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Global Circulation and Symbiosis Engineering Lab
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A lab that uses engineering to explore the sustainable use of ecosystem services.
AboutAbout the lab
Designing ways to use the benefits of ecosystems sustainably.
The Global Circulation and Symbiosis Engineering Lab studies engineering technologies for using the benefits that ecosystems provide to human society (ecosystem services) sustainably and for protecting biodiversity.
Among the SDGs, the lab focuses on the goals related to energy, climate change, and terrestrial and marine ecosystems, and conducts its research with a strong awareness of the interlinkages (Nexus) among these goals.
As tools, it uses mathematical models that represent climate, ecological, and social systems, along with artificial intelligence and data science techniques such as machine learning.
Key terms
- SDGs
- Abbreviation for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
- Ecosystem services
- Benefits that ecosystems provide to human society, such as resources, environmental regulation functions, and cultural benefits.
- Service linkage model
- A model that integrates the processes of natural ecosystems and social ecosystems to analyze the demand and supply of ecosystem services.
ResearchResearch themes
This lab conducts research in four areas: the sustainable use of ecosystem services, carbon management for climate change mitigation and adaptation, technologies for biodiversity conservation, and the design of systems that coexist with nature. Using mathematical models and machine learning, it aims to design natural and social ecosystems as a whole in an optimal way.
*Illustrative imageEcosystem Services Linking Nature and Society
The lab analyzes benefits that ecosystems provide to human society, such as resources and environmental regulation functions, in terms of demand and supply. It has developed a service linkage model that integrates natural and social processes, and has used it to show the balance between the supply of wood resources and water resources in Liaoning Province, China.
*Illustrative imageMultiple Benefits of the Biomass Industry
The lab evaluates the benefits expected from biomass industries that use rural natural capital, namely environmental improvement and the social and economic development of rural areas. As a case study, it examines a project in Henan Province, China, that cultivates eucommia (Eucommia ulmoides), a local specialty, to produce health foods, natural rubber, and biodiesel fuel (BDF).
*Illustrative imageRelationship Between Industrial Activities and Ecosystem Services
Industrial systems depend on ecosystem services, and the environmental load that industrial activities cause acts back on those activities. The lab analyzes the mechanisms of ecosystems and industry, and works on designing sustainable interfaces that integrate the two as a symbiotic system.
*Illustrative imagePopulation Change and the Evaluation of Forest Management
Forest zoning and appropriate forest management are important for maintaining the public benefits that forests provide. The lab has developed a framework that uses demographic scenarios to predict and evaluate changes in ecosystem services resulting from forest management.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Global Circulation and Symbiosis Engineering Lab are faculty, project-appointed faculty, secretaries, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, and research students.As of 2024
- Associate ProfessorTakashi Machimura
- Assistant ProfessorTakanori Matsui
- Project Assistant ProfessorTomohiro Haga
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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: “Global carbon stocks” Zac Kayler, Maria Janowiak, Chris Swanston / Public domain (cropped)
- Ecosystem Services Linking Nature and Society: “Satoyama landscape near Hida, Gifu” Seth Vidal / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Multiple Benefits of the Biomass Industry: “Sandakan Sabah Seguntor-Bioenergy-Biomass-Power-Plant-01” CEphoto, Uwe Aranas / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Relationship Between Industrial Activities and Ecosystem Services: “Dülmen, Hausdülmen, Kettbach” Dietmar Rabich / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Population Change and the Evaluation of Forest Management: “Conservationists learn how to inventory a forest” NRCS Oregon / Public domain (cropped)
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