudai Yamamoto, Ichiro Tayasu, Tadashi Yokoyama, Hiromune Mitsuhashi, Fumiko
Furukawa, Masayuki Itoh “Dynamics of dissolved ions inferred from sulfur isotope ratio of sulfate, nitrogen and oxygenisotope ratios of nitrate in Chikusa river watershed, Hyogo”. JpGU Meeting 2018, 2018.05.22, Makuhari-Messe, Chiba.
・ Ken'ichi Ohkushi, Ichiro Tayasu, Shiho Yabusaki, Fujiyoshi Lei, Yudai Yamamoto, Takanori Nakano, Ki-Cheol Shin,
Tadashi Yokoyama, Hiromune Mitsuhashi, Masayuki Itoh “Characteristics of H and O stable isotopic composition in the
Chikusa River”. JpGU Meeting 2018, 2018.05.22, Makuhari-Messe, Chiba.
・ Akira Ushikawa, Kenichirio Sugitani, Mariko Yamamoto, Koshi Yamamoto, Kazuyuki Muraoka, Jyunichi Kitamura,
Tamihisa Ohta, Takashi Haraguchi, Ichiro Tayasu “Carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios and diets of Corbicula japonica andCorbicula leana in the Harai River (a branch river of the Kushida River, Mie Prefecture, central Japan) with rich riparian
forests” . JpGU Meeting 2018, 2018.05.22, Makuhari-Messe, Chiba.
・Kai Nils Nitzsche, Yoshikazu Kato, Ki-Cheol Shin, Ichiro Tayasu “Understanding bioaccumulation of metals by aquaticorganisms in streams of different bedrock geology using Sr and Mg isotopes”. JpGU Meeting 2018,, 2018.05.22, MakuhariMesse, Chiba.
・Noboru Okuda, Takuya Ishida, Yoshitoshi Uehara, Tohru Ikeya, Satoshi Asano, Tomoya Iwata, Chia-Ying Ko, Elfritzson
Peralta, Osbert Leo Privaldos, Irisse Bianca B. De Jesus, Ellis Mika Triño, Ken-ichi Osaka, Ichiro Tayasu “Biodiversity andphosphorus cycling in the river ecosystem”. JpGU Meeting 2018, 2018.05.21, Makuhari-Messe, Chiba.
・Osbert Leo Alcantara Privaldos, Ken'ichi Osaka, Yoshitoshi Uehara, Asano Satoshi, Lei Fujiyoshi, Chikage Yoshimizu,
Ichiro Tayasu, Adelina C. Santos-Borja, Maria Pythias B. Espino, Noboru Okuda “Nitrate Dual-Stable Isotope Analysis
Identifies Sources of Groundwater Nitrogen Pollution in the Silang-Sta. Rosa Subwatershed of Laguna de Bay”. JpGU
Meeting 2018, 2018.05.21, Makuhari-Messe, Chiba.
・Tohru Ikeya, Takuya Ishida, Yoshitoshi Uehara, Satoshi Asano, Noboru Okuda, Masayuki Ushio, Shohei Fujinaga, Yuki
Kobayashi, Ko Chia-Ying, Peralta Martin Elfritzson, Ichiro Tayasu, Tomoya Iwata “The examination of environmental
factors on the community composition of riverine bacteria and microalgae in an epilithon during irrigation season in the Yasu
River, Japan”. JpGU Meeting 2018, 2018.05.20, Makuhari-Messe, Chiba.

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Stage: Full Research
Project Name: Information Asymmetry Reduction in Open Team Science for Socio-environmental Cases
Core Program
URL: https://openteamscience.jp/en/

Problem, background, and objectives

Social issues caused by environmental deterioration present complex and multidimensional problems for science. To approach
them, solution-oriented research has involved research experts from different domains (interdisciplinarity) and also practitioners
such as governments, funders, industries, non-profit organizations, and civil members (transdisciplinarity). However, such teamscience is often disrupted by asymmetric information, knowledge, wisdom, value, socio-economic status, and power amongactors. This Core Project, also called the Open Team Science (hereafter OpenTS) Project, develops a methodology to reduce(rather than dissolve) such socio-psychological asymmetry for the sake of more efficient transdisciplinary (TD) collaboration.
Methodology, structure, and schedule
To develop the methodology, this project interlinks the concept of open science as an open scientific knowledge production
system with a TD approach to boundary spanning by transforming in-between spaces into “our” epistemic living spaces.
Technically, boundary spanning can be achieved by a combination of (1) discovering and sharing the goals that actors withdifferent interests can tackle together (transcending); (2) considering ethical equity, with special attention to empowering
marginalized (or “ small voice ” ) actors; (3) developing fair data visualization based on the FAIR (findable, accessible,
interoperable, and reusable) principles; and (4) facilitating dialogue. Civic Tech can be applied as a holistic approach. It is an
open governance approach in which civic engineers develop a solution to local issues by using open governmental data andinformation and communication technologies.
As a working hypothesis, the proposed methodology is cyclically assessed and improved through practical case studies ofcommunity-based participatory research (CBPR) projects for socio-environmental issues (the hypothesis-practice-assessment
cycle), with special interest in developing a method to measure participants’ perceptual transformation.
The OpenTS Project is a three year project. During the first half of this period, we review case studies to develop the
methodology and measurements, which are further tested by practical case studies during the second half.
Expected results
At the completion of the project, we expect to establish the OpenTS methodology by successfully interlinking open science andTD theories, with new knowledge about effective (and ineffective) combinations of visualization and dialogue tools, and withqualitative and quantitative methods to measure the effect of boundary spanning.
Project organization, membership, and collaboration with RIHN Research Projects
The organization of this Core Project is largely divided into the Research Group and the Practice Group, although boundary
between (sub-)groups is loosely set in order to promote synergistic collaboration. The project consists of one project leader, six
core members, eighteen regular members, four advisory members, two advisors, and two supporting staff members. Another fiveassociate members will eventually participate in meetings and online discussions.
The Research Group is developing the OpenTS theory through an interdisciplinary review of member’s case studies from themultifaceted viewpoints of philosophy, ethics, anthropology, social psychology, ecology, sustainability science, science andtechnology for society, open science theory, the science of team science (SciTS), and science communication, in an ad-hoc
collaboration with the Historical Climate Adaptation, Sanitation, and FEAST Projects. The Practice Group focuses on waterweed
recycling in the catchment of Lake Biwa, Japan, in a regular collaboration with the Ecological Recycling (e-Rec) Project, and oncommunity-based built heritage management in Oman.
Contribution to the Core Program
The OpenTS Project contributes to the Core Program by developing the above-mentioned hypothesis-practice-assessment cycle
as a common methodology of the Program, in collaboration with the Environmental Traceability Project. Moreover, theResearch Projects○ Research Subject and Objectives

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conceptual importance of openness, fairness, and equity in the TD process has been recognized through the methodologicaldevelopment.
Application of the theory and methodology after Core ProjectAs an academic output, this Core Project will publish a mini book and portal website on OpenTS methodology, targeting early
career researchers and practitioners, as well as peer-reviewed articles in international journals. These publications are released
with an open-source license.
The project has two major interfaces of social outputs. The Research Group will make suggestions for national and international
open science policies, while the Practice Group will contribute to community-based policymaking and social startups for thesustainable waterweed recycling in Lake Biwa and built heritage management in Oman.
At the RIHN, the OpenTS methodology developed by this Core Project will be inherited by upcoming research projects throughthe activities of the RIHN Center, which will disseminate OpenTS as a new research paradigm for transformative social-issueoriented research.

○ Progress and Results in 2018

During the FR1 period, the project members concentrated on improving the OpenTS methodology by reviewing the literature andcases and by establishing international research partnerships as the External Research Evaluation Committee (EREC) suggested.
Through participation in the SESYNC Boundary Spanning Symposium, the intensive joint research by Kondo, Miyata, andVienni, and a series of project workshops, the core concepts of this Core Project, including “ in-between spaces ” and“transcending,” were compared with the international literature and improved as follows.
While the current open science policy emphasizes open scientific knowledge, the OpenTS underlines open scientific knowledge
production system and boundary spanning, particularly between the research community and society (Figure 1, top). Here, it has
been noted that the term “open” includes a sense of inclusiveness as Civic Tech does, rather than the technical definition bywhich “knowledge is open if anyone is free to access, use, modify, and share it”. The questionnaire surveys revealed that anxiety
about involuntary use and exposure of “inconvenient truths” is the most serious barrier to open research data, particularly forearly career researchers, who are exposed to tough job competition, because in their view, data are their exclusive resource forsurvival in academia. Consequently, the above-mentioned FAIR principle is applied as a realistic solution. Since knowledge
production is the essence of scientific research, an open scientific knowledge production system, as well as opening up researchdata, information, and knowledge, may also contribute to boundary spanning by reducing asymmetries in the understanding ofissues. Boundary spanning between the research community and society is on aspect of the TD approach. For boundary spanning,
it is important to understand one’s own epistemic living spaces and the in-between spaces between oneself and others, torecognize “our” living space, including others’ spaces.
In order to achieve boundary spanning, transcending––discovering and sharing the goals that actors with different interests cantackle together––will be necessary, rather than aiming for simple diversion to avoid intractable conflicts. To this end, the status ofeach actor’s understanding of the issue are visualized, and dialogue between actors are facilitated, while considering ethicalequity and with special attention to empowering marginalized (or “small voice”) actors. The effects of the graphic facilitation(Figure 1, d), in which conversation is depicted using graphics as it proceeds, are to be studied.
With regard to the practical application of the methodology to the waterweed issue in the catchment of Lake Biwa (Figure 1, a),four workshops were held, in collaboration with RIHN’s Ecological Recycling Project, between November 2017 and August
2018, with the participation of local residents, governmental officers, and civic engineers (Figure 1, c). These workshops yielded
concrete ideas for solutions such as making a herbarium with endemic species of waterweed.

The workshops also revealed the necessity of a value change so that an increasing number of people who would want waterweed
compost, and the importance of a point system to acknowledge those who removed drifted waterweed (Figure 1, b) and madecompost. These ideas and concepts were converged to develop a portal website on local social and environmental information
about Lake Biwa, into which news and updates on waterweed recycling are embedded. Through the workshops and subsequentbusiness meetings for development of the portal website, progress was clearly made in community building to scale up thewaterweed compost recycling to a regional business. It is also notable that a suggestion from the project was reflected in theecological conservation plan of Shiga Prefecture (Mother Lake 21 Plan Phase 2) in 2018.

○Project Members◎ KONDO, Yasuhisa○ KUMAZAWA,
Terukazu○ OSAWA, Tsuyoshi○ KANO, Kei( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Associate Professor,Coordination & Synthesis )( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Associate Professor,Meta-analysis (satoyama
conservation in Kizugawa) )( Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences,Senior Researcher,Meta-analysis (open data in natural
resorvoir) )( Shiga University,Associate Professor,Theory (science & policy communication) )91
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Ken'ichiro○ ONISHI, Hideyuki( Hiroshima University,Associate Professor,Theory (social psychology) )This Core Project has been more feasible than the previous form through the reformation in response to the following commentsfrom the EREC 2017.

● What is to be researched did not become very clear... some Committee members were left wondering what the ultimate goal of
the project is.
Keep in mind that this is a meta-research project, focusing on scientists' stewardship to others and society. The ultimate goal is toestablish the transdisciplinary team science methodology based on the open science paradigm under which scientific research is
conducted open by default.
● The project still needs to develop greater conceptual depth by clearly distinguishing knowledge and information and byconsidering values.
This Core Project applies the data-information-knowledge-wisdom model proposed by Bellinger et al. (2004). Values andsocioeconomic status have been taken into account in the information asymmetry reduction model.

Research Projects○ Future Themes

RIHN( Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts,Professor,Meta-analysis (heritage conservation &tourism) )○ NAKAHARA,Satoe( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Researcher,Meta-analysis (waterweed in Lake Biwa) )ABE, Hiroshi( Kyoto University,Professor,Theory (philosophy) )ASANO, Satoshi( Lake Biwa Enviromental Research Institute,Researcher,Meta-analysis (waterweed in Lake Biwa) )IKEUCHI, Ui( Bunkyo University,Lecturer,Policy communication (open science) )OHTA Kazuhiko( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Researcher,Theory (environmental ethics) )OKUDA,Noboru( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Associate Professor,Meta-analysis (waterweed in Lake
Biwa) )KAMATANI, Kaoru( College of Gastronomy Management,Ritsumeikan University,Associate Professor,Meta-analysis(waterweed in Lake Biwa) )KITAMOTO, Asanobu ( National Institute of Infirmatics,Associate Professor,Theory (information & society) )KOSHIHARA,Mikio ( Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo,Professor,Meta-analysis (built heritage inOman) )SATO Ken`ichi( Faculity of Life Science, Kyoto Sangyo University NPO Hatenathon co-creative lab,Professor
President,Visualization (Hatenathon) )SHIMOYAMA Sayoko ( LinkDate.org,Representative director,Meta-analysis (civic tech) )SEKINO, Tasuki( International Research Center for Japanese Studies,Professor,Visualization (object-activity
diagram) )TAYASU, Ichiro( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Professor,Meta-analysis (isotope knowledge forsociety) )NAKATSUKA Takeshi ( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Professor,Meta-analysis (environmental change andsociety) )HAYASHI Kengo( Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo,Lecturer,Meta-analysis (built heritage inOman) )HAYASHI Koji
( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Researcher,Meta-analysis (small-scale water supply in
Furano) )HAYASHI, Kazuhiro ( National Institute of Science and Technology Policy,Senior Research Fellow,Policy communication(open science) )FUKUNAGA Mayumi ( Graduate School of Frontier Sciences,the University of Tokyo,Associate professor,Theory(environmental ethics) )FUJISAWA Eiichi( Ohmi DI Corporation Code for Shiga/Biwako,CEO and President Representative,Meta-analysis(waterweed in Lake Biwa) )MIYATA,Akihiro( Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo,PhD student,Theory (philosophy) )MURAYAMA,( National Institute of Information and Communications Technology,Director,Policy communication
Yasuhiro(open science) )YAMAUCHI,Taro( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Professor,Meta-analysis (sanitation in Zambia) )BENKARI, Naima( College of Engineering,Sultan Qaboos University,Assistant Professor,Meta-analysis (built heritagein Oman) )Vienni Baptista,Bianca ( ETH Z?rich TD Lab,Postdoctoral Researcher,Theory (transdisciplinarity) )92
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● Exactly what kind of gaps are to be bridged?
The information asymmetry in understanding the focal issues and other actors.
● The approach seems to lead to a relatively mechanistic view of communication.
The measurement targets the mental effects of information asymmetry reduction.
● The references to other projects were stated but sounded rather random.
Release of domination has been identified as a common meta-issue in information asymmetry reduction. This is realised byswitched explanation in the pair of ID projects and by community empowerment in the TD and transitional projects.
● Overcoming knowledge information gap among actors should be approached both from researcher side and non-researcher
side.
● How to define and evaluate the information gap? Who make the evaluation, who has the right and position to judge it?
The focus of this Core Project has been shifted to measuring the effects of information asymmetry reduction from both researcher
and non-researcher sides.
● The project should not only focus on the Japanese culture but should simultaneously on Western culture.
To this end, this Core Project seeks collaborations with the stewardship team (Maria Tengö et al.) from the Stockholm ResilienceCentre, the US National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC), and other relevant institutes.
● There is a big gap between what is translated into English and what the presenter really meant in Japanese. A very serious
coaching is needed to make this project fundable.
Professor Hisae Nakanishi is consulting on this year's proposal. English wording has been checked by Steven McGreevy.

●Achievements○Books【Chapters/Sections】

・ Meddah, M.S., Benkari, N., Al-Busaidi, M 2019,02 Potential Use of Locally and Traditionally Produced Bending
Construction Material. IOP Conf. Ser.: Mater. Sci. Eng. DOI:10.1088/1757-899X/471/4/042008
・Vienni, B. and C. Hidalgo 2018,07 Encrucijadas interdisciplinarias: cruces y encuentros en América Latina (Interdisciplinary
crossroads: exchanges and encounters in Latin America). Encrucijadas interdisciplinarias. , In: Hidalgo, pp.5-12. (Other)・Simon, C, B. Vienni, J. Taks and G. Cruz 2018,07 Aportes interdisciplinarios para el caso de estudios de la sequía agronómica
en Uruguay. , In: Hidalgo, pp.31-46. (Other)○Editing【Editing / Co-editing】

・Yoshihiro Nishiaki, Seiji Kadowaki, Yasuhisa Kondo (ed.) 2018,12 PaleoAsia 2018 The International Workshop: Cultural
History of PaleoAsia – Integrative Research on the Formative Process of Modern Human Cultures in Asia. PaleoAsia Project
Series, 17. PaleoAsia Project Group, Tokyo, 112pp.
・Vienni, B (ed.) 2018,11 Interdisciplina y Transdisciplina. Revista ClimaCom, Brazi,
・Hidalgo, C; B. Vienni and C. Simón (ed.) 2018,09 Encrucijadas interdisciplinarias(Interdisciplinary crossroads). Colección
Ciencia y Sociedad. Editorial CICCUS, Buenos Aires,Argentina, (Other) http://www.ciccus.org.ar/ed/book/encrucijadasinterdisciplinarias/
・Tara Beuzen-Waller, Friederike Stock, Yasuhisa Kondo Tara Beuzen-Waller, Friederike Stock, Yasuhisa Kondo eds. (ed.)
2018,07 Geoarchaeology: A toolbox for revealing latent data in sedimentological and archaeological records. QuaternaryInternational, 483. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 210pp.

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Research Projects○Papers【Original Articles】

・Vienni, B 2018,11 La institucionalización de la investigación inter- y transdisciplinaria: algunas experiencias del Desarrollo(Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary institutionalization: some experiences from Development). Dossier Interdisciplina andTransdisciplina. Revista ClimaCom. (Other) (reviewed). Original Research・ Kudo, M., Yoshizawa, G. and Kano, K. 2018,10 Engaging with policy practitioners How to cite to promote
institutionalisation of public participation in science, technology and innovation policy. JCOM 17(04). DOI:
10.22323/2.17040801 (reviewed).
・Tatsuki Sekino 2018,10 Representation and comparison of uncertain temporal data based on duration. Proceedings of the2018 Pacific Neighborhood Consortium Annual Conference and Joint Meetings . DOI:10.23919/PNC.2018.8579465(reviewed).
・Mizuno, K., A. Asada, S. Ban, Y. Uehara, T. Ishida & N. Okuda 2018,06 Validation of a high-resolution acoustic imaging
sonar method by estimating the biomass of submerged plants in shallow water. Ecological Informatics 46:179-184. DOI:
10.1016/j.ecoinf.2018.07.002 (reviewed).
・Shimizu,H.Nakashima,K 2018,09 Interpersonal benefits of defensive pessimism: defensive pessimism and negative focus
interact to predict positive evaluation. Psychologia 60(2):97-109. DOI:10.2117/psysoc.2017.97 (reviewed).
・Yasuhisa Kondo,Kazuhiro Hayashi,Asanobu Kitamoto 2018,07 Multifaceted workshops to envision the future of open
science with society. Proceedings of 2018 7th International Congress on Advanced Applied Informatics:466-469. (reviewed).
・ Shimizu,H,Nakashima,K.I,Morinaga,Y 2018,06 The Role of Individual Factors in Friendship Formation: Considering
Shyness, Self‐Esteem, Social Skills, and Defensive Pessimism. Japanese Psychological Research. DOI:10.1111/jpr.12201(reviewed).
・ Furukawa,Y.,Nakashima, K. I., Morinaga, Y. 2018,06 Guilt Signals a Crisis of Rejection:Two Types of Individual
Differences Related to Social Rejection Have Dissimilar Effects onGuilt and Compensatory Behavior. Japanese
Psychological Research 61(1):1-11. DOI:10.1111/jpr.12199 (reviewed).
○Research Presentations【Oral Presentation】

・ŌNISHI, Hideyuki Hybridization of two different cultural groups in the Ainu history. PaleoAsia2018 International Workshop:
Cultural History of PaleoAsia-Integrative Research on the Formative Processes of Modern Human Cultures in Asia,
2018.12.15-2018.12.18, Kyoto, Japan.
・Satoe Nakahara Perceptions of the Radiation Disaster from H-bomb Testing in the Marshall Islands. 40th UGAT Annual
Conference an International Gathering, 2018.11.08-2018.11.10, Puerto Princesa, Philippines.
・Satoe Nakahara The Ethics of Field Work with Rongelap Exposed to Radiation of H-Bomb Testing: Why Did the Rongelap
People Refuse Money from Research Fund?”. 18th International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences(IUAES) World Congress, 2018.07.14-2018.07.20, Florianópolis, Brazil.
・Kondo, Yasuhisa and Hideyuki ONISHI Lexical analysis of the concept of culture in the PaleoAsia project. PaleoAsia2018
International Workshop: Cultural History of PaleoAsia- Integrative Research on the Formative Processes of Modern Human
Cultures in Asia, 2018.12.16-2018.12.18, 京都市.
・Akira Saito, Yasuhisa Kondo, Nozomi Mizota, Tomoko Koyama Contribution of the digital humanities methods to theconstruction of an overall picture of Francisco de Toledo’s reducciones. 56° Congres Internacional de Americanistas,
2018.07.15-2018.07.20, Salamanca, Spain.
・Tatsuki Sekino Representation and Comparison of Uncertain Temporal Data based on Duration. Pacific Neighborhood
Consortium Annual Conference 2018, 2018.10.27-2018.10.30, San Francisco, USA.

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・Goñi, M., B. Vienni,F. Ferrigno 2018,11 Modalidades de trabajo en equipos interdisciplinarios: formatos, conceptos y
dificultades. Una mirada desde Uruguay (Working modalities in interdisciplinary teams: formats, concepts and difficulties. A
perspective from Uruguay). Dossier Interdisciplina and Transdisciplina. Revista ClimaCom. (Other) (reviewed). OriginalResearch

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・ Yasuhisa Kondo; Atsushi Noguchi; Takehiro Miki; Tara Beuzen-Waller; Stéphane Desruelles; Éric Fouache 2018,09
Archaeological sites in the Wilayat Ibri, Adh Dhahirah Governorate. The Journal of Oman Studies 18:201-227. (reviewed).

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・Yasuhisa Kondo Interlinking open science to community-based participatory research for socio-environmental cases. The 3rdInternational Symposium on Decision Science for Future Earth: Transdisciplinary Science in Practice, 2018.09.24, 福岡県福岡市.
・Tatsuki Sekino HuTime Tutorial. The 3rd International Workshop on the Academic Asset Preservations and Sharing inSoutheast Asia. 2018.08.23-24, INTEKMA Resort & Convention Center, 2018.08.23-2018.08.24, Shah Alam, Slangor Darul
Ehsan, Malaysia.
・Yasuhisa Kondo, Kazuhiro Hayashi, Asanobu Kitamoto Contribution of the digital humanities methods to the construction ofan overall picture of Francisco de Toledo’s reducciones. IIAI AAI 2018, 2018.07.08-2018.07.13, 米子.
・ŌNISHI, Hideyuki Ainu historical heritage as common property of the local community. CHAGS (Conference on Hunting
and Gathering Societies)XII Universiti Sains Malaysia, July 2018, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia.
・Meddah, M. S., Benkari, N., Al-Busaidi, M Potential Use of Locally and Traditionally Produced Bending Construction
Material. 3rd World Multidisciplinary civil Engineering-Architecture-Urban planning symposium (WMCAUS) 2018,2018.06.18-2018.06.22, Prague, Czech Republic.
・Yasuhisa Kondo, Ge Wang, Ui Ikeuchi, Kei Kano, Terukazu Kumazawa, Ken’ichiro Nakashima, Hideyuki Onishi, Takeshi
Osawa, Tatsuki Sekino A new team-based research methodology for socio-environmental cases in the open science era. 日本
地球惑星科学連合 2018 年大会, 2018.05.20-2018.05.24, 千葉市.
・Tatsuki Sekino Linked open data about calendrical periods. International Workshop on Spatio-Temporal Knowledge, May
2018, Taiwan.
【Poster Presentation】

・Yasuhisa Kondo, Yoko Iwamoto Network analysis of the interdisciplinary co-authorship of the PaleoAsia project. PaleoAsia
2018 International Workshop, 2018.12.15-2018.12.18, Kyoto International Conference Center and Research Institute for
Humanity and Nature (Kyoto, Japan).
・Yasuhisa Kondo, Hideyuki Onishi, Yoko Iwamoto Lexical analysis of the concept of culture in the PaleoAsia project.
PaleoAsia 2018 International Workshop, 2018.12.15-2018.12.18, Kyoto International Conference Center and ResearchInstitute for Humanity and Nature (Kyoto, Japan).
・Yasuhisa Kondo, Ge Wang, Ui Ikeuchi, Kei Kano, Terukazu Kumazawa, Ken’ichiro Nakashima, Hideyuki Onishi, Takeshi
Osawa, Tatsuki Sekino Information asymmetry reduction in open team science: call for international collaborators. SESYNC
2018 Boundary Spanning Symposium, 2018.06.11-2018.06.13, Annapolis, MD, USA.
・Yasuhisa Kondo, Ge Wang, Ui Ikeuchi, Kei Kano, Terukazu Kumazawa, Ken’ichiro Nakashima, Hideyuki Onishi, Takeshi
Osawa, Tatsuki Sekino Information asymmetry reduction in open team science: call for international collaborators. SESYNC
2018 Boundary Spanning Symposium, 2018.06.11-2018.06.13, Annapolis, MD, USA.
【Invited Lecture / Honorary Lecture / Panelist】

・Yasuhisa Kondo Interlinking open science to community-based participatory research for socio-environmental cases. The 3rdInternational Symposium on Decision Science for Future Earth: Transdicsiplinary Science in Practice, 2018.09.24, JR Hakata
City Conference Center.
・ŌNISHI, Hideyuki . Long-Term History on Ecological-Cultural Diversity in Northeast Asia Discussant Regional Structure
and Its Change in Northeast Asia: In Search of the Way to Coexist from the Point of View of Transborderism, September
2018, Osaka, Japan.
・Satoe Nakahara The Importance of Knowledge and Social Network in the Community Reconstruction after Atomic Bomb
Testing in the Marshall Islands. 2018 Nuclear Security Summit, 2018.12.11-2018.12.12, Washington DC, US.
・Yasuhisa Kondo Data-driven approach to identify early modern humans’ ecological niche and optimal dispersal routes inEurasia. Landscape Archaeology Conference 2018, 2018.09.17-2018.09.20, Newcastle, UK.
・Vienni, B Experiencias y desafíos de la institucionalización de la interdisciplina en América Latina. Instituto Integración del
Saber, Universidad Católica de Argentina, 2018.10.17, Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Other)
・Vienni, B Challenges of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary knowledge production: institutions, cultures and communities.
Open Team Science Int’l Seminar, 2018.10.05, RIHN, Kyoto, Japan.

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Stage: Pre-Research

Head of Division: SAKAKIBARA Masayuki○ Research Subject and Objectives

Mercury (Hg) is a toxic metal that seriously threatens the embryonic and early-childhood development of humans, and extremely
poisonous to the human body. Mercury pollution is one of the most serious environmental issues and requires global action for its
resolution (e.g. Gibb & O’Leary, 2014). Recent investigations by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) havehighlighted the enormity of Hg pollution in developing countries and the associated harmful effects on human health andecosystems. One of the main causes of Hg pollution is Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM), in which Hg is used as
the traditional method of amalgamation to extract gold from the ore rock and emit 37% of global anthropogenic Hg into theatmosphere (Fig. 9-1). This method is quicker, simpler, and more cost-effective than alternative methods, and is widely used inmany ASGM communities (UNECA, 2002; Gibb & O’Leary, 2014). According to data from the UNEP, ASGM produces
15-20 % of global gold market. Almost 15 million people, including about 3 million women and children, participate in ASGM
activities in more than 70 countries. The Hg pollution generated during ASGM indirectly affects more than 100 million people
worldwide (UN, 2012; UNEP, 2013; ELI, 2014). Those ASGM activities are also sources of social problems, such as land tenure
issues, social instability such as migration, and conflict between residents. The vicious cycle relating to poverty andenvironmental degradation in developing countries has long been discussed (WCED, 1987; World Bank, 1992; UNEP, 1995).
However, the behavioural patterns that make it difficult for those living under chronically impoverished conditions to escapefrom those conditions are still not well understood (Sen, 1999; Banerjee & Duflo, 2011). The Minamata Convention on Hg is a
global treaty established to protect human health and the environment from the adverse effects of Hg. The Convention addresses
ASGM and the development of national plans to manage ASGM.
The objectives of our FR is 1) to understand the link between poverty reduction and environmental management in ASGM areas,2) to establish a process for constructing sustainable societies through regional innovations in ASGM areas, and 3) to strengthen
environmental governance in ASEAN countries.
2. Methodology, structure and schedule
In our FR, we will conduct within the context of all ASEAN countries:a) Case studies on reduction of Hg pollution using a future scenario of ASGM in Indonesia and Myanmar
FR members will (1) undertake environmental impact assessments; (2) study living conditions, cultures, history, andregional sociology; (3) cultivate or organize transdisciplinary communities of practice (TDCOPs) used bytransdisciplinary boundary object (TBO); (4) co-create future scenarios; (5) co-design and co-production of action plans;and (6) evaluate the progress of regional innovation by social, and economic studies.
b) Study on interregional networks that aim to generate Hg-free societies in Indonesia and Myanmar
The study of interregional networks will be conducted in three steps: (1) the construction of an exchange platform for
information and collaboration on the management of Hg (2) the improvement of organizational and communication capacities;and (3) strengthening the communication policy to local and central governments.
c) Study on improvements in environmental governance in ASEAN countries
FR members will study the principles and processes used for multilayer and co-operative environmental governance. We will
also investigate to strengthen the environmental governance of the ASEAN countries. In collaboration with the Japan Association
for UNEP (JAUNEP), our FR will support the establishment of UNEP association in each country of ASEAN to tackle global
environmental problems, such as the Hg pollution, at the level of the private sector.
d) Theoretical and practical studies of the design, practical use, and evaluation of TBO, and cultivation, development
process, and roles of TDCOPFR members will design TBOs, practically use, and evaluate them to cultivate the development processes of TDCOPs with thecollaboration of key stakeholders (SHs) at the study areas.
3. Expected results

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1. Problem, background, and objectives

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Division Name: Co-Creation of Sustainable Regional Innovation for Reducing Risk of High-impact Environmental
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The regional innovation will arise as a consequence of environmental and industrial innovations introduced with atransdisciplinary approach, including the development of a future scenario for an Hg-free society, the co-creation and practicalapplication of TBOs, and the mobilization of TDCOPs. By strengthening environmental governance, which consists of multiple
layers of co-operative organizations, we will also develop a route via which the problem of global environmental Hg pollution
can be resolved.
4. Project organization and membership
The research organization consists of 1) communicator, 2) culture, history, and behavioral transformation group, 3) social sciencegroup, 4) natural science group, 5) technological development group, and 6) project management group.
5. Contribution to the program
Our research project on Southeast Asia will contribute to Program 3. In Southeast Asia, the environmental disruption, biologicaldiversity disappearance, expansion of the difference of the poverty and wealth, and traditional culture disappearance areprogressing by the rapid expansion of the human activities. Moreover, the degradation of living space and the increased risk ofglobal environmental pollution by ASGM activities in rural communities are accelerated by poverty. It will provide a concrete
framework for realizing a sustainable society from this research, and in that we will propose the change to society with a concrete
future possibility. Furthermore, Our FR project will take in the technique of the future design and future scenario which Program
3 has proposed as an effective technique for solving problem of regional society.

○ Progress and Results in 2018

1. Revised Research Plan in the PR
During the PR, our research plan submitted at the beginning of PR has been changed partially. It is based on the request of
Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation in Myanmar. It was judged by the core members that this change
was important as it could develop our project more. The changed portion is to add the Mandalay region, Myanmar to the casestudy. The research plan is partially revised as shown in the following underline part (Fig. 9-2 & 3).
a) Case studies on reduction of Hg pollution using a future scenario of ASGM in Indonesia and Myanmar: We have been
investigating the natural resources, and biological resource, Hg pollution of nature and human, and resident health effect, socialeconomy evaluation, and cultural history in Gorontalo and Bombana areas in Indonesia, and evaluated the present conditions ofeach ASGM area from a viewpoint of social capital. As for Myanmar, we have started the dialogues with Ministry of Natural
Resources and Environmental Conservation in Mandalay Region and Nay Pyi Taw, and NGO, and co-design a research schedule.
In addition to the above, in Indonesia, we have identified the key SHs during the dialogue process with the residents by thecommunicators. We have also co-created the future scenario for the reduction of Hg pollution with various SHs. Moreover, someof the TDCOPs are organized by the collaboration with the key SHs.
(b) Study on interregional networks that aim to generate Hg-free societies in Indonesia and Myanmar: We have been
establishing the website of research network "Hg-Free Society Networks" by the Indonesian citizens’ participation, and aiming
to share the information related to the Hg pollution by ASGM, etc. As a target in the period of PR, we aim to have more than
1,000 members of the website. We also start the preparation for establishing a website for Myanmar people to share theinformation on Hg pollution.
(c) Study on improvements in environmental governance in ASEAN countries: We utilized the network formed from FS to
PR, obtained a collaboration of the Japan UNEP association, and held the seminar for sharing knowledge and future collaboration
with politicians, the administration persons, company staffs, researchers, the NGO person, and citizens. We have started the
dialogs with the Myanmar government officials on an UNEP association in Myanmar.
(d) Theoretical and practical studies of the design, practical use, and evaluation of transformative boundary object(TBO), and cultivation, development process, and roles of transdisciplinary community of practice (TDCOP): We havestarted the dialog, obtained the reliability and agreement with the important and isolated SHs, and revealed practically what kindof TBO brings about the transformation to the actors in Indonesia and Myanmar.
2. Project Progress During the PR Period
In the case study (a), we have propelled the studies on the natural resource including the solid and fluid earth resources, andbiological resource, Hg pollution of the nature and human, and resident health effect, social-economy evaluation, and cultural
history in Gorontalo and Bombana areas in Indonesia. In particular, in the Bone Bolango Regency, Gorontalo Regency, andNorth Gorontalo Regency, the studies were conducted as the investigations of each ASGM site by 16 members. The investigationof Hg pollution and resident health effect were conducted in all the ASGM areas in these regencies. Moreover, baseline
investigation for the statistical social-economy evaluation in FR was conducted as the important result. 20 key SHs wereidentified during the dialog process with the residents. In addition, we co-created a draft of the future scenario for the reduction

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Research Projectsof Hg pollution with some key SHs. Furthermore, three TDCOPs were organized or cultivated by collaboration with the FR
members and key SHs. In the meantime, the establishment of a preparatory committee for the Gorontalo Global Geopark wasworked on. The seminar on preparatory committee establishment was held in September and it was sponsored by the Gorontalo
Province, and the PL gave a special lecture about the potential and socioeconomic effect by the Gorontalo Global Geopark.
On (b) a study of interregional networks that aim to generate Hg-free societies in Indonesia, we have established the website ofresearch network between areas in November: " Hg Free Society Networks " by the Indonesia citizen participation, and share theinformation related with the Hg pollution by ASGM etc. More than 300 members already have joined to the facebook page of "Hg Free Society Networks " in the early January 2019.

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In the research (c) on environmental governance strengthening by the countries’ citizen participation in Southeast Asia, westarted the concertation with the administration officials of Indonesia and Myanmar in the PR. First, we had three meetings: inMarch, May, and July in 2018 with Dr. Emil Salim, the 1st Minister of Environment for discussions and exchanges of opinions
about ASGM in Indonesia. Moreover, we visited Myanmar and held the meetings with senior officials: Director of Ministry of
Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation, Environmental Conservation Department in Mandalay City and then with
Director General and other senior officials of Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation, Environmental
Conservation Department in Nay Pyi Taw city in Myanmar and explained the purpose and plan of our FR. We have agreed on thecollaboration with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation, Environmental Conservation Department
offices, and advancing the processes at this moment. In February, we concluded on MoU between the Ministry and RIHN after
sharing the details of the contents of our FR in December.

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In the research (d), the FR member show the results of some domestic case studies on community of practice. We also started
the dialog with the important and isolated SHs.
In addition, we held the 3rd International Conference of Transdisciplinary Research on Environmental Problems in Southeast
Asia (TREPSEA2018) at the State University of Gorontalo in Gorontalo City, Indonesia. More than 200 participants: researchers,scientists, and SHs from five countries: Indonesia, Japan, Lesotho, Myanmar and Vietnam took part in the conference. We
showed the research plan of our PR and FR and discussed how we can solve the environmental problem including ASGM in the
ASEAN countries. This result will be published in Elsevier as a post-proceeding book with refereeing the end of 2019. Moreover,
we co-sponsored the international seminar “1st ASEAN-Japan Meeting Point of Collaboration by SHs and Researchers for
Reducing Environmental Problems in ASEAN Countries” on 8-9th December in Bandung Institute of Technology in Bandung
City, Indonesia. More than 120 researchers and SHs attended the seminar from seven ASEAN countries and Japan.

○Project Members◎ SAKAKIBARA,( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Professor,Research supervisor )Masayuki○ TANAKA, Katsuya( Shiga University,Professor,Multivariate statistics of propensity score on economics )○ MATSUDA, Hiroyuki ( Yokohama National University,Professor,Leader of Natural Science Group )○ SHIMAGAMI, Motoko ( Ehime University,Associate Professor,Sociology of community in ASGM area )○ MATSUMOTO, Yuichi ( Kwansei Gakuin University,Professor,Theoretical and practical studies on TDCOP )○ KASAMATSU, Hiroki ( Ehime University,Senior Assistant Professor,Sociology of the local community in ASGM area )○ BOBBY( Network Activities Groups,Chief Executive Officer,Practice of action program and its managementin Myanmar )○ KIMIJIMA, Satomi( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Reseacher,Case studies of ASGM sites in Indonesia
and Myammar )○ KAUNG, Xiaoxu( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Reseacher,Chemical analysis of environmental
samples )○ WIN THIRI KYAW
( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Reseacher,Medical study on mercury toxicity in
Myanmar )KOMATSU, Satoru( Nagasaki University,Associate Professor,Social economic evaluation in ASGM area )YAMAMOTO, Yuki
( Nagasaki University,Associate Professor,Social economic evaluation in ASGM area )NARABAYASHI, Kenji( Ehime University,Professor,Environmental Law in Southeast Asian Countries )KITAMURA, Kenji( Kanazawa Univirsity,Assistant Professor,Theoretical study on TDCOP )ABE, Akira( Mie Prefectural College Of Nursing,Professor,Theoretical research on poverty and environmental
ethic problems )MIYAKITA, Takeshi ( Kumamoto Gakuen University,Professor,Research on a reconstruction of community /Epidemiologic survey on ASGM areas )SAYANAGI, Nobuo( Yamanashi Eiwa College,Associate Professor,Psychological study on poverty in ASEAN
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YAMAGUCHI,( ESPEC MIC Corp.,Chief of Nagoya office,Technological support for the development of plant
Tsutomuproducts )SUGAWARA, Hisanari ( Gunma Museum of Natural History,Curator,Study on community management of global geopark )Okamoto, Ikuko( Toyo University,Professor,Study on internatioal development )MIYASAKI, Hidetoshi ( National Museum of Ethnology,Visiting Researcher,Case study of ASGM site in Mandalay Region,
Myanmar )ITO, Yutaka( Akita Universitu,Lecturer,Social economic evaluation in ASGM area )WATANABE, Yasuko ( Watanabe-tette,CEO,Design development of traditional hand-craft "Karawang" in Gorontalo
province )KOIZUMI, Hatsue( Soshisha, the Minamata Disease Museum,Staff,Sociology of community in ASGM area )ABBAS, Habo
( Universitas Islam Indonesia,Lecturer and Researcher,Medical geology of traditional smelters in
Hasriwiani
Sulawesi )BASRI( College of Health Sciences Makassar,Lecturer and Researcher,Environmental science in ASGM
area in Bombana Regency, Southeast Sulawesi Province, Indonesia )PRASETIA, Hendra( Development of bioindicator using dendrochemistry )GAFUR, Abdul Nurfitri ( Ehime University,Graduate student,Environmental science in ASGM area in Bone Bolango
Regency )PATEDA, Sri Manovita ( Ehime University,Graduate student,Development of bioindicator on mercury exposure )BASIR( Ehime University,Graduate student,Case study in Bombana Regency, Southeast Sulawesi Province,
Indonesia )BADARU, Arifia( Ehime University,Graduate student,Survey of geosites in Gorontalo Geopark Concept )Warapsari
PULUHULAWA,( Gorontalo State University,Professor,Research on environmental low in Indonesia )Usman Fenty
LALIYO, Abdul Rauf ( Gorontalo State University,Associate Professor,Study of governance of public government inLukmanIndonesia )MOHAMAD, Jahja( Gorontalo State University,Associate Professor,Physical analytical study on natural products )ARIFIN, Indriati Yayu ( Gorontalo State University,Lecturer and Researcher,Study of medical geology in Gorontalo
Province, Indonesia )BAGA, Magdalena( Gorontalo State University,Lecturer and Researcher,Cultural science and anthropogenic study inGorontalo, Indonesia )ZAENAL, Abidin( Bogor Agricultural University,Lecturer and Researcher,Development of environmental remediationmaterials )KARDENA, Edwan( Institut Teknology Bandung,Associate Professor,Study of environmental governance in Indonesia )KURNUAWAN, Andri ( Institut Teknology Bandung,Lecturer and Researcher,Basic study of Geopark, Case study of ASGM
Idham
site in Southern Bandung area, Indonesia )ARIFIN, Bustanul( University of Lampung,Professor,Socioeconomic evaluation of agricultural areas in Gorontalo
province )INTANASRI, Rizky( Indonesian Public Health Association,Chief Officer,Local communicator )Zahra
MUHAMMAD, Gobel ( Local communicator )MOHAD, Lamanasa( Local communicator )JOMAE, Kyoko( Ehime University,Clerical Assistant,Project management )MYO HAN HTUN
( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Research Associate,Management on websites andSupporting FR researchers )TAKEHARA, Mari
( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Research Associate,Project management )○ Future Themes(1) Acquisition of research funds for project implementation
In the case study (a), we have propelled the studies on the natural resource including the solid and fluid earth resources, andbiological resource, Hg pollution of the nature and human, and resident health effect, social-economy evaluation, and cultural
history in Gorontalo and Bombana areas in Indonesia. In the Bone Bolango Regency, Gorontalo Regency, and North Gorontalo
Regency, the studies were conducted as the investigations of each ASGM site. The investigation of Hg pollution and resident
health effect also were conducted in all the ASGM areas in these regencies. Moreover, baseline investigation for the statisticalsocial-economy evaluation in FR was conducted as the important result. 20 key SHs were identified during the dialog processwith the residents. In addition, we co-created a draft of the future scenario for the reduction of Hg pollution with some key SHs.
Furthermore, three TDCOPs were organized or cultivated by collaboration with the FR members and key SHs. In the meantime,the establishment of a preparatory committee for the Gorontalo Global Geopark was worked on. The biggest issue is the

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acquisition of research expenses. Myanmar case studies will start from this fiscal year, but further research funding is essential
for that. This issue will be addressed by all core members to be resolved in the past year.
(2) On the establishment the system for the inter-regional network

In the research (c) on environmental governance strengthening by the countries’ citizen participation in Southeast Asia, westarted the concertation with the administration officials of Indonesia and Myanmar in the PR. First, we had three meetings: inMarch, May, and July in 2018 with Dr. Emil Salim, the 1st Minister of Environment for discussions and exchanges of opinions
about ASGM in Indonesia. Moreover, we visited Myanmar and held the meetings with senior officials: Director of Ministry of
Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation, Environmental Conservation Department in Mandalay City and then with
Director General and other senior officials of Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation, Environmental
Conservation Department in Nay Pyi Taw city in Myanmar and explained the purpose and plan of our FR. We have agreed on thecollaboration with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation, Environmental Conservation Department
offices, and advancing the processes at this moment. In February, members of both Environment Conservation Departments wereinvited to RIHN, and the preparations for signing the memorandum between the central government and the Mandalay regional
government and RIHN had been started. We will plan to launch this effort in nine other countries. Japan's UNEP will be able tocooperate in all these activities, and we will continue to work with them in dialogue with the governments of each country.

●Achievements○Papers【Original Articles】

・Pateda, S. M., Sakakibara, M. and Sera 2018,11 Lung Function Assessment as an Early Biomonitor of Mercury-Induced
Health Disorders in Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining Areas in Indonesia. International Journal of Environmental
Research and Public Health 2018 15(11). DOI:10.3390/ijerph15112480 (reviewed).
・Iwasaki Y., Kagaya T., Matsuda H. 2018,10 Comparing macroinvertebrate assemblages at organic-contaminated river sites
with different zinc concentrations: Metal-sensitive taxa may already be absent. Environmental Pollution(241):272-278.
DOI:doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2018.05.041 (reviewed).
・Matsumoto, Y. 2018,10 Case study on enhancing learning in communities of practice: Non-canonical view and boundary
crossing. Journal of Business Management 41:52-63. (in Japanese) (reviewed).
・Hossain A., Nakamichi T., Habibullah-Al-Mamun M., Tani K., Masunaga S., Matsuda H. 2018,08 Occurrence and Ecological
Risk of Pharmaceuticals in River Surface Water of Bangladesh. Environmental Research(165):258-266. DOI:doi.org/
10.1016/j.envres.2018.04.030 (reviewed).
・Gafur, N. A., Sakakibara, M., Sano, S., and Sera, K. 2018,10 A Case Study of Heavy Metal Pollution in Water of BoneRiver by Artisanal Small-Scale Gold Mine Activities in Eastern Part of Gorontalo, Indonesia. . Water 10(1507):1-10. DOI:
10.3390/w10111507 (reviewed).
○Research Presentations【Oral Presentation】

・ Sakakibara, M Futurability of Gorontalo Geopark- Promoting Earth Heritage & Sustaining Local Communities. ,2018.09.04-2018.09.04, Gorontalo Province, Indonesia.
・Kasamatsu, H. Sakakibara, M., Tanaka, K., Komatsu, S. and Shimagami, M. Transdisciplinary approaches for creation
innovative livelihood alternatives in high environmental loading areas affected by mercury pollution in Indonesia. World
Social Science Forum, 2018.09.25-2018.09.28, Fukuoka International Congress Center, Fukuoka city.

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On (b) a study of interregional networks that aim to generate Hg-free societies in Indonesia, we have established the website ofresearch network between areas in November: " Hg Free Society Networks " by the Indonesia citizen participation, and share theinformation related with the Hg pollution by ASGM etc. More than 350 members already have joined to the facebook page of "Hg Free Society Networks " in the early January 2019. However, the maintenance of the system including the contents is notnecessarily sufficient. It is essential to add human resources as well as cost issues. Currently, we are calling on some participating
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・Shimagami, M., Kasamatsu, H. and Sakakibara, M. Kikigaki Program as a Transformative Boundary Object for Stimulating
Sustainable Refional Innovation through Cross-generational Urban-Rural Interaction: Case studies from Japan and Indonesia.
he 3rd international conference of the Transdisciplinary Reseach on Environmental Problems in Southeaset Asia(TREPSEA),
2018.08.11-2018.08.12, Hotel TC Damhil UNG ,Gorontalo, Indonesia.
・Basri and Sakakbiara, M. Health Impact Assessment of Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in Bomabana, Southeast
Sulawesi, Indonesia. The 3rd international conference of the Transdisciplinary Reseach on Environmental Problems inSoutheaset Asia(TREPSEA), 2018.08.11-2018.08.12, Hotel TC Damhil UNG ,Gorontalo, Indonesia.
・Arifin, Y.I., Sakakbiara, M. and Sera, K. Assessing impact of artisanal and small scale gold mining activities on inhabitants
and miners: a case study in Bolaang Mongohdow, North Sulawesi Province, Indonesia. The 3rd international conference of
the Transdisciplinary Reseach on Environmental Problems in Southeaset Asia(TREPSEA), 2018.08.11-2018.08.12, Hotel TC
Damhil UNG ,Gorontalo, Indonesia.
・Hendra Prasetia , Sakakibra, M. and Sera, K. Atmospheric Mercury Contamination Assessment Using Various Tree Bark in
an ASGM Area in North Gorontalo Regency, Indonesia. The 3rd international conference of the Transdisciplinary Reseachon Environmental Problems in Southeaset Asia(TREPSEA), 2018.08.11-2018.08.12, Hotel TC Damhil UNG ,Gorontalo,
Indonesia.
・Abbas, H.H., Sakakibara, M., Sera, K. and Sididi, M. The Social Economic and Mercury Exposure of Goldsmith in Manggala
Subdistrict of Urban Artisanal Gold Minig (UAGM) Area in Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia. The 3rd international
conference of the Transdisciplinary Reseach on Environmental Problems in Southeaset Asia(TREPSEA),
2018.08.11-2018.08.12, Hotel TC Damhil UNG ,Gorontalo, Indonesia.
・Kasamatsu, H., Shimagami, M. and Sakakibara, M. The Researchers Role and Future View of TDCOPs from Case Study of
Dihime Limboto-ko, Gorontalo District. The 3rd international conference of the Transdisciplinary Reseach on Environmental
Problems in Southeaset Asia(TREPSEA), 2018.08.11-2018.08.12, Hotel TC Damhil UNG ,Gorontalo, Indonesia.
・Andi, A., Sakakbiara, M. and Sano, S Heavy Metal Potential at Settling Pond of Coal Mining, East Kalimantan, Indonesia.
The 3rd international conference of the Transdisciplinary Reseach on Environmental Problems in Southeaset
Asia(TREPSEA), 2018.08.11-2018.08.12, Hotel TC Damhil UNG ,Gorontalo, Indonesia.
・Htun, M.H. and Sakakibara, M. Assessment of the Effectiveness of the Knowledge and Practice Based Mercury (HG) Free
Society Networks for the Reduction of Mercury Pollution Problems in ASEAN Countries. The 3rd international conferenceof the Transdisciplinary Reseach on Environmental Problems in Southeaset Asia(TREPSEA), 2018.08.11-2018.08.12, Hotel
TC Damhil UNG ,Gorontalo, Indonesia.
・Okazaki, K., Kurahashi, T., Yamazaki, S. and Sakakakibara, M. Temperature dependence for purification of leachate
containing heavy metals by phytoremediation using the artificial channel. The 3rd international conference of theTransdisciplinary Reseach on Environmental Problems in Southeaset Asia(TREPSEA), 2018.08.11-2018.08.12, Hotel TC
Damhil UNG ,Gorontalo, Indonesia.
・Sakakibara, M., Tanaka, K., Kasamatsu, H. and Shimagami, M. Co-creation of Sustainable Regional Innovation for Reducing
Risk of High-impact Environmental Pollution. The 3rd international conference of the Transdisciplinary Reseach on
Environmental Problems in Southeaset Asia(TREPSEA), 2018.08.11-2018.08.12, Hotel TC Damhil UNG ,Gorontalo,
Indonesia.
・Sri Manovita Pateda, Sakakibara, M. and Sera, K. Lung function assessment as an early biomonitor of mercury-induced
health disorders in an artisanal and smale-scale gold mining area of Gorontalo province,Indonesia. The 24th NMCC Annual
Meeting, 2018.05.11-2018.05.12, Hotel Metropolitan Morioka, Morioka city.
・Hendra Prasetia,Sakakibara, M. and Sera, K. Atmospheric mercury contamination assessment using various tree bark in an
ASGM area in North Gorontalo Rregency,Indonesia. The 24th NMCC Annual Meeting, 2018.05.11-2018.05.12, Hotel
Metropolitan Morioka, Morioka city.
【Invited Lecture / Honorary Lecture / Panelist】

・Masayuki Sakakibara Transdisciplinary Reseach and Practice for Reducing Environmental Problems in ASEAN Countries. st
ASEAN -Japan Meeting Pont of Collaboration by Stakeholders and Reseachers for Reducing Environmental Problems in
ASEAN Coutries, 2018.12.08-2018.12.09, Bandung, Indonesia.
・Masayuki Sakakibara Co-Creation of Sustainable Regional Innovation for Reducing Risk of High-impact Environmental
Pollution. International Lecturer, 2018.11.26-2018.11.26, Hasanuddin University, Makkasar, Indonesia.
・Masayuki Sakakibara Co-Creation of Sustainable Regional Innovation for Reducing Risk of High-impact Environmental
Pollution. International Lecturer, 2018.11.25-2018.11.25, Public Health Universitas Muslim Indonesia, Makkasar, Indonesia.

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・Masayuki Sakakibara Co-Creation of Sustainable Regional Innovation for Reducing Risk of High-impact Environmental
Pollution. International Lecturer, 2018.11.25-2018.11.25, School of Health Sience of Makassar, Makassar, Indonesia.

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Stage: Pre-Research
Division Name: Mapping the environmental impact footprint of cities, companies, and households
Abbreviated Title: Supply chain project
Head of Division: KANEMOTO Keiichiro
Key Words: Supply chain, MRIO, environmental impacts○ Research Subject and Objectives

Economic growth in China and other developing countries is associated with severe global environmental problems, such as
climate change and loss of biodiversity. Studies have shown that consumption in developed countries drives environmental
emissions in developing countries. For example, we found that international trade is responsible for one third of the threats tobiodiversity, mainly in developing countries. Furthermore, we demonstrated a link between geographical environmental
emissions information and global supply chains. Unlike most studies, which focus on environmental emissions and international
trade, this is the first study clarify the effect of global supply chains on environmental impacts. Further, in addition to countries
and regions, we will estimate the environmental footprint of cities, companies and households.

○ Progress and Results in 2018

In 2018, we have firstly estimated the carbon footprint of 13,000 cities. Following are the key findings:· Globally, carbon footprints are highly concentrated into a small number of dense, high-income cities and affluent suburbs· 100 cities drive 18% of global emissions· In most countries (98 of 187 assessed), the top three urban areas drive more than one-quarter of national emissions· We define cities as population clusters, but in practice mapping footprints to local jurisdictional bounds is complex· 41 of the top 200 cities are in countries where total and per capita emissions are low e.g. Dhaka, Cairo, Lima). In these cities
population and affluence combine to drive footprints at a similar scale as the highest income cities· For large and high-income cities, their total Scope 3 footprint is much larger than the city's direct emissions· Radical decarbonization measures (limiting nonelectric vehicles; requiring 100% renewable electricity) can induce substantial
emissions reductions beyond city boundaries. In wealthy, high-consumption, high-footprint localities such measures may require
only a small investment relative to median income, yet accomplish large reductions in total footprint emissions· Local action at the city and state level can meaningfully affect national and global emissions
Our findings are widely reported in the press, e.g. Scientific American, DailyMail, Newsweek, U.S. News, World Economic
Forum, Kyodo News.

○Project Members■グループ A
◎ KANEMOTO Keiichiro ( The Research Institute for Humanity and Nature )NANSAI Keisuke( National Institute for Environmental Studies )CHATANI Satoru( National Institute for Environmental Studies )NAKAOKA Masahiro ( Hokkaido University )MATSUBAE Kazuyo ( Tohoku University )OHNO Hajime( Tohoku University )MURAKAMI Shinsuke ( Tokyo University )SUGIHARA Soh( Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology )OKUOKA Keijiro( Nagoya University )KAGAWA Shigemi( Kyushu University )FUJII Hidemichi( Kyushu University )SHIGETOMI Yosuke ( Nagasaki University )ITSUBO Norihiro( Tokyo City University )KONDO Yasushi( Waseda University )ASAYAMA Shinichiro ( Waseda University )103
Research Projects( Nagasaki University )( University of California Santa Barbara )( NASA )( Yale University )( Norwegian University of Science and Technology )( The University of Sydney )( Norwegian University of Science and Technology )( The University of Sydney )●Achievements○Papers【Original Articles】

・Daniel Moran, Keiichiro Kanemoto, Magnus Jiborn, Richard Wood, Johannes Többen, Karen Seto. 2018,06 Carbon footprintsof 13 000 cities. Environmental Research Letters 13(6). DOI:10.1088/1748-9326/aac72a (reviewed).

Research Projects○ Future Themes

We will map the environmental impact footprint of cities, companies, and households.

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YAMAMOTO Yuki
Suh Sangwon
Oda Tomohiro
Hertwich Edgar
Moran Daniel
Lenzen Manfred
Verones Francesca
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Incubation Studies
Humanities for the Environment: Developing a Cultural Approach to Environmental Knowledge
NILES Daniel (Research Institute for Humanity and Nature)
This project explores the significance of humanities scholarship to contemporary environmental research andsustainability challenges. The project’s goal is to develop the environmental humanities in relation to the socialecological concerns of the Anthropocene. It does so by organizing and conducting transdisciplinary research in longstanding cultural-ecological contexts (or social-ecological systems), developing the knowledge network of Asia-focusedscholars working in environmental humanities, and developing innovative methods of humanities-science communication.
The project begins from the hypothesis that many different kinds of knowledge of the natural world exist and havesupported sustainable human-environmental systems through time. This lived experience is therefore of great significance to contemporary sustainability challenges, but it has rarely been analyzed as such.
Cultural knowledge of environments is embedded in cultural phenomena such as agro-ecosystems, medicinal
knowledge, built environment, and traditional technology and craft; such knowledge has enabled human existenceover the long term. As systems of knowledge, however, such phenomena have been largely invisible to conventional
scientific description. The central problem this proposal addresses is therefore to identify the non-scientific bodies ofenvironmental knowledge that have sustained communities for generations, centuries, and millennia, to describe thestructure and quality of this knowledge and to derive lessons of its relevance to contemporary social-ecologicalchallenges.

Assessing and enhancing the environmental sustainability from edible insects
CÉSARD Nicolas (National Museum of Natural History, France)
With a growing global population, more sustainable diets and the use of new protein sources are needed. However
if more than 2000 species of insects are currently known worldwide to be consumed as human food, many species
harvested from the wild are threaten by overexploitation and habitat degradation. To respond to increasing demands,
sustainable harvesting practices and knowledge need to be developed and implemented.
The project proposes to rely on the consumption of a small number of insect species and their sustainable methodsof exploitation to promote and develop the conservation of their ecosystems, whether natural or agricultural. One
insect family, the Vespidae (social wasps), seems particularly adapted to initiate the project during the FS phase (12months). The project suggests to focus on the harvesting and semi-farming of edible Vespidae in Japan, China,
Madagascar and La Reunion Island.
In our opinion, the most interesting research prospects concern the preservation of sustainable practices linked to
production, the development of farming capacities for new species and the valorisation and enhancement of insects andtheir environment through environmental education, product traceability and the recognition of local food culture andheritage.

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Study for energy transition policy and strategy towards RE100% Asian cities
KOBASHI Takuro (Renewable Energy Institute)
In the warm and relatively stable climate of the Holocene, human society gradually developed, expanded, andeventually reached to the current complex society. Especially, since the advent of fossil fuels as energy resources,
social development accelerated, however, with increasing atmospheric CO2 concentration. As a result, now the balanceof the Holocene climate is at risk. In this study, using renewable energy, we aim to decarbonize the city energy systems
that account for 40-70% of global CO2 emissions, and aim to establish new energy systems sustainable for the next
1,000 years. Setting Kyoto, Shenzhen, San Diego as target cities, we conduct researches on techno-economic analyses,
Future Design (FD) to take into account future generation, smart city with new technologies considering culture andtradition, decentralized generation systems, energy policy and institution, and sustainable practice and behavior.
Working with citizens, policy makers, NGOs, industries, and researchers, we realize full transitions to sustainable andlivelier cities.

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Sustainable Urban Design using Inclusive Wealth
MANAGI Shunsuke (Kyushu University)
This study utilizes idea of The Inclusive Wealth Report 2014/2018. This report proposed. “Inclusive Wealth” asan expression of a country’s or region’s “wealth,” and an “Inclusive Wealth Index” as a standard economic indicator to
be used as a yardstick for evaluating sustainability. With sustainability having been a vague concept to date, this index
has the advantage of being an easy way to determine whether national and regional policies have improved sustainability based on a rise or fall in the index, and significant expectations are being placed on the index as an indicator of
the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).We study how each region can utilizes this index for
future policy.

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Quantifying and Typing Landform Transformations in Low-lying Large Cities:
Toward Landscape Evaluations in Anthropocene
HARA Yuji (Faculty of System Engineering, Wakayama University)
Many monsoonal Asian large cities are located on alluvial lowlands, hence surface landform transformation isinherently required for land developments. Such landform transformations include fill material flows between source
soil pit sites and land development sites, and new landscapes emerge in both sites. Because of ordinariness of soils in
daily human living spaces as well as lack of quantification tools and dataset, classification and quantification of landform transformation are understudied. In this study, using several case study cities according to macro-scale landforms
ranging from insular lowlands to continental delta, we calculated the volume and weight of artificially transformed
soils, and flow distance between source and final development site. Furthermore, based on these data and existing
numerical energy unit data, we examined total energy through landform transformation process. We also classify landform transformation patterns and induced landscapes with ecosystem services in both offsite source and onsite landdevelopment in consideration of macro-scale landform settings. Thus this study is first step toward holistic evaluationsof human landform transformation as an agent of environmental changes on the earth in the context of Anthropocene.

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RIHN Center
The RIHN Center provides foundations and platforms for RIHN’s research activities and promotes engagement in interactive
collaborations with academic and societal stakeholders. The Center also promotes capacity building activities related to global
environmental studies.
The RIHN Center consists of four divisions. The Laboratory and Analysis Division develops and maintains the laboratory
facilities necessary for research and fieldwork. The Information Resources Division maintains RIHN research databases andarchive. The Communication Division develops a variety of communication strategies linking RIHN research to academic, public
and user-specific communities. The Collaboration Division facilitates internal and external research networking as well as RIHN
engagement with the international Future Earth initiative and manages activities of Future Earth in Asia.

Division Name: Laboratory and Analysis Division
Head of Division: TAYASU, Ichiro○ Subject and Objectives

The Laboratory and Analysis Division organizes three types of collaborative study in the Phase III Medium-Term Plan.
(1) Research collaboration with research projects: The division manages eighteen basement laboratories dedicated to various
analytical needs. The division is responsible for maintaining state-of-the-art facilities, especially stable isotope mass
spectrometers, and collaborates with research projects.
(2) Research collaboration with core projects: A core project FR entitled “Proposal and verification of the validity of isotope
environmental traceability methodology in environmental studies (FY2017-2019)” seeks to establish a methodology for how to
use the concept of environmental traceability using multiple isotope ratios. The division collaborates with the project in ananalytical viewpoint.
(3) Research collaboration with universities via “Environmental Isotope Study”: The division provides “Joint Research Grant for
the Environmental Isotope Study” for universities and affiliated institutions throughout Japan, allowing them to use the facilities
and exchanging research information. From the FY2016, the division has started the two types of collaborations, “Collaborative
research with the Division” or “General collaborative research”.

○ Progress and Results in 2018

The division installed or maintained various analytical instruments in the laboratories.
The division accepted 59 proposals of “(A) General collaborative research”, 15 proposals of “(B) Collaborative research with theDivision”, 2 proposals of “(C) Collaborative research with Environmental Traceability Project” and 4 proposals of “(D)Collaborative research with Ecosystem Traceability Project” in FY2018, under “Joint Research Grant for the Environmental
Isotope Study”.
The division organized a session in JpGU2018 entitled “H-TT18: Development and applications of environmental traceability
methods” on 22 May 2018. 18 oral and 11 poster papers were presented in the session.
The division organized a short course of Environmental Isotope Study: Course 1 for heavy elements (28 - 31 August) and Course
2 for light elements (4-7 September). 8 researchers attended the course.
The division organized the sixth annual symposium of Environmental Isotope Study on 21 December. 121 researchers andstudents attended the symposium.

○Members
Laboratory and Analysis Division◎ TAYASU, Ichiro( RIHN Center,Professor )SHIN, Kicheol( RIHN Center,Assisitant Professor )KATO, Yoshikazu( RIHN Center,Researcher )SAITO, Yu( RIHN Center,Researcher )KAMAUCHI,( RIHN Center,Researcher )Hiromitsu
YABUSAKI, Shiho( RIHN Center,Researcher )YOSHIMIZU, Chikage ( RIHN Center,Researcher )MATSUMOTO, Takuya( RIHN Center,JSPS Research Fellow )NITZCHE, Kai( RIHN Center,JSPS Research Fellow )107( RIHN Center,Research Associate )( RIHN Center,Research Associate )( RIHN Center,Research Associate )( RIHN Center,Research Associate )( RIHN Center,Clerical Assistant )RIHN Center

FY2018 members of Joint Research Grant for the Environmental Isotope Study
MORI, Yasunori( Mie Prefecture Health and Environment Research Institute )HANBA, Yuko
( Kyoto Institute of Technology )SUGITANI, Kenichiro ( Graduate School of Environmental Studies Nagoya University )KOSHIKAWA, Masami ( Center for Regional Environmental Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies )HANYA, Goro
( Kyoto University )TAKIGAMI, Mai( Yamagata University )NAOE, Shoji( Senior Scientist, Forest Ecology Group, Tohoku Research Center, Forestry and Forest Products
Research Institute )KUME, Atsushi( Kyushu University )OISHI, Yoshitaka( Center for Arts and Sciences,Fukui Prefectural University )MIZUNO, Kazuharu( Graduate School of Letters Kyoto University )SUETSUGU, Kenji( Kobe University )UMEZAWA, Yu( Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology )KAWAGOE, seiki( Faculty of Symbiotic Systems Science Fukushima University )ISHIYAMA, Daizo( Graduate School of International Resource Sciences Akita University )UCHIDA, Etsuo( Waseda University )TANIMIZU, Masaharu ( School of Science and Technology Kwansei Gakuin University )SASE, Hiroyuki( Asia Center for Air Pollution Research, Japan Environmental Sanitation Center )OKOCHI, Hiroshi( Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University )UNO, Hiromi( Kyoto University )NONOSE, Naoko( National Metrology Institue of Japan National Insutitute of Advanced Industrial Science andTechnology )SHODA, Shinya( Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties )OKADA, Naoki( Kyoto University Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies )CHIBA, Hitoshi( Graduate School of Natural science and Technology Okayama University )MORIMOTO, Maki
( Faculty of Education Gifu University )OTAKE, Tsubasa( Graduate School of Engineering Hokkaido University )NAKAGIRI, Takao( Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences Osaka Prefecture University )YOKOO, Yoriko( Faculty of Science and Engineering Doshisha University )ISHIMARU, Eriko( Hiroshima University Museum )TOMINAGA, Osamu ( Fukui Prefectural University )KITAYAMA, Kanehiro ( Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University )YAMASHITA, Yoh( Field Science Education and Research Center, Kyoto University )YAMASHITA,( Graduate School of Natural science and Technology Okayama University )Katsuyuki
NATSUHARA,( Nagoya University )Yoshihiro
YAMANAKA Masaru ( Nihon University )KATSUYAMA,( Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University )Masanori
ABE, Yutaka( Kanagawa Prefecture Natural Environment Conservation Center )SOMEDA, Hidetoshi ( National Defense Medical College )KOGURE, Tetsuya( Interdisciplinary Faculty of Science and Engineering of Shimane University )NAGATSUKA, Naoko ( National Institute of Polar Research )MATSUBAYASHI, Jun ( Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology )ANMA, Ryo
( Tokushima University )OKANO, Osamu( Okayama University )RIHN

UEDA, Sachiko
YASUDA, Akiko
YUZEN, Natsuko
KURATA, Junko
FUCHIGAMI, Yuriko

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LOPEZ CACERES( Yamagata University )MAXIMO LARRYFUSHIMI, Noriaki( Shizuoka Prefecture )HAYASHI, Takeshi( Akita University )NEOH KOK-BOON( National Chung Hsing University )OKUSHI, Kenichi( Graduate school of HUMAN Development and Environment Kobe University )URAKAWA, Rieko( Japan Environmental Sanitation Center )KUSAKA, Soichiro( Museum of Natural and Environmental History, Shizuoka )YOSHIOKA,Yumi( Faculty of Agriculture at Tottori University )KOYAMA, Akihide( Nigata University )YONEDA, Minoru( The University of Tokyo )FUDAMOTO, Konomi ( Center for Ecological Research,Kyoto University )TAMURA, Tomomi( Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties )OHTA, Tamihisa( University of TOYAMA )HIURA, Tutomu( Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere Forest Research Station,Hokkaido University )KODA, Ryosuke( Research Institute of Environment, Agriculture and Fisheries, Osaka Prefecture )TAKEUCHI, Nozomu ( Chiba University )ABE, Osamu( Nagoya University )AKASAKA, Takumi( Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine )HORIKAWA, Keiji( University of TOYAMA )IKEDA, Masayuki( Shizuoka University )SAITOH, Takeshi( Graduate School of Science and Engineering,Saitama University )KASHIWAYA, Koki ( Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University )TAKANO, Shotaro( Kyoto University )GAKUHARI, Takashi ( Institute of Human and Social Sciences,Kanazawa University )CHO, Kei( Graduate School of University of TOYAMA )NAKANISHI, Tetsuya ( Kyushu University )YAMADA, Yoshiriro ( Facultry of Agriculture,Kagawa University )○ Future Themes

The division considers that “Environmental Isotope Study” is one of the most important function of RIHN as an Inter-University
Research Institute Corporation. The division continuously develops analytical techniques to collect various environmental
information in order to solve environmental issues.

●Achievements○Papers【Original Articles】

・Mai Takigami, K. Uzawa, Y. Seki, D.Morales Chocano & M. Yoneda 2019,03 Isotopic Evidence for Camelid Husbandry
During the Formative Period at the Pacopampa Site, Peru. Environmental Archaeology. DOI:
10.1080/14614103.2019.1586091 (reviewed).
・Jochen Vogl, Yong-Hyeon Yim, Kyoung-Seok Lee, Heidi Goenaga-Infante, Dmitriy Malinovskiy, Sarah Hill, Tongxiang
Ren, Jun Wang, Robert D. Vocke Jr., Karen E. Murphy, Naoko Nonose, Olaf Rienitz and Janine Noordmann 2019,03
Certification of ERM-EB400, the First Matrix Reference Material for Lead Isotope Amount Ratios, and ERM-AE142, a Lead
Solution Providing a Lead Isotopic Composition at the Edge of Natural Variation. Geolstandards and Geoanalytical Research
43:22-37. (reviewed).
・Tamihisa Ohta, Shigeru Niwa, Tsutom Hiura 2019,02 Geographical variation in Japanese cedar shapes soil nutrient dynamics
and invertebrate community. Plant and Soil 437(1):355-373. DOI:10.1007/s11104-019-03983-5 (reviewed).
・Kusaka, S. 2019,01 Stable isotope analysis of human bone hydroxyapatite and collagen for the reconstruction of dietary
patterns of hunter-gatherers from Jomon populations. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 29(1):36-47. DOI:
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RIHN Center・Matsubayashi J, Umezawa Y, Matsuyama M, Kawabe R, Mei W, Wan X, Shimomae A, Tayasu I. 2018,12 Feeding
experiments to test the applicability of segmental isotope analysis of teleost fish vertebrae. Limnology and Oceanography:
Methods 17(2):87-96. DOI:10.1002/lom3.10298 (reviewed).

・Kusaka, S., Yamada, Y., Yoneda, M 2018,08 Ecological and cultural shifts of hunter-gatherers of the Jomon period paralleledwith environmental changes. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 167(2):377-388. DOI:10.1002/ajpa.23638(reviewed).

・Ko, C.-Y., Iwata, T., Lee, J.-Y., Murakami, A., Okano, J., Ishikawa, N.F., Sakai, Y., Tayasu, I., Itoh, M., Song, U., Togashi,
H., Nakano, S., Ohte, N. and Okuda, N. 2019,03 Assessing alpha and beta diversities of benthic macroinvertebrates and theirenvironmental drivers between watersheds with different levels of habitat transformation in Japan. Marine and Freshwater
Research 70(4):504-512. DOI:10.1071/MF18031 (reviewed).
・Matsubayashi, J., Umezawa, Y., Matsuyama, M., Kawabe, R., Mei, W., Wan, X., Shimomae, A. and Tayasu, I. 2019,02 Using
segmental isotope analysis of teleost fish vertebrae to estimate trophic discrimination factors of bone collagen. Limnology
and Oceanography: Methods 17:87-96. DOI:10.1002/lom3.10298 (reviewed).
・Sase, H., Takahashi, M., Matsuda, K., Sato, K., Tanikawa, T., Yamashita, N., Ohizumi, T., Ishida, T., Kamisako, M.,
Kobayashi, R., Uchiyama, S., Saito, T., Morohashi, M., Fukuhara, H., Kaneko, S., Inoue, T., Yamada, T., Takenaka, C.,
Tayasu, I., Nakano, T., Hakamata, T. and Ohta, S. 2019,01 Response of river water chemistry to changing atmosphericenvironment and sulfur dynamics in a forested catchment in central Japan. Biogeochemistry 142:357-374. DOI:10.1007/
s10533-019-00540-1 (reviewed).
・Tanaka, H.O., Haraguchi, T.F., Tayasu, I. and Hyodo F. 2018,10 Stable and radio-isotopic signatures reveal how the feeding
habits of ants respond to natural secondary succession in a cool-temperate forest. Insectes sociaux 66:37-46. DOI:10.1007/
s00040-018-0665-0 (reviewed).
・Ishikawa, N.F., Chikaraishi, Y., Takano, Y., Sasaki, Y., Takizawa, Y., Tsuchiya, M., Tayasu, I., Nagata. T. and Ohkouchi, N.
2018,09 A new analytical method for determination of the nitrogen isotopic composition of methionine: its application toaquatic ecosystems with mixed resources. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods 16(9):607-620. DOI:10.1002/lom3.10272(reviewed).
・Suetsugu, K., Ohta, T. and Tayasu, I. 2018,08 Partial mycoheterotrophy in the leafless orchid Cymbidium macrorhizon.
American Journal of Botany 105(9):1595-1600. DOI:10.1002/ajb2.1142 (reviewed).
・Saitoh, Y., Nakano, T., Shin, K-C., Matsubayashi, J., Kato, Y., Amakawa, H., Osada, Y., Yoshimizu, C., Okuda, N., Amano,Y., Togashi, H., Kurita, Y. and Tayasu, I. 2018,08 Utility of Nd isotope ratio as a tracer of marine animals: regional variationin coastal seas and causal factors. Ecosphere 9(8):e02365. DOI:10.1002/ecs2.2365 (reviewed).
・Endo, H., Fukuda, H., Takahashi, D., Okumura, Y., Inomata, E., Yoshimizu, C., Tayasu, I. and Nagata, T. 2018,07 Influenceof isotope fractionation on the nitrogen isotope composition of the brown macroalga Undaria pinnatifida. PhycologicalResearch 66:262-268. DOI:10.1111/pre.12332 (reviewed).
・Sugio, K., Miyaguni , Y. and Tayasu, I. 2018,04 Characteristics of dispersal flight and disperser production in an Asian drywood termite, Neotermes koshunensis (Isoptera, Kalotermitidae). Insectes Sociaux. DOI:10.1007/s00040-018-0616-9(reviewed).
・Kayler Z.E., Badrian M., Frackowski A., Rieckh H., Nitzsche K.N., Kalettka T. and Gessler A. 2018 Ephemeral kettle hole
water and sediment temporal and spatial dynamics within an agricultural catchment. Ecohydrology 11(e1929). DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.1929 (reviewed).
○Research Presentations【Oral Presentation】

・Mana Mukai, Tamihisa Ohta, Ki-cheol Shin, Shin-ichiro Aiba, Kanehiro Kitayama Estimating the contribution of volcanic
ash as a source of mineral nutrients in forest ecosystems on Yakushima Island using Sr and Pb stable isotopes. ESJ66,
2019.03.16, Kobe Convention Center.

RIHN Center・Kato Y., M. Kondoh, N. F. Ishikawa, H. Togashi, Y. Kohmatsu, M. Yoshimura, C. Yoshimizu, T. F. Haraguchi, Y. Osada, N.
Ohte, N. Tokuchi, N. Okuda, T. Miki, I. Tayasu 2018,05 Using food network unfolding to evaluate food-web complexity interms of biodiversity: theory and applications. Ecology Letters. DOI:10.1111/ele.12973 (reviewed).

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・Nakai W, Okada N, Sano M, Nakatsuka T. 2018,09 Sample preparation of ring-less tropical trees for δ18O measurement inisotope dendrochronology. TROPICS. TROPICS 27(2):49-58. DOI:10.3759/tropics.MS17-09 (reviewed).

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・Minoru YONEDA・Takashi GAKUHARI・Yu ITAHASHI・Guoping SUN・Bin LIU ・Ningyuan WANG Oxygen isotope
analysis of human and animal remains from the Neolithic site of the Lower Yangtze River region in light of human andobject provenance. SEAA8, 2018.06.12, Nanjing University.
・Yasuda, K., N. Katsuta, M. Morimoto, O. Abe, S. Naito, S. Kawakami An investigation for depositional age of annuallylaminated tufa by the high-resolution isotope analyses. Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2018, May 2018, Chiba.
・Yuko T. Hanba, Tomomitsu Kinoshita, Takashi Kiyomizu, Saya Yamagishi, Etsu Yamada, Atsushi Kume Photosynthetic
responses of landscape trees to urban environment –aiming to improve CO2 absorption by landscape trees – 2018. EAFES8,
2018.04.21, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, in the Higashiyama Campus.
・ Lei FUJIYOSHI, Kenichi OHKUSHI, Yudai YAMAMOTO, Ichiro TAYASU, Tadashi YOKOYAMA, Hiromune
MITSUHASHI, Fumiko FURUKAWA, Masayuki ITOH Dynamics of dissolved ions inferred from sulfur isotope ratio of
sulfate, nitrogen and oxygen isotope ratios of nitrate in Chikusa river watershed, Hyogo. Japan Geoscience Union Meeting,2018.05.20-2018.05.24, Makuhari Messe, Chiba, Japan. (in Japanese)
・Lei Fujiyoshi, Ichiro Tayasu, Shiho Yabusaki, Takashi Haraguchi, Chikage Yoshimizu ,Kenichi Ohkushi, Fumiko Furukawa,
Masayuki Itoh, Yudai Yamamoto, Tadashi Yokoyama, Hiromune Mitsuhashi Dynamics of nitrate and sulfate inferred fromstable isotope techniques in Chikusa river watershed, Hyogo Prefecture . Management of Water and Land Resources: Studies
in Asia and Europe, 2018.11.19-2018.11.23, Yamagata University, Yamagata , JAPAN.
・Lei Fujiyoshi, Ichiro Tayasu, Shiho Yabusaki, Takashi Haraguchi, Chikage Yoshimizu ,Kenichi Ohkushi, Fumiko Furukawa,
Masayuki Itoh, Yudai Yamamoto, Tadashi Yokoyama, Hiromune Mitsuhashi Dynamics of nitrate and sulfate using stable
isotope techniques in Chikusa river watershed, Hyogo Prefecture . Japan Society of Limnology 83 annual meeting inOkayama, 2018.10.05-2018.10.08, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan. (in Japanese)【Poster Presentation】

・K. Lyalina, T. Haraguchi, R. Tanaka, M. Kawamura, K. Koba, I. Tayasu, H. Uno Assessing the habitat connectivity anddistribution of organisms in Wakayama estuaries using C, N, and S stable isotope analysis. The 66th Annual Meeting of the
Ecological Society of Japan, March 2019, Kobe.
・Sugimoto, N., Sakiyama, M., Hosono, T., and Tanimizu, M. Trace of anthropogenic nitrate in groundwater by isotopic
proxies in Kumamoto area, Japan. European Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry 2019, 2019.02.07, Pau, France.
THP-14
・Yumi Yoshioka, Kimihito Nakamura, Maho Ito, Hiroshi Takimoto, Shinji Sakurai and Haruhiko Horino Estimation of change
in groundwater recharge sources in response to turbidification of river water by landslide. PAWEES-INEPF International
Conference 2018 Nara, 2018.11.20, Nara Kasugano International Forum. Abstract p.149
・Konomi Fudamoto, Asano Ishikawa, Jun Kitano, Ki Cheol Shin, Ichiro Tayasu Differences in habitat salinity amongninesppine sticklebacks that were revealed by strontium isotope ratios of the otoliths. 9th International Conference on
Stickleback Behavior and Evolution, 2018.07.05, Kyoto. Stickleback 2018 abstracts, P-16
・Sugimoto, N., Hosono, T., and Tanimizu, M. B-Li isotope systematic of groundwater for water flow proxy. Resources for
Future Generations 2018, 2018.06.16-2018.06.21, Vancouver, Canada. No 1727
・Tanimizu, M., Sugimoto, N., and Umam, R. Geochemical characteristics of hydrothermal fluids observed along the major
active fault system Geochemical characteristics of hydrothermal fluids observed along the major active fault system (MTL)in Japan. Resources for Future Generations 2018, 2018.06.16-2018.06.21, Vancouver, Canada. No 1734
・Umam, R., Tanimizu, M., Sugimoto, N., and Mori, Y. Geochemical characteristics of hydrothermal fluids observed along
Median Tectonic Line in Mie-Prefecture, Japan. JPGU2018, 2018.05.22, Makuhari Messe. HTT18-P09
・Konomi Fudamoto, Asano Ishikawa, Jun Kitano, Ki-Cheol Shin, Ichiro Tayasu Using the otolith 87Sr/86Sr ratio to reveal thedifferences in habitat salinity among three sympatric ninespine sticklebacks (genus Pungitius). 6th International OtolithSymposium, April 2018, Taiwan.
・Hiromi Uno, Kseniya Lyalina, Ryosuke Tanaka, Mariko Kawamura, Takashi Haraguchi, Keisuke Koba, Ichiro Tayasu C, N,
S isoscapes in estuaries to predict origin of mobile organisms. 8th Symposium on Environmental Isotope Study, 2018.12.21,
RIHN, Kyoto.
・Soichiro Kusaka, Ki-Cheol Shin Zinc isotope analysis on human tooth enamel samples to reconstruct diet of the Jomon
period. International Symposium: The Future of the Earth: Insights from island civilizations, 2019.03.16-2019.03.18,
Granship, Shizuoka. Abstract, pp. 53
・Kimura S, Natuhara Y Influence of different farming methods on the trophic ecology of various tadpoles in paddy fields inJapan. Joint Meeting Ichthyologists and herpetologists, 2018.07.01, Rochester.

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RIHN Center・Hiroyuki Sase, Masayuki Morohashi, Masaaki Takahashi, Tatsuyoshi Saito, Naoyuki Yamashita, Yayoi Inomata, Tsuyoshi
Ohizumi, Ki-Cheol Shin, Ichiro Tayasu, Takanori Nakano Multi-isotopic approach for monitoring on atmospheric deposition
in forests in Japan. European forests in a changing environment: Air pollution, climate change and forest management, 7th
ICP Forests Scientific Conference, 2018.05.22-2018.05.23, Riga, Latvia. Abstracts, p.62

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・Fujiyoshi L, Tayasu I, Yabusaki S, Haraguchi T, Yoshimizu C, Ohkushi K, Furukawa F, Itoh M , Yamamoto Y, Yokoyama
Y, Mitsuhashi H Dynamics of sulfate and nitrate inferred from stable isotope techniques in Chikusa river watershed, Hyogo.
The 8th Symposium on Environmental Isotope Study, 2018.12.21-2018.12.21, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature.
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Division Name: Information Resources Division
Head of Division: KUMAZAWA, Terukazu○ Subject and Objectives

The information resources division is aiming to constructing an information hub associated with RIHN’s activities.

(1) Collecting and accumulating research resources (data and information etc.) and promoting usage of them.
Printed matters and the other achievements associated with activities of projects or the institute are collected, and release fromRIHN Archives and institutional repository.
(2) Researches about information technology to promote RIHN’s activities
Novel information techniques or theories to contribute to activities of the institute are developed.
(3) Development of applications to use RIHN’s resources
Developing of a web application RIHN Portal is in progress. It will provide function to retrieve and to show the resources
accumulated in the RIHN Archives and the database of metadata related to the global environmental studies.

○ Progress and Results in 2018

Collection and accumulation of research resources(Number of the registered into RIHN Archives in FY 2018)bibliographic records: 559
objects: 121
electric data: 394
images: 0(Activities about Institutional Repository in FY 2018)
Register count: 1,019
Download count: 86,529
View count: 8,350(Total number of the registered into RIHN Archives as of 1st April)
bibliographic records: 8,772
objects: 3,223
electric data: 4,409(Total count about Institutional Repository as of 2nd April)
Registered items: 2,751(including 2,554 items released for public)

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The following seminars and lectures were held in FY 2018.

5th Seminar
Date: 26th February 2019

Digital Human Geography at Supra-Regional Scales
Date: 28th February 2019

7th Seminar
Our Sustainable Future and Local Dialects: Preservation, Archiving, and Revitalization
Date: 26th March 2019

Development of applications
In collaboration with the NIHU project the framework of the Web pages which is an entrance to access Web information
resources and databases inside of RIHN including RIHN Archives was constucted. In FY 2018, themes relating with the projectof Societal Adaptation to Climate Change: Integrating Palaeoclimatological Data with Historical and Archaeological Evidences,the project of Proposal and Verification of the Validity of Isotope Environmental Traceability Methodology in Environmental
Studies and the Core Program were extracted, and icons about the themes were created for the web pages.

○ Future Themes(1) Collecting and accumulating research resources
The achievements associated with activities of projects or the institute will be collected and accumulated continuously. The titlesof the achievements will be translated into English or Japanese and the DOI will be added to the achievements.
(2) Researches about information technology to promote RIHN’s activities
Research outcomes will be shared in the seminars, and applied to the RIHN Portal and the databases in RIHN.
(3) Development of applications to use RIHN’s resources

The trial version of the RIHN Portal will be released, and icons representing the characteristics of the current projects are newly
designed.

●Achievements○Editing【Editing / Co-editing】

・Yoshihiro Nishiaki, Seiji Kadowaki, Yasuhisa Kondo (ed.) 2018,12 PaleoAsia 2018 The International Workshop: Cultural
History of PaleoAsia – Integrative Research on the Formative Process of Modern Human Cultures in Asia. PaleoAsia Project
Series, 17. PaleoAsia Project Group, Tokyo, 112pp.
・Tara Beuzen-Waller, Friederike Stock, Yasuhisa Kondo (ed.) 2018,07 Special Issue Geoarchaeology: A toolbox for revealing
latent data in sedimentological and archaeological records. Quaternary International, 483. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 210pp.
○Papers【Original Articles】

・ Yasuhisa Kondo, Atsushi Noguchi, Takehiro Miki, Tara Beuzen-Waller, Stéphane Desruelles, Éric Fouache 2018,09
Archaeological sites in the Wadi Al Kabir basin, Wilayat Ibri, Adh Dhahirah Governorate. The Journal of Oman Studies
18:201-227. (reviewed).

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・Aiko Endo, Terukazu Kumazawa, Michinori Kimura, Makoto Yamada, Takaaki Kato, Kouji Kozaki 2018,09 Describing and
Visualizing a Water–Energy–Food Nexus System. Water 10(9):1245. DOI:10.3390/w10091245 (reviewed).
・Yasuhisa Kondo, Kazuhiro Hayashi, Asanobu Kitamoto 2018,07 Multifaceted workshops to envision the future of open
science with society. Proceedings of 2018 7th International Congress on Advanced Applied Informatics:466-469. (reviewed).
【Review Articles】

・Tara Beuzen-Waller, Friederike Stock, Yasuhisa Kondo 2018,07 Geoarchaeology: A toolbox for revealing latent data insedimentological and archaeological records. Quaternary International 483:1-4. DOI:10.1016/j.quaint.2018.05.029○Research Presentations【Oral Presentation】

・Yasuhisa Kondo, Atsushi Noguchi, Kohei Tamura, Mitsuhiro Nakamura, Hiroyuki Kitagawa PaleoAsia DB Hackathon. The
6th Conference on Cultural History of PaleoAsia, 2018.11.17-2018.11.18, Koshiba Hall, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyoku, Tokyo, Japan. (in Japanese)・Akira Saito, Yasuhisa Kondo, Nozomi Mizota, Tomoko Koyama Contribution of the digital humanities methods to theconstruction of an overall picture of Francisco de Toledo’s reducciones. 56° Congres Internacional de Americanistas,
2018.07.15-2018.07.20, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain.
・Yasuhisa Kondo, Kazuhiro Hayashi, Asanobu Kitamoto Multifaceted workshops to envision the future of open science withsociety. IIAI AAI 2018, 2018.07.08-2018.07.13, Yonago Convention Center, Tottori.
・Sumiko Tsukamoto, Kyoko S Kataoka, Yasuhisa Kondo, Takehiro Miki, Taichi Kuronuma, Yuichi Hayakawa, Takashi
Oguchi Luminescence dating of alluvial and fluvial sediments from Bat, Oman: implications to the humidity changes andhuman activities in the SE Arabia. Japan Geoscience Union Annual Meeting 2018, 2018.05.20-2018.05.24, Makuhari Messe,
Chiba, Japan. (in Japanese)・Jun Takakura, Yasuhisa Kondo, Hiroyuki Kitagawa The dispersals of modern humans into the Siberian Arctic in light of thepaleoenvironmental reconstruction. The 5th Conference on Cultural History of PaleoAsia, 2018.05.12-2018.05.13,
Motoyama Campus, Nagoya University. (in Japanese)【Poster Presentation】

・Yasuhisa Kondo, Hideyuki Onishi, Yoko Iwamoto Lexical analysis of the concept of culture in the PaleoAsia project.
PaleoAsia 2018 International Workshop, 2018.12.15-2018.12.18, Kyoto International Conference Center and ResearchInstitute for Humanity and Nature (Kyoto, Japan).
・Yasuhisa Kondo, Yoko Iwamoto Network analysis of the interdisciplinary co-authorship of the PaleoAsia project. PaleoAsia
2018 International Workshop, 2018.12.15-2018.12.18, Kyoto International Conference Center and Research Institute for
Humanity and Nature (Kyoto, Japan).
・Yasuhisa Kondo, Yoko Iwamoto Visualization of the interdisciplinary collaboration network of the PaleoAsia Project. The
6th Conference on Cultural History of PaleoAsia, 2018.11.17-2018.11.18, Koshiba Hall, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyoku, Tokyo, Japan.
・ Yasuhisa Kondo, Atsushi Noguchi, Takehiro Miki, Taichi Kuronuma, Hiroyuki Kitagawa Archaeological survey ofprehistoric sites in Oman: The discovery of Wadi Tanuf Cave 1. The 5th Conference on Cultural History of PaleoAsia,
2018.05.12-2018.05.13, Motoyama Campus, Nagoya University. (in Japanese)・Hideyuki Onishi, Yasuhisa Kondo, Yoko Iwamoto Perspectives of Human Behavior as Culture A Case Study on Lexical
Analysis of “Cultural History of PaleoAsia”. The 5th Conference on Cultural History of PaleoAsia, 2018.05.12-2018.05.13,
Motoyama Campus, Nagoya University. (in Japanese)【Invited Lecture / Honorary Lecture / Panelist】

・Yasuhisa Kondo Data-driven approach to identify early modern humans’ ecological niche and optimal dispersal routes inEurasia. Landscape Archaeology Conference 2018, 2018.09.17-2018.09.20, Newcastle University and Durham University,
UK.
・Yasuhisa Kondo JpGU-AGU Great Debate: Role of Open Data and Open Science in Geoscience. Japan Geoscience Union
Annual Meeting 2018, 2018.05.23, Makuhari Messe, Chiba, Japan. A panelist

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Division Name: Collaboration Division
Head of Division: ISHII, Reiichiro

Based on the results of RIHN research projects, the Division further fosters active engagement with international research agenda
setting and helps to enhance the presence of RIHN in the international research community. To this end, it serves as aninternational research hub, including by hosting the Regional Center for Future Earth in Asia.
Furthermore, in order to promote global environmental research and capacity building in Japan and the Asia region, together withthe other Divisions it provides the necessary organizational and financial basis and supports the development and mobilization of
capacity for inter- and trans-disciplinary research with researchers and societal stakeholders in Japan and Asia.

○ Progress and Results in 2018

1. Information Collection: Organizing seminars and workshops (with participation of research institutions and governments fromJapan and abroad)Held RIHN Seminars No. 158 to 168.
2. Building Collaborations: Supporting the conclusion and renewal of MoUs and Comprehensive Agreements with research andgovernment institutions in Japan and abroad and collaborations for university education.
The Division supported the conclusion and renewal of thirty MoUs and Comprehensive Agreements with research andgovernment institutions in Japan and abroad.
3. Management: Activities of the Future Earth Regional Center for Asia
In its role as host of the Regional Center for Future Earth in Asia, the Division organized meetings, workshops and capacity
building activities relating to the Future Earth Program and maintained the Future Earth Asia website. In doing so it contributed
to the development of national and regional networks engaged in the activities of Future Earth and the development of research
agendas. In particular, it supported the development of the Knowledge-Action Network on Systems of Sustainable Consumption
and Production and of thematic collaborations on air pollution and human health.
◇Organizing Symposia, seminars and committee meetings
・Special Lecture "Future Earth: Recent Developments" by Amy Luers, Future Earth Executive Director (October 2018, RIHN)
・ Future Earth Regional Workshop: How regional entities can engage in Future Earth global initiatives (October 2018, RIHN)
・Session “Future Earth in Asia: Regional and National Perspectives”at the 18th Conference of the Science Council of Asia
(December 2018, Science Council of Japan)◇Division staff participated in conferences and committee meetings related to the Future Earth as the representatives of theRegional Centre for Future Earth in Asia to collect relevant information and to enhance collaboration in Japan and abroad.
・Science Council of Japan Future Earth Promotion and Collaboration Committee meeting (8 August, 27 February 2019, Science
Council of Japan）
・Future Earth National Committee for Japan meeting (17 May 2018, Science Council of Japan, 2 February 2019, The Universityof Tokyo)・Future Earth Japan National Collaboration Sub-committee meeting/Steering Committee Meeting for Future Earth Japan
National Committee (17 May 2018, Science Council of Japan)

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The Collaboration Division fosters research collaborations between RIHN and research institutions and organizations in Japanand abroad and also provides the organizational infrastructure for capacity building. It facilitates the conclusion of collaborative
agreements with research institutions and local governments in Japan and abroad, the planning of collaborative research, and thedevelopment of proposals for new RIHN projects. While providing a forum for broad information exchange and discussion ofresearch on global environmental problems, the Division also undertakes the development, maintenance and organization ofadvances personal, financial and institutional networks.

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・Future Earth Governing Council/Advisory Committee meetings and Future Earth Regional meeting (26-29 April, Montevideo,
Uruguay)◇Supported the development of the Knowledge-Action Network on Systems of Sustainable Consumption and Production(KAN-SSCP)・Research and Engagement Plan approved by the Future Earth Executive Team (August 2018)
・Governance structure reorganized: Management Team and Steering Committee launched, reorganized from the Coordinating
Team and Development Team.
・Session on “Demographic contraction and post-consumerism in contemporary Japan: Challenges, realities and benefits” at theWorld Social Science Forum 2018(25-28 September 2018, Fukuoka)◇Developed and updated contents for the website of the Regional Centre for Future Earth in Asia http://
www.old.futureearth.org/asiacentre/ja◇Updated contents on the Facebook for the Regional Centre for Future Earth in Asia https://www.facebook.com/
futureearth.asiacentre
4. Obtaining external funds (Organizing meetings/workshops and writing proposals)◇NIHU project: New Development in Ecohealth Research in Asia （Director：Hein Mallee）
The Project organized lectures and presentations on multiple occasions including the 1st Asia Forum on Ecohealth Research（November 2018, Haikou, China）and conducted field studies on “Health in daily life and conception of health by the local
people”(January 2019, Hainan, China). The Project also published the Special Issue about Ecohealth Research of the Japanese
Journal of Health and Human Ecology (Vol. 85(2019)). The Project disseminated research results and enhanced its network
through those occasions.
◇Shortlisted to be interviewed for the MEXT Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas with a proposal entitled“New Science for Sustainable Anthropocene” with Prof. Yasunari as the Director (hearing in May 2018).
5. Outreach：Organization of poster displays, presentations, lectures and seminars at academic meetings and publication of
papers, books and pamphlets◇JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting 2018（2018/5/20-5/24 Chiba）
Set up and maintained a booth for RIHN to present its research and results. Also conducted a presentation about the analysis of
the process and outcome and insights obtained in relation to the development of the “Future Earth-GRPs integration for global
environmental research”.
◇Lecture series for Doshisha University Science and Engineering Department（2018/5/11-6/29, Doshisha University）
Organized an 8-session lecture series on Environmental System to be conducted by RIHN early-career researchers for the
freshmen of the Department of Science and Engineering of the Doshisha University.
◇Lectures on Environmental Studies for Peking University （2019/3/19, Peking University）
Conducted lectures in collaboration with Peking University. Seven lecturers participated from RIHN and gave lectures tostudents and lecturers of Peking University.
◇Contributed as principal authors to the Assessment Report on the Asia Pacific Region of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy
Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) (Reiichiro Ishii and Yuko Onishi)○Project Members◎ ISHII Reiichiro
MALLEE, Hein
ONISHI Yuko
JIANG, Hong-wei
OKA Masami
OKAMOTO Takako( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Associate Professor, Head of Division )( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Professor )( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Assisitant Professor )( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Specially Appointed Assistant Professor, EcoHealth )( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Research Associate )( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Research Associate )117
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RIHN Center●Achievements○Books【Chapters/Sections】【Original Articles】

・Hein Mallee・Kazuhiko Moji 2019,01 Health humanities. Japanese Journal of Health and Human Ecology 85(1):3-5.
(reviewed).
○Research Presentations【Oral Presentation】

・ Hein Mallee Future Earth Regional Centre for Asia. Future Earth Governing Council Meeting, 2018.04.28, Uruguai,
Montebideo.

RIHN Center○Papers

RIHN

・Tetsuzo Yasunari, Hein Mallee, and Reiichiro Ishii 2018,10 Asia’s Sustainability Challenges and Future Earth. Tom Beer,
Jianping Li, Keith Alverson (ed.) Global Change and Future Earth. Cambridge University Press, pp.388-397. DOI:
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Division Name: Communication Division
Head of Division: ABE, Ken-ichi○ Subject and Objectives

The basis of the Communication Division activities is “knowledge-networking”: reediting an isolated and diffused knowledge
information and presenting them as a new knowledge/concept.
There are three supporting activities. Firstly, we review a new result transmission technique, which helps us to construct theplatform fostering bidirectional knowledge information, in the transdisciplinary era through the method development such aspractically using video resources. Secondly, considering environmental education as a great opportunity to exchange knowledge
information with the next generation, “RIHN-Environmental Education Method” and its materials will be developed withgathered and integrated RIHN research project achievements. Finally, we are engaged in works related to the creation of new
ideas and values, aims to establish a new-value-creating-methodology by organizing results of activity fruits and higher-orderconnecting knowledge information of RIHN projects.

○ Progress and Results in 2018

【Research Development of Achievement Transmission Technique in the Transdisciplinary Era】

Plan❶ Development a method of research result
・Making an Exhibition 360 camera movie, VR and projection mapping in Mumokuteki café Kyoto.
・As a new research information transmission that incorporates art, conducted a theater Workshop “The pleasure of farming:
connecting rural of Asia in theater workshops”

Plan❷ Enhancement of cooperation with relevant organizations
・Meetings with Ritsumeikan University, College of Image Arts and Sciences and Kim Satbyul(Specially appointed assistantprofessor, RIHN Center) to discuss effective methods towards result transmission and current trend.
Plan❸ Improvement of contents
・Transmission of project research results on Video and Social media (1. “life with soil” directed by Yuya Takeda: Ritsumeikan
University & Yutaka Mimura:RIHN Center, 2. “Global Important Agricultural Heritage System Takachihogo-Shiibayama Site
Takachiho, Hinokage, Gokase, Morotsuka, Shiiba—Ordinary Is Extraordinary” produced by RIHN and NHK Educational
Corporation). A video work was presented to the public in the 13th International Symposium “Humanities on the Ground:
Confronting the Anthropocene in Asia”, organized by RIHN.

【Research and Development of Materials for Environmental Education】

Plan❶ Host a gathering of Environmental education
・Conducted classes in Rakuhoku Senior High School and Hokuryo Senior High School students (1st and 2nd grade) coordinatedby RIHN and published the results as a report booklet.

Plan❷ Development of materials for environmental education

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RIHN Center・Cooperation with Rakuhoku Senior High School and Hokuryo Senior High School students, presentation at RIHN Open Houseand the Earth Hall of Fame KYOTO, and targeted school teachers training.

・“Knowledge Creation Seminar” for two times in collaboration with Honen-in temple Kyoto and Kyoto Seika University.
・〝Dialogue: the way of view on the nature in Japan” in collaboration with Expo ’90 Foundation, The Earth Hall of Fame Kyoto

Plan❷ Survey with RIHN project members
・Local related seminar in the project commissioned from Hinokage town, Miyazaki Prefecture, with the FEAST project

Others①Research Development of Achievement Transmission Technique in The Transdisciplinary Era･We have searched the conservation condition of image contents cooperatively with Information Infrastructure Department,
RIHN Center. We are now proceeding with data conversion to be able to watch and preparing for release.
･Yutaka Mimura (RHIN Center) was supported by a grant from the Kochi Cultural Foundation, coordinated a workshop in
collaboration with local residents, artists and Kochi University at Nuta Village, Otoyo-cho, Nagaoka District, Kochi Prefecture.
Produced folk songs as an outcome method of trans-disciplinary research, and contributed to the recording and dissemination of
local communities.
②Research and Development of Materials for Environmental Education

・We held exhibition of the International Children’s Painting on the Environment and introduced totally 150 painting to the
public in the annual event “Kyoto Environment Festival 2018”, organized by Kyoto Prefecture.

③New Ideas and Values Creation through knowledge information networking
・”Forum of Person engaged in Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System” held in RIHN. Person engaged in GIAHS
joined from 8 GIAHS sites in Japan.
・Create short movie about Miyazaki GIAHS site with English sub, that is for cleating “Civic Pride”. This work is in collaborate
with Miyazaki Prefecture.

○Members◎ ABE Ken-ichi○ NILES,Daniel○ MIMURA Yutaka○ SHIMADA Nahoko○ KISHIMOTO Sayaka( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Professor,Ecological Anthropology )( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Associate Professor,Geography )( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Researcher,Architectural History, Urban History,
Historical GIS )( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Researcher,Study of Ecological thought )( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Research Associate,International Collaboration
Studies )RIHN Center

Plan❶ Host a seminar

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●Achievements○Books【Chapters/Sections】

・Niles, Daniel 2018,04 Agricultural Heritage and Conservation Beyond the Anthropocene. Angela M. Labrador and Neil Asher
Silberman (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Public Heritage Theory and Practice . Oxford University Press. DOI:10.1093/
oxfordhb/9780190676315.013.2○Papers【Review Articles】

・Daniel Niles and Narifumi Tachimoto 2018,10 Science and the experience of nature. Nature Sustainability 1:540-543. DOI:
10.1038/s41893-018-0124-y (reviewed).
○Research Presentations【Oral Presentation】

・Daniel Niles Highlands as cultural-ecological nexus territory: An example from Northern Thailand. 2019 RIHN FEAST
Project General Assembly, 2019.01.13-2019.01.14, Kyoto.
・Daniel Niles Humanities on the ground: The everyday aesthetics of lived environmental experience. RIHN International
Symposium, 2018.12.12-2018.12.15, Kyoto.
・Daniel Niles Linking the mental and the material: Tracing the patterns of environmental knowledge. Workshop of the Center
for Japanese Studies + Department of Anthropology, 2018.11.09-2018.11.10, U.C.Berkeley.
・ Daniel Niles Return of the basket: On art, aeshetics, and ecology. Archaelolgical Research Facility, Department of
Anthropology, 2018.10.31, U.C.Berkeley.
・Daniel Niles Confronting the Anthropocene in Asia. World Social Science Forum, 2018.09.25-2018.09.28, Fukuoka.
・Daniel Niles The ecosystems of everyday life. RIHN Seminar for the "Humanities for the Environment" project proposal,
2018.09.21, Kyoto.
・ Daniel Niles A Knowledge-based approach to agricultural heritage. Nan Province Workshop on Globally Important
Agricultural Heritage Systems, 2018.07.24, Nan City(Thailand).
・Daniel Niles Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems: Key concepts. Nathional Workshop on Globally Important
Agricultural Heritage Systems, 2018.07.19, Khon Kaen(Thailand).
・Daniel Niles Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems: Cultural Dimensions. Nathional Workshop on Globally
Important Agricultural Heritage Systems, 2018.07.19, Khon Kaen(Thailand).
・ Daniel Niles Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems: Proposal process. Nathional Workshop on Globally
Important Agricultural Heritage Systems, 2018.07.19, Khon Kaen(Thailand).
・Daniel Niles The challenge of deep transdisciplinarity. Kyoto Transdisciplinary & Transnational Forum, 2018.06.03, Kyoto.
【Invited Lecture / Honorary Lecture / Panelist】

・Daniel Niles Globally Inportant Agriculture Heritage Systems(GIAHS) and the future of sustainable agriculture. GIAHS
Seminar, 2018.12.08, Wakayama.
・Daniel Niles Sustainability and the natures of environmental knowledge. Guest Lecture, 2018.10.30, U.C.Berkeley.

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Outreach Programs and Events

Outreach Programs and Events
1. RIHN International Symposium
In order to diffuse the findings of FR projects, the RIHN 13th International Symposium “Humanities on the
Ground: Confronting the Anthropocene in Asia” was held on 13-14 December 2018 at the Lecture Hall, RIHN. The
details of the symposium are as follows.

Session 1: Knowledge, science, and the experience of nature
Introduction to Session 1
Kaoru SUGIHARA and Masahiro TERADA
Global History of Science as a Knowledge Resource for the Anthropocene
Matthias SCHEMMEL (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany)
The Emergence of Queer Nature in Modern Science: Minakata Kumagusu (1867-1941) and Microbial Knowledge
Eiko HONDA (University of Oxford, UK)
Morally Attuning to, and Living in, the Changing Weather: A Case from Farmers of Northern Thailand
Chaya VADDHANAPHUTI (Chiang Mai University, Thailand)
Humanities on the Ground: The Everyday Aesthetics of Lived Environmental Experience
Daniel NILES (RIHN)
Why Anthropocene History is not Environmental History: Clearing the Ground for a New Field
Julia Adeney THOMAS (University of Notre Dame, USA)
Discussion
Katrin KLINGAN (Haus der Kulturn der Welt [HKW], Germany)
Christoph ROSOL (HKW/Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany)
Discussants<Thursday, December 14>
Session 2: Facing the ever-present agency of environment
Chair: Daniel NILES (RIHN) and Kazuhiko OTA (RIHN)
Introduction to Session 2
Daniel NILES and Kazuhiko OTA
Retrieving Earthliness: Philosophy and Practice of Natural Farming in Japan
Augustin BERQUE (École des Hautes études en Sciences Sociales, France)
Thinking about Politics beyond the Human: Towards a Multispecies Conception of Political Membership andStakeholding in our Planet’s Future Maya KÓVSKAYA (AMOR MUNDI Guerilla Think Tank for Ecological Justice, Anthropocene Research andCuratorial Platform, Thailand/USA)First, Love the Volcano: Forming Geological Kinships in Japan

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Keynote Address: R isk and Responsibility in the Anthropocene
Sheila JASANOFF (Harvard University, USA)

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RIHN 13th International Symposium<Wednesday, December 13>
Plenary Session
Chair: Hein MALLEE (RIHN)
Welcome and Opening Remarks: YASUNARI Tetsuzo (Director-General, RIHN)
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Emily SEKINE (The New School for Social Research, USA)
Postwar Typhoons and the Reshaping of Japan’s Environment
Julia Mariko JACOBY (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany)
Discussion
Chair: SAIJO Tatsuyoshi (RIHN)
Akio TANABE (The University of Tokyo, Japan), DiscussantSession 3: Management systems of the Anthropocene
Chair: Steven MCGREEVY (RIHN) and Christoph RUPPRECHT (RIHN)
Introduction to Session 3
Steven MCGREEVY and Christoph RUPPRECHT
Being Affected by Sinking Deltas: Changing Landscapes, Resilience and Complex Adaptive Systems in the Scientific
Story of the Anthropocene
Atsuro MORITA (Osaka University, Japan)
Digital Control and the Earth Ecosystem Will the Governance of the Anthropocene be Designed in East Asia?
Stéphane GRUMBACH (INRIA & ENS Lyon, France)
Sustainable Urban Systems, a Research Agenda Stephanie PINCETL (Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California, Los Angeles,
USA)
Discussion
Soraj HONGLADAROM (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)
Kyoko SATO (Stanford University, USA)
DiscussantsGeneral Discussion
Chair: Hein MALLEE (RIHN)
Discussion across All Sessions,
Comments by Sheila JASANOFF (Harvard University, USA)
Closing Remarks
Kaoru SUGIHARA (RIHN)<Friday, December 15>
Anthropocene on the groundWorkshop at Shibunkaku Gallery, Kyoto
Erasing and revealing
Exercise by ZHENG Chongbin (Independent artist, China/USA)
Earthbound knowledge: The Anthropocene Curriculum Christoph ROSOL and Katrin KLINGAN (Haus der Kulturn der Welt Berlin/Max Planck Institute for the Historyof Science, Germany)
Anthropocene Curriculum East Asia
Short contributions by Eiko HONDA, Maya KÓVSKAYA, Daniel NILES and Masahiro TERADA
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2. Symposium of Environmental Isotope Study
Joint research grant for Environmental Isotope Study has conducted multidisciplinary joint researches using various
isotope analysis facilities RIHN has maintained. To exchange research information and promote the Environmental
Isotope Study network, “Symposium of Environmental Isotope Study” has been held once a year since 2011.

The 77th Public Seminar

The 78th Public Seminar

The 79th Public Seminar

8 June, 2018
“After rain comes fair weather”—Terrible but deep relationships between climate variation
and Japanese history
NAKATSUKA Takeshi (RIHN)
11 October, 2018
Ecosystem-based Disaster Risk Reduction in the era of climate change
YOSHIDA Takehito (RIHN)MASUHARA Naoki (RIHN)
12 March, 2019
Peatland exploitation and environment in Indonesia with the perspectives on the relation
between Indonesia (natural resource rich and exporting country) and Japan (natural
resource import and manufactured goods exporting country)
MIZUNO Kosuke (RIHN)YAMANAKA Manabu (RIHN)

4. Kyoto Municipal Science Center For Youth “Future Scientist Training Course”
RIHN has concluded an agreement on collaboration with Kyoto Municipal Science Center For Youth since 2011.
In the fiscal year 2018, RIHN cooperated with Future Scientist Training Course as below. The whole course hasorganized by the Science Center For Youth, for elementary and junior high school students in Kyoto.
(Summer)Date: 30 July, 2018
Venue: RIHN
Lecturer: SHIODERA Satomi (RIHN)

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3. RIHN Public Seminars
In order to present RIHN research activity in a manner that accessible to the general public, since November 2004,
RIHN has offered public lectures. Three seminars were held in 2018 at the Heart Pier Kyoto.
RIHN staff offer accessible explanations of global environmental problems, and the Public Seminars havestimulated engrossing discussions of contemporary environmental concerns.

RIHN

The 8th Annual Symposium of Environmental Isotope Study
Date: 21 December, 2018
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5. RIHN Open House
In order to introduce RIHN’s research projects and facilities to the surrounding community, RIHN has opened ourbuildings to the public once a year since 2011. Several interesting events such as joint experiments, public talks,
exhibitions, and games were conducted in order to deepen our interaction with local citizens in fiscal 2018.
Date: 27 July, 2018
Venue: RIHN
6. RIHN Area Seminars
The RIHN Area Seminars offer an opportunity for RIHN research staff to gather with regional intellectuals andlocal citizens to consider problems related to the environment and culture of each area of Japan. The first seminar washeld in 2005. The fiscal year 2018, six seminars were held as below.
The 22nd RIHN Area Seminar (Hokkaido)“Considering the lives and health of people from local and global viewpoints”
Date: 30 June 2018
Venue: Department of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Hokkaido University
The 23rd RIHN Area Seminar (Kyoto)“Towards bee-friendly cities - co-creating urban futures”
Date: 4 November 2018
Venue: Nakagyo Ward Office
The 24th RIHN Area Seminar (Hinokage)“Heritage for Future: Humanity and Nature in Hinokage, Miyazaki”
Date: 23 November 2018
Venue: Hinokage Town Fukushikan
The 25th RIHN Area Seminar (Shiga)
Date: 2 December 2018
Venue: Lake Biwa Museum
The 26th RIHN Area Seminar (Osaka)“How did our ancestors confront the climate variations? - From Yayoi era to Early Modern era –“Date: 16 December 2018
Venue: Osaka Museum of History
The 27th RIHN Area Seminar (Kyoto)“Future Design in Kyoto“
Date: 27 March 2019
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7. RIHN Tokyo Seminar
In order to gain the attention of researchers and the general public and to promote research cooperation anddevelopment, RIHN periodically holds seminars in Tokyo. We invite renowned Japanese researchers as well as public
officials to discuss RIHN research project objectives and findings. The seminar was held in fiscal 2018 as below.

The Earth Forum Kyoto; International Symposium
Date: 9 February, 2019
Venue: Kyoto International Conference Center
9. The Earth Hall of Fame KYOTO
The Earth Forum Kyoto invites world-renowned experts and activists to discuss the environmental and culturalbases of more responsible human societies. The Earth Hall of Fame Kyoto Award is given to those who have madeexemplary contributions to the protection of the global environment. Organizers of the event are the International
Institute for Advanced Studies, the Kyoto International Conference Centre, and RIHN.
The 2018 recipients of the Earth Hall of Fame Kyoto Award:
Christiana Figueres (Diplomat/Former Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change(UNFCCC))
Yamaori Tetsuo (Religious Scholar)
Ego Lemos (Singer/Environmentalist)
10. RIHN Seminars
RIHN Seminars are invited talks by esteemed Japanese or foreign researchers. The seminars provide opportunities
for RIHN scientists to learn of the latest topics and research directions in a variety of fields; they also often are a firststep toward future research collaborations between RIHN researchers and those of other institutions. Seminars are held
several times a year.
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Hayanon’s Science Manga: To Enhance Academic Outereach and Communication
Hayanon (Hayanon’s Science Manga Studio)
18 May, 2018 at RIHN Lecture Hall
Transcendence in international politics: science of paradigm shift
NAKANISHI Hisae(Professor, Global Society Studies Cluster)
5 June, 2018 at RIHN Seminar Rooms 1 & 2
Sanitation technologies and selection strategy for urban slum, peri-urban and rural communities

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8. The Earth Forum Kyoto; International Symposium
RIHN, Kyoto Prefecture, Kyoto City, Kyoto University, and Kyoto Prefectural University co-host this forum inorder to clearly convey our message of the importance of environmental issues to the world. The symposium was heldin fiscal year 2018 as below.

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10th Tokyo Seminar“Global Environment and Lifestyle: Learning in the Anthropocene III”
Date: 15-16 December, 2018
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Aileen Huelgas-Orbecido (Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering Department, De La Salle
University, Philippines)
25 July, 2018 at RIHN Seminar Rooms 3 & 4
Promoting local food for upland sustainable development: Local coffee in Northern Thailand
Sittidaj Pongkijvorasin (Visiting Research Fellow, RIHN / Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics,
Chulalongkorn University)
9 August, 2018 at RIHN Seminar Rooms 3 & 4
Engaging the future: Initiatives of the local community in the revival of the Vernacular Architecture in
Oman
Naima Benkari (Visiting Research Fellow, RIHN / Assistant Professor, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman)
18 September, 2018 at RIHN Seminar Rooms 3 & 4
Humanity, nature, and our digital future
Is the digital revolution a mere consequence of global warming
Dr. Stephane Grumbach, an invited scholar from Institut National de Recherche en Informatique etAutomatique (INRIA), France
12 October, 2018 at RIHN Lecture Hall
Water - Bloodstream of the biosphereProf. Malin Falkenmark(Senior Advisor, Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI)
21 October, 2018 at Yoshida Campus, Kyoto University
Japanese View of Nature — Interdisciplinary Dialogue on the “Nature and Humanity”
BERQUE, Augustin Laurent Pierre (Retired Professor, Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales(EHESS))
17 December, 2018 at RIHN Seminar Rooms 3 & 4
Imagining and enacting sustainability transformations: foresight and gaming as anticipatory governance
Joost Mattheus Vervoort(Visiting Research Fellow/Assistant Professor, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable
Development, Utrecht University, the Netherlands)
Astrid Mangnus(PhD Candidate, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University,
the Netherlands)
20 March, 2019 at RIHN Seminar Rooms 1 & 2
Potentiality and Sustainable Management Strategy of Peatland in Bangladesh
Dr. MD Rostom Ali (Visiting Research Fellow/Professor, Bangladesh Agricultural University)
18 March, 2019 at RIHN Seminar Rooms 1 & 2
The Tasks and Possibilities of Transdisciplinary Research - How is the Cooperation of Stakeholders
with Different Interests (im)possible?

11. Lunch Seminars (Danwakai)
Lunch Seminars allow all RIHN research staff, including visiting professors, part-time researchers, foreign
researchers and so on, to freely present their individual research to their colleagues in an informal and supportive
forum. As these seminars promote creative thinking and constructive debates, they are held on a biweekly basis.
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Long coastlines of the Indonesian “maritime continent” controlling global climate
YAMANAKA Manabu (Research Department, Researcher)
19 June 2018
Category, indigenous people and peatland: Anthropological study on the eastern coast of Sumatra

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20 November 2018
Tale of 3 cities, 1 municipality and 3 villages in the Sta. Rosa subwatershed
Ria Lambino (Research Department, Researcher)

12. RIHN General Meeting (RGM)
RIHN researcher, office staffs, and outside research collaborators gather to review the year’s progress. All project
leaders present their research findings and accomplishments and receive questions from the floor.
Attracting 304 attendees in its three-day duration, the annual meeting generated dialogue among RIHN researchers
and improved general awareness of RIHN’s progress and evolution within the larger fields of environmental research.
Date: 28 - 30 November, 2018
Venue: Co-op inn Kyoto
13. Press Conferences
RIHN holds official press conferences in order to release information on its academic activities, research projects,
symposia, publications and latest environmental findings. As a public institution with a public mandate, such activities
provide an important link between RIHN and the citizenry. In fiscal 2018, press conferences were held as below.
The 1st Press Conference in FY2018
Date: 15 May, 2018
Venue: Kyoto Karasuma Convention Hall, Meeting room3
The 2nd Press Conference in FY2018
Date: 22 March, 2019
Venue: Kyoto Karasuma Convention Hall, Meeting room1

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OSAWA Takamasa (Research Department, Researcher)
17 July 2018
Tropical peat swamp forests: past and future
SHIODERA Satomi (Research Department, Researcher)
7 August 2018
Landscape in the Sea Mist
KAMAUCHI Hiromitsu (RIHN Center, Researcher)
18 September 2018
Introduction of my previous research (Heavy metal pollution on farmland; Environmental education in
Taiwan) and Eco-DRR research for now (land use simulation in Shiga)
Wanhui HUANG (Research Department, Researcher)
30 October 2018
Insights on Human and Forest Relations based on my field work on Cardamon production sites in
Cambodia
ISHIBASHI Hiroyuki (Research Department, Researcher)

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RIHN Annual Report 201814. Publications
14-1 RIHN Series“Role of biodiversity in recovery after disaster: Green reconstruction from the Great East Japan Earthquake”
Edited by Tohru Nakashizuka, Masakado Kawata, Makiko Imai and Yuko Kishikami (in Japanese)
14-2 RIHN Science Series“Biosphere reserves: Nature conservation fostered by practices in local communities”
Edited by MATSUDA Hiroyuki, SATO Tetsu and YUMOTO Takakazu (in Japanese)
14-3 Others“Global Climatology: Variability, Change and Evolution of Climate System”
Edited by YASUNARI, Tetsuzo (in Japanese)“Water-Energy-Food Nexus regarding Geothermal Resource: Towards Inter-disciplinary and Trans-disciplinary
Approaches”
Edited by Kenshi Baba, Naoki Masuhara, Aiko Endo (in Japanese)“Transformations of Social-Ecological Systems Studies in Co-creating Integrated Knowledge Toward Sustainable
Futures”
Edited by Sato, Tetsu, Ilan Chabay, Jennifer Helgeson
14-4 RIHN News: Humanity & Nature Newsletter
This periodical communicates RIHN identity and latest news to specific research communities. The newsletter ispublished in an A4 format with easy-to read content. Issues 72-76 were published in fiscal year 2018.

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AKIMICHI Tomoya
ABE Ken-ichi
ADACHI KaoriAKIMICHI Tomoya
ASANUMA-BRICE, Cécile
BERQUE, Augustin Laurent Pierre
ENDO Aiko
FUJII Shigeo
FUJIYOSHI Rei
GRUMBACH, Stephane Marie
HABU Junko
HAYASHI Hiroaki
HAYASHI Koji
HAYASHIDA Sachiko
HOMMA Saki
HUANG, Wan Hui
IKEYA Tohru
IMAIZUMI Aki
ISHIBASHI Hiroyuki
ISHIDA Takuya
ISHII Reiichiro
ISHIKAWA Satoshi
ITO Keisuke
IWAMOTO Yoko
JIANG, Hong-wei
KAJITA Ryosuke
KAMATANI Kaoru
KAMAUCHI Hiromitsu
KANEMOTO Keiichiro
KANIE Norichika
KARATSU Fukiko
KASUGA Fumiko
KATO Yoshikazu
KATSURA Tomomi
KAWASAKI Masahiro
KIKUCHI Naoki
KIM Satbyul
KIMURA Ayako
KISHIMOTO Sayaka
KOBAYASHI Kunihiko
KOBAYASHI Mai
KOBAYASHI Yuko
KOHSAKA Ryo
KONDO Yasuhisa
KOZAN Osamu
KUMAZAWA Terukazu
KURATA Junko
KURIU Harumi
KUSAGOU Takayoshi
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MALLEE, Henricus Paulus
MASUHARA Naoki
MATSUDA Hirotaka
MATSUMOTO Takuya
MATSUOKA Yuko
MC GREEVY, Steven Robert
MIMURA Yutaka
MIURA Tomoko
MIZUMA Sakiko
MIZUNO Kosuke
MOREAU, Yoann
MORI Koichiro
MORIKAWA Mika
MURATA Fumi
MYO HAN HTUNNAKAGAMI Ken'ichi
NAKAHARA Satoe
NAKAI Minami
NAKAO Seiji
NAKASHIZUKA Tohru
NAKATSUKA Takeshi
NILES, Daniel Ely
NISHIDA Takaaki
NITZCHE, Kai
OH Tomohiro
OHTA Kazuhiko
OKA Masami
OKABE Akiko
OKAMOTO Takako
OKUDA Noboru
OMORI Yasuhiro
ONISHI Yuko
OSAWA Takamasa
RAMPISELA, Dorotea
RUPPRECHT, Christoph David Dietfried
SAIJO Tatuyoshi
SAITO Yu
SAKAKIBARA Masayuki
SEKINO Tatsuki
SENDA Masako
SHIBATA Akira
SHIBATA Rei
SHIMADA Nahoko
SHIMAUCHI Risa
SHIMIZU Takao
SHIN, Kicheol
SHINKAI Rika
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SHIRAIWA Takayuki
SPIEGELBERG, Maximilian
SUDA Masashi
SUETSUGU Satoko
SUGIHARA Kaoru
SUZUKI Haruka
SUZUKI Takami
TAKEHARA Mari
TAKESHIMA Hirohiko
TAKEUCHI Kiyoshi
TAMURA Norie
TANAKA Ueru
TANIGUCHI Makoto
TAYASU Ichiro
TERADA Masahiro
TOYAMA Mari
TSUSHIMA Akane
UEDA Sachiko
UEHARA Yoshitoshi
WANG-ERLANDSSON, Lan
WATANABE Kazuo
WATANABE Kirie
YABUSAKI Shiho
YAMAMOTO Aya
YAMANAKA Manabu
YAMAUCHI Taro
YASUDA Akiko
YASUNARI Tetsuzo
YONEMOTO Shohei
YOSHIDA Takehito
YOSHIMIZU Chikage
YUZEN Natsuko

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FUJIYOSHI Rei
Researcher

Born in 1985.
[Academic Career]
Faculty of Fisheries Science, Hokkaido University, Bachelor (2010)
Course in Geochemistry, Division of Earth System Science, Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University,
M.Course (2012)
Course in Geochemistry, Division of Earth System Science, Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University,
D.Course (2017)[Professional Career]
Assistant Technical Staff, Field Science Center, Faculty of Agriculture, Yamagata University (2017)[Higher Degrees]D.Sc(Hokkaido University,2017)
M.Sc(Hokkaido University,2012)[Fields of Specialization]
Environmental Science using Isotopes―Achievements―[Papers][Original Articles]

・Joseph M. Craine, Andrew J. Elmore, Lixin Wang, Julieta Aranibar, Marijn Bauters, Pascal Boeckx, Brooke E. Crowley,
Melissa A. Dawes, Sylvain Delzon, Alex Fajardo, Yunting Fang, Lei Fujiyoshi, Alan Gray, Rossella Guerrieri, Michael J.
Gundale, David J. Hawke, Peter Hietz, Mathieu Jonard, Elizabeth Kearsley, Tanaka Kenzo, Mikhail Makarov, Sara
Marañón-Jiménez, Terrence P. McGlynn, Brenden E. McNeil, Stella G. Mosher, David M. Nelson, Pablo L. Peri, Jean
Christophe Roggy, Rebecca Sanders-DeMott, Minghua Song, Paul Szpak, Pamela H. Templer, Dewidine Van der Colff,
Christiane Werner, Xingliang Xu, Yang Yang, Guirui Yu, Katarzyna Zmudczyńska-Skarbek 2018 Isotopic evidence foroligotrophication of terrestrial ecosystems. Nature Ecology & Evolution 2:1735-1744. DOI:10.1038/s41559-018-0694-0(reviewed).

[Research Presentations][Oral Presentation]

・ Lei FUJIYOSHI, Kenichi OHKUSHI, Yudai YAMAMOTO, Ichiro TAYASU, Tadashi YOKOYAMA, Hiromune
MITSUHASHI, Fumiko FURUKAWA, Masayuki ITOH Dynamics of dissolved ions inferred from sulfur isotope ratio of
sulfate, nitrogen and oxygen isotope ratios of nitrate in Chikusa river watershed, Hyogo. Japan Geoscience Union Meeting,2018.05.20-2018.05.24, Makuhari Messe, Chiba, Japan. (in Japanese)
・Lei Fujiyoshi, Ichiro Tayasu, Shiho Yabusaki, Takashi Haraguchi, Chikage Yoshimizu, Kenichi Ohkushi, Fumiko Furukawa,
Masayuki Itoh, Yudai Yamamoto, Tadashi Yokoyama, Hiromune Mitsuhashi Dynamics of nitrate and sulfate inferred fromstable isotope techniques in Chikusa river watershed, Hyogo Prefecture . Management of Water and Land Resources: Studies
in Asia and Europe, 2018.11.19-2018.11.23, Yamagata University, Yamagata, JAPAN.
・Lei Fujiyoshi, Ichiro Tayasu, Shiho Yabusaki, Takashi Haraguchi, Chikage Yoshimizu, Kenichi Ohkushi, Fumiko Furukawa,
Masayuki Itoh, Yudai Yamamoto, Tadashi Yokoyama, Hiromune Mitsuhashi Dynamics of nitrate and sulfate using stable
isotope techniques in Chikusa river watershed, Hyogo Prefecture . Japan Society of Limnology 83 annual meeting inOkayama, 2018.10.05-2018.10.08, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan. (in Japanese)

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・Fujiyoshi L, Tayasu I, Yabusaki S, Haraguchi T, Yoshimizu C, Ohkushi K, Furukawa F, Itoh M, Yamamoto Y, Yokoyama Y,
Mitsuhashi H Dynamics of sulfate and nitrate inferred from stable isotope techniques in Chikusa river watershed, Hyogo. The
8th Symposium on Environmental Isotope Study, 2018.12.21-2018.12.21, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature. (inJapanese)・Fujiyoshi L, Tayasu I, Yabusaki S, Haraguchi T, Yoshimizu C, Ohkushi K, Furukawa F, Itoh M, Yamamoto Y, Yokoyama Y,
Mitsuhashi H Chikusa river watershed seen from multi-elements. The 14th "Kyosei-no-Hiroba", 2019.02.11-2019.02.11,
Museum of Nature and Human Activities,Hyogo. (in Japanese)・Fujiyoshi L, Tayasu I, Yabusaki S, Haraguchi T, Yoshimizu C, Ohkushi K, Furukawa F, Itoh M, Yamamoto Y, Yokoyama Y,
Mitsuhashi H Origin and Dynamics of sulfate and nitrate inferred from stable isotope techniques in Chikusa river watershed,
Hyogo. The 66th ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN, 2019.03.15-2019.03.19, Kobe
Convention Center. (in Japanese)

HABU Junko

Born in 1959.
Visiting Professor, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan (2016)
Professor, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan (2014)
Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley (2010)
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley (2002)
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley (1996)
Faculty Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, McGill University(1994)
Full-time Research Associate (joshu), Faculty of Science, The University of Tokyo (1984)[Higher Degrees]
Ph.D. (Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, McGill University, 1996)
M.A. (Archaeology, Division of History, Keio University, 1984)
B.A. (Archaeology, Department of Ethnology and Archaeology, Division of History, Keio University, 1982)[Academic Society Memberships]
American Anthropological Association
Society for American Archaeology
Sigma Xi
American Geophysical Union
Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association
Society for East Asian Archaeology
Japanese Archaeological Association
Society of Archaeological Studies of Japan
The Anthropological Society of Nippon
Japan Association for Quaternary Research
Japanese Society for Scientific Studies on Cultural Property
Kagoshima Archaeological Association
Association for Edo Period Archaeology

Individual Achievements[Professional Career]

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―Achievements―[Papers][Original Articles]

・Habu, J. 2018,11 Jomon Food Diversity, Climate Change and Long-term Sustainability: What I Have Learned by Doing
Archaeological and Ethnographic Studies in Japan. The SAA Archaeological Record 18(4):27-30.

HAYASHI Koji
Researcher

Born in 1972.
[Higher Degrees]
Ph.D.(The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, 2007)[Fields of Specialization]
Ecological Anthropology
African Area Studies―Achievements―[Research Presentations][Oral Presentation]

・Hayashi K Attempt of Sanitation Value Chain Model in Africa: From case studies of Zambia and Cameroon. Kochi
University and RIHN Joint Workshop “Collaborative Innovation of the Future Design and People”, 2018.10.26, Kochi
University, Nangoku city, Japan. (in Japanese)
・HAYASHI K, NAKAO S and YAMAUCHI T Defecation without toilets - Toward the study of sanitation activities in thehunter-gatherers. The Twelfth International Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies (CHAGS 12),2018.07.23-2018.07.27, The School of Social Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia.
[Poster Presentation]

・Hayashi K, Nyambe S, Harada H, Chua M.L, Ito R, Ushijma K, Kataoka Y, Yamauchi T How to design sanitation value chain
in African slum: Focus on "Value in Health", case study of local community activities in Lusaka, Zambia. The 10th RIHN
seminar in Tokyo, Global Environment and Life Culture - Learning of the Anthropocene, 2018.12.15, Tokyo University,
Tokyo, Japan. (in Japanese)・Hayashi K, Nakao S, Yamauchi T Excretion behavior of Baka hunter-gatherers: From time-space analysis by individual
observations in Cameroon. 55th Conference of Japan Association for African Studies, 2018.05.26-2018.05.27, Hokkaido
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KAJITA Ryosuke
Researcher

Born in 1989.
[Academic Career]
Faculty of Foreign Language, Osaka University (2012)
Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University (2017)[Professional Career]
Researcher, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University (2017)
Researcher, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (2017)[Higher Degrees]
Master Degree of Area Studies (Kyoto University, 2014)
Doctoral Degree of Area Studies (Kyoto University, 2017)[Fields of Specialization]
Area Studies[Academic Society Memberships]

RIHN

Japan Society for Natural Disaster Science
Society of Historical Earthquake Studies[Research Presentations][Oral Presentation]

・Ryosuke Kajita Historical Rainfall Data of Indonesia in the Late 19th Century by using Dutch Colonial Materials. The 11th
Annual ACRE Meeting, ACRE Southeast Asia-2, 2018.11.15-2018.11.16, Tokyo Metropolitan University.
・Ryosuke Kajita Historical precipitation data in Sumatra and Kalimantan from 1879 to 1900, by using Dutch colonial
materials. 7th International Conference on Sustainable Future for Human Security, 2018.10.29-2018.10.30, Padang,Indonesia.
[Poster Presentation]

・Ryosuke Kajita Reconstruction of historical rainfall data in Colonial Indonesia: focusing in the late 19th century. World
Social Science Forum 2018, 2018.09.25-2018.09.28, Fukuoka, Japan.
[Invited Lecture / Honorary Lecture / Panelist]

・Ryosuke Kajita Career path after GSS program. Career Development and Choices along Research on Water, Energy orDisaster Management, 2018.10.23, Kyoto University. A side event hosted by UNESCO Chair on Water, Energy and Disaster
Management for Sustainable Development

KANEMOTO Keiichiro
Associate Professor[Awards]
Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Cross-Field, Clarivate Analytics, 2018
Outstanding Reviewer Awards for Environmental Research Letters, IOP Publishing, 2018

Individual Achievements―Achievements―

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―Achievements―[Papers][Original Articles]・Moinul Islam, Keiichiro Kanemoto, Shunsuke Managi. 2019,02 Growth potential for CO2 emissions transfer by tariff
reduction. Environmental Research Letters. DOI:10.1088/1748-9326/aaf688 (reviewed).
・Arne Geschke, Julien Ugon, Manfred Lenzen, Keiichiro Kanemoto, Daniel Moran. 2019,01 Balancing and Reconciling Large
Multi-Regional Input-Output Databases Using Parallel Optimisation and High-Performance Computing. Journal of Economic
Structures 8(2). DOI:10.1186/s40008-019-0133-7 (reviewed).
・Keiichiro Kanemoto, Tesshu Hanaka, Shigemi Kagawa, Keisuke Nansai. 2018,07 Industrial clusters with substantial carbonreduction potential. Economic Systems Research. DOI:10.1080/09535314.2018.1492369 (reviewed).
・Daniel Moran, Keiichiro Kanemoto, Magnus Jiborn, Richard Wood, Johannes Többen, Karen Seto. 2018,06 Carbon footprintsof 13 000 cities. Environmental Research Letters 13(6). DOI:10.1088/1748-9326/aac72a (reviewed).

[Research Presentations][Oral Presentation]

・ Keiichiro Kanemoto Spatial Footprint Analysis. Australia – Japan Computational Sustainability Research Workshop,
December 2018, Sydney.
・Satoru Chatani, Midori Kurogi, Yuta Fujii, Susumu Tohno, Keiichiro Kanemoto, Keisuke Nansai. “Simulation study for
influences of consumptions in major countries on air quality and human health in Asia through global supply chains”. 17th
Annual CMAS Conference, 2018.10.22-2018.10.24, 100 Friday Center Dr Chapel Hill, NC 27517 United States.
[Poster Presentation]

・Yuji Fujii, Midori Kurogi, Susumu Tohno, Satoru Chatani, Keiichiro Kanemoto, Kanemoto Nansai. “The economic loss of
PM2.5-related mortality in Asia from consumption-based perspectives”. SETAC Europe 24th Annual LCA Case Study
Symposium, 2018.09.24-2018.09.26, Vienna, Austria.

KONDO Yasuhisa
Associate Professor

Born in 1979.
[Academic Career]
Department of Archaeology, The University of Tokyo, PhD course (2006-2009)
Department of Archaeology, The University of Tokyo, master course (2002-2005)
Department of Archaeology, The University of Tokyo, undergraduate course (1998-2002)[Professional Career]
Visiting Research Fellow, National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (2016)
Associate Professor, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (2014)
JSPS Research Fellow (PD), Tokyo Institute of Technology (2011)
Project Researcher, The University Museum, The University of Tokyo (2010)
Visiting Scholar, Center for Spatial Information Science, The University of Tokyo (2010)
JSPS Research Fellow (PD), The University of Tokyo (2009)
JSPS Research Fellow (DC2), The University of Tokyo (2008)[Higher Degrees]
D.Litt. (The University of Tokyo, 2010)
M.A. (The University of Tokyo, 2005)

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Individual Achievements[Fields of Specialization]
Open Science
Geographical Information Science
Archaeology[Academic Society Memberships]
International Association of Geomorphologists
Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA)
CIPA Heritage Documentation
European Geosciences Union (EGU)
Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU)GIS Association of Japan (GISA)
The Association of Japanese Geographers (AJG)
Anthropological Society of Nippon[Awards]
Kurita Water and Environmental Research Award (2016)
CSIS DAYS 2011 Presentation Award (2011)―Achievements―[Editing][Editing / Co-editing]・Yoshihiro Nishiaki, Seiji Kadowaki, Yasuhisa Kondo (ed.) 2018,12 PaleoAsia 2018 The International Workshop: Cultural
History of PaleoAsia – Integrative Research on the Formative Process of Modern Human Cultures in Asia. PaleoAsia Project
Series, 17. PaleoAsia Project Group, Tokyo, 112pp.
・Tara Beuzen-Waller, Friederike Stock, Yasuhisa Kondo (ed.) 2018,07 Special Issue Geoarchaeology: A toolbox for revealing
latent data in sedimentological and archaeological records. Quaternary International, 483. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 210pp.

[Papers][Original Articles]

・ Yasuhisa Kondo, Atsushi Noguchi, Takehiro Miki, Tara Beuzen-Waller, Stéphane Desruelles, Éric Fouache 2018,09
Archaeological sites in the Wilayat Ibri, Adh Dhahirah Governorate. The Journal of Oman Studies 18:201-227. (reviewed).
・Yasuhisa Kondo, Kazuhiro Hayashi, Asanobu Kitamoto 2018,07 Multifaceted workshops to envision the future of open
science with society. Proceedings of 2018 7th International Congress on Advanced Applied Informatics:466-469. DOI:
10.1109/IIAI-AAI.2018.00100 (reviewed).
[Review Articles]

・Tara Beuzen-Waller, Friederike Stock, Yasuhisa Kondo 2018,07 Geoarchaeology: A toolbox for revealing latent data insedimentological and archaeological records. Quaternary International 483:1-4. DOI:10.1016/j.quaint.2018.05.029

Individual Achievements

Japanese Society for Archaeological Informatics Katata Award (2008)

RIHN

Society of Archaeological Studies
Japan Society for West Asian Archaeology (JSWAA)
Japanese Palaeolithic Research Association (JPRA)
Japan Consortium for International Cooperation in Cultural Heritage
Japan Society for Research Policy and Innovation Management (JSRPIM)

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[Research Presentations][Oral Presentation]

・Yasuhisa Kondo, Atsushi Noguchi, Kohei Tamura, Mitsuhiro Nakamura, Hiroyuki Kitagawa PaleoAsia DB Hackathon. The
6th Conference on Cultural History of PaleoAsia, 2018.11.17-2018.11.18, Koshiba Hall, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyoku, Tokyo, Japan. (in Japanese)・Akira Saito, Yasuhisa Kondo, Nozomi Mizota, Tomoko Koyama Contribution of the digital humanities methods to theconstruction of an overall picture of Francisco de Toledo’s reducciones. 56° Congres Internacional de Americanistas,
2018.07.15-2018.07.20, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain.
・Yasuhisa Kondo, Kazuhiro Hayashi, Asanobu Kitamoto Multifaceted workshops to envision the future of open science withsociety. IIAI AAI 2018, 2018.07.08-2018.07.13, Yonago Convention Center, Tottori.
・Yasuhisa Kondo, Ge Wang, Ui Ikeuchi, Kei Kano, Terukazu Kumazawa, Ken’ichiro Nakashima, Hideyuki Onishi, Takeshi
Osawa, Tatsuki Sekino Open team science: A new team-based research methodology for socio-environmental cases in the
open science era. Japan Geoscience Union Annual Meeting 2018, 2018.05.23, Makuhari Messe, Chiba, Japan.
・Yasuhisa Kondo, Noboru Okuda, Satoshi Asano, Kanano Ishikawa, Kei Kano, Kaoru Kamatani, Terukazu Kumazawa,
Kenichi Sato, Sayoko Shimoyama, Eiichi Fujisawa, Kyohei Matsushita, Ken ’ ichi Wakita A community-based open
governance approach to waterweed recycling in the Lake Biwa catchment. Japan Geoscience Union Annual Meeting 2018,2018.05.20-2018.05.24, Makuhari Messe, Chiba, Japan. (in Japanese)
・Sumiko Tsukamoto, Kyoko S Kataoka, Yasuhisa Kondo, Takehiro Miki, Taichi Kuronuma, Yuichi Hayakawa, Takashi
Oguchi Luminescence dating of alluvial and fluvial sediments from Bat, Oman: implications to the humidity changes andhuman activities in the SE Arabia. Japan Geoscience Union Annual Meeting 2018, 2018.05.20-2018.05.24, Makuhari Messe,
Chiba, Japan. (in Japanese)・Jun Takakura, Yasuhisa Kondo, Hiroyuki Kitagawa The dispersals of modern humans into the Siberian Arctic in light of thepaleoenvironmental reconstruction. The 5th Conference on Cultural History of PaleoAsia, 2018.05.12-2018.05.13,
Motoyama Campus, Nagoya University. (in Japanese)[Poster Presentation]

・Yasuhisa Kondo, Hideyuki Onishi, Yoko Iwamoto Lexical analysis of the concept of culture in the PaleoAsia project.
PaleoAsia 2018 International Workshop, 2018.12.15-2018.12.18, Kyoto International Conference Center and ResearchInstitute for Humanity and Nature (Kyoto, Japan).
・Yasuhisa Kondo, Yoko Iwamoto Network analysis of the interdisciplinary co-authorship of the PaleoAsia project. PaleoAsia
2018 International Workshop, 2018.12.15-2018.12.18, Kyoto International Conference Center and Research Institute for
Humanity and Nature (Kyoto, Japan).
・Yasuhisa Kondo, Yoko Iwamoto Visualization of the interdisciplinary collaboration network of the PaleoAsia Project. The
6th Conference on Cultural History of PaleoAsia, 2018.11.17-2018.11.18, Koshiba Hall, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyoku, Tokyo, Japan.
・Yasuhisa Kondo, Ge Wang, Ui Ikeuchi, Kei Kano, Terukazu Kumazawa, Ken’ichiro Nakashima, Hideyuki Onishi, Takeshi
Osawa, Tatsuki Sekino Information asymmetry reduction in open team science: call for international collaborators. SESYNC
2018 Boundary Spanning Symposium, 2018.06.11-2018.06.13, Loews Annapolis Hotel, Annapolis, MD, USA.
・ Yasuhisa Kondo, Atsushi Noguchi, Takehiro Miki, Taichi Kuronuma, Hiroyuki Kitagawa Archaeological survey ofprehistoric sites in Oman: The discovery of Wadi Tanuf Cave 1. The 5th Conference on Cultural History of PaleoAsia,
2018.05.12-2018.05.13, Motoyama Campus, Nagoya University. (in Japanese)・Hideyuki Onishi, Yasuhisa Kondo, Yoko Iwamoto Perspectives of Human Behavior as Culture A Case Study on Lexical
Analysis of “Cultural History of PaleoAsia”. The 5th Conference on Cultural History of PaleoAsia, 2018.05.12-2018.05.13,
Motoyama Campus, Nagoya University. (in Japanese)[Invited Lecture / Honorary Lecture / Panelist]

・Yasuhisa Kondo Interlinking open science to community-based participatory research for socio-environmental cases. The 3rdInternational Symposium on Decision Science for Future Earth: Transdicsiplinary Science in Practice, 2018.09.24, JR Hakata
City Conference Center.
・Yasuhisa Kondo Data-driven approach to identify early modern humans’ ecological niche and optimal dispersal routes inEurasia. Landscape Archaeology Conference 2018, 2018.09.17-2018.09.20, Newcastle University and Durham University,
UK.

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Individual Achievements

・Yasuhisa Kondo JpGU-AGU Great Debate: Role of Open Data and Open Science in Geoscience. Japan Geoscience Union
Annual Meeting 2018, 2018.05.23, Makuhari Messe, Chiba, Japan. A panelist

KUMAZAWA Terukazu
Associate Professor

Born in 1974.
[Higher Degrees]
Dr of Engineering[Fields of Specialization]
Environmental planning
Regional informatics

RIHN―Achievements―[Papers]

MASUHARA Naoki
Senior Researcher

Born in 1974.
[Academic Career]
Department of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Osaka University (1997)
Department of Local Administration, Faculty of Politics, Waseda University, M. Course (2000)
Department of Local Administration, Faculty of Politics, Waseda University, D. Course w/o Dissertation (2007)[Professional Career]
Researcher, Research Institute for Local Initiatives of Environmental Policy (2000)
Visiting researcher, Comprehensive Center for Environmental Research, Waseda University (2007)
Visiting researcher, Center for Regional Studies, Hosei University (2009)
Deputy Director-General, Research Institute for Local Initiatives of Environmental Policy (2011)
Project researcher, Asia Ring-of-Fire Nexus project, RIHN (2013)[Higher Degrees]
Doctor of Engineering (Osaka University, 2017)
Master of Political Science (Waseda University, 2000)[Fields of Specialization]
Public Administration
Local Government Studies
Environment and Energy Policy

Individual Achievements[Original Articles]

・Aiko Endo, Terukazu Kumazawa, Michinori Kimura, Makoto Yamada, Takaaki Kato, Kouji Kozaki 2018,09 Describing and
Visualizing a Water–Energy–Food Nexus System. Water 10(9):1245. DOI:10.3390/w10091245 (reviewed).

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Citizen Participation Studies[Academic Society Memberships]
The Society of Environmental Science, JapanThe Center for Environmental Information Science[Awards]
Encouragement award from the Society of Environmental Science, Japan (2012)
Award of excellent presentation from the Japan Association for Planning and Public Management (2017)
Award of excellent poster presentation from the Center for Environmental Information Science (2018)―Achievements―[Books][Chapters/Sections]・M Kimura, N Masuhara, K. Baba 2018,05 Making Social Networks Visible: Shared Awareness Among Stakeholders on
Groundwater Resources. A Endo・T Oh (ed.) The Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Human-Environmental Security in the AsiaPacific Ring of Fire. Global Environmental Studies. Springer, pp.273-286.
・K Baba, N Masuhara, M Kimura 2018,05 Scenario-based Approach to Local Water-energy-food Nexus Issues with Experts
and Stakeholders. A Endo・T Oh (ed.) The Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Human-Environmental Security in the Asia-Pacific
Ring of Fire. Global Environmental Studies. Springer, pp.321-333.

[Papers][Original Articles]

・Makoto Taniguchi, Naoki Masuhara, Shun Teramoto 2018,10 Tradeoffs in the water-energy- food nexus in the urbanizing
Asia-Pacific region . Journal Water International 43(6):892-903. DOI:10.1080/02508060.2018.1516104 (reviewed).

[Research Presentations][Oral Presentation]・Naoki Masuhara Changes of Local Resource Utilization after 1960: Japan's Medium-term Development Strategy and Its
Impacts. International Workshop on Resource Nexus and Asia's Great Acceleration, 2019.03.10-2019.03.11, RIHN, Kyoto
city, Kyoto Prefecture.
[Poster Presentation]・Naoki Masuhara, Sanghyun Lee and Makoto Taniguchi Decision-making Gaps regarding Food-Energy-Water Nexus? A Case
Study of the Kyoto City in Japan. AGU 2018 Fall Meeting, 2018.12.10-2018.12.14, Washington, DC. DOI:10.1002/essoar.
10500658.1
・Naoki Masuhara Citizensʼ Consciousness and Interest: A Study on Groundwater Issues in Saijo City, Japan. World Social
Science Forum 2018, 2018.09.25-2018.09.28, Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture.
[Invited Lecture / Honorary Lecture / Panelist]

・Naoki Masuhara (Invited Lecture) Relationships between geothermal power developments and conflicts in Japan after theGreat Eastern Japan Earthquake of 2011. Workshop on Energy and Environmental Research, 2019.03.25, University of
Hawaii.

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MCGREEVY, Steven R.
Associate Professor

Born in 1978.
[Academic Career]
Division of Natural Resource Economics, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University (2008-2012)
College of Continuing Education, University of Minnesota (2002-2004)
St. John's University- Collegeville, MN (1997-2000)[Professional Career]
Lecturer, Seisen Jogakuin College (2007)
Monbukagakusho Scholar, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University (2009)
Lecturer, Nagano National College of Technology (2011)
Assistant Professor, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (2013~)[Higher Degrees]
D.Ag. (Kyoto University, 2012)
M.LS. (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, 2004)[Fields of Specialization]
Rural Sustainable Development
Environmental Sociology

Japanese Association for Rural Studies
Rural Sociology Society
Future Earth Systems of Sustainable Consumption and Production Knowledge-Action Network―Achievements―[Papers][Original Articles]

・McGreevy, Steven R., Mai Kobayashi, & Keiko Tanaka. 2018,09 Agrarian pathways for the next generation of Japanese
farmers. Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'etudes du developpement 40(2):272-290. DOI:
10.1080/02255189.2018.1517642 (reviewed).
・Hisano, Shuji, Motoki Akitsu, & Steven R. McGreevy 2018,07 Revitalising Rurality under the Neoliberal Transformation ofAgriculture: Experiences of Re-agrarianisation in Japan. Journal of Rural Studies 61:290-301. DOI:10.1016/j.jrurstud.
2018.01.013 (reviewed).
・Oda, Kimisato, Christoph D. D. Rupprecht, Kazuaki Tsuchiya, & Steven R. McGreevy 2018 Urban Agriculture as a
Sustainability Transition Strategy for Shrinking Cities? Land Use Change Trajectory as an Obstacle in Kyoto City, Japan.
Sustainability 10(4):1048. DOI:10.3390/su10041048 (reviewed).

[Research Presentations][Oral Presentation]

・McGreevy, Steven R. & Matsudaira Naoya Reevaluating the peasantry: Similarities and differences from Japan and abroad.
Japanese Association for Rural Studies, 2018.10.26-2018.10.28, MIyazaki Prefecture, Takachiho. (in Japanese) Annual
Theme Session

Individual Achievements[Academic Society Memberships]
Japan Biochar Association
International Biochar Initiative

RIHN

B.A.: Major- Biology; Minor- Environmental Studies (St. John's University- Collegeville, MN, 2000)

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・ Fujiwara, Natsumi, Masashi Tachikawa, Naoki Yoshikawa, Steven R. McGreevy, & Atsushi Inaba Sustainable foodconsumption: environmental, social, and public health issues. Ecobalance 2018, 2018.10.09-2018.10.12, KFC Hall, Tokyo.
・McGreevy, Steven R. Redefining well-being amongst new settlers in a withering rural Japan. World Social Science Forum2018, 2018.09.25-2018.09.28, Fukuoka, International Congress Center.
・McGreevy, Steven R. (Chair) Session: Lifeworlds of Sustainability and Wellbeing in a Shrinking Japan. World Social Science
Forum 2018, 2018.09.25-2018.09.28, Fukuoka, International Congress Center.
・Rupprecht, Christoph, Astrid Mangnus, Joost Vervoort, Kanang Kantamaturapoj, Kazuhiko Ota, Steven R. McGreevy, &Yoshimitsu Taniguchi. Empowering residents to co-design their food systems: Experimenting with future-oriented methods
in Japan& Thailand. European Association of Social Anthropologists, 2018.08.14-2018.08.17, Stockholm University.
・McGreevy, Steven R. Social practices, food futures, and "sticky knowledge" -- motivating change in everyday life?. Society
for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, 2018.06.23-2018.06.25, Doshisha University, Kyoto. Session on "Alternatives to
Capitalism; Changing everyday life-- changing capitalism"
・Tamura, Norie, Imaizumi, Aki & Steven R. McGreevy Participatory workshops for transitioning to sustainable agrifood
systems: evaluating the impact of backcasting and gaming methods. Conference of the Food Systems Research Associationof Japan, 2018.06.16-2018.06.17, Tokyo University, Tokyo. (in Japanese)・Ota, Kazuhiko & Steven R. McGreevy Games and gaps for normative food futures: The role of researchers in facilitating
creative transdisciplinary processes. Asia-Pacific Society for Agriculture and Food Ethics (APSafe), 2018.05.10-2018.05.12,
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
・McGreevy, Steven R. Lifeworlds of sustainable food consumption and production: agrifood systems in transition. 4th Kyoto
University - Wageningen University International Graduate Workshop on Food, Farm, and Rural Development, 2018.05.09,
Kyoto University, Kyoto.
[Poster Presentation]

・Rupprecht, Christoph D. D., Fujiyoshi Lei, McGreevy Steven R., & Ichiro Tayasu Consumer trust in expert product labels:
Preliminary results of a five-country survey. 8th Symposium on Environmental Isotope Study, 2018.12.21, Research Institutefor Humanithy and Nature .
[Invited Lecture / Honorary Lecture / Panelist]

・McGreevy, Steven R. The future of food and agriculture in Nagano City - Citizen power to catalyze transition (Nagano shi no
shoku to nou no mirai - Shimin no chikara de transition [tenkan] wo okosu ni ha). NAGANO Nou to Shoku no Kai,
2018.08.28, Nagano City, Matsushiro. (in Japanese)

NAKAHARA Satoe
Researcher

Born in 1965.
[Academic Career]
Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, Kobe University, D. Course (2007)
Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, Kobe University, M. Course (1999)
Department of Language and Area Studies, Osaka University of Foreign Studies (1997)[Professional Career]
Researcher, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (2018to present)
Special Appointment Researcher, Chukyo University Institute of Social Science(2009 to present)[Higher Degrees]
Ph.D (Kobe University, 2007)
Master (Kobe University, 1999)[Fields of Specialization]
Cultural Anthropology

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Peace Studies[Academic Society Memberships]
The Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology
The Japanese Society for Oceanic Studies―Achievements―[Research Presentations][Oral Presentation]

・Satoe Nakahara Perceptions of the Radiation Disaster from H-bomb Testing in the Marshall Islands (Panel Organizer, Panel
Title: The Everyday Life of Victims in Radiation Effects). 40th UGAT Annual Conference an International Gathering,2018.11.08-2018.11.10, Puerto Princesa, Philippines.
・Satoe Nakahara The Ethics of Field Work with Rongelap Exposed to Radiation of H-Bomb Testing: Why Did the Rongelap
People Refuse Money from Research Fund?. 18th International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences(IUAES) World Congress, 2018.07.16-2018.07.20, Florianópolis, Brazil.

[Invited Lecture / Honorary Lecture / Panelist]

NAKAO Seiji
Researcher

Born in 1986.
[Academic Career]
Department of Studies of Foreign Affairs, Faculty of Foreign Affairs, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (2009)
Graduate School of Humanities, Graduate Program in Anthropology, MA, Nanzan University (2012)
Graduate School of Humanities, Graduate Program in Anthropology, Ph. D, Nanzan University (2017)[Professional Career]
Research Fellowship for Young Scientists, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (2012-2015)
Part-time lecturer, Faculty of Sociology, Chukyo University (2016-2017)[Higher Degrees]
Ph. D (University of Nanzan, 2017)[Fields of Specialization]
Historical Anthropology
History of West Africa[Academic Society Memberships]
Japan Association for African Studies
The Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology

Individual Achievements

・Satoe Nakahara The Importance of Knowledge and Social Network in the Community Reconstruction after Atomic Bomb
Testing in the Marshall Islands. 2018 Nuclear Security Summit, 2018.12.11-2018.12.12, Washington DC, US.

RIHN

・Satoe Nakahara Community Reconstruction after Atomic Bomb Testing in the Marshall Islands from the Point of View of theKnowledge and Relationship. The Fourth Conference of East Asian Environmental History (EAEH 2017),
2018.10.26-2018.10.28, Tianjin, Chaina.

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[Awards]
SOStierra2017 International Conference on Vernacular Earthen Architecture, Conservation and Sustainability. Honorable
Award "Transforming Kasena houses and indigenous building technology in Burkina Faso" (H. KOBAYASHI, T. SHIMIZU,
M. ITO & S. NAKAO) (2017)(390) Hayashi K, Nakao S, Yamauchi T: The best Poster award: Excretion behavior of Baka hunter-gatherers: From time-space
analysis by individual observations in Cameroon. 55th Conference of Japan Association for African Studies, 27 May 2018,
Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
(393) Nakao S: Junior researchers award of Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, RIHN. 7 September 2018.

―Achievements―[Books][Authored/Co-authored]・Mangané IK (in collaboration with Nakao S) 2018 La mémoire d‘El Hadj Beinké Souleymane Mangané. RIHN, Kyoto,
152pp. (in French)[Research Presentations][Oral Presentation]

・Shimizu, T. and S. Nakao Preparatory study for elucidation of the socioeconomic role of the human feces processing supplierof the sub-Saharan African; examples in Burkina Faso. 55th Conference of Japan Association for African Studies,2018.05.27, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan. (in Japanese)
・Nakao, S. The history and the current conditions of the sanitation improvement in Burkina Faso. 55th Conference of Japan
Association for African Studies, 2018.05.27, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan. (in Japanese)

NAKASHIZUKA Tohru
Specially Appointed Professor

Born in 1956.

―Achievements―[Papers][Original Articles]

・Takafumi Ohsawa, Naoya Furuta, Futoshi Nakamura, Taku Kadoya, Tohru Nakashizuka 2018,11 Challenges of post-Aichi
Biodiversity Ttargets from ecological perspectives. JAPANESE JOURNAL OF CONSERVATION ECOLOGY.
・Oguro,M., Taki, H., Konuma. A., Uno, M. & Nakashizuka, T. 2018,10 Importance of national or regional specificity in therelationship between pollinator dependence and production stability. Sustain Science. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/
s11625-018-0637-3
・Oka, C., Aibaa, M. & Nakashizuka, T. 2018,09 Phylogenetic clustering in beneficial attributes of tree species directly linked
to provisioning, regulating and cultural ecosystem services. Ecological Indicators:477-495. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/
j.ecolind.2018.09.035
・Imai, H. & Nakashizuka, T. 2018,08 An Analysis of 15 Years of Trends in Children’s Connection with Nature and its
Relationship with Residential Environment. Ecosystem Health and Sustainability Volume 4(Issue 8 ):177-187. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1080/20964129.2018.1511225

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・Nakagawa, M., Ushio, M., Kume, T. & Nakashizuka, T. 2018,08 Seasonal and long-term patterns in litterfall in a Bornean
tropical rainforest. . Ecological Research.
・Aiba, M., Shibata, R., Oguro, M. & Nakashizuka, T. 2018,07 The seasonal and scale-dependent associations between
vegetation quality and hiking activities as a recreation service. Sustainability Science:1-11. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/
s11625-018-0609-7[Research Presentations][Invited Lecture / Honorary Lecture / Panelist]

・Tohru Nakashizuka Climate change impacts on terrestrial ecosystems in Japan. ISPRS Technical Commission III WG III/2,
10 Joint Workshop, 2019.03.12-2019.03.14, Kyoto.
・Tohru Nakashizuka Evaluating ecosystem services provided by rural areas to cities. International Workshop "Bioeconomychanging rural landscapes for sustainable economic development", 2018.11.16, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan.

NAKATSUKA Takeshi

Born in 1963.

[Papers][Original Articles]

・Chenxi Xu, Wenling An, S.-Y. Simon Wang, Liang Yi, Junyi Ge, Takeshi Nakatsuka, Masaki Sano, Zhengtang Guo
2019,01 Increased drought events in southwest China revealed by tree ring oxygen isotopes and potential role of Indian
Ocean Dipole. Science of the Total Environment (661.0):645.0-653.0.
・Uemura, R., M. Uemura, M. Sano, T. Nakatsuka 2018,11 A 180-year-long isotopic record of tree-ring cellulose on Okinawa
Island, Japan. Geochemical Journal.
・Li, Q., Y. Liu, T. Nakatsuka, K. Fang, H. Song, R. Liu, C. Sun, G. Li, K. Wang 2018,10 East Asian Summer Monsoon
moisture sustains summer relative humidity in the southwestern Gobi Desert, China: evidence from δ18O of tree rings.
Climate Dynamics :1.0-17.0. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-018-4515-6 1391663.0
・Hisamochi, R., Watanabe, Y., Sano, M., Nakatsuka, T., Naoyuki Kurita, Miyuki Matsuo-Ueda, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Suyako
Tazuru, Junji Sugiyama 2018,12 Cellulose oxygen isotopic composition of teak (Tectona grandis) collected from Java Island:a tool for dendrochronological and dendroclimatological analysis. Dendrochronologia(52):80-86. DOI:https://doi.org/
10.1016/j.dendro.2018.09.010
・Chenxi Xu, Nathsuda Pumijumnong, Takeshi Nakatsuka, Masaki Sano, Zhengtang Guo 2018,09 Inter-annual and multidecadal variability of monsoon season rainfall in central Thailand during the period of 1804-1999-inferred from tree ringoxygen isotopes. International Journal of Climatology 38.0(15.0):5766.0-5776.0. DOI:doi.org/10.1002/joc.5859
・Caceres, M.L.L., S.Nakano, J.P.Ferrio, M.Hayashi, T. Nakatsuka.,M.Sano,Y.Yamanaka、Y.Nobori 2018,07 Evaluation of theeffect of the 2011 Tsunami on coastal forests by means of multiple isotopic analyses of tree-rings. Isotopes in Environmentaland Health Studies . (reviewed). Article number: 15386
・Nakai, W., N. Okada, M. Sano, T. Nakatsuka 2018,09 Sample preparation of ring-less tropical trees for δ18O measurement inisotope dendrochronology. TROPICS (27).
・Nabeshima, E., T. Nakatsuka, A. Kagawa, T. Hiura, R. Funada 2018,06 Seasonal changes of δD and δ18O in tree-ringcellulose of Quercus crispula suggest a change in post-photosynthetic processes during earlywood growth. Tree Physiology,
tpy068. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpy068

Individual Achievements―Achievements―

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・Xu, C., Sano, N., Ashok Priyadarshan Dimri, Rengaswamy Ramesh, Takeshi Nakatsuka, Feng Shi, and Zhengtang Guo
2018,05 Decreasing Indian summer monsoon on the northern Indian sub-continent during the last 180 years: evidence fromfive tree-ring cellulose oxygen isotope chronologies. Climate of the Past (14):653-664. DOI:https://doi.org/10.5194/
cp-14-653-2018 (reviewed).
・Xu, C., J. Shi, Y. Zhao, T. Nakatsuka, M. Sano, S. Shi, Z. Guo 2018,04 Early summer precipitation in the lower Yangtze
River basin for AD 1845–2011 based on tree-ring cellulose oxygen isotopes. Climate Dynamics,. DOI:https://doi.org/
10.1007/s00382-018-4212-5 (reviewed).

[Research Presentations][Oral Presentation]

・Nakatsuka T New perspectives in historical studies provided by high resolution paleoclimate data. WEHC 2018, 2018.08.01,
Boston, USA.

NITZSCHE, Kai
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow

Born in 1987.
[Academic Career]
Humboldt University of Berlin, Doctor Course (2017)
Georg-August-University of Goettingen, Master Course (2012)
University of Bremen, Bachelor Course (2010)[Professional Career]
Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation,
Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (2017-present)
Graduate Researcher, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (2013-2016)[Higher Degrees]
Ph.D (Humboldt University of Berlin, 2017)
MSc (Georg-August-University of Goettingen, 2012)
BSc (University of Bremen, 2010)[Fields of Specialization]
Isotope Biogeochemistry
Landscape Ecology
Soil Science[Academic Society Memberships]
Ecological Society of Japan―Achievements―[Papers][Original Articles]

・Kayler Z.E., Badrian M., Frackowski A., Rieckh H., Nitzsche K.N., Kalettka T. and Gessler A. 2018 Ephemeral kettle hole
water and sediment temporal and spatial dynamics within an agricultural catchment. Ecohydrology 11(e1929). DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.1929 (reviewed).

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OKUDA Noboru
Associate Professor

Born in 1969.
[Professional Career]
Lecturer, Mie University, Department of Liberal Arts (1998)
Postdoctoral fellow, Ehime University, Department of Biology and Earth Science (1998)
Research Fellow, Ehime University, Center for Marine Environmental Studies (2002)
Associate Professor, Kyoto University, Center for Ecological Research (2005)
Invited Associate Professor, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (2013)
Associate Professor, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (2014)[Higher Degrees]
B.S. (Science University of Tokyo, Department of Biological Science, 1992)
M.S. (Ehime University, Department of Biology, 1994)
Ph.D. (Kyoto University, Department of Biology, 1998)[Academic Society Memberships]

Japan Ethological Society
Society of Evolutionary Studies[Awards]
Best Poster Award for International Symposium “Long-term Variations in the Coastal Environments and Ecosystems” held in
Ehime University (2004)
Young Ichthyologist Award 2005 from The Ichthyological Society of Japan (2005)
CHED REPUBLICA AWARDS(2016)35th Association of Systematic Biologists of the Philippines-Symposium and Annual Meeting「 Taxonomic Sufficiency:
Implications from ecological studies on aquatic insects in Philippine watersheds」 （2017）
Ecological Research Award: Integrating isotopic, microbial, and modeling approaches to understand methane dynamics in afrequently disturbed deep reservoir in Taiwan. By Itoh, M., H. Kojima, P.-C. Ho, C.-W. Chang, T.-Y. Chen, S. S.-Y. Hsiao, Y.
Kobayashi, M. Fujibayashi, S.-J. Kao, C.-h. Hsieh, M. Fukui, N. Okuda, T. Miki & F.-K. Shiah （2018）―Achievements―[Papers][Original Articles]

・Wu, Q., K. Kawano, Y. Uehara, N. Okuda, M. Hongo, S. Tsuji, H. Yamanaka & T. Minamoto 2018,04 Environmental DNA
reveals nonmigratory individuals of Palaemon paucidens overwintering in Lake Biwa shallow waters. Freshwater Science
37.0. DOI:10.1086/697542[Research Presentations][Oral Presentation]

・Uehara, Y., H. Takayama, Y. Kataoka, T. Kikkou, M. Nemoto, T. Kokita, T. Otake & N Okuda Remarkable homing ability ofa pelagic crucian carp “ Carassius auratus grandoculis. 6th International Otolith Symposium, 2018.04.15-2018.04.20,
Keelung, Taiwan.

Individual Achievements

The Japanese Society of Fisheries Science
The Japanese Society of Limnology

RIHN

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OSAWA Takamasa
Researcher[Professional Career]
Researcher, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (2017)
Post-doctoral Fellow, Tokyo University of Marine Science & Technology (2015)[Higher Degrees]
PhD (University of Edinburgh 2016)
MSc (London School of Economics and Political Science 2010)
Master of Marine Science (Tokyo University of Marine Science & Technology 2009)[Fields of Specialization]
Social Anthropology[Academic Society Memberships]
The Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology
the International Society for Hunter Gatherer Research―Achievements―[Research Presentations][Oral Presentation]

・Osawa, T. 'Externalization of state power: Orang asli on the eastern coast of Sumatra′. 12th International Conference on
Hunting and Gathering Societies (CHAGS 12), 2018.07.26, Malaysia Sains University, Penang.
[Invited Lecture / Honorary Lecture / Panelist]

・Osawa, T. 'Category, Indigenous people and peatland: Anthropological study on the endigenous people in eastern Sumatra.
296th RIHN Lunch Seminar, 2018.06.19, RIHN, Kyoto. (in Japanese)
・Osawa, T. 'Distance from the state power: Anarchism among orang asli on the eastern coast of Sumatra'. Kyoto Jinruigaku
Kenkyukai, 2018.06.08, Kyoto university, Kyoto. (in Japanese)

OTA Kazuhiko
Researcher

Born in 1985.
[Academic Career]
Department of Agriculture, Regional Ecosystem, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (2008)
Master's degree in Symbiosis for Sustainable Sociology, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (2010)
Doctoral degree in Social Sciences of Agriculture and Forest Symbiosis, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology(2012)[Professional Career]Part-time lecturer at Musashi High School & Junior high school (2010)
Part-time lecturer at Toho High School & Junior High School (2010)
Part-time lecturer at Musashi University (2013)[Higher Degrees]
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Individual Achievements[Fields of Specialization]
Environmental Ethics
Landschaft theory[Academic Society Memberships]
The Japan Association of Contemporary and Applied Philosophy
The Association for Kyosei Studies
Japanese Society of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition
Japanese Association for Comparative Philosophy
International Society for Environmental Ethics
American Association of Geographers―Achievements―[Books][Chapters/Sections][Research Presentations]・Kazuhiko Ota, Steven McGreevy Games and gaps for normative food futures: The role of researchers in facilitating creativetransdisciplinary processes. APsafe 2018, 2018.05.10-2018.05.12, National Taiwan University, Taipei.
・Kazuhiko Ota How do we describe the enjoyment of informal food practices?: Analysis of theoretical framework and key
concepts. American Association of Geographers, Annual Meeting 2018, 2018.04.10-2018.04.14, Sheraton New Orleans
Hotel, New Orleans.

RUPPRECHT, Christoph D. D.
Senior Researcher

Born in 1983.
[Academic Career]
Griffith University, Environmental Futures Research Institute, PhD Urban geography, planning, ecology (2015)
Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Department for Asian Studies, Magister Artium (2009)
Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Faculty of Biology, EES Master Program Guest Student (2008)
Hokkaido University Short Term Exchange Program (2006)[Professional Career]
Senior Researcher, FEAST Project, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (2018-)
Project Researcher, FEAST Project, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (2016-2018)
Adjunct Lecturer, Kyoto University (2017-)
Adjunct Lecturer, Doshisha University (2017-)
Adjunct Lecturer, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences / Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tokyo (2017)
Visiting Researcher, Environmental Futures Research Institute, Griffith University (2015)[Higher Degrees]
Ph.D. Geography, Urban Planning, Ecology (Griffith University 2015)

Individual Achievements[Oral Presentation]

RIHN

・OTA Kazuhiko, MURATA Tomoyoshi, OHKURA Toshiaki, HAMADA Ryunosuke 2018,07 What Does “Soil Is Valuable”
Mean? Institutional Design and Ethics for Sustainable Use of Soil Resources. Paul B. Thompson, Kirill O. Thompson (ed.)
Agricultural Ethics in East Asian Perspective: A Transpacific Dialogue. Springer, pp.197-211.

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M.A. Japanology, Biology, Philosophy (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich 2009)[Fields of Specialization]
Urban geography
Environmental planning
Food systems
Degrowth
Informal green space[Academic Society Memberships]
Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture
Japan Geoscience Union
American Association of Geographers
Royal Geographical Society with IGB
East Asian Anthropological Association[Awards]
Japan Geoscience Union Meeting Student Outstanding Presentation Award (2013)
American Association of Geographers Urban Geography Specialty Group Dissertation Award (2016)―Achievements―[Papers][Original Articles]

・Schröder, S, Vergragt, P., Brown, H. S., Dendler, L., Gorenflo, N., Matus, K., Quist, J., Rupprecht, C. D. D., Tukker, A.,
Wennersten, R 2018,12 Advancing sustainable consumption and production in cities - A transdisciplinary research andstakeholder engagement framework to address consumption-based emissions and impacts. Journal of Cleaner Production.
DOI:10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.12.050 (reviewed).
・Kim, M., Rupprecht, C. D. D., Furuya, K. 2018,09 Residents’ Perception of Informal Green Space—A Case Study ofIchikawa City, Japan. Land 7(3):102. (reviewed).
・Oda, K., Rupprecht, C. D. D., Tsuchiya, K., McGreevy, S. R. 2018,04 Urban Agriculture as a Sustainability Transition
Strategy for Shrinking Cities? Land Use Change Trajectory as an Obstacle in Kyoto City, Japan. Sustainability 10(4):1048.
DOI:10.3390/su10041048 (reviewed).

[Research Presentations][Oral Presentation]

・Spiegelberg, M., Shinkai, R., Rupprecht C. D. D. Neonicotinoids in the household: Thinking through neonicotinoid-based
pesticides in everday life: What the bees are teaching us. 2019.03.19, Kyoto. (in Japanese)
・Rupprecht, C. D. D., Kawai, A. Decolonizers of the imaginary: Future and past generations, non-humans and spiritual beings.
RIHN Program 3 Seminar, 2019.03.06, RIHN.
・Rupprecht, C. D. D. Imagined futures: planning for the unknown. Workshop on the future of food and agriculture in Bhutan.
Workshop on the future of food and agriculture in Bhutan, 2019.02.19-2019.02.19, Royal University of Bhutan (College for
Natural Resources).
・Rupprecht, C. D. D. Subsist and thrive: caring for people and nature in post ‐ growth urban Japan. World Social Science
Forum, 2018.09.25-2018.09.28, Fukuoka.
・Spiegelberg, M., Rupprecht, C. D. D., Shinkai, R., Gan, J. Honeybees in urban Kyoto - bee superhighways and potential
impact on urban agriculture. World Social Science Forum, 2018.09.25-2018.09.28, Fukuoka.
・Rupprecht, C. D. D., Kawai, A. Decolonizers of the imaginary: Future and past generations, non-humans and spiritual beings.
First North-South Conference on Degrowth, 2018.09.03-2018.09.07, Mexico City.
・Rupprecht, C. D. D., Oda, K., Tsuchiya, K., McGreevy, S. Urban agricultural land loss in Kyoto, Japan: human wellbeing
implications beyond food security. RGS-IBG Annual Meeting, 2018.08.28-2018.08.31, Cardiff.

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・Rupprecht, C. D. D., Kawai, A. Decolonizers of the imaginary: Future and past generations, non-humans and spiritual beings.
6th International Degrowth Conference, 2018.08.21-2018.08.25, Malmö.
・Rupprecht, C. D. D., Mangnus, A., Vervoort, J., Kantamaturapoj, K., Ota, K., McGreevy, S., Taniguchi, Y. et al. Empoweringresidents to co-design their food systems: experimenting with future-oriented methods in Japan and Thailand. European
Association of Social Anthropologists Meeting, 2018.08.14-2018.08.17, Stockholm.
・Rupprecht, C. D. D. Unintentional radicals? Informal gardening and changing social imaginaries in shrinking Japanese cities.
Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics 30th Annual Conference, Alternatives to Capitalism: Changing Everyday
Life, Changing Capitalism session, 2018.06.23-2018.06.25, Doshisha University, Kyoto.
・Rupprecht, C. D. D. Food and informality: conceptualizing the other food system(s). American Association of Geographers
Annual Meeting, 2018.04.09-2018.04.14, New Orleans.
・Oda, K., Rupprecht, C. D. D. Mapping agricultural land use change in Kyoto City (Japan) from 2007 to 2017. American
Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, 2018.04.09-2018.04.14, New Orleans.
・ Kim, M., Rupprecht, C. D. D., Furuya, K. Residents ’ Perception of the Possibility of Informal Green Space as an
Supplementary Urban Green Space – A Case Study of Ichikawa City, Japan. American Association of Geographers Annual
Meeting, 2018.04.09-2018.04.14, New Orleans.
・Spiegelberg, M., Gan, J., Shinkai, R., Rupprecht, C. D. D Trespassing foragers: Urban beekeeping in Japan on a formalinformal gradient. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, 2018.04.09-2018.04.14, New Orleans.

・Rupprecht, C. D. D. Beyond anthropocentrism - Towards a multispecies concept of sustainability. RIHN-Peking University
Lectures, 2019.03.19, Beijing University.

・Rupprecht, C. D. D. From residents' view of nature to more-than-human urban planning. Japanese Institute for LandscapeArchitecture, mini-forum Ecological Design of Urban Landscapes (pannelist), 2018.05.26-2018.05.27, Kyoto University. (inJapanese)・Rupprecht, C. D. D. Residents’ appreciation and management preferences of informal green space across four major Japaneseshrinking cities. Japan Geoscience Union Annual Meetin 2018, 2018.05.20-2018.05.24, Makuhari Messe.

SAIJO Tatsuyoshi
Specially Appointed Professor

Born in 1952.
[Academic Career]
Graduated from Faculty of Economics, University of Kagawa(1975)
Completed Master Course(Economics) Hitotsubashi University(1978)
Completed DoctoralCourse(Economics)University of Minnesota(1985)[Professional Career]
Lecturer, Department of Economics, Ohio State University(1985)
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of California at Santa Barbara(1986)
Assistant Professor, Institute of Socio-Economic Planning, University of Tsukuba(1988)
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center in Political Economy, Washington University at St. Louis(1989)
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of of California at Santa Barbara(1989)
Associate Professor, Institute of Socio-Economic Planning, University of Tsukuba(1991)
Professor, Institute of Socio-Economic Planning, University of Tsukuba(1995)
Professor, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University(1995)
Visiting Scholar, Rational Choice Center, Department of Economics, Duke University(1999)

Individual Achievements

・Rupprecht, C. D. D. Applying residents' views of informal greenspace to urban green design. 5th Research Meeting, Road
Ecology Research Society of Japan, 2018.06.09-2018.06.09, Tokyo. (in Japanese)

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Faculty Fellow, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry(2001)
Research Associate, California Institute of Technology(2002)
Associate member of the Science Council of Japan（2006）
Professor at Research Institute for Sustainability Science at Osaka University(2006)
Researcher at CASSEL, UCLA(2007)
Vice President of Economic Science Association(2010)
Professor, Center for Environmental Innovation Design for Sustainability, Osaka University(2010)
Professor, School of Management, Kochi University of Technology（2013）
Specially Appointed Professor atResearch Institute for Sustainability Science at Osaka University(2013)
Member of the Science Council of Japan（2014）
Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University(2015)
Professor, School of Management and Research Center of Future Design, Kochi University of Technology(2016)
Specially Appointed Professor, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature(2016)[Higher Degrees]
Doctor of Philosophy, University of Minnesota(1985)
Master of Economics, Hitotsubashi University(1978)
Bachelor of Economics, University of Kagawa(1975)[Fields of Specialization]
Future Design[Academic Society Memberships]
Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies
Economic Science Association
Japanese Economic Association―Achievements―[Papers][Original Articles]

・Junyi Shen, Takako Nakashima, Izumi Karasawa, Tatsuro Furui, Kenichiro Morishige, Tatsuyoshi Saijo 2018,10 Examining
Japanese women's preferences for a new style of postnatal care facility and its attributes. International Journal of Health
Planning and Management:1-12. DOI:10.1002/hpm.2544 (reviewed).
・Zhang Jingchao, Koji Kotani, Tatsuyoshi Saijo 2018,06 "Public acceptance of environmentally friendly heating in Beijing: A
case of a low temperature air source heat pump". Energy Policy 117:75-85. DOI:10.1016/j.enpol.2018.02.041 (reviewed).

[Research Presentations][Oral Presentation]

・ Tatsuyoshi Saijo Future Design. Future Design: Exploring Affirmative Futures through an Intergenerational Outlook,2019.01.08-2019.01.09, Arizona State University, America.
・ Tatsuyoshi Saijo Future Design: An Overview. World Social Science Forum 2018, 2018.09.25-2018.09.28, Fukuoka
International Congress Center, Fukuoka, Japan.
・ Tatsuyoshi Saijo Future Design: Bequeathing Sustainable Natural Environments and Sustainable Societies to Future
Generations. 2018.09.07, Duke Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, Durham, America.
[Invited Lecture / Honorary Lecture / Panelist]

・ Tatsuyoshi Saijo An Overview of Future Design. Futurability: Intergenerational Equity and Sustainable Governance,
2019.03.22, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
・ Tatsuyoshi Saijo Future Design: Bequeathing Sustainable Natural Environments and Sustainable Societies to Future
Generations. Annual Scientific Conference and 86th General Membership Assembly, 2019.03.11, Philippine Intenational
Convention center, Philippine.

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・Tatsuyoshi Saijo Future Desigh. Future Earth Philippines Program, 2018.11.19, Manila, Philippines.
・Tatsuyoshi Saijo Future Design . HKUST Workshop on Experimental Economics, 2018.10.20, The Hong Kong University of
Science and Technology, HongKong.
・Tatsuyoshi Saijo 「Future Design」. New Directions in Economic Theory and Empirical Economics, 2018.08.17-2018.08.18,
Kolkata, India.

SAKAKIBARA Masayuki
Professor

Born in 1959.
[Academic Career]
April 1978 – March 1982: Hokkaido University School of Science
April 1982 – March 1984: Master Course of Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University
April 1984 – Sept. 1987: Doctor Course of Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University
April 1988- July 1988: Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Aug. 1988- Oct. 1993: Assistant professor of Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Science, Ehime University

April 2006- Professor of Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ehime University
April 2013- Director of Asia-Africa Center, Institute for International Relations
April 2015- Director SUIJI (Six-University Initiative Japan Indonesia) Promotion Office
April 2016－2017 Vice Dean of Faculty of Collaborative Regional Innovation
April 2018 Special Aide to the President of Ehime University
June 2018- Professor of RIHN[Higher Degrees]D.Sc(Hokkaido University, 1987)―Achievements―[Papers][Original Articles]

・Pateda, S. M., Sakakibara, M. and Sera 2018,11 Lung Function Assessment as an Early Biomonitor of Mercury-Induced
Health Disorders in Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining Areas in Indonesia. International Journal of Environmental
Research and Public Health 2018 15(11). DOI:10.3390/ijerph15112480 (reviewed).
・Gafur, N. A., Sakakibara, M., Sano, S., and Sera, K. 2018,10 A Case Study of Heavy Metal Pollution in Water of BoneRiver by Artisanal Small-Scale Gold Mine Activities in Eastern Part of Gorontalo, Indonesia. Water 10(1507):10. DOI:
10.3390/w10111507 (reviewed).

[Research Presentations][Oral Presentation]

・Kasamatsu, H. Sakakibara, M., Tanaka, K., Komatsu, S. and Shimagami, M. Transdisciplinary approaches for creation
innovative livelihood alternatives in high environmental loading areas affected by mercury pollution in Indonesia. World
Social Science Forum, 2018.09.25-2018.09.28, Fukuoka International Congress Center, Fukuoka city.

Individual Achievements

Nov. 1993- March 2005: Associate Professor of Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Science, Ehime University
April 2005- March 2006: Professor of Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Science, Ehime University

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・Masayuki Sakakibara Futurability of Gorontalo Geopark- Promoting Earth Heritage & Sustaining Local Communities.
2018.09.04-2018.09.04, Gorontalo Province, Indonesia.
・Shimagami, M., Kasamatsu, H. and Sakakibara, M. Kikigaki Program as a Transformative Boundary Object for Stimulating
Sustainable Refional Innovation through Cross-generational Urban-Rural Interaction: Case studies from Japan and Indonesia.
he 3rd international conference of the Transdisciplinary Reseach on Environmental Problems in Southeaset Asia(TREPSEA),
2018.08.11-2018.08.12, Hotel TC Damhil UNG, Gorontalo, Indonesia.
・Basri and Sakakbiara, M. Health Impact Assessment of Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in Bomabana, Southeast
Sulawesi, Indonesia. The 3rd international conference of the Transdisciplinary Reseach on Environmental Problems inSoutheaset Asia(TREPSEA), 2018.08.11-2018.08.12, Hotel TC Damhil UNG, Gorontalo, Indonesia.
・Hendra Prasetia, Sakakibra, M. and Sera, K. Atmospheric Mercury Contamination Assessment Using Various Tree Bark in an
ASGM Area in North Gorontalo Regency, Indonesia. The 3rd international conference of the Transdisciplinary Reseach on
Environmental Problems in Southeaset Asia(TREPSEA), 2018.08.11-2018.08.12, Hotel TC Damhil UNG, Gorontalo,
Indonesia.
・Arifin, Y.I., Sakakbiara, M. and Sera, K. Assessing impact of artisanal and small scale gold mining activities on inhabitants
and miners: a case study in Bolaang Mongohdow, North Sulawesi Province, Indonesia. The 3rd international conference of
the Transdisciplinary Reseach on Environmental Problems in Southeaset Asia(TREPSEA), 2018.08.11-2018.08.12, Hotel TC
Damhil UNG, Gorontalo, Indonesia.
・Pareda, S., Sakakibara, M. and Sera, K. Early Detection of Mercury-induced Health Disorders in Artisanal and Small-scaleGold Mining Area in Gorontalo Province. The 3rd international conference of the Transdisciplinary Reseach on
Environmental Problems in Southeaset Asia(TREPSEA), 2018.08.11-2018.08.12, Hotel TC Damhil UNG, Gorontalo,
Indonesia.
・Abbas, H.H., Sakakibara, M., Sera, K. and Sididi, M. The Social Economic and Mercury Exposure of Goldsmith in Manggala
Subdistrict of Urban Artisanal Gold Minig (UAGM) Area in Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia. The 3rd international
conference of the Transdisciplinary Reseach on Environmental Problems in Southeaset Asia(TREPSEA),
2018.08.11-2018.08.12, Hotel TC Damhil UNG, Gorontalo, Indonesia.
・Gafur, N. A., Sakakibara, M., Sano, S. and Sera, K. Heavy Metal Pollution of Bone River water and Sediment in Gorontalo
Province, Indonesia. The 3rd international conference of the Transdisciplinary Reseach on Environmental Problems inSoutheaset Asia(TREPSEA), 2018.08.11-2018.08.12, Hotel TC Damhil UNG, Gorontalo, Indonesia.
・Andi, A., Sakakbiara, M. and Sano, S Heavy Metal Potential at Settling Pond of Coal Mining, East Kalimantan, Indonesia.
The 3rd international conference of the Transdisciplinary Reseach on Environmental Problems in Southeaset
Asia(TREPSEA), 2018.08.11-2018.08.12, Hotel TC Damhil UNG, Gorontalo, Indonesia.
・Kasamatsu, H., Shimagami, M. and Sakakibara, M. The Researchers Role and Future View of TDCOPs from Case Study of
Dihime Limboto-ko, Gorontalo District. The 3rd international conference of the Transdisciplinary Reseach on Environmental
Problems in Southeaset Asia(TREPSEA), 2018.08.11-2018.08.12, Hotel TC Damhil UNG, Gorontalo, Indonesia.
[Invited Lecture / Honorary Lecture / Panelist]

・Masayuki Sakakibara Transdisciplinary Reseach and Practice for Reducing Environmental Problems in ASEAN Countries. st
ASEAN -Japan Meeting Pont of Collaboration by Stakeholders and Reseachers for Reducing Environmental Problems in
ASEAN Coutries, 2018.12.08-2018.12.09, Bandung, Indonesia.
・Masayuki Sakakibara Co-Creation of Sustainable Regional Innovation for Reducing Risk of High-impact Environmental
Pollution. International Lecturer, 2018.11.26-2018.11.26, Hasanuddin University, Makkasar, Indonesia.
・Masayuki Sakakibara Co-Creation of Sustainable Regional Innovation for Reducing Risk of High-impact Environmental
Pollution. International Lecturer, 2018.11.25-2018.11.25, Public Health Universitas Muslim Indonesia, Makkasar, Indonesia.
・Masayuki Sakakibara Co-Creation of Sustainable Regional Innovation for Reducing Risk of High-impact Environmental
Pollution. International Lecturer, 2018.11.25-2018.11.25, School of Health Sience of Makassar, Makassar, Indonesia.

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SHIBATA Rei
Researcher

Born in 1987.

―Achievements―[Papers][Original Articles]

・Haga, C., Inoue, T., Hotta, W., Shibata, R., Hashimoto, S., Kurokawa, H., Machimura, T., Matsui, T., Morimoto, J., Shibata,H 2018,08 Simulation of natural capital and ecosystem services in a watershed in Northern Japan focusing on the future
underuse of nature: by linking forest landscape model and social scenarios. Sustainability Science. DOI:https://doi.org/
10.1007/s11625-018-0623-9 (reviewed).

Researcher[Academic Career]
Department of Lifology, Graduate School of Human Cultures, University of Shiga Prefecture, D. Course(2012)[Professional Career]Specially Appointed Researcher, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University(2008)
Adjunct Teacher, Kyoto University of Art and Craft (2013-)
Adjunct Teacher, Kwansei Gakuin University(2015)
Adjunct Teacher, Seisen University(2015)[Higher Degrees]
M.Human Culture (The University of Shiga Prefecture, 2008)[Fields of Specialization]
Architecture,
Study of Ecological Thought[Academic Society Memberships]
The Society of Global Civilization,
Japan Society of Lifology[Awards]
Yoshikazu Takaya Area Study Prize（2019）

Individual Achievements

SHIMADA "tama" Nahoko

RIHN

・Masahiro, A., Shibata, R., Oguro, M., Nakashizuka, T. 2018,07 The seasonal and scale-dependent associations between
vegetation quality and hiking activities as a recreation service. Sustainability Science. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/
s11625-018-0609-7 (reviewed).

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―Achievements―[Books][Chapters/Sections]・SHIMADA Nahoko 2019,03 第 5 章「〝流域"を超える朽木のモノと生き物－木材と魚－」、第 13 章「朽木の神社地誌―土地に生きるカミの行方―」. MIZUNO Kazuharu・FUJIOKA Yuichiro (ed.) 滋賀県朽木谷の自然・社会・文化の変容. Kaiseisha, Otsu-city, Shiga-prefecture. (in Japanese)

SPIEGELBERG, Maximilian
Researcher

Born in 1981.
[Professional Career]
2013-2010 Coordinator, Interdisciplinary Distance-learning Environmental Studies Master, FernUni Hagen2009 Field Assistant, Project on Combating Desertification, GTZ Turkmenistan & Bonn

[Higher Degrees]
Ph.D. Environmental Management (Kyoto Uni, 2017)
M.A. Peace & Conflict Studies (Philipps Uni Marburg, 2009)
B.Sc. Environmental & Resource Management (BTU Cottbus, 2006)―Achievements―[Research Presentations][Oral Presentation]

・Spiegelberg, Maximilian; Rupprecht, Christoph D. D.; Shinkai; Rika Prospectus of the seminar. The 23rd RIHN Regional
Community Seminar: Towards bee-friendly cities - Co-creating urban futures, 2018.11.04, Nakagyo Ward Office, Kyoto.
・Spiegelberg, Maximilian; Rupprecht, Christoph D. D.; Shinkai; Rika; Gan, Jinchao “The new force of beekeeping is an old
one: about hobby beekeepers in Japan ” . 14th conference of Asian Apis Association, 2018.10.13-2018.10.25, Jakarta,
Indonesia.
・Spiegelberg, Maximilian; Rupprecht, Christoph D. D.; Shinkai; Rika; Gan, Jinchao “Honeybees in urban Kyoto -Beesuperhighways and potential impact on urban agriculture-“. World Social Science Forum, 2018.09.25-2018.09.28, Fukuoka,
Japan. part of the panel ‘The wild food basket: recreating urban and rural ecosystems as food sources’
・Spiegelberg, Maximilian; Rupprecht, Christoph D. D.; Shinkai; Rika; Gan, Jinchao Trespassing foragers: Urban beekeeping
in Japan on a formal-informal gradient. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting 2018,2018.04.10-2018.04.14, New Orleans, Lousiana, USA.
・Spiegelberg, Maximilian Honeybee Geographies: Exploring new productions of nature, space, knowledge, and power.
American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting 2018, 2018.04.10-2018.04.14, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Panelist
・Spiegelberg, M., Gan, J., Shinkai, R., Rupprecht, C. D. D Trespassing foragers: Urban beekeeping in Japan on a formalinformal gradient. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, 2018.04.09-2018.04.14, New Orleans.
[Poster Presentation]

・Maximilian Spiegelberg; Lihua Cai; Natuski Shimizu “Kyoto University CoHHo garden – A community space”. Kyoto
University International Symposium “Food & Sustainability”, 2018.10.29-2018.10.30, Kyoto University.

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Individual Achievements[Invited Lecture / Honorary Lecture / Panelist]

・Spiegelberg, Maximilian Honeybee Geographies: Exploring new productions of nature, space, knowledge, and power.
American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting 2018, 2018.04.10-2018.04.14, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Panelist

SUGIHARA Kaoru
Specially Appointed Professor

Born in 1948.
[Academic Career]
Graduated from Faculty of Economics, Kyoto University, March 1971
Completed the Master Course (Economics), University of Tokyo, June 1973
Completed the Doctor Course (Economics), University of Tokyo, March 1976
Worked for Marubeni Corporation, Dublin Office (1976)
Lecturer in Economic History, Faculty of Economics, Osaka City University (1978)of London (1985)
Senior Lecturer in the Economic History of Japan, Department of History, SOAS, University of London (1991)
Professor of Economic History, Faculty of Economics (from 1997 Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University (1996)
Professor of The Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS), Kyoto University (2006)
Professor of Graduate School of Economics, University of Tokyo (2012)
Professor of National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Tokyo (2013)
Senior Professor of National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (2014)
Specially Appointed Professor of Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (cross appointment with GRIPS from April to
September 2016: full appointment from October 2016)
Member, Science Council of Japan (2011)[Higher Degrees]
Doctor of Economics, University of Tokyo
MA (Economics), University of Tokyo
BA (Economics), Kyoto University[Fields of Specialization]
Economic History
Environmental History[Academic Society Memberships]
Socio-Economic History Society
Business History Society of JapanThe Japan Association of Asian Studies
The Japanese Association for South Asian Studies[Awards]*The 39th Nikkei Keizai Tosho Bunkasho [The Nikkei Book Prize for Economics], 1996
*The 18th Suntory Gakugeisho [The Suntory Book Prize for Academic Works], 1996

Individual Achievements

Associate Professor of Economic History, Faculty of Economics, Osaka City University (1981)
Lecturer in the Economic History of Japan, Department of History, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University

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―Achievements―[Books][Chapters/Sections]・Sugihara, K. 2018,11 “Varieties of Industrialization: An Asian Regional Perspective”. in Giorgio Riello and Tirthankar Roy(ed.) Global Economic History. Bloomsbury Academic, London, pp.195-214.

[Research Presentations][Oral Presentation]

・Sugihara, K. “The Great Acceleration in Asia: The Resource Nexus and Social Tipping Points”. International Workshop on
Resource Nexus and Asia's Great Acceleration, 2019.03.10-2019.03.11, Research Institution for Humanity and Nature,
Kyoto.
・Sugihara, K. “The Seafront Resource Nexus around the Tokyo Bay: Social Tipping Points in circa 1970”. Fourth Research
Seminar for Program 1 on ‘Urban Space and Resource Nexus’, 2019.01.18, RIHN, Kyoto.
・Sugihara, K. (Introduction and Chair) “Session 1 ‘Knowledge, Science and the Experience of Nature’. The 13th International
Symposium ‘Humanities on the Ground: Confronting the Anthropocene in Asia, 2018.12.13, RIHN, Kyoto.
・Sugihara, K. (Discussant) “Reciprocal Comparisons and the Asian Paths of Economic Development”, Session on 'Asia in the
Anthropocene (CS5-08 )'. The Fourth World Social Science Forum, 2018.09.26, Fukuoka International Congress Center,
Fukuoka.
・Sugihara, K. (Moderator of the Session and Presenter) "Monsoon Asia, Industrial-Urban-Regional Nexus and Environmental
Sustainability: Reflections of Asia ’ s Historical Experiences" Session on 'Transformation of Resource Base in Asia ’ s
Economic Development and Its Costs: Sustainability of Local, National and Regional Nexus (CS4-03)'. The Fourth World
Social Science Forum, 2018.09.25, Fukuoka International Congress Center, Fukuoka.
・Sugihara, K. (Discussant) Comments on "Tropical Paths and Trade Integration" Session on 'Tropical Economies in the
Making of the Modern World (310121) '. The18th World Economic History Congress, 2018.07.31, Boston Marriott
Cambridge and MIT Campus, Boston.
・Sugihara, K. "Intra-Asian Trade and Asia’s Economic Development in the Long Nineteenth Century", Session on 'Building a
Global History of Economic Divergence (310202)’. The 18th World Economic History Congress, 2018.07.31, Boston
Marriott Cambridge and MIT Campus, Boston.
・Sugihara, K. "Local and Regional Payment Methods and the Growth of World Trade in the Long Nineteenth Century",
Session on 'Multiple Payment Systems in Globalizing Economies (300212)'. The 18th World Economic History Congress,
2018.07.30, Boston Marriott Cambridge and MIT Campus, Boston.
[Invited Lecture / Honorary Lecture / Panelist]

・Sugihara, K. (Keynote address) "The Asian Path of Economic Development and Its Relevance to Sub-Saharan Africa". The
First Conference of Japan Society for Afrasian Studies, 2018.10.06, Kansai University, Suita.
・Sugihara, K. (Moderator) Session on ' The Belmont Forum–NORFACE Transformations to Sustainability Rrogramme: Restructuring the Field of Sustainability Research for Sustainable and Secure Futures ('CS1-11)'. The Fourth World Social
Science Forum, 2018.09.26, Fukuoka International Congress Center, Fukuoka.
・Sugihara, K. “(Co-organizer and co-chair) Session on Societal Response to Climate Variation: Institution, Market, and Social
Change in Early Modern and Modern Japan (010214)”. The 18th World Economic History Congress, 2018.08.01, Boston
Marriott Cambridge and MIT Campus, Boston.
・ Sugihara, K. (Invited Lecture) "Monsoon Asia, Intra-Asian trade and the Transformation of Resource Nexus". New
Approaches in Asia-Pacific Historical and Contemporary Studies, 2018.07.02, Waseda University, Tokyo. (Sponsored by theHarvard-Yenching Institute and Waseda University’s Global Asia Research Center.)

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SUZUKI Haruka
Researcher―Achievements―[Papers][Original Articles]

・Haruka Suzuki 2018 Peatland development by local people and effects on local water use in Kepau Baru, Meranti, Riau,
Indonesia. The proceedings of the International Workshop on Forest Ecological Resources Security for Next Generation:
Development and Routine Utilization of Forest Ecological Resources and their Domestication. pp.58-62.

TANAKA Ueru

Born in 1960.
Faculty of Agriculture, Hirosaki University (4/1979-3/1983)
Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University (Master Course, 4/1988-3/1990)
Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University (Doctor Course, 4/1990-9/1990)[Professional Career]
June/1983- April/1987: Lecturer, Department of Horticulture, Jomo Kenyatta Collage of Agriculture and Technology, Kenya(as a member of Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers)
Oct/1990- Sept/1999: Assistant Professor, College of Agriculture, Kyoto University
Sept/1999- March/2002: Associate Professor, College of Agriculture, Kyoto University
April/2002- Sept/2011: Associate Professor, College of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University
Oct/2011- March/2016: Associate Professor, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
April/2016- Present: Professor, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature[Higher Degrees]
Dr.Agric(Kyoto Univeristy, 1997)[Fields of Specialization]
Environmental Agriculture, Soil Science, Terrestrial Ecosystems Management, Rural Development Studies[Academic Society Memberships]
Japanese Society of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, Japanese Society of International Development Studies, Japanese Societyof International Rural Development Studies, Japanese Journal of Tropical Agriculture and development, Japanese Society ofPedologist, Japanese Society of African Studies, Japanese Society of Agricultural Systems[Awards]
SSPN Young Scientist Award(2000)
ASABE Peper Award（2010, Cowin）
SSPN Award 2012（2013, Cowin）
Japan Society for International Development, Best Poster Award（2013,Cowin）
Japan Society for International Development, Excellent Poster Award（2013,Cowin）
Japan Association for Arid Land Studies, Best Poster Award (2013, Cowin）
20th World Congress of Soil Science, Best Poster Award（2014, Cowin）

Individual Achievements[Academic Career]

RIHN

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20th World Congress of Soil Science, Best Presentation Award（2014, Cowin）
EMASSA-2014 (Tamil Nadu, India), Best Poster Award (2014, Cowin)
41st Hitach Foundation Environment Award and Award by Minister of Environment (2014, Cowin）
25th Nikkei Award for Global Environmental Technology (2015, Cowin)―Achievements―[Research Presentations][Oral Presentation]

・MIYAZAKI H., K. P. SINGH, UCHIYAMA Y., ENDO H., ISHIMOTO Y. and TANAKA U. Pastoralism in Northwestern Focus on Relationship between Pastoralist and Agriculturist. France-Japan Joint Symposium “ Landscape in the
Anthropocene", 2106.12.05-2016.12.08, Fondation France-Japon de l’EHESS, Paris, France.

TANIGUCHI Makoto
Professor

Born in 1959.
[Academic Career]
University of Tsukuba, Japan Ph.D. Hydrology (1987)
University of Tsukuba, Japan M.S. Hydrology (1984)
University of Tsukuba, Japan B.S. Geosciences (1982)[Professional Career]
Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Associate Professor (2007 -)Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Associate Professor (2003 - 2007)
Department of Earth Sciences, Nara University of Education, Professor (2000 - 2003)
Department of Earth Sciences, Nara University of Education, Associate Professor (1993 - 2000)
Department of Earth Sciences, Nara University of Education, Research Associate (1988 - 1990)
Division of Water Resources, CSIRO, Australia, Visiting Scientist (1987 - 1988)[Higher Degrees]
D.Sc (The University of Tsukuba,1987)
M.Sc.(The University of Tsukuba,1984)[Fields of Specialization]
Environmental dynamic analysis
Hydrology/Weather/Oceanic physics[Academic Society Memberships]
American Geophysical Union
International Association of Hydrological Sciences
International Association of Hydrogeology
Japanese Association of Groundwater Hydrology
Japanese Association of Hydrological Science
Japan Society of Engineering Geology
The Japan Society of Hydrology and Water Resources
The Association of Japanese Geographers
The Japanese Society of Limnology

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Individual Achievements[Awards]
Award of 7th Japanese Association of Limnology (Yoshimura Prize, 2005)
Research award from the Association of Japanese Geographers (1987)―Achievements―[Papers][Original Articles]

・Lee S., Taniguchi, M., Choi, J.Y., Mohtar, R.H., Yoo, S.H. 2018 An Analysis of the Water-Energy-Food-Land Requirements
and CO2 Emissions for Food Security of Rice in Japan. Sustainability 10(9):3354.
・Taniguchi, M., Masuhara, N., Teramoto, S. 2018 Tradeoffs in the water-energy- food nexus in the urbanizing Asia-PacificRegion. Water International 43(6):892-903. DOI:10.1080/02508060.2018.1516104
・Burnett, K., Wada, C., Taniguchi, M. Sugimoto, R., Tahara, D. 2018 Evaluating tradeoffs between groundwater pumping forsnow-melting and nearshore fishery productivity in Obama City, Japan. Water 10:1556. DOI:doi:10.3390/w10111556[Research Presentations]・Taniguchi, M., Lee, S., Masuhara, N. Urban water-energy-food nexus. Urban Nexus workshop, 2018.11.05, Research Institutefor Humanity and Nature, Kyoto.
・Taniguchi, M. Water-energy-food nexus. RIHN-SRC joint workshop, 2018.10.29, Stockholm Resilience Center, Stockholm,
Sweden.
・Taniguchi, M., Lee, S., Masuhara, N. Groundwater-energy-food nexus for sustainability. RFG, 2018.06.17, Vancouver,
Canada.
[Invited Lecture / Honorary Lecture / Panelist]

・ Taniguchi, M. Multi-scale water-energy-food nexus in Asia. THA2019, 2019.01.24, Bangkok.
・ Taniguchi, M. Sustainable groundwater management in Anthropocene. THA2019, 2019.01.23, Bangkok.
・Taniguchi, M. Water-energy-food nexus for sustainability. Nexus KAN Steering Committee Meeting, 2019.01.14, Paris.
・Taniguchi, M. Nexus-KAN,Strategy for SDGs in Asia. Science Council in Asia, 2018.12.07, Science Council in Japan.

TAYASU Ichiro
Professor

Born in 1969.
[Academic Career]
Department of Zoology, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Doctor Course(1997)
Department of Zoology, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Master Course(1994)
Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Kyoto University(1992)[Professional Career]
Professor, RIHN Center, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (2016)

Individual Achievements[Oral Presentation]

・Taniguchi, M., Lee, S., Masuhara, N. Multi-scale water-energy-food nexus. American Geophysical Union, 2018.12.13,
Washington, D.C., USA.

RIHN

・Nakajima, T., Sugimoto, R., Tominaga, O., Takeuchi, Honda, H., Shoji, J., Taniguchi, M. 2018 Fresh and recirculated
submarine groundwater discharge evaluated by geochemical tracers and a seepage meter at two sites in the Seto Inland Sea,
Japan. Hydrology 5(61). DOI:doi:10.3390/hydrology5040061

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Professor, Center for Research Promotion, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (2014)
Associate Professor, Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University (2003)
Assistant Professor, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (2002)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Research Abroad) of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science; Laboratoire d'Ecologie desSols Tropicaux, Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement (2000)
Postdoctoral Research fellow (PD) of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science; Laboratory of Forest Ecology, Graduate
School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Japan (1997)[Higher Degrees]
Ph.D (Kyoto University, 1997)
M Sc. (Kyoto University, 1994)[Fields of Specialization]
Isotope Ecology
Animal Ecology
Freshwater Ecology
Soil Ecology
Isotope Environmental Science[Academic Society Memberships]
Ecological Society of JapanThe Japanese Society of Limnology
The Japanese Society of Soil Zoology
The International Union for the Study of Social Insects
Japan Geoscience Union
Advancing the Science of Limnology and Oceanography[Awards]
16th Inoue Research Award for Young Scientists (1999)
20th Biwako Prize for Ecology (2019)―Achievements―[Papers][Original Articles]

・Ko, C.-Y., Iwata, T., Lee, J.-Y., Murakami, A., Okano, J., Ishikawa, N.F., Sakai, Y., Tayasu, I., Itoh, M., Song, U., Togashi,
H., Nakano, S., Ohte, N. and Okuda, N. 2019,03 Assessing alpha and beta diversities of benthic macroinvertebrates and theirenvironmental drivers between watersheds with different levels of habitat transformation in Japan. Marine and Freshwater
Research 70(4):504-512. DOI:10.1071/MF18031 (reviewed).
・Matsubayashi, J., Umezawa, Y., Matsuyama, M., Kawabe, R., Mei, W., Wan, X., Shimomae, A. and Tayasu, I. 2019,02 Using
segmental isotope analysis of teleost fish vertebrae to estimate trophic discrimination factors of bone collagen. Limnology
and Oceanography: Methods 17:87-96. DOI:10.1002/lom3.10298 (reviewed).
・Sase, H., Takahashi, M., Matsuda, K., Sato, K., Tanikawa, T., Yamashita, N., Ohizumi, T., Ishida, T., Kamisako, M.,
Kobayashi, R., Uchiyama, S., Saito, T., Morohashi, M., Fukuhara, H., Kaneko, S., Inoue, T., Yamada, T., Takenaka, C.,
Tayasu, I., Nakano, T., Hakamata, T. and Ohta, S. 2019,01 Response of river water chemistry to changing atmosphericenvironment and sulfur dynamics in a forested catchment in central Japan. Biogeochemistry 142:357-374. DOI:10.1007/
s10533-019-00540-1 (reviewed).
・Tanaka, H.O., Haraguchi, T.F., Tayasu, I. and Hyodo F. 2018,10 Stable and radio-isotopic signatures reveal how the feeding
habits of ants respond to natural secondary succession in a cool-temperate forest. Insectes sociaux 66:37-46. DOI:10.1007/
s00040-018-0665-0 (reviewed).

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・Ishikawa, N.F., Chikaraishi, Y., Takano, Y., Sasaki, Y., Takizawa, Y., Tsuchiya, M., Tayasu, I., Nagata. T. and Ohkouchi, N.
2018,09 A new analytical method for determination of the nitrogen isotopic composition of methionine: its application toaquatic ecosystems with mixed resources. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods 16(9):607-620. DOI:10.1002/lom3.10272(reviewed).
・Suetsugu, K., Ohta, T. and Tayasu, I. 2018,08 Partial mycoheterotrophy in the leafless orchid Cymbidium macrorhizon.
American Journal of Botany 105(9):1595-1600. DOI:10.1002/ajb2.1142 (reviewed).
・Saitoh, Y., Nakano, T., Shin, K-C., Matsubayashi, J., Kato, Y., Amakawa, H., Osada, Y., Yoshimizu, C., Okuda, N., Amano,Y., Togashi, H., Kurita, Y. and Tayasu, I. 2018,08 Utility of Nd isotope ratio as a tracer of marine animals: regional variationin coastal seas and causal factors. Ecosphere 9(8):e02365. DOI:10.1002/ecs2.2365 (reviewed).
・Endo, H., Fukuda, H., Takahashi, D., Okumura, Y., Inomata, E., Yoshimizu, C., Tayasu, I. and Nagata, T. 2018,07 Influenceof isotope fractionation on the nitrogen isotope composition of the brown macroalga Undaria pinnatifida. PhycologicalResearch 66:262-268. DOI:10.1111/pre.12332 (reviewed).
・Kato, Y., Kondoh, M., Ishikawa, N.F., Togashi, H., Kohmatsu, Y., Yoshimura, M., Yoshimizu, C., Haraguchi, T.F., Osada,Y., Ohte, N., Tokuchi, N., Okuda, N., Miki, T. and Tayasu, I. 2018,05 Using food network unfolding to evaluate food-web
complexity in terms of biodiversity: theory and applications. Ecology Letters 21:1065-1074. DOI:10.1111/ele.12973(reviewed).

Visiting Associate Professor[Professional Career]
Associate Professor, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan(2012)
Visiting Associate Professor, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan（2015）
Visiting Scholar, Max-Planck-Institute for History of Science,Berlin, Germany（2016）[Higher Degrees]
M.Lit(Osaka University,1998)[Fields of Specialization]
Environmental Humanities
History/Metahistory
Study on the Anthropocene―Achievements―[Papers][Original Articles]

・Masahiro Terada 2018,06 “Food as Ingredient for Memory: The exhibition “Food-scape in Mindscape” “. Blog entry for“Lifeworlds of Sustainable Food Consumption and Production: Agrifood System in Transition“.

Individual Achievements

TERADA Masahiro

RIHN

・Sugio, K., Miyaguni, Y. and Tayasu, I. 2018,04 Characteristics of dispersal flight and disperser production in an Asian drywood termite, Neotermes koshunensis (Isoptera, Kalotermitidae). Insectes Sociaux 65:323-330. DOI:10.1007/
s00040-018-0616-9 (reviewed).

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TSUSHIMA Akane
Researcher―Achievements―[Papers][Original Articles]

・Masashi Niwano, Teruo Aoki, Akihiro Hashimoto, Sumito Matoba, Satoru Yamaguchi, Tomonori Tanikawa, Koji Fujita,
Akane Tsushima, Yoshinori Iizuka, Rigen Shimada, and Masahiro Hori 2018 NHM–SMAP: spatially and temporally highresolution nonhydrostatic atmospheric model coupled with detailed snow process model for Greenland Ice Sheet. The
Cryosphere(12):635-655. (reviewed).

YAMANAKA Manabu D.
Researcher

Born in 1955.
[Academic Career]
Doctor Course, Department of Atmosphere-Hydrosphere Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University (1985)
Research Student, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Ministry of Education, Science and Culture (1981-85)
Master Course, Department of Atmosphere-Hydrosphere Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University (1982)
Auditor, Faculty of Science, Kyoto University (1979-80)
Course for High-School Teacher of Science, Osaka Kyoiku University (1979)[Professional Career]
JICA Expert, Can Tho University, Vietnam (2018)
Project Researcher, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (2018)
JICA Expert, Department of Meteorology, Sri Lanka (2016)
Professor Emeritus, Kobe University (2016)
Senior Staff, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (2016)
JICA Expert, Agency for Assessment and Application of Technology, Indonesia (2010-14)
Principal Scientist, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (2009)
Professor, Graduate School of Science, Kobe University (2007)
Senior Scientist, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (2007)
Group Leader, Frontier Observational Research System for Global Change, Japan Marine Science and Technology Center(1998)
Professor, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kobe University (1998)
Associate Professor, Radio Atmospheric Science Center, Kyoto University (1995)
Lecturer, Radio Atmospheric Science Center, Kyoto University (1989)
Lecturer, Faculty of Education, Yamaguchi University (1987)
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (1986)
JSPS Junior Research Fellow, Water Research Institute, Nagoya University (1985)
Technical Assistant, Research Reactor Institute, Kyoto University (1979-1980)[Higher Degrees]
D.Sc (Nagoya University, 1985)
M.Sc (Nagoya University, 1982)

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B.Ed (Osaka Kyoiku University, 1979)[Fields of Specialization]
Atmosphere-Hydrosphere Science[Academic Society Memberships]
The Meteorological Society of JapanThe Oceanographic Society of JapanThe Society of Geomagnetism and Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences (SGEPSS)The Japanese Society for Planetary Sciences
Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU)―Achievements―[Papers][Original Articles][Review Articles]

・Yamanaka, M. D., S.-Y. Ogino, P.-M. Wu, Hamada J.-I., S. Mori, J. Matsumoto and F. Syamsudin 2018,04 Maritime
continent coastlines controlling Earth's climate. Prog. Earth Planet Sci. 5(21):1-28. DOI:10.1186/s40645-018-0174-9(reviewed). (a review, Special Call for Excellent Papers on Hot Topics: 5. Asia Monsoon Hydroclimate)[Research Presentations][Oral Presentation]

・山中大学 豪雨発生予測への大気レーダー応用可能性：日本およびインドネシアの場合. 第 12 回 MU レーダー・赤道大気レーダーシンポジウム, 2018.09.05-2018.09.06, 宇治. (in Japanese) http://www.rish.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ear/ear-sympoprogram2018.pdf
・山中大学 熱帯海岸降雨集中帯としての泥炭地域：「生存基盤指数」の「飽和」？. 熱帯泥炭社会プロジェクト幹事
会セミナー, 2018.09.03, 京都. (in Japanese)
・Yamanaka, M. D. Radar Monitoring dan Fenomena El Niño. Rapat Koordinasi, Program Restorasi Gambut di Wilayah
Kabupaten Bengkalis Melalui Penguatan Bidang Penelitian Lintas Lembaga Dalam dan Luar Negeri Dalam Rangka
Pengurangan Resiko Bencana Kabut Asap, 2018.07.31, Bengkalis, Riau, Indonesia. (Other) (Bahasa Indonesia)
・山中大学 インドネシア「海大陸」の長い海岸線が決める地球の気候. 地球研ランチセミナー, 第 295 回, 2018.05.29,
京都. (in Japanese)
・Yamanaka, M. D. Climate dynamics referenced to coastline: A retrospective. JpGU 2018, 2018.05.20-2018.05.24, Makuhari.
ACG37-05, https://confit.atlas.jp/guide/event-img/jpgu2018/ACG37-05/public/pdf?type=in&lang=en
・Ogino, S.-Y., M. D. Yamanaka, S. Mori, J. Matsumoto Tropical coastal dehydrator: A new view of global atmospheric water
circulation. JpGU 2018, 2018.05.20-2018.05.24, Makuhari. ACG37-06, https://confit.atlas.jp/guide/event-img/jpgu2018/
ACG37-06/public/pdf?type=in&lang=en
・荻野慎也・山中大学・森修一・松本淳 熱帯沿岸脱水機: 全球海陸水循環における沿岸降水の働き. 日本気象学会
2018 年春季大会, 2018.05.16-2018.05.19, つくば. (in Japanese) http://www.metsoc.jp/default/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/
S2018oral_20180406.pdf 予稿集 p.172（C205）

Individual Achievements

・Mori, S., Hamada J.-I., M. Hattori, P.-M. Wu, M. Katsumata, N. Endo, K. Ichiyanagi, H. Hashiguchi, A. A. Arbain, R.
Sulistyowati, S. Lestari, F. Syamsudin, T. Manik and M. D. Yamanaka 2018,09 Meridional march of diurnal rainfall overJakarta, Indonesia, observed with a C-band Doppler radar: An overview of the HARIMAU2010 campaign. Prog. Earth Planet
Sci. 5(47):1-23. DOI:10.1186/s40645-018-0202-9 (reviewed). (Special Call for Excellent Papers on Hot Topics: 5. Asia
Monsoon Hydroclimate)

RIHN

・Katsumata, M., S. Mori, Hamada, J.-I., M. Hattori, F. Syamsudin and M. D. Yamanaka 2018,10 Diurnal cycle over a coastal
area of the maritime continent as derived by special networked soundings over Jakarta during HARIMAU2010. Prog. Earth
Planet Sci. 5(64):1-19. DOI:10.1186/s40645-018-0216-3 (reviewed). (Special Call for Excellent Papers on Hot Topics: 5.
Asia Monsoon Hydroclimate)

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[Poster Presentation]

・ Ogino, S. Y., M. D. Yamanaka, S. Mori and J. Matsumoto Tropical coastal dehydrator in global atmospheric water
circulation: An overview. 8th GEWEX Open Science Conference: Extremes and Water on the Edge, 2018.05.06-2018.05.11,
Canmore,Alberta,Canada.
https://www.gewexevents.org/wp-content/uploads/gravity_forms/
34-85b8bfd87c728fd2acbb60a1555f2e79/2018/05/Ogino_A-18.pdf

YAMAUCHI Taro
Professor

Born in 1968.
[Academic Career]
School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, B.A. (1993)
School of International Health, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, M. Health Sci. (1995)
School of International Health, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Ph.D. (Health Sci.) (1998)[Professional Career]Part-time Lecturer, Kagawa Nutrition University (1998)
Visiting Fellow, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australia National University (1999)
Post-doctoral Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) (2000)
Assistant Professor, Department of Human Ecology, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo (2002)
Visiting Associate Professor, National Institute for Humanity and Nature (2007)
Associate Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University (2007)
Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University (2013)
Professor,Research Institute for Humanity and Nature(2018)[Higher Degrees]Ph.D(The University of Tokyo, 1998)
M.Health Sci.(The University of Tokyo, 1995)[Fields of Specialization]
Human Ecology
Global Health
Biological Anthropology
Human Nutrition―Achievements―[Papers][Original Articles]

・Yumiko Otsuka, Lina Agestika, Widyarani, Neni Sintawardani, Taro Yamauchi 2019,01 Risk factor for undernutrition anddiarrhea prevalence in an urban slum in Indonesia: Focus on water, sanitation, and hygiene. American Journal of Tropical
Medicine and Hygiene 100(3):727-732. DOI:DOI:10.4269/ajtmh.18-0063 (reviewed).
・Hasegawa J, Suzuki H, Yamauchi T 2018,11 Impact of season on the association between muscle strength/volume andphysical activity among community-dwelling elderly people living in snowy-cold regions. Journal of Physiological
Anthropology 37(25). DOI:10.1186/s40101-018-0186-6 (reviewed).
・ Yumiko OTSUKA, Ken USHIJIMA, Mayu IKEMI, Dewi NILAWATI, Neni SINTAWARDANI, Taro YAMAUCHI
2018,11 Mapping of water, sanitation, hygiene and child health in an urban slum of Indonesia. Sanitation Value Chain 2(1):27-37. DOI:DOI:10.20568/00002639 (reviewed).

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・ Sikopo Nyambe, Koji Hayashi, Joseph Zulu, Taro Yamauchi 2018,11 Water, Sanitation, Hygiene, Health and Civic
Participation of Children and Youth in Peri-Urban Communities: An Overview of Lusaka, Zambia. Sanitation Value Chain
2(1):39-54. DOI:DOI:10.20568/00002640 (reviewed).
・M. Ikemi, K. Ushijima, Y. Otsuka, T. Yamauchi, D. Nilawati, D. R. Wulan, and N. Sintawardani 2018 Economic situation ofvalue chain actors in urban slums of Bandung: A case of Kiaracondong. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental
Science 160(012019). (reviewed).
・Nagahori C., Kinjo Y., Vodounon AJ., Alao MJ., Padounou Batossi G., Hounkpatin B., Amoule Houenassi E., Yamauchi T.
2018 Possible effect of maternal safe food preparation behavior on child malnutrition in Benin, Africa. Pediatrics
International 60:875-881. DOI:10.1111/ped.13656 (reviewed).
・Yumiko Otsuka, Lina Agestika, Widyarani, Neni Sintawardani, Taro Yamauchi 2018 Risk factor for undernutrition anddiarrhea prevalence in an urban slum in Indonesia: Focus on water, sanitation, and hygiene. American Journal of Tropical
Medicine and Hygiene in press. DOI:10.4269/ajtmh.18-0063 (reviewed).
・Nagahori C, Kinjo Y, Vodounon AJ, Alao MJ, Padounou Batossi G, Hounkpatin B, Amoule Houenassi E, Yamauchi T 2018
Possible effect of maternal safe food preparation behavior on child malnutrition in Benin, Africa. Pediatrics International
60:875-881. (reviewed).
・M. Ikemi, K. Ushijima, Y. Otsuka, T. Yamauchi, D. Nilawati, D. R. Wulan, and N. Sintawardani 2018 Economic situation ofvalue chain actors in urban slums of Bandung: A case of Kiaracondong. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental
Science 60 (012019). (reviewed).

[Research Presentations]・Taro Yamauchi Designing Sanitation Systems as Eco-Community-Value System. A Seminar of "Dialogue of Indigeneity:
Perspectives from Archaeology and Anthropology" , 2019.03.21-2019.03.22, University of Oxford, UK.
・ Yumiko Otsuka, Lina Agestika, Hidenori Harada,Widyarani, Neni Sintawardani, Taro Yamauchi Influence of water,
sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) on child health in an urban slum of Indonesia. Green Technology for Value Chains 2018,2018.11.01-2018.11.02, Tangerang, Indonesia.
・Ken Ushijima, Naoyuki Funamizu, Taro Yamauchi Water and Sanitation System. For a Shrinking Society. World Social
Science Forum 2018, 2018.09.25-2018.09.28, Fukuoka, Japan.
・Nyambe S, Hayashi K, Zulu J, Yamauchi T The image of peri-urban sanitation and health through the eyes of the young:
Understanding community sanitation and health in Lusaka, Zambia. Dry Toilet Conference 2018, 2018.08.22-2018.08.24,
Hiedanranta, Tampere, Finland.
・Koji Hayashi, Seiji Nakao, Taro Yamauchi Defecation without toilets - Toward the study of sanitation activities in the huntergatherers. The Twelfth International Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies (CHAGS 12), 2018.07.23-2018.07.27,
Penang, Malaysia.
・Taro Yamauchi Co-creating the Sanitation Value Chain in Lusaka, Zambia by Designing Sanitation Systems as EcoCommunity-Value Systems. Zambia Water Forum and Exhibition (ZAWAFE) 2018, 2018.06.11-2018.06.13, Lusaka,
Zambia.
・NYAMBE Sikopo, HAYASHI Koji, YAMAUCHI Taro Using photographs to tell the story of sanitation and health in periurban Lusaka, Zambia. The 55th JAAS Annual Meeting, 2018.05.26, Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo. (in Japanese)[Invited Lecture / Honorary Lecture / Panelist]

・Taro YAMAUCHI Measuring human behavior, activity pattern and daily life: Perspectives from daily time-space use tonutritional adaptation. The 48th Hominization Conference: Nomadic life and Hominization, 2019.02.28-2019.03.01, Primate
Research Institute Kyoto University, Inuyama City. (in Japanese)・Taro Yamauchi Co-creating the sanitation value chain: Designing sanitation system as eco-community-value systems. Societyfor Human Ecology (SHE) 2018, 2018.07.07-2018.07.10, Lisbon, Portuguese.

Individual Achievements[Oral Presentation]

RIHN

・Wang P, Hao M, Han W, Yamauchi T 2018 Factors associated with nutritional status and motor development among young
children in suburban Northeast China . Nursing & Health Sciences in press. (reviewed).

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YASUNARI Tetsuzo
Director-General

Born in 1947.
[Professional Career]
Director-General, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (4/2013- )Designated Professor, Hydrospheric Atmospheric Research Center (HyARC), Nagoya University. (4/2012-3/2013 )Professor, Hydrospheric Atmospheric Research Center (HyARC), Nagoya University. (8/2002-3/2012)
Leader, Global COE program “From Earth System Science to Basic and Clinical Environmental Studies” (2009-2012)
Leader, the 21st Century COE Program "The Sun-Earth-Life Interactive System (SELIS)" (2003-2008)
Visiting Professor, Department of Earth & Planetary Science, the University of Tokyo. (4/2003-3/2006)
Professor, Climatology & Meteorology, University of Tsukuba. (4/1992-7-2002)
Associate Professor, Climatology & Meteorology, University of Tsukuba. (6/1990-3/1992)
Assistant Professor, Climatology & Meteorology, University of Tsukuba. (8/1984-8/1985)
Visiting Scientist, Department of Meteorology, Florida State University (8/1984-8/1985)
Research Associate, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University. (4/1977-3/1982)[Higher Degrees]
D.Sc., Meteorology & Climatology (Kyoto University, 1981)
M.S., Meteorology (Kyoto University, 1974)[Fields of Specialization]
Meteorology
Climatology
Climate systems studies[Academic Society Memberships]
The Association of Japanese Geographers
Meteorological Society of Japan
Japan Society of Hydrology and Water Resources
The Japanese Society of Snow and Ice
American Geophysical Union
American Meteorological Society[Awards]
Chichibuno-Miya Memorial award (as a group member) 1980
Yamamoto Prize, Meteorological Society of Japan 1981
Research Award (Gakkai-sho), Meteorological society of Japan 1986
Nikkei Prize for Global Environmental Study and Technology 1991
Fujiwara Prize, Meteorological Society of Japan 2002
International Award, Japanese Society of Hydrology and Water resources 2006
Meritorious Deed Award, Japan Society of Hydrology and Water Resources 2014
Japan Geoscience Union Fellow 2015
Best Paper Award of Society of Environmental Science, Japan 2015

―Achievements―[Papers][Original Articles]

・Kanamori, H., T. Kumagai, H. Fujinami, T. Hiyama and T. Yasunari 2018,09 Effects of long- and short-term atmosphericwater cycles on the water balance over the Maritime Continent. Journal of Hydrometeorology Vol.19. (reviewed).

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Individual Achievements

・Naoyuki Kurita, Mayumi Horikawa, Hironari Kanamori, Hatsuki Fujinami, Tomo'omi Kumagai, Tomonori Kume, Tetsuzo
Yasunari 2018,05 Interpretation of El Niño–Southern Oscillation‐related precipitation anomalies in north‐western Borneo
using isotopic tracers. Hydrological Processes:2176-2186. (reviewed).
・Naoyuki Kurita, Mayumi Horikawa, Hironari Kanamori, Hatsuki Fujinami, Tomo'omi Kumagai, Tomonori Kume, Tetsuzo
Yasunari 2018,05 Interpretation of El Niño–Southern Oscillation‐related precipitation anomalies in north‐western Borneo
using isotopic tracers. Hydrological Processes:2176-2186. (reviewed).

[Research Presentations][Invited Lecture / Honorary Lecture / Panelist]

・Tetsuzo Yasunari Future Earth: towards global sustainability of the anthropocene?. Future Earth, Mongolia, 2018.06.08,
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. (in Japanese)

RIHN
Individual Achievements

Appendix 1

Number and Affiliation of Project Members
University / College

Project Number

Title of the project

Total

RIHN

Research
Program 1(FR5)

Societal Adaptation to Climate Change:
Integrating Palaeoclimatological Data with Historical and Archaeological
Evidences75

Research
Program 1(FR2)

Toward the Regeneration of Tropical Peatland Societies: Building International
Research Network on Paludiculture and Sustainable Peatland Management

Research
Program 2(FR1)

InterUniversity
Research
InstitutePublicInstitution

PrivateInstitution

OthersOverseas
Institution

National

PublicPrivate

3

32

3

15

6

7

3

2

4

73

5

31

2

6

0

2

3

1

23

Research and Social Implementation of Ecosystem-based Disaster Risk
Reduction as Climate Change Adaptation in Shrinking Societies

106

3

59

6

14

0

15

9

0

0

Research
Program 2(FR4)

Biodiversity-driven Nutrient Cycling and Human Well-Being in Socialecological Systems

113

12

32

10

15

0

19

2

4

19

Research
Program 3(FR3)

Lifeworlds of Sustainable Food Consumption: Agri-food Systems in Transition

90

10

15

2

11

0

7

11

3

31

Research
Program 3(FR2)

The Sanitation Value Chain: Designing Sanitation Systems as Eco-CommunityValue System

57

4

24

1

3

0

5

0

2

18

Research
Program 3(PR)

Co-creation of Sustainable Regional Innovation for Reducing Riskof High-impact Environmental Pollution

42

3

14

1

4

1

1

3

2

13

Research
Program 2(PR)

Mapping the Environmental Impact Footprint of Cities, Companies,
and Household

23

1

10

0

3

0

2

0

0

7

Individual
Collaboration FS(OKABE)

Future Image of Living Sphere by Restructuring Sustainable Relation between
Humans and Land

12

0

9

0

0

0

0

0

0

3

Institutional
Collaboration FS(KOHSAKA)

Fair and Equitable Benefit Sharing of Biological and Genetic Resources inthe Era of Digital Information: Improving Livelihoods and Agrobiodiversity
Conservation by Intellectual Property and Storylines

29

1

9

1

5

2

2

7

0

2

Institutional
Collaboration FS(MATSUDA)

Transformation and Reconstruction of Agri-Cultural Diversity in Southeast
Asia

13

1

3

0

4

0

3

0

1

1

Institutional
Collaboration FS(MORI)Developing Interactive Rural-Urban Systems to Improve Human Well-being:
Migration for Humanity and Nature

13

0

9

1

3

0

0

0

0

0

Institutional
Collaboration FS(HAYASHIDA)

Study of Behavior Modification of Public People by Sharing Daily Activity
and Air Quality Information toward Clean Air and Promoting Public Health

23

0

18

0

3

0

2

0

0

0

Core Program(FR1)

Proposal and Verification of the Validity of Isotope Environmental Traceability
Methodology in Environmental Studies

36

13

5

4

4

0

7

0

2

1

Core FS(KONDO)

Information Asymmetry Reduction in Open Team Science for Socioenvironmental Cases

30

9

8

1

3

2

3

2

0

2

Core FS(ONISHI)Co-design and stakeholder engagement according to geographical scales

3

1

1

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

Cooperative research program on Environmental Isotope Study

76

7

45

3

5

1

11

3

0

1

Total

814

73

324

35

99

12

86

43

17

125

-

As of 31 March, 2019

Appendix 2

Research Fields of Project Members

Project
NumberTitle of the Project

Research
Program 1(FR5)

Societal Adaptation to Climate Change:
Integrating Palaeoclimatological Data with Historical andArchaeological Evidences

Research
Program 1(FR2)

Toward the Regeneration of Tropical Peatland Societies:
Building International Research Network on Paludiculture
and Sustainable Peatland Management

Research
Program 2(FR1)

Research
Program 2(FR4)

Research and Social Implementation of Ecosystem-based
Disaster Risk Reduction as Climate Change Adaptation in
Shrinking Societies

Biodiversity-driven Nutrient Cycling and Human Well-Being
in Social-ecological Systems

The Number of Projects Members
Natural Sciences

37

41

70

84

Humanities

35

9

8

3

Social Sciences

3

23

28

26

Total

Research Background of Project Members

75(Natural Sciences) Digital Signal Processing, Paleoclimatology, Dendrochronology, Historical Climatology, Wood Anatomy, Paleoceanography, Dating Method, Plant Ecology, Isotopic Meteorology and Climatology, Climate Dynamics・Climate Modeling, Earth System
Dynamics, Wood Science, Isotope Geochemistry, Glaciology, Hydrology, Geochronology, Earth Dynamics, Geochemistry, Forestry, Environmental Studies, Radiocarbon chronology, Climatology, Glaciology, Assimilation of old weather records(Humanities) Japanese Early Modern Age History, Archaeology, Japanese Early Modern Age Urban History・Comparative Studies of Historical Documents, Prehistorical Archaeology, Japanese Middle Age History, Japanese Archaeology, Theoretical Archaeology, Japanese
History, Vegetational History, Edo-era History, Japanese Early Modern History, History of Ryukyu, Japanese Early Modern Age Emperor Studies/Economic History, Archaeology (Prehistoric-chronology), Archaeology (Yayoi-era), Prehistory, Human Informatics, Japanese
Ancient History, Japanese Religious History, Japanese Middle Age History (Shoen/Village/Environment), Feudal Domain History(Social Sciences) Japanese Economic History・Historical Demography, Environmental Policy, Japanese Early Modern Age Economical and Social History

73(Natural Sciences) GIS Spatial Informatics, Political Ecology, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Resource Geology, Environmental Anthropology, Meteorology, Physical Geography, Informatics, Plant Ecology, Forest Ecology, Hydrology, Mathematical
Informatics, Computational Chemistry, Ecology, Policy Science, BiogeoChemistry, Atmospheric Chemistry, Atmospheric Environment, Air Quality Measurement, Carbon Cycle, Area Informatics, Urban Environmental Engineering, Soil Science, Hydrology, Land Use andResource Management, Agriculture, Agrometeorology, Agricultural Hydrology, Agricultural Engineering, Limnology, Silviculture(Humanities) Environmental Science, Social Anthropology, Humanities, Anthropology, Regional Studies, Forest Policy, History(Social Sciences) Indonesian Political Economy, Indonesia Studies, Political Ecology, Development Studies, Environmental and Agricultural Change, Environmental NGO, Economics, Economic History, Natural Resource Management, Socioeconomic History, Social
Anthropology, Human Geography, Anthropology, Politics, Political Economy, Regional Studies, Utilization of Local Wood, Agriculture, Folk Ecology

106(Natural Sciences) GIS, Landscape Science, Space Utilization Engineering, River Environment, Pollen Analysis, Environmental Systems Engineering, Environment Design, Environmental Studies, Environmental Impact Assessment, Environmental Policy, Advanced
Environment, Environmental Agriculture, Fish Physiological Ecology, Spatial Information Science, Spatial Informatics, Community Ecology, Landscape Ecology, Landscape Ecological Conservation, Architecture, International Fisheries Development, Erosion Control,
Sustainability Science, Forest Policy, Human Environment Design, Water Environment, Water Engineering, Ecology, Ecosystem Management, Ecosystem Management Engineering, Ecosystem Assessment Management, Biodiversity Informatics, Landscape Architecture,
Regional Environment Studies, Rural Planning, Global Environmental Studies, GIS, Urban Planning, Urban Engineering, Civil Engineering, Civil Engineering Informatics, Statistical Science, Regional Planning, Conservation Ecology, Watershed Policy, LandscapeArchitecture, Landscape Ecology and Planning, Landscape Planning, Silviculture(Humanities) Environmental Epidemiology, Archeology, History by Region, Japanese History, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnology, Japanese History(Social Sciences) Community, Local Community Disaster Prevention, Community Participation in Disaster Recovery, Rviers, Environmental Economics, Environmental Sociology, Environmental Policy, Architecture, National Land Design, Natural Environment Policy,
Natural Capital, Forest Community, Forest Policy, Hydrology, Politics, Landscaping, Tourism, Landscape Architecture, General Insurance, Regional Policy and Planning, City, Cultural Policy, Disaster Prevention, Water Environment, Agricultural Business Management,
Regional Planning, Rural Informatization

113(Natural Sciences) d18Op Isotope Analysis, Plankton Ecology, Plankton Ecology, Phosphorus Circulation, Stable Isotope Analysis of Food Webs, Nutrient Cycling, Satellite Ecology, Applied Ecology, Applied Geophysics, River Sediment Macroinvertebrate, Chemical
Oceanography, Marine EcoSystem Engineering, Environmental Systems Engineering, Environmental Economy, Environmental Governance, Environmental Agriculture, Environmental Microbiology, Environmental Analytic Chemistry, Environmental Conservation, Fish
Ecology, Fish Genetics and Breeding Science, Fungology, Fungal Diversity, Spatial Statistics, Community Ecology, Lake Synthetic Science, Lake Sediment Macroinvertebrate, Nitrate Isotope Analysis, Plant Ecology, Plant Physiological Ecology, Forestry andEnvironmental Studies, Forest Hydrology, Forest Ecology, Evolutionary ecology, Hydrosphere Ecology, Hydrosphere Chemistry, Aquatic Ecology, Aquatic Biology, Fisheries, Aquatic Biology, Underwater Acoustic Studies, Hydrological Science, Hydrology, Mathematical
Biology, Evolutionary Biology, Ecological Stoichiometry, Ecological Science, Ecology, Ecosystem Ecology, Biological Science, BiogeoChemistry, Phycology, Freshwater Ecology and Parasitology, Groundwater Chemistry, Geophysics, Benthic Animal Diversity, Isotope
Environmental Science, Stable Isotope Ecology, Microbial Ecology, Molecular Ecology, Analytical Chemistry, Conservation Ecology, Limnology, Limnology, Freshwater Ecology, Freshwater Biology, Basin Environmental Studies, Basin Water, River Basin Conservation(Humanities) Archaeology, Geomatics, Cultural Anthropology, Historical Geography(Social Sciences) Community and Project Development, Community Development, Community Organizations and Stakeholder Participation, Applied Economics, Environmental Economy, Environmental Sociology, Environmental Policy, Quantitative Sociology, Lake
Policy, International Environmental Law, Industrial Ecology, Sociology, Social Psychology, Regional Planning, Regional Studies, Sociology of Local Community, Integrated Lake Basin Management, Rural Sociology

90(Natural Sciences)Public Health, Life Cycle Assessment, LCA Analysis, Agroecology, App Design, Biochar Burying Agriculture, Food System, Modelling, River Ecosystem, Environmental Energy Science, Environmental Agriculture, Climatic Variation, Landscape,
Cultivation Management, Social Ecological System, Biodiversity Informatics, Rural Sociology, Geography, Urban Agricultural Economic Management, Soil Science, Land Use Economics, Japanese Traditional Vegetables, Tropical Agricultural Ecology, Agriculture,
Agri-food Social Science, Organic Agriculture, Organic Agriculture, Green Space Planning(Humanities) Agroforestry, Science and Technology Studies, Environmental Ethics, Social Statistics, Anthropology, Political Economy, Regional Policy and Planning, Cultural Anthropology, History(Social Sciences) CGE Analysis, Agrifood System, Agroecology, Innovation Studies, Green Consumer, Game Development, Gender Studies, Distribution of Superfoods, Criticism of Science, Development Sociology, Environmental Governance, Environmental
Management, Environmental Impact Assessment, Environmental Planning, Environmental Sociology, Environmental Policy, Company Evaluation, Global Agricultural Economics, Sociology, Socioeconomics, Social Engineering, Social Policy, Food Sociology, Food Waste,
Water Quality Monitoring, Policy Science, Organizational Theory, Geography, Urban / Rural Sociology, Agricultural Economics, Agri-food Social Science, Agricultural Policy, Rural Development Sociology, Rural Sociology, Crime Victims Support, Child Care

57

(Natural Sciences) Genetic Engineering, Sanitary Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Environmental and Sanitary Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Resources, Environmental and Sanitary Engineering, Health Science, Public Health Microbiology,
Global Food Resources, River Management and Water Reuse, Water treatment Engineering, Regional Environment Studies, Regional Studies, Geomatics, Regional Agricultural Technologies(Humanities) International Health and Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Regional Studies, Agricultural Economics, Cultural Anthropology(Social Sciences) African Political Science, Sanitation Services, Medical Anthropology, Video Production, Nutritional Adaptation, Development Economics, Social Medicine, Sociology, Social Behavior, Community Participation, Human Ecology, Regional Planning, Urban
and Regional Planning(Natural Sciences) Medical Science, Applied Chemistry, Accelerator Science, Environmental Science, Environmental Economics, Environmental Ecology, Environmental Soil Science, Boundary Agriculture, Petrology, Atomic Collision Physics, Public Health, Resource
Economics, Resource Engineering, Informatics Education, Forest Ecology, Living Environment, Ecology, Geoscience, Global Environmental Studies, Geology, Physics(Humanities) Environmental Law, Environmental Ethics, International Law, Local Government Policy, Culture and History(Social Sciences) Development Economics, Development Studies, Environmental Governance, Environmental Economics, Educational Psychology, Business Organization, Human Resources Development, Forest Science, Regional Environment Studies, Rural Sociology,
Agricultural Economics, Rural PlanningResearch
Program 3(FR3)

Lifeworlds of Sustainable Food Consumption: Agri-food
Systems in Transition

Research
Program 3(FR2)

The Sanitation Value Chain: Designing Sanitation Systems as
Eco-Community-Value System

Research
Program 3(PR)

Co-creation of Sustainable Regional Innovation for Reducing
Risk of High-impact Environmental Pollution

24

6

12

42

Research
Program 2(PR)

Mapping the Environmental Impact Footprint of Cities,
Companies, and Household

9

0

14

23

Individual
Collaboration FS(OKABE)

Future Image of Living Sphere by Restructuring Sustainable
Relation between Humans and Land

9

1

2

12

Institutional
Collaboration FS(KOHSAKA)

Fair and Equitable Beneﬁt Sharing of Biological and Genetic
Resources in the Era of Digital Information: Improving
Livelihoods and Agrobiodiversity Conservation by Intellectual
Property and Storylines

16

2

11

29

Institutional
Collaboration FS(MATSUDA)

Transformation and Reconstruction of Agri-Cultural Diversity
in Southeast Asia

4

0

9

13

Institutional
Collaboration FS(MORI)Developing Interactive Rural-Urban Systems to Improve
Human Well-being: Migration for Humanity and Nature

2

4

7

13

Institutional
Collaboration FS(HAYASHIDA)

Study of Behavior Modiﬁcation of Public People by Sharing
Daily Activity and Air Quality Information toward Clean Air
and Promoting Public Health

15

5

3

23

(Natural Sciences) Remote Sensing, Environmental Epidemiology, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Informatics, Environmental Agriculture, Environmental Health, Public Health, Water Engineering, Atmospheric Chemistry, Atmospheric Science, Atmospheric
Environment, Atmospheric Simulation, Atmospheric Modeling, Atmospheric Physics, Groundwater Hydraulics, Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, Soil Microbiology(Humanities) Time Geography, Regional Studies, Geography, Cultural Anthropology, Southern Asia Studies(Social Sciences) Hygieiology, Public Health, Global Health, Toxicology, Agricultural Economics

Core Program(FR1)

Proposal and Veriﬁcation of the Validity of Isotope
Environmental Traceability Methodology in Environmental
Studies

23

2

11

36

(Natural Sciences) Science Education, Environmental Resource Geology, Petrology, Paleoclimatology, Hydrology, Ecological Science, Ecology, Global Environmental Studies, Geography, Isotope Environmental Science, Isotope Hydrology, Stable Isotope Ecology, Isotope
Geology, Astrophysics, Limnology, Zooecology, Geochemistry, Groundwater Management, Conservation Biology, Museology(Humanities) Archaeology, Geomatics, Ecological Anthropology(Social Sciences) Environmental Management, Public Administration, Agricultural Economics, Fisheries Economics, Environmental Policy Evaluation, Sociology of Local Community, Social Psychology, Social ResearchCore FS(KONDO)

Information Asymmetry Reduction in Open Team Science forSocio-environmental Cases

9

13

8

30

(Natural Sciences) Open Science Policy, Theory of Open Science, Sanitary Engineering, Science and Technology Communication, Paleoclimatology, Ecological Science, Ecology, Biogeochemistry, Solar Terrestrial Physics, Isotope Environmental Science, Stable Isotope
Ecology, Developmental Biology(Humanities) Open Science Society, Theory of Open Science, Environmental Ethics, Archaeology, Informatics, Library and Information Science, Ecological Anthropology, Geomatics, Philosophy, History of Japan, Cultural Anthropology, History(Social Sciences) Open Science Policy, Social Innovation, Science and Technology Studies, Science and Technology Policy, Environmental Planning, Social Psychology, Regional Resource Planning, Area Informatics, Organic ChemistryCore FS(ONISHI)Co-design and stakeholder engagement according togeographical scales

1

0

2

3

(Natural Sciences) Biogeography(Social Sciences) Environmental Sociology, Environmental Policy(Natural Sciences) Cosmo and Geochemistry, Hot Spring Science, Chemical Oceanography, Anatomy, Irrigation and Drainage, Atmospheric Chemistry, Environmental Science, Mineralogy and Economic Geology, Fish Ecology, Ancient Environment, Paleoclimatology,
Biomolecular Archaeology, Bioarcheology, Mining Engineering History, Economic Geology, Insect Ecology, Bioresource Science, Resource Geology, Resource Engineering, Disaster Engineering, Biological Anthropology, Tree Physiology, Plant Ecology, Plant
Physiological Ecology, Forest Meteorology, Forest Hydrology, Forest Ecology, Wildlife Management, Forest Environment, Water Environment, Water Environment Management, Water Environment Engineering, Hydrosphere Chemistry, Hydrology, Applied Geology,
Hydro-Geochemistry, Ecology and Environment, Ecology, Environmental Biophysics, BiogeoChemistry, Snow and Ice Science, Stratigraphy, Regional Studies, Geohydrology, Geochemistry, Geoscience, Environmental Chemistry, Geobiology, Geology, Isotope Hydrology,
Stable Isotope Ecology, Isotope Geochemistry, Soil Science, Museology, Applied Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Cultural Assets Science, Conservation Ecology, Forensic Medicine, Inorganic Geochemistry, Limnology(Humanities) Archaeology

-

38

31

9

9

43

17

Cooperative research program on Environmental Isotope Study

75

1

0

76

Total

488

107

219

814

(Natural Sciences) Life Cycle Assessment, Marine Ecology, Chemical Engineering, Environmental Agriculture, Engineering, Science, Input-Output Analysis, Atmospheric Science, Soil Science, Civil Engineering, System Engineering(Social Sciences) Material Flow/Stock Analysis, Life Cycle Assessment, Applied Econometrics, Economics of Waste, Science and Technology Studies, Development Economics, Environmental Economy, Economic Statistics, Industrial Ecology, Input-Output Analysis(Natural Sciences) Architectural Design, Architecture, Architectural Planning, Urban Planning(Humanities) Environmental Ethics(Social Sciences)Policy Science, Law(Natural Sciences) Political Ecology, Environmental Science, Environmental Conservation, Urban and Regional Planning, Marine Biology, Biomimetics, Intellectual Property and Genetic Resource Management, Molecular Biology, Bioresource Science, International Lawof the Sea, Food Science, Genetic Resources Management, Access and Beneﬁt-Sharing, Environmental Conservation(Humanities) Informatics, History of Cultural Exchange, Environmental Epidemiology, Social Development(Social Sciences) Development Administration, Environmental Economics, Environmental Sociology, International Environmental Law, Industrial Ecology, Resource Management, Environmental Policy, Law of the Sea, International Environmental Law, Genetic Resources
Management(Natural Sciences) Environmental Studies, Landscape Ecology, Global Health, Agricultural and Rural Development(Social Sciences) Development Administration, Environmental Psychology, International Environmental Law, Social Epidemiology, Biotechnology Policy, Urban Engineering, Agricultural Economics(Natural Sciences) GIS, Urban Engineering, Agricultural Civil Engineering(Humanities) Megacity, Architectural History, Urban History, Qualitative Research, Philosophy(Social Sciences) Communication Theory, Megacity and Architectural History, Environmental Economics, Environmental Sociology, Environmental Management, Business Management, Traﬃc Planning, Commercial Science, Agricultural Economics

As of 31 March, 2019