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Graduate School of Global Environmental

Huang Guangwei / 黄 光偉 Huang Guangwei

Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Master's (Doctoral) Program in Global Environmental Studies Professor
Research Interests
Specialized in watershed environmental science and sustainability studies. Sustainability has three pillars: the environment, economy, and society, and water is a nexus connecting the three pillars. Better water quantity and quality management is an indispensable key for achieving SDGs. Following this way of thinking, I have been conducting sustainability studies through the lens of water and using knowledge fusion approaches.
Research undertakings include wetland health monitoring, assessment and prediction; urban flood risk analysis and reduction; innovative water resources management and water culture as well.
My motto is that environmental problems cannot be truly solved without crossing various boundaries from academic, business to national. The journey towards SDFs requires a shift from interdisciplinary to transdisciplinary.
  • PARTNERSHIPS FOR THE GOALS
  • GOOD HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
  • QUALITY EDUCATION
  • CLEAN WATER AND SANITATION
  • SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES
  • LIFE BELOW WATER
Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Master's (Doctoral) Program in Global Environmental Studies Professor

Tsuge Takahiro / 柘植 隆宏 Tsuge Takahiro

Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Master's (Doctoral) Program in Global Environmental Studies Professor
Research Interests
My research field is environmental economics which employs economics analysis techniques to consider the causes of environmental problems and to explore effective countermeasures.
Especially, I have been working on the economic valuation of the environment. Economic valuation of the environment enables the estimation of the benefits of environmental protection and the costs of environmental destruction, therefore economic analysis such as cost-benefit analysis of environmental policies becomes possible.
Since solving environmental problems requires knowledge in various fields, I participate in interdisciplinary research projects composed of researchers from various fields and conduct joint research.
  • LIFE BELOW WATER
  • LIFE ON LAND
  • AFFORDABLE AND CLEAN ENERGY
  • RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION
  • CLIMATE ACTION
Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Master's (Doctoral) Program in Global Environmental Studies Professor

Suzuki Masachika / 鈴木 政史Suzuki Masachika

Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Master's (Doctoral) Program in Global Environmental Studies Professor
Research Interests
My areas of research include 1) corporate environmental and energy strategy, 2) technology innovation and transfer of clean energy technologies (such as wind and solar power generation technologies), 3) inter-linkages between climate change and SDGs, 4) ESG investing, and 5) sustainable community development and sustainable tourism.
I am also interested in examining new sustainable business models that may bring both social benefits for society and profit for a company, which are sometimes discussed in the context of the Base of the Pyramid (BOP) and Creating Shared Values (CSVs) business models.
  • AFFORDABLE AND CLEAN ENERGY
  • INDUSTRY, INNOVATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE
  • RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION
  • CLIMATE ACTION
Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Master's (Doctoral) Program in Global Environmental Studies Professor

Hirao Keiko / 平尾 桂子Hirao Keiko

Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Master's (Doctoral) Program in Global Environmental Studies Professor
Research Interests
Dr. Keiko Hirao is a Professor at the Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies. Her research interest includes social sustainability, the construction of environmental issues, intergenerational relations, and gender and environment.
She is the author of Child Rearing War Front (Chobunsha 1991), chapters in Women's Working Lives in East Asia (Stanford University Press 2001), Political Economy of Japan's Low Fertility (Stanford University Press, 2006), Working and Mothering: Images, Ideologies, and Identities (NIAS Press,2007).
Her recent book, Invisible Hands and Invisible Heart (Sophia University Press 2015), discusses the structural undervaluation of care work vis-à-vis pecuniary activities. She also co-authored Families, Family Policies, and Sustainable Development Goals (UNICEF 2019), a policy tool that evaluates family policies worldwide across the six Sustainable Development Goals.
  • NO POVERTY
  • GOOD HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
  • QUALITY EDUCATION
  • GENDER EQUALITY
  • REDUCED INEQUALITIES
  • RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION
  • PEACE, JUSTICE AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS
Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Master's (Doctoral) Program in Global Environmental Studies Professor