Director of the Center for Designed Futures of Kyushu University

Ph.D.

Yes

environmental anthropology

03years06months

As primary research activities, I have been conducting surveys in rural villages suffered from groundwater arsenic contamination in Bangladesh in order to understand the type of population who surffers most, and cultural customs and social organization for inplementing mitigagtion measures. I have been conducting similar research activities in Nepal since 2004, and in China and the Mekong Delta Area (Vietnam & Cambodia) since 2007. A project on Rohingya refugees from Myanmar to the Teknaf Peninsula, Bangladesh was started in 2018.
My educational activities mainly focus on courses including environemtnal anthropology, sociocultural anthropology, field research methods, and I also advise students in seminars in research on sociocultural factors involved in human behavior.
As a social activity, I join NPO Asia Arsenic Network and work on awareness and mitigation for arsenic contamination in Asia. I also serve as project manager for two JICA Grass-root assistance projects in Bangladesh and in Nepal.

Research Interests

• The impacts of the influxes of Rohingya refugees on host communities and natural environment in Bangladesh
  keyword : Rohingya refugees Bangladesh Teknaf Peninsula
  2019.04～2022.03.
• The relationship between deforestation and poverty
  keyword : deforestation poverty Bangladesh
  2015.04～2019.03.
• Steel Beam Archaeology for building design histories in developing countries
  keyword : Bangladesh, vernacular architecture, clusters of traditional buildings
  2016.04.
• Study of the potential of historical environmental design in developing countries
  keyword : Bangladesh, vernacular architecture, clusters of traditional buildings
  2014.04～2016.03.
• The　study　of　political　ecology　on　the　relationship　between　poverty　and　deforestation　in　Teknaf　Peninsula, Bangladesh
  keyword : poverty, refugees, deforestation
  2012.04.
• The study of designing the sphere of living environment in the shrinking society
  keyword : disappearing community, mountain area, sphere of living environment
  2011.09～2012.03.
• The study of biodiversity management by using a Satoyama model in the Teknaf Peninsula, Bangladesh
  keyword : biodiveristy poverty tourism
  2009.11～2011.05.
• The relationship between health damage caused by groundwater arsenic contamination and the poverty in Asia
  keyword : dirnking water; arsenic contamination; arsenicosis; poverty
  2008.04～2012.03.
• Groundwater arsenic contamination in the Terai Plain in Nepal
  keyword : Neapl Terai arsenic contamination
  2003.11Recently, groundwater contamination by arsenic has been identified in Tarai Plains in Nepal. We gather information on the distribution of contamination, and select a model village where we will conduct a village survey to access the needs for alternative water sources..
• Groundwater arsenic contamination in Bangladesh
  keyword : Bangladesh arsenic village survey
  1998.02On the problem of groundwater arsenic contamination in Bangladesh, we started a village survey in 1998, and continue its research from cultural anthropological perspectives in order to reflect the sociocultural understanding of rural villages in mitigation planning and to include local knowledge and customs in those mitigation measures..
• A social model building for the formation of the sustainable society
  keyword : sustainable society; linkage between the rural and urban areas; solid waste
  2001.10.
• Resource production and consumption in the San-nai Maruya site
  keyword : San-nai Maruyama; Jomon; ecosystem; resource production; consumption
  2000.04～2002.03.

Academic Activities Membership in Academic Society

• Environmental Information Science

Awards

• A book (Village Life and Arsenic Contamination)I published from Kyushu Univeristy Press was chosen as an outstanding reseach publication to contribute to important issues in international development.

Educational Activities

Professional and Outreach Activities