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Landscape Ecology and Planning Lab
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A lab that protects and nurtures greenery in satoyama, cities, and drylands through ecology and planning.
AboutAbout the lab
Reading the relationship between people and nature behind the landscape.
The Landscape Ecology and Planning Lab studies methods for restoring, conserving, and creating green space environments (landscapes) where people and nature can coexist.
The lab approaches this from two sides: ecology, which explains environmental phenomena, and planning, which applies research findings to society.
Its study areas are the varied regions that surround people, including satoyama (rural landscapes of villages and adjacent woodlands), cities, and drylands.
Key terms
- Landscape
- The extent of land and the coherent scenery of a region, formed where nature and human activity overlap
- Semi-natural vegetation
- Vegetation such as grasslands and woodlands that is maintained through regular human intervention, such as mowing or grazing
- Ecosystem services
- The many benefits that ecosystems provide to people, such as food and water supply, carbon storage, and beautiful scenery
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In diverse regions surrounding people, such as satoyama, cities, and drylands, the lab comprehensively evaluates biodiversity, ecosystem services, and the ways land and resources are used. Based on this, it investigates technologies for restoring, conserving, and creating the natural environment, as well as the institutions needed to realize a society that lives in harmony with nature.
*Illustrative imageConserving and restoring semi-natural vegetation in rural areas
The lab studies how to protect and restore semi-natural vegetation in rural landscapes.
*Illustrative imageCreating green space in harsh urban environments
The lab studies methods for newly creating green space in highly stressful urban environments.
*Illustrative imagePreventing desertification and protecting nature's benefits
The lab studies how to prevent desertification and land degradation in drylands and how to use ecosystem services sustainably. In Mongolia, it conducts plant cultivation trials to restore degraded grasslands through revegetation.
*Illustrative imageEvaluating the distribution of ecosystem services
The lab spatially evaluates where in a region ecosystem services such as food production, water supply, and carbon storage are generated. One example is an assessment conducted on the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Landscape Ecology and Planning Lab consist of faculty, project researchers, administrative assistants, graduate students (including international students), and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorToshiya OkuroPublications ↗
- ProfessorHashimoto ShizukaPublications ↗
- Assistant ProfessorAkito KonoPublications ↗
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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: “Shiroyone Senmaida 200906” Totti / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Conserving and restoring semi-natural vegetation in rural areas: “Nagano Kirigamine xl” SHori / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Creating green space in harsh urban environments: “ACROS Fukuoka 2011” Kenta Mabuchi from Fukuoka, Japan / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Preventing desertification and protecting nature's benefits: “Overgrazing in Mongolia ( )” Oregon State University / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Evaluating the distribution of ecosystem services: “Noto Peninsula Ishikawa Japan SRTM” っ / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Urban and Landscape Planning Lab): “Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden and NTT DoCoMo Yoyogi Building, Tokyo, Japan” Basile Morin / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Conservation Ecology Lab): “Satoyama, utilize plant layer” Namazu-tron / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Institute for Sustainable Agro-ecosystem Services): “Midoricho, Nishitokyo, University of Tokyo Tanashi Campus 20250615” Mikagekawase / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Sugimoto Lab (Plant Metabolisms-Herbivore Interaction Laboratory)): “Badamia exclamationis caterpillar eating Terminalia catappa leaf. Dededo, Guam” Halenhardy / CC0 (cropped)
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