HomeWe conduct research and education, from an international perspective, related to a variety of technologies that can facilitate sustainable development. More specifically, our focus upon developing countries, primarily in Asia, includes the following areas: disaster prevention and architecture, urban, regional and transportation planning, marine development and usage, ecosystem conservation and management, and biological resource development and usage, etc.
Architecture and Geoenvironment
+ Infrastructure Improvement and Natural Disaster Prevention (Soil-bag Construction Method) (Yamamoto)
+ Energy-saving strategies for buildings and urban areas in Southeast Asia (Kubota)
Ocean Engineering
+ Atmosphere-Land Surface-Ocean coupled Simulation (Yamashita)
+ Safety of Floating Structures in Waves (Higo)
+ Development of a piezoelectric sensor, Impact Engineering (Fujimoto)
Transportation and Urban Engineering
+ Interdisciplinary studies of city, transportation, environment and energy, and tourism (Zhang)
+ Planning methods for comfortable and environmentally-friendly transportation system (Fujiwara)
+ Travel behavior analysis, Transportation planning, Urban planning, Risk analysis (Chikaraishi)
Conservation of Ecosystem
+ Ecosystem management based on monitoring and modeling (Nakagoshi and Ishihara)
+ Forest resources management in tropical regions based on genetic analyses (Kondo)
+ Environmental impact assessment using amphibian as indicator species (Igawa)
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