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Law, Ecology & Energy Lab
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The lab interprets climate change and biodiversity policies through law and institutions.
AboutAbout the lab
Approaching environmental problems as a matter of social design.
Law, Ecology & Energy Lab specializes in environmental law, environmental policy, administrative law, and public policy, and studies environmental problems from the standpoint of how society can actually put solutions into practice.
The lab examines policies on climate change, energy, and biodiversity by comparing the efforts of national and local governments with systems in other countries.
The department's lab introduction says the lab suits people who are interested in how society itself works, regardless of whether they come from the humanities or the sciences.
Key terms
- Policy design
- Designing the mechanisms by which a society carries things out, such as deciding on methods of power generation, building systems to protect nature, or planning how to change a region
- Property rights respect clause
- A provision in laws protecting the environment or cultural properties that requires respect for the property rights of landowners and others. Such clauses were incorporated into laws such as the Cultural Properties Protection Act and the Natural Parks Act after World War II
- Environmental law
- Laws and systems for protecting the environment, such as those for conserving the natural environment and preventing pollution
ResearchResearch themes
The lab's approach is not merely to worry about environmental problems but to think about them as a matter of social design. From the perspectives of law and policy, it studies policy design, such as how to decide on methods of power generation and how to build systems that protect nature.
*Illustrative imagePolicies on climate change, energy, and biodiversity
Taking climate change response, the energy transition, and biodiversity conservation as themes, the lab examines how social systems are designed and why some policies succeed while others do not. It interprets national strategies and local government initiatives, comparing them with systems in other countries.
*Illustrative imageProperty rights respect clauses in environmental law
The lab studied how the property rights respect clauses in Japanese environmental law came to be adopted and how they have worked in actual policy practice. Through comparison with Australian biodiversity law and other cases, it made proposals toward designing flexible nature conservation law and policy that does not rely on regulation alone.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorHiroki Oikawa
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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: “Landscape with wind turbines - geograph.org.uk - 4916861” Bill Harrison / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Policies on climate change, energy, and biodiversity: “Renewable generators - wind turbine - solar panel icon” Tommaso.sansone91 / CC0 (cropped)
- Property rights respect clauses in environmental law: “Property Law - Gavel and Block and House Keys” advokatsmart.no / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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