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Chiho Watanabe

Chiho Watanabe Adjunct Professor, Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science Professor, Department of Human Ecology, the University of Tokyo, Japan

Biography

Chiho Watanabe is a Professor at Department of Human Ecology. After completed doctoral program at the University of Tokyo in 1990s, he has worked at Tohoku University, University of Rochester and the University of Tokyo.rofessor Watanabe’s research field is human ecology, which is literally a science of the ecology of human populations, especially of the variety of contemporary populations living in Asian and Oceania countries. His research concerned primary with two types of questions though which are often interwoven with each other; one is a questions common to the ecology in general, “how the population of living organism utilize the environment to procure food/nutrition and to reproduce next generations?”, the other is a question relatively emphasized in the ecology of human, “how the human activities impact the environment (including earth), and how the environment modified as such impact the human health/survival. Through answering these questions, he tries to provide basic information that will be relevant to solve the current [worldwide] problems in population, food, as well as environment.

Research Interest

rofessor Watanabe’s research field is human ecology, which is literally a science of the ecology of human populations, especially of the variety of contemporary populations living in Asian and Oceania countries. His research concerned primary with two types of questions though which are often interwoven with each other; one is a questions common to the ecology in general, “how the population of living organism utilize the environment to procure food/nutrition and to reproduce next generations?”, the other is a question relatively emphasized in the ecology of human, “how the human activities impact the environment (including earth), and how the environment modified as such impact the human health/survival. Through answering these questions, he tries to provide basic information that will be relevant to solve the current [worldwide] problems in population, food, as well as environment.

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