Study on Earth Environmental Engineering including Water Resources

In order to build a sustainable society by overcoming natural hazards and responding flexibly to global issues such as climate change, deforestation, and water shortage, we have made estimates and predictions of impacts by large-scale numerical simulation using integration and data mining of earth observation and its resultant information. We have assessed how we can effectively and efficiently resolve such global issues, and will utilize such assessment to support the development of countermeasures as risk management. We have launched an international project for advancing the co-designing of integrated strategies, with adaptation to climate change in Thailand. We have also promoted the research on future estimation and prediction of impacts and have integrated good practices that are lacking in developing countries. Our estimation results of vegetation variabilities and land use are already used widely. On the other hand, we are leading the world in the development of global hydrologic water resources model in light of human activities and its application. Thus, we aim to contribute to the world through “the science and technology diplomacy”.

- Dr. Thanya Kiatiwat (Kasetsart University)
- Dr. Tomohito Yamada (Hokkaido University)
- Dr. So Kazama (Tohoku University)
- Dr. Keiko Udo (Tohoku University)
- Dr. Koki Homma (Tohoku University)
- Dr. Koshi Yoshida (Ibaraki University)
- Dr. Naota Hanasaki (National Institute for Environmental Studies)
- Dr. Kazuo Oki (The University of Tokyo)
- Dr. Koichiro Kuraji (The University of Tokyo)
- Dr. Eiji Ikoma (The University of Tokyo)
- Dr. Shinjiro Kanae (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
- Dr. Taichi Tebakari (Toyama Prefectural University)
- Dr. Hiroaki Shirakawa (Nagoya University)
- Dr. Shinichiro Nakamura (Nagoya University)
- Dr. Kenji Tanaka (Kyoto University)
- Dr. Shinta Seto (Nagasaki University)
- Dr. Masayasu Maki (Tohoku Technology University)
- Dr. Keigo Noda (Gifu University)

- Mateo, C.M., N. Hanasaki, D. Komori, K. Tanaka, M. Kiguchi, A. Champathong, T. Sukhapunnaphan, D. Yamazaki, and T. Oki, Assessing the impacts of reservoir operation to floodplain inundation by combining hydrological, reservoir management, and hydrodynamic models, Water Resources Research, 50(9), 7245-7266, doi:10.1002/2013WR014845, 2014.
Igarashi, K., Prediction of the impact of climate change and land use change on flood discharge, Master thesis, the University of Tokyo, 2018.