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Resource and Environmental Economics Lab (Shinichi Kurihara)
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The lab studies regional planning, policy evaluation, and food safety.

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Research on regional planning and policy evaluation
Prof. Kurihara, of the field of Resource and Environmental Economics, specializes in regional planning and policy evaluation.
The lab also studies food safety, social security systems, and the role communities play in their regions.
In the faculty's staff directory, Prof. Kurihara lists reputational damage from rumors, river basin flood management, and consumer behavior as research keywords.
In classes, Prof. Kurihara teaches econometrics, which is built on statistics, and marketing research (market research).
Key terms
- Policy evaluation
- Examining whether policies of the national or local government have achieved their intended effects, and making a judgment on that basis
- Econometrics
- A field that uses statistical methods to measure relationships between things quantitatively from economic data
- Reputational damage from rumors (fuhyo higai)
- Losses, such as products or production areas no longer selling, caused by groundless rumors or mistaken perceptions
ResearchResearch themes
The lab specializes in regional planning and policy evaluation, and also conducts research related to food safety and social security systems. It takes part in international joint research with faculty at a university in the United States, as well as in research projects with Chiba Prefecture and agriculture-related organizations.
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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: “Dariush Borbor (Architect and Urban Planner), Regional Plan Abadan-Khoramshhr, 1967” Dariushborbor / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Regional Planning and Policy Evaluation: “Shanghai Urban Planning Museum city model 4” Tim Sheerman-Chase / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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- Related lab (Resource and Environmental Economics Lab (Atsushi Maruyama)): “Farm landscape near Rajshahi” Muntashir Al-Islam / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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