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Forest Policy Lab
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A lab exploring the relationship between people and forests and mountains through forest policy studies.
AboutAbout the lab
Exploring the relationship between people and forests and mountains
The Forest Policy Lab studies the relationship between people and forests and mountains from the perspective of institutions and policy.
Forestland is used in many ways, including timber production, tourism and recreation, and as a site of religious belief.
Forest policy studies is the field that seeks to understand this relationship between people and forests and mountains.
The lab draws on political science, economics, law, sociology, and folklore studies, and also uses questionnaire surveys, interviews, and fieldwork.
Key terms
- Forest policy studies
- A field that examines the relationship between people and forests and mountains using political science, economics, law, and other disciplines
- Ecosystem services
- The various functions of nature, such as forests, that support people's lives
- Forest environmental history
- A field that traces, through historical records, how people in the past used and managed forests
ResearchResearch themes
The lab approaches the relationship between people and forests and mountains through methods from political science, economics, and law, together with fieldwork. Its research covers forest land policy, environmental law, the revitalization of mountain villages and remote islands, the supply and demand of timber markets and wood-based energy, mountain village culture, and forest environmental history.
*Illustrative imageComparing the history of forest land policy
This research compares the history of forest land policy in Japan, the United States, and Europe, and how forestry science developed in each.
*Illustrative imagePromoting mountain villages
From the perspective of the SDGs, the lab considers how to promote mountain villages within Japan. Revitalizing mountain village and remote island communities is another key theme of the research.
*Illustrative imageEvaluating ecosystem services
This research evaluates the benefits that nature, such as forests, provides to people, from the standpoint of environmental economics. It takes two approaches: value converted into monetary terms, and assessment in terms of physical quantity.
*Illustrative imageWorld Heritage and hunting systems
The lab investigates how World Heritage designation and hunting systems appear from the viewpoint of the local residents who live there. The culture of mountain villages, including hunting, recreation, and education, is also an object of study.
MembersFaculty
The Forest Policy Lab consists of faculty members, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, special research students, and staff.As of 2026
- ProfessorHiromichi FuruidoPublications ↗
- Associate ProfessorShigemitsu ShibasakiPublications ↗
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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: “Hanazawa no Sato, view of a mountain village settlement” Azabujulie / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Comparing the history of forest land policy: “230624 Kiso Forest Railway at Fujisaki Park” Kasakasa719 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Promoting mountain villages: “Aoni” 大友ディミトリ / Public domain (cropped)
- Evaluating ecosystem services: “Daketai Spring”
特定非営利 活動法人 あきた 観光誘客促進支援機構 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped) - World Heritage and hunting systems: “400 years old beech (400-year-old beech) - panoramio” Ocavis Leechroot / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Forest Management Lab): “Aerial view of a forest 1 (Unsplash)” Maria Mekht / CC0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Forest Landscape Planning Lab): “Kamikōchi, Hida Mountains range, Nagano Prefecture; September 2007 (03)” skyseeker / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Forest Biogeoscience Lab): “Borndipt” T. R. Shankar Raman / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Forest Utilization Lab): “Timberjack Harvester - geograph.org.uk - 904916” Will Anderson / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
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