Pursuing 'Forest Watershed Management' as the foundation of healthy water cycles
As a Laboratory of Forest Watershed Socio-Environmental Studies, we focus on 'water cycles in forests' and 'the relationship among forests, water, and people' as the foundation of healthy water cycles, engaging in both university education and research.
Educational approach
Aiming to implement forest watershed management in society
We continue local, watershed-based activities on themes such as building disaster-resilient forests, watershed flood management and forests, the use of the forest environment transfer tax, and the utilization of forests to sustain rural communities.
We are participating in JST COI-NEXT’s Regional Co-Creation Center, 'A Sustainable Society Starting with Reconstruction through Watershed Flood Management.'
Vision for industry-academia collaboration
Let’s work together to solve social issues related to forests and water!
Companies have conducted activities such as tree-planting events, but in today’s world, mere performance without real solutions to forest and water-related social issues no longer wins people’s empathy or investor recognition.
Drawing on my experience in my twenties, when I spent two years in Borneo as a Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteer conducting research at a state government research center, I hope to collaborate with companies genuinely committed to solving social issues by sharing the background and fundamental causes of today’s forest and water-related challenges.
