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Green Space Environmental Systems Lab (Umeda)
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Reading changes in dairy and vegetable-farming regions through the lens of geography.
AboutAbout the lab
Reading regional change in agriculture through a spatial lens.
Associate Professor Umeda of the Green Space Environmental Systems Lab specializes in economic geography.
The associate professor analyzes the restructuring taking place in dairy and dairy processing industries and in vegetable horticulture from a spatial perspective.
In Tuscany, Italy, and in New Zealand, the lab studies how farms sustain their livelihoods by making use of organic farming and agritourism.
Associate Professor Umeda belongs to the Faculty of Education and has an office on the Nishi-Chiba Campus, and is in charge of teaching in the Landscape Science Course of the Graduate School of Horticulture.
Key terms
- Economic geography
- A field that examines where economic activities take place and why they take place in those locations, focusing on regions and space
- Organic farming
- Agriculture that grows crops without relying on chemically synthesized fertilizers or pesticides
- Agritourism (agriturismo)
- A form of rural tourism that spread in Italy, in which visitors stay at farms or experience farming
ResearchResearch themes
From the standpoint of economic geography, the lab studies changes in the regions where agriculture is practiced. Its subjects are dairy and dairy processing industries, vegetable horticulture, and how farms overseas sustain their livelihoods.
*Illustrative imageRestructuring of dairy, dairy processing, and vegetable horticulture
The lab analyzes the restructuring taking place in dairy and dairy processing industries and in vegetable horticulture from a spatial perspective, looking at where and how things are changing.
*Illustrative imageLivelihood strategies of farms overseas
In Tuscany, Italy, and in New Zealand, the lab studies the strategies farms use to sustain their livelihoods, such as making use of organic farming and agritourism.
MembersFaculty
- Associate ProfessorKatsuki Umeda
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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: “Dairy cattle on Mount Mee farm- )” Sheba_Also 43,000 photos / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Restructuring of dairy, dairy processing, and vegetable horticulture: “Dairy cows grazing with visible graze line” Halter / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Livelihood strategies of farms overseas: “Women smallholder farmers in Kenya” McKay Savage from London, UK / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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