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Forest Economics and Policy Lab
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A lab that uses economics to measure and protect the hidden value of forests and national parks.
AboutAbout the lab
Showing the value of forests through economics.
The Forest Economics and Policy Lab studies problems of the natural environment centered on forests, including forestry, national park management, and biodiversity conservation.
Drawing on environmental economics, experimental economics, and other fields, it conducts broad research that covers both theory and empirical work.
Beyond research within Japan, it has also produced results through international research in collaboration with overseas universities.
For undergraduates, it is one of the labs that students are assigned to in the Department of Food and Environmental Economics; at the graduate level, it accepts students in the Division of Natural Resource Economics, Graduate School of Agriculture.
Key terms
- Environmental economics
- A field that analyzes environmental problems using economic thinking and considers good policies
- Biodiversity
- The presence of a wide variety of living things, with the connections among them maintained
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies problems of the natural environment centered on forests, such as forestry, national parks, and biodiversity, drawing on environmental economics, experimental economics, and other fields.
*Illustrative imagePutting a monetary value on forests
Forests play roles such as protecting water sources, preventing landslides, conserving biodiversity, and mitigating global warming, but these are not reflected in timber prices, so forests are undervalued. The lab estimates the environmental value of forests in monetary terms to show why conservation matters.
*Illustrative imageUse and conservation of national parks
A boom in mountain climbing has increased the number of visitors to mountain national parks, making it urgent to address ecological damage from overuse and to prevent mountain accidents. The lab collects data on visitor use patterns and analyzes the actual state of overuse and the risk of accidents.
*Illustrative imagePolicies to protect biodiversity
Protecting biodiversity is very costly. The lab studies the economic effects of introducing in Japan systems found overseas, such as payments for ecosystem services (PES), in which the people who benefit from ecosystems bear the costs of managing them.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Forest Economics and Policy Lab are faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates.
- ProfessorKoichi Kuriyama
- Associate ProfessorYohei Mitani
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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: “Forest in Okuchichibu Mountains 01” Σ64 / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Putting a monetary value on forests: “Aerial view of Angat Watershed Forest Reserve” Arnell Gilberto Bercero / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Use and conservation of national parks: “Hiking trails in Great Smoky Mountains National Park ( )” Mark Ordonez from Schaumburg, IL, USA / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Policies to protect biodiversity: “Biodiversity swamp Marselisborg Aarhus Denmark 13” Ciara Ní Riain / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Comparative Agrarian History Lab): “Farmers of forty centuries - Japanese family gathering and threshing barley” Unknown photographer / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Regional Environmental Economics Lab): “Terada-Pond-Kakogawa” Hasec / CC0 (cropped)
- Related lab (International Rural Development Lab): “Selling food in a village in Zambia (5)” Hanay / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Principles of Agricultural Science Lab): “Hida Folk Village - HidaFolkVillage6457” lumoplank / CC0 (cropped)
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