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Regional Resource Planning Lab
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The lab analyzes issues in agriculture and rural areas through the interdisciplinary integration of humanities and sciences.
AboutAbout the lab
Tackling issues in agriculture and rural areas through interdisciplinary integration of humanities and sciences.
The Regional Resource Planning Lab takes the field sites of agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and rural areas in Japan and abroad as its subjects, comprehensively analyzes the issues they face, and examines ways to overcome them.
Drawing on knowledge from the social sciences and natural sciences, the lab conducts education and research aimed at building new social systems.
On the lab's page, it is introduced as the Field Socio-Technology Division.
Key terms
- Socio-technology
- A research field that integrates knowledge from multiple areas of the natural sciences and the humanities and social sciences to build new social systems
- Remote sensing
- A technology for measuring conditions on the Earth's surface from a distance, using satellites and other platforms
- GIS
- Geographic information system. A system for analyzing various kinds of information layered onto locations on a map
ResearchResearch themes
The lab comprehensively analyzes issues at agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and rural field sites in Japan and abroad using knowledge from the social and natural sciences, and examines ways to overcome them. It aims to build regional social systems that balance the environment and the economy.
*Illustrative imageFarm management and organizational management
The lab studies farm management and the management and development strategies of related organizations.
*Illustrative imageEconomic evaluation and dissemination of agricultural technologies
The lab studies how to evaluate the economic performance of agricultural technologies and how to spread those technologies.
*Illustrative imageTechnologies using remote sensing and GIS
To understand composite ecological fields, the lab develops technologies that use remote sensing and GIS.
*Illustrative imageUsing satellite data to study abandoned farmland
Using satellite data, the lab works on detecting abandoned farmland and measuring the planted area of paddy fields.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorTsuyosi Sumita
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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: “Kashanak village, North Khorasan, Iran - landscape” RZZ Archive / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Farm management and organizational management: “Ministry of Agriculture Farm Management Conference at Glynllifon (1506581)” Geoff Charles / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Economic evaluation and dissemination of agricultural technologies: “Agricultural machinery - geograph.org.uk - 393074” Will Lovell / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Technologies using remote sensing and GIS: “Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS) - GPN” NASA / Public domain (cropped)
- Using satellite data to study abandoned farmland: “NASA-ISRO Radar Satellite Captures First Image of North Dakota Wetlands, Farmlands (PIA26615)” JPL / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Agricultural Management Lab): “(Landscape of rice fields and agricultural terracing in Japan) - DPLA - efedd36882e2f87dd5086186b61df091” Carlquist, Sherwin John / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Cultivated Plant Environmental Science Lab): “Tortuous dirt road in wet paddy fields and green hills in Vang Vieng, Laos” Basile Morin / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Crop Science Lab): “Wheat field - geograph.org.uk - 216367” Richard Webb / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Environmental Economics Lab): “Alamar Organic Farm beds” SamHolt6 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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