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Resource and Environmental Economics Lab (Yuanyuan Teng)
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The lab studies how human mobility and regional change affect each other, in China and Japan.
AboutAbout the lab
Human mobility and regional change
Lecturer Teng, in the field of Resource and Environmental Economics, specializes in regional economics, human geography, and Chinese regional studies.
Lecturer Teng is interested in how human mobility and regional change influence each other, and conducts fieldwork mainly in China and Japan.
The lab analyzes the resettlement of "land-expropriated farmers" in China, who lost their land and housing to urban development, and the relationship between foreign residents in Japan and their local communities.
Key terms
- Human geography
- A branch of geography that examines how people's lives, economies, and cultures differ from place to place and region to region
- Land-expropriated farmers (shitchi nomin)
- Chinese farmers who have lost the land they farmed or the homes they lived in because of urban development and similar projects
- Multicultural coexistence (tabunka kyosei)
- People of different nationalities and cultures living together in a community while recognizing and respecting one another's differences
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies how human mobility and regional change influence each other, with China and Japan as its main fields. Both lines of research rely on empirical analysis.
*Illustrative imageResettlement of land-expropriated farmers in China
The lab empirically analyzes how "land-expropriated farmers" in China, who lost their land and housing to urban development, settle into new homes (the resettlement process).
*Illustrative imageForeign residents and communities in Japan
The lab analyzes how the social and physical environments of areas where foreign residents live relate to their health and well-being, their sense of settlement, and disaster preparedness, as well as to their integration into Japanese society and multicultural coexistence.
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- LecturerYuanyuan Teng
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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: “Wall relief at Shanghai Urban Planning Center” Daniel Case / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Resettlement of land-expropriated farmers in China: “201612 Tangxi Resettlement Housing, Intersection of Tangxi South Ring and North Ring” MNXANL / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Foreign residents and communities in Japan: “Oizumi Multicultural Community Center” Abasaa / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Resource and Environmental Economics Lab (Shinichi Kurihara)): “Dariush Borbor (Architect and Urban Planner), Regional Plan Abadan-Khoramshhr, 1967” Dariushborbor / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Food System Science Lab (Erika Mukuta)): “Otago Farmers Market stalls in main carpark 13 Dec 2025” DrThneed / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Food System Studies Lab (Seiichi Sakurai)): “Produce at the USDA Farmers Market ( )” USDAgov / Public domain (cropped)
- 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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