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Masakazu Tani Last modified date：2020.11.20

Professor / Landscape and Social Environmental Design
Department of Environmental Design
Faculty of Design


Graduate School
Department of Design
Graduate School of Design
Undergraduate School
Department of Design
School of Design
Administration Post
Dean of the Graduate School of Design
Dean of the School of Design
Dean of the Faculty of Design


Homepage
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Academic Degree
Ph.D.
Country of degree conferring institution (Overseas)
Yes
Field of Specialization
environmental anthropology
Total Priod of education and research career in the foreign country
03years06months
Outline Activities
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.
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
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
Books
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1. Masakazu Tani, M. Abiar Rahman, Deforestation in the Teknaf Peninsula of Bangladesh
A study of political ecology, Springer Singapore, 10.1007/978-981-10-5475-4, 2017.07, This book presents a political ecology study on deforestation in the Teknaf Peninsula of Bangladesh. The study's aim was to elucidate social factors contributing to processes of deforestation, including poverty, migration of refugees, forest encroachment, and power relations entailed in forest management. The individual analyses presented in the book are entirely based on primary information obtained through original field work conducted over a period of 7 years, and on remote sensing using satellite imagery and GIS techniques. The second half of the book considers reforestation approaches such as social and homestead forestry that have wider applications within developing countries..
2. The Life in Villages and Arsenic Contamination: from rural villages in Bangladesh.
3. W. Longacre, J. Skibo, eds., M. Tani and others (7 authors)., Kalinga ehnoarchaeology, Smithsonian Institute Press , 1994.05.
4. Masakazu Tani, Extending the methodological potential for archaeological interpretations, University Microfilms, Inc., 1991.08.
Reports
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Papers
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1. M. Abiar Rahman, Masakazu Tani, Asahiro Kazuo, S.M.A. Ullah, Specie Composition, Diversity and Productivity of Homesteads in Southeastern Bangladesh., Small-Scale Forestry, DOI 10.1007/s11842-016-9356-8, 1-15, 2016.10.
2. Masakazu Tani, Md. Zulfikar Rahman, Abu Zofar Moslehuddin, Hiroshi Tsuruta, Characterization of dwellers as a major agent of deforestation in a reserved forest in Bangladesh., International Journal of Environment, 4, 2, 25-30, 2014.08.
3. Tani Masakazu, M. Jahiruddin, K. Egashira, A.Z.M. Moslehuddin, M.Z. Rahman, Dietary intake of arsenic by households in Marua Village in Jessore, Journal of Environmental Science & Natural Resources, 5, 1, 283-288, 2012.06.
4. Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Kazuhiko Egashira, Masakazu Tani, M. Jahiruddin, Abu Zofar Md. Moslehuddin and Md. Zulfikar Rahman, Variation in arsenic concentration relative to ammonium-N and ORP in surface and groundwater at Marua Village, Jessore District, Bangladesh, Communications in Soil Science & Plant Analysis, 39:1467- 1475, 2008.04.
5. Tani, M. and B. Begum, Social boundaries, cultural factors, and the use of arsenic-safe water sources, The Journal of NOAMI, Vol.21,55-68, 2005.12.
6. TANI Masakazu, William A. Longacre, On the method of measuring ceramic uselife, American Antiquity, Vol. 64, No. 2, pp. 299-308, 1999.04.
7. Masakazu Tani, Beyond the identification of formation processes, Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 2, 3, 231-252, 1995.05.
Presentations
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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
Educational Activities
Environmental anthropology
Literature studies for environmental design
Spatial information analysis
Management of International Assisstance (graduate school)
Project in Environment & Heritage Design I (graduate school)
Social
Professional and Outreach Activities
A member of Asia Arsenic Network (Non-profit organization).


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