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Amasawa Lab
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The lab uses life cycle thinking to find ways for society to live well with fewer resources.
AboutAbout the lab
Living well with fewer resources.
The Amasawa Lab studies, based on life cycle thinking, how society can live well with fewer resources.
Current patterns of consumption and production are not sustainable, and they are causing global environmental crises and socioeconomic inequality between people.
The lab works on both the design of social systems and their quantitative evaluation.
It aims to support decision-making toward a sustainable future.
Key terms
- Life cycle thinking
- A way of thinking that considers the impact of a product or service by looking at everything from raw material extraction through manufacturing and use to disposal as one continuous chain
- Life cycle assessment
- A method for quantitatively estimating the environmental burden a product or service causes over its entire lifetime. Also called LCA
- Circular business model
- A business model that keeps resources in circulation by renting, sharing, and reusing, rather than making, using, and throwing away
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Current patterns of consumption and production are not sustainable, and they lead to global environmental crises and socioeconomic inequality. The lab works on designing social systems based on life cycle thinking and evaluating them quantitatively, with the aim of supporting decision-making toward a sustainable future.
*Illustrative imageEnvironmental impact assessment of new technologies
Will new technologies really reduce future environmental burdens as promised? The lab conducts forward-looking assessments of technologies such as bio-based and marine-biodegradable plastics and the electrochemical conversion of carbon dioxide into ethylene.
*Illustrative imageSustainable consumption and production
The lab explores forms of consumption and production that have a small environmental burden while still ensuring a good quality of life. Using a clothing rental platform as a case, it studies circular business models based on reusing, renting, and sharing, as well as consumer behavior.
*Illustrative imageDeveloping sustainability assessment methods
How can the sustainability of technologies, products, and services be measured and evaluated quantitatively in the first place? The lab develops assessment methods themselves, combining multiple approaches such as cost-benefit analysis and social LCA.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Amasawa Lab are faculty, research assistants, and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- Associate ProfessorEri Amasawa
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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: “Traditional Japanese wrapping cloth,huroshiki,katori-city,japan” katorisi / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Environmental impact assessment of new technologies: “BiodegradablePlasticUtensils1” Scott Bauer / Public domain (cropped)
- Sustainable consumption and production: “Fabric patterns of vintage clothing in second-hand shop” MAKY.OREL / CC0 (cropped)
- Developing sustainability assessment methods: “Modern collapsible balance scale for jewellers 1” W.carter / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Hayashi Lab): “Electric transmission power tower” Foto3821 / CC0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Wasa Lab): “Kilobot robot swarm” asuscreative / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Kikusato Lab): “City Lights of Asia and Middle East 2016” NASA Earth Observatory / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Takamatsu Lab): “Dictyostelium Late Aggregation 1” Bruno in Columbus / Public domain (cropped)
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