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Hiratsuka Lab
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The lab considers how people and forests should coexist, from tropical forests to satoyama.
AboutAbout the lab
Thinking about how people and forests coexist, starting from the field
The Hiratsuka Lab studies forest environmental science, which examines the relationship between forests and people.
It covers both tropical forests in countries such as Laos and Myanmar, and satoyama and planted forests in Japan.
The lab considers how to halt forest loss and how to make use of forest benefits in local livelihoods.
Research is conducted on site through fieldwork, and lab seminar retreats also take members to forests and villages in various regions.
Key terms
- Non-timber forest products
- Products obtained from forests other than timber, such as mushrooms, bamboo, resin, and medicinal herbs
- Woody biomass
- Wood resources that can be used as fuel or energy, such as thinned wood and wood waste
- Satoyama
- Woodlands and farmland around a settlement that have been used while being maintained by people
NewsLab news
Information session held for placement into specialized lab seminars for academic year 2027
Paper on citizen-participation environmental conservation activities published in Human Sciences Research
Paper on frog communities in yatsuda published in Community Ecology
Paper on the use of woody biomass published in the Journal of the Japanese Forest Society
Wisdom for Making Use of the Forest's Benefits, a compilation on non-timber forest products of tropical forests, published
ResearchResearch themes
Based on field surveys, the lab studies how to curb the loss of tropical forests and how to use forest resources in local livelihoods. It covers both overseas forests and Japan's satoyama and planted forests.
*Illustrative imageTropical Deforestation and Conservation
The lab regularly visits farming villages in northern Laos and Myanmar to study how forests are lost through the expansion of shifting cultivation and farmland, and how efforts to curb this should be designed.
*Illustrative imageForest Benefits and Local Livelihoods
The lab studies how non-timber forest products, which are obtained from forests apart from wood, support the incomes and livelihoods of local people, and considers ways to use forests while preserving them.
*Illustrative imageUse of Woody Biomass
On the use of woody biomass, the lab collects the experience accumulated across regions under the feed-in tariff scheme for renewable energy, and examines how to proceed from here.
*Illustrative imageWaterside Habitats and Wildlife in Satoyama
The lab regularly surveys waterside habitats remaining in satoyama, such as yatsuda (valley-bottom paddies) and agricultural irrigation ponds, and clarifies what kinds of environments support animals such as frogs.
MembersFaculty
Members of the Hiratsuka Lab consist of faculty, doctoral and master's students, undergraduates, and e-School lab seminar students.As of 2026
- ProfessorMotoshi Hiratsuka
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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: “CSIRO ScienceImage 3830 Tropical rainforest canopy near Cairns QLD” Willem van Aken, CSIRO / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Tropical Deforestation and Conservation: “Jhum fire” Rohit Naniwadekar / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Forest Benefits and Local Livelihoods: “Edible fungi in basket 2009 G1 (cropped)” George Chernilevsky / Public domain (cropped)
- Use of Woody Biomass: “Heaps of chipped woody biomass in Namibia” GIZ Bush Control and Biomass Utilisation Project / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Waterside Habitats and Wildlife in Satoyama: “Tree frog2” 池田正樹 / Public domain (cropped)
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