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Kato Lab (Regional Strategy Lab)
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The lab studies cities, transportation, and the environment with sustainability and quality of life as its core themes.
AboutAbout the lab
Toward regions that people can keep living in and that are resilient to disasters.
The Kato Lab (Regional Strategy Lab) conducts research on land use, cities, transportation, and the environment, with 'sustainability' and 'quality of life' as keywords.
The lab applies the concept of life cycle assessment to social systems that place a heavy burden on the environment, such as travel behavior, car ownership, and logistics, and explores what an 'environmentally friendly activity' really is.
The lab places great importance on fieldwork on site, and also works on maintaining local public transportation and developing evaluation methods that help in shaping urban strategies.
To act as a bridge between the university and society, the lab is developing and putting into practice clinical environmental studies.
Key terms
- Life cycle assessment
- A method of evaluating the environmental burden of a product or system throughout its entire life, from production and use to disposal. Also called LCA
- Fieldwork
- A research method in which researchers visit the site being studied and investigate through observation and interviews
- Clinical environmental studies
- A field of study in which, much as a doctor examines a patient, researchers go into local communities, diagnose environmental problems, and look for solutions
NewsLab news
Lab members received the Excellent Presenter Award from the Chubu Branch of the Japan Society of Civil Engineers
Lab members received the Outstanding Presentation Award at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Civil Engineers
A doctoral student received the Excellent Poster Award at the 69th Conference on Infrastructure Planning and Management
ResearchResearch themes
The lab conducts research on land use, cities, transportation, and the environment, with 'sustainability' and 'quality of life' as keywords. Its work covers life cycle assessment of transportation, environmental evaluation of public transportation systems and finances, the relationship between motorization and urban growth, and measures for maintaining local public transportation.
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The members of the Kato Lab are faculty members, researchers, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, and research students.
- ProfessorHirokazu Kato
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