上智大学 SDGs&サステナビリティ

Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Sociology　Professor

Research Interests: Carola Hommerich is a Professor at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Human Sciences, and a core faculty member of the Sophia Program for Sustainable Futures (SPSF). Her research interest centres on the interrelation of social and subjective well-being. She specifically analyses how experiences of precarity, status anxiety and social exclusion relate to subjective well-being, and how different types of social capital mediate this relationship. Analysing Japanese society in comparative perspective, she has been working with different conceptualisations of well-being, utilizing standard measures of well-being as well as culture specific measures. Recently, she is also working on attitudes towards climate change, with a specific interest in how environmental attitudes and perceptions of individual efficacy translate into pro-environmental behaviour.

Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Master's (Doctoral) Program in Global Environmental Studies　Professor

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.

Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Psychology　Associate Professor

Research Interests: Atsuko Saito specializes in developmental psychology, evolutionary psychology, and comparative cognitive science.
Her research focuses on the relationship between humans and cats as companion animals, and human parenting from the perspective of humans as an animal species. Humans are a species of mammals and primates, but unlike the majority in these taxonomic groups, we are not capable of raising children by mothers alone. However, in Japan today, the burden of child-rearing is disproportionately placed on the mother/parent. She considers what can be done to achieve child-rearing within society.

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