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Resource and Environmental Economics Lab (Atsushi Maruyama)
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The lab evaluates the environment and food safety using the tools of economics.
AboutAbout the lab
Measuring the environment and food safety through economics
Prof. Maruyama of the Resource and Environmental Economics Lab specializes in agricultural economics and applied econometrics.
The lab works on research that evaluates the environment and food safety using economic methods, as well as research on how people perceive danger (risk perception).
The lab also conducts empirical research on consumer and producer behavior, economic efficiency, and agriculture in developing countries.
In classes, Prof. Maruyama teaches courses such as information processing and environmental and resource economics at the undergraduate level, and evaluation of bioresources and the environment at the graduate level.
Key terms
- Applied econometrics
- A branch of economics that uses statistical methods to examine relationships between things in real-world economic data
- Risk perception
- How dangerous people feel something is, such as hazards related to food or the environment
- Empirical research
- Research that tests whether an idea is correct, based on data collected through surveys and other means
ResearchResearch themes
Building on agricultural economics and applied econometrics, the lab studies evaluation related to the environment and food safety, as well as people's judgments and behavior. Its research covers not only Japan but also agriculture in developing countries.
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- ProfessorAtsushi Maruyama
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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: “Farm landscape near Rajshahi” Muntashir Al-Islam / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Economic Evaluation of the Environment and Food Safety: “2442Grasslands, trees, paddy vegetable fields 33” Judgefloro / CC0 (cropped)
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- Related lab (Resource and Environmental Economics Lab (Kosuke Kato)): “Field-agriculture-farm-grass ( )” www.Pixel.la Free Stock Photos / CC0 (cropped)
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