The Environmental and Resource Research Division conducts research on a
wide range of themes from localized environmental issues such as roadside
air pollution and noise to global scale environmental issues such as
global warming.
The condition of future environmental policy is such that it requires
close examination of the way people live, including urban structures
and lifestyles. It demands analysis as well as the establishment and
evaluation of policy based on comprehensive, long-term, and wider area
viewpoints. The Division will promote investigative research that emphasizes
the establishment of more specialized responses to important issues,
more comprehensive and basic countermeasures foreseeing the 21st century,
and proposals for specific environments.
■Main research themes
- Air pollution
Regional pollution models (NOx, SO2, SPM, etc.) photochemical air pollution
models, long distance haulage, acid rain models, constituent analysis
of air-polluting emissions, constituent analysis of harmful air-polluting
emissions, etc.
- Transport environment measures
Roadside air diffusion models, prediction assessment and countermeasures
to road traffic noise, etc.
- The global environment and energy
Analysis of energy supply and demand structures (industry, commerce,
household, transport), constituent analysis of greenhouse gas emissions,
basic LCA analysis by input-output analysis, analysis of the composition
of heat islands, etc.
- Comprehensive environmental planning
Assistance with drawing up basic environmental rules and basic environmental
planning, assistance with drawing up environmental assessment systems
at the planning stage, establishing plans for urban development to harmonize
and coexist with the environment, etc.
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