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Forest Watershed and Social Environment Lab
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The lab takes a comprehensive, watershed-based approach to exploring the relationships among forests, water, and people.
AboutAbout the lab
Approaching the relationship between forests and people from every angle
The Forest Watershed and Social Environment Lab studies the relationship between the natural environment, including forests and watersheds, and human society.
The lab investigates ways to manage forest and water resources sustainably and examines how watershed environments affect local communities, then proposes solutions that incorporate social and economic perspectives.
It uses methods from both the natural sciences and the humanities and social sciences, including field surveys, modeling, and technology development.
The University of Tokyo Forests serve as the fields for research and education.
Key terms
- Watershed
- The area of land where rain that falls gathers into a single river. It treats everything from the forests in the mountains to the towns downstream as one unit.
- Animal-Computer Interaction
- A field that studies and designs systems that connect people and animals through sensors and computers.
- LiDAR
- A technology that shines laser light and measures its reflection to capture the three-dimensional shape of forest trees and other features.
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The lab conducts comprehensive, interdisciplinary research on the relationship between the natural environment, including forests and watersheds, and human society. Through field surveys, modeling, and technology development, it aims to provide knowledge useful for ecosystem management, policymaking, and community activities.
*Illustrative imageWatershed Flood Management and Forest Management
Centered on watershed-based flood management, which prepares for flood damage across an entire watershed, the lab considers how forest management systems should work. It also evaluates public forestry works projects that take the characteristics of each watershed into account, and works on institutional design.
*Illustrative imageAnimal-Computer Interaction
As research in animal-computer interaction, the lab uses sensors attached to animals and sensors placed in nature to design systems that connect people and animals at a comfortable distance.
*Illustrative imageForest Management Using Digital Technology
The lab studies data-driven forest management using ICT and AI. Using geospatial technologies such as GNSS, LiDAR, and drones, it works to make the management of forest information less labor-intensive and more accurate.
*Illustrative imageToward Self-Sustaining Forest Management
To make forest management self-sustaining, the lab conducts research to understand and analyze its actual conditions.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorKoichiro KurajiPublications ↗
- ProfessorHiroki KobayashiPublications ↗
- ProfessorToshiaki OwariPublications ↗
- Associate ProfessorNaoki YasumuraPublications ↗
- Project Associate ProfessorYuka TokunagaPublications ↗
- LecturerYuko AsanoPublications ↗
- LecturerNobuaki TanakaPublications ↗
- LecturerHaruo SaitoPublications ↗
- Assistant ProfessorAkio FujiwaraPublications ↗
- Assistant ProfessorNaoko MiuraPublications ↗
- Assistant ProfessorSongqiu DengPublications ↗
- Project Assistant ProfessorMasahiro Aiba
- Project Assistant ProfessorMoein FarahnakPublications ↗
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Report an errorAbout the images
The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Tanzawa's Sugi forest ( )” Raita Futo / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Watershed Flood Management and Forest Management: “Sugi plantation along the Yoneshiro River, Akita Pref, Japan” 掬茶 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Animal-Computer Interaction: “Mountain Goat with GPS collar ( )” GlacierNPS / Public domain (cropped)
- Forest Management Using Digital Technology: “20240501-FS-RB-Ketchikan-Road- )” Forest Service Alaska Region, USDA / Public domain (cropped)
- Toward Self-Sustaining Forest Management: “Continuous Cover Forestry in the Lake District, Cumbria, England” WikiForester / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Suzuki Lab): “Hokkaido Sika Deer” NotAnonymous / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Terrestrial Conservation Biology Lab (Nara Lab)): “Rhizopogon re soil” Retama / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Forest Biological Function and Ecology Lab): “Okuchichibu-Forest 01” Σ64 / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Forest Symbiosis Biology Lab): “D500-1070 Achim-Lammerts Laccaria-amethystina” Achim Lammerts (Syntaxys) / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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