Projects

Ongoing projects:

Aging and shrinking population-driven transition of the nature conservation (ASP-NC) (PI) (2023-2026) JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research C

The project contributes to sustainability science by conceptualizing demographic transition as a key driver of socio-ecological system transformation and linking aging dynamics to resilience and conservation outcomes.

Resilient Urban NBI – Enhancing Urban Resilience to Disasters and Conflicts through Nature-Based Infrastructure (2026-2028) (Co-PI) The Driving Urban Transitions (DUT) & Japan Science and Technology Agency:

Collaboration with Stockholm University, Sweden, and University of Lodz, Poland

The project develops applied frameworks for integrating nature-based solutions into urban resilience and recovery planning across diverse socio-political contexts.

AI Risk and International Society (AIRiskIS) (2025-2026) (Co-I) Tokyo College Funding

This project examines how social risks of AI technologies vary across cultural contexts, using user experience approaches to develop more inclusive and context-sensitive governance and design strategies.

Sustainable Bio-Loop (2024–2028) (Main Researcher) Kubota-UTokyo Lab.
Long-Term Food–Water–Environment Nexus Scenarios

Concluded projects:

Urban Green Spaces and Cultural Ecosystem Services” (2022–2024) (Co-I) Japan Society for the Promotion of Science: Scientific Research (A)

Water for Circular Societies (2021-2026) (Researcher) UNU-IAS

Climate change adaptation capacity development in Vietnam (2017-2020) Researcher

Climate change adaptation capacity development in Indonesia (Researcher) (2015-2018)

Food Security Impacts of Industrial Crop Expansion in Sub-Saharan Africa (FICESSA) (Researcher) (2015-2018) Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) & Belmont Forum