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Lab. Sustainable Development & Human Ecology

Latest update on 8th May 2025.


The laboratory of Sustainable Development & Human Ecology, Department of Public Health, Kobe University Graduate School of Health Sciences is managed by Prof. Minato Nakazawa since 1st April 2012.

Prof. Minato Nakazawa also works at GSICS as a professor of cooperative laboratory, so that some students are supervised and attending the regular seminar.

Theme of Research / Education

The sustainable development is one of the major targets of the United Nations' post-MDGs. From the viewpoint of international health, sustainability is essentially important. Overseas aids are, even if the amount of investment is huge, totally ineffective if the recipients cannot maintain the system, or do not have needed indeed. For instance, if hunter-gatherer once changes their subsistence to sedentary farming and/or herding as the result of overseas aid to increase stability of food production, they may tend to suffer from various infectious diseases, so that the clinic must be built and vaccinations are needed. Since the natural environment which the hunter-gatherer depended on cannot revive, they must continue farming/herding after the end of overseas aid. Vaccination and treatment in the clinic must be maintained by the local people, though it is very difficult. The aid must consider such a situation, including the local ecosystem. In other words, we must study the human ecology of the local population (recipients) (and sometimes donors, too). We aim to study and give education for these topics.

To check actual fieldwork done by Prof. Nakazawa, see his personal web site. Graduate students' studies will be introduced here in the future.

Members

(Note: GSICS=Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies, GSHS=Graduate School of Health Sciences)

Faculty

Research Assoociates of Health Sciences

Graduate Students

Undergraduate students

Research Students

(None)

Alumni

Activities

Basically we have laboratory meetings on every Thursday during 18:30-20:00 at GSICS 206 and Zoom online simultaneously. Since 2025, the joint meeting with Prof. Matsui's lab is held.

Past meetings

Fiscal Year 2025

1st semester

10th April
Chitose Iwasaki
17th April
Seeta Baral
24th April
Rie Okuda
1st May
Gita Shresta
8th May
Emma Vang (Postponed due to sickness)
15th May
Alfi Nurfita
22nd May
Tomomi Kajiwara (Postponed)
29th May
Shiva Acharya
5th June
Kenichi Asai
12th June
Kana Kuroda
19th June
Chiharu Horimoto
26th June
Haruna Teraoka
3rd July
Eri Katsuki
10th July
Yuka Kawahara
17th July
Li Xueer
24th July
Serina Kawatsu
31st July
Sakura Matsuki
7th August
Bharat Negi
14th August
Takayo Maeda
21st August
Risa Murakami
28th August
Masako Yamada
4th September
Emma Vang
11th September
Tomomi Kajiwara

2nd semester

(TBD)

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