Division of Environmental Resources
This division consists of 5 chairs: Ecology and systematics, Regional environment, Science of forest resources, Integrated forest-landscape management, and Bio-production engineering. Each chair has several education and research fields. The major educational themes of the chairs are as follows:
- Elucidating biodiversity of bio-resources and its utilization and management;
- Monitoring of regional environmental resources including microclimate, soil processes, and hydrology and their management and control;
- Elucidating physiology and ecology of forest bio-resources and their sustainable use and management;
- Development of technology and policy for management, conservation, restoration, and multiple-use of forests and landscape, and mitigation of natural disaster linking with earth surface processes;and
- Construction of environmental friendly system of bio-production and material cycling.
To foster successors contributing to sustainable development is aimed at through these educations and researches.
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Division of Environmental Resources is comprised of following 5 chairs.
Chairs
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Chair of Ecology and Systematics
The purpose of the education and research in our chair is to understand biodiversity through researches in ecology, systematics, evolutionary biology, population genetics, ethology and biogeography. This chair also covers education and research in conservation biology in natural and artificial environments.Faculties in Charge
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Chair of Regional Environment
Education and research fields of this chair are environment of land and water resources, agricultural and environmental physics, soil conservation, soil science, and eco-informatics. Each education and research fields focuses its activities on sustainable development of regional societies with maintaining good quality of environment through conducting following 5 major themes:
1) Conservation and management of land and water in rural areas,
2) Monitoring of local and micro meteorology, estimation and utilization of agroclimatic resources,
3) Monitoring and understanding of water, gas and solute in soils for production and environmental conservation,
4) Monitoring of materials flow and cycling associated with agricultural activities and food consumption, and
5) Field-sensing and assessment of environment and ecosystems.Faculties in Charge
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Chair of Science of Forest Resources
Our current research activities are; adaptation to environmental factors and stress physiology of boreal forest, the natural regeneration and silvicultural characteristics of important trees in mixed forests, biosynthesis and biodegradation of wood components, Utilization of wood components by chemical conversion, biological characteristics of forest plants, genetic control of fungi breeding, phylogenetic systematics of woody plants and fungi, formation, ultrastructure and function of woody plants, adaptational mechanisms of woody plant cells to low temperature and freezing, woody quality and identification, mechanical properties of wood and wood-based materials, mechanical performance of wooden structures, jointing of lumber.Faculties in Charge
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Chair of Integrated Forest-Landscape Management
Our final goal is to elucidate the forestlandscape functions as major environmental resources of terrestrial biosphere with integration of natural and social scientific base. The proficiency in restoration of human and natural disturbances, multi-purpose management and landscape planning, biological conservation and watershed management, natural disaster and restoring desertification, as well as forest policy and environmental economics is educated.Faculties in Charge
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Chair of Bioproduction Engineering
The Bioproduction Engineering deals with very wide range of technological topics to establish sustainable production and utilization systems of food and bioresource. For this purpose, intensive research and educational activities are promoted on technologies for food production, processing of agricultural and food products, and utilization of organic wastes. The curriculums provide the students with specific information on the phenomena analyses and developments of novel technologies for important issues of environment, energy, human labor, food safety, sustainable food supply, and material cycling systems.Faculties in Charge