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Regional Environmental Economics Lab
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The lab explores how agriculture and rural areas can endure, through irrigation ponds, common forests, and the Green Revolution.
AboutAbout the lab
Sustainable rural development through harmony between the economy and the environment.
Among problems related to food, agriculture, and the environment, the lab studies the harmony between economic activity and the environment, and issues of theory and practice for the sustainable development of agriculture and rural areas.
Agriculture is strongly local in character, yet it is also heavily influenced by international rules and market competition.
The lab emphasizes empirical, data-based methods such as fieldwork, household interviews, large-scale official data, econometrics, and game experiments.
For undergraduates, the lab is one of the fields to which students are assigned in the Department of Food and Environmental Economics; for graduate students, it accepts students in the Division of Natural Resource Economics, Graduate School of Agriculture.
Key terms
- Local common resources
- Resources such as irrigation water, groundwater, and common forests that everyone in a community uses and protects together
- Green Revolution
- An agricultural transformation in which high-yielding varieties, fertilizer, and irrigation greatly increased grain yields in Asia and elsewhere
- Econometrics
- A discipline that uses statistical methods to verify causal relationships and other patterns from economic data
NewsLab news
Paper by Lecturer Tran published in World Development
Paper by a doctoral student published in The Developing Economies
Paper by a doctoral student published in Health Economics Review
A student received an Excellent Presentation Award at the Annual Meeting of the Regional Agricultural and Forestry Economics Society
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies the harmony between economic activity and the environment, and the sustainable development of agriculture and rural areas. Its three main topics are local common resources, the Green Revolution in Asia and Africa, and agricultural trade and farm protection policy.
*Illustrative imageProtecting Local Common Resources
Population aging, farm abandonment, and global warming are making it difficult to use local common resources such as irrigation, groundwater, and common forests sustainably. The lab considers the institutions and organizations that are needed, and also examines the functions and limits of village communities.
*Illustrative imageThe Green Revolution in Asia and Africa
The sustainability of the Green Revolution, which saved tropical Asia from a food crisis, is now in doubt. Through long-term evaluation, the lab studies what sustainable agriculture should look like, and seeks to clarify the possibilities and conditions for transferring Asia's experience to Africa.
*Illustrative imageAgricultural Trade and Farm Protection Policy
Tracking WTO agricultural negotiations and developments in FTAs and EPAs, the lab analyzes the possible effects that Asia's economic development and trade policy trends may have on Japanese agriculture and regional economies.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Regional Environmental Economics Lab consist of faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates.
- ProfessorKei Kajisa
- LecturerTRAN Anh Duc
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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.
- Top image: “Terada-Pond-Kakogawa” Hasec / CC0 (cropped)
- Protecting Local Common Resources: “Canal du Midi, Vias 2018 (05)” Christian Ferrer / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- The Green Revolution in Asia and Africa: “Rice farm - Burundi (1)” IRRI Images / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Agricultural Trade and Farm Protection Policy: “The second quay of Keelung Wharf and the export of rice” 作者不詳 / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Food and Environmental Policy Lab): “Rice terraces by ASAKAWA KOHJI” ASAKAWA KOHJI / CC0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Forest Economics and Policy Lab): “Forest in Okuchichibu Mountains 01” Σ64 / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Comparative Agrarian History Lab): “Farmers of forty centuries - Japanese family gathering and threshing barley” Unknown photographer / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Agricultural and Food Organization Management Lab): “The bakery of a Food Lion supermarket in Clyde, North Carolina” Harrison Keely / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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