Natural Resource Management from a Political Ecological Perspective

The natural resources of tropical countries are in conflict with governments who want to manage them, corporations who want to exploit them, aid agencies and NGOs who want to conserve them, and so on.

Efforts to eliminate illegal logging

In response to the spread of illegal logging in developing countries, developed countries such as Europe, the United States, and Australia have introduced regulatory measures, increasing the risk of illegal timber flowing into Japan...

How to conserve forests in the face of global warming issues

During the negotiation process of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the REDD+ (Reducing Degradation and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Developing Countries) initiative was announced.

Research on eating insects

Eating insects is widespread in Southeast Asia, but Laos in particular has the highest percentage of the population in the world who regularly consumes insects.

Sustainable agriculture and forestry to reduce health hazards caused by haze

In the Southeast Asian countries of Laos, Thailand and Myanmar, haze is causing an increase in health problems such as respiratory illnesses...

Ongoing research funded by external sources

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Academic Transformative Research (A) "Creating Water Symbiosis Studies by Dynamically Elucidating Water Circulation Systems as a Place of Fluctuations"...