Sustainable Society (FY2001-2007)

Activities of the R&D Focus Area ended in March 2008.

Program Supervisor

YAMAMOTO Ryoichi

Professor, Institute of Industrial Science,
the University of Tokyo
(as of the completion of the R&D Focus Area)

This R&D area focuses on broadly defined "recycling-oriented society" study, which comprehensively approaches global environmental issues from the perspectives of science and technology, and social science, beyond individual elemental technologies.
Specifically, it encompasses : indicator group development to determine sustainable development, research on how to build new social systems and business models for designing, producing, proliferating and circulating eco-efficient technologies, products and services, research on how to shape environmental epistemic communities.

R&D Projects

FY2001

Regeneration of Organic Recycling Systems by Collaboration of Urban and Rural Areas UETA Kazuhiro (Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University)	2002.1-2004.12
Integrated Research for the Construction of Material-Leasing System in the Society HARADA Kohmei (Director-General, National Institute for Materials Science Ecomaterials Center)	2002.1-2004.12
Development of indicator, methodology and information disclosure of environmental rating FUKUSHIMA Tetsuro (Advisor, Japan Audit and Certiﬁcation Organization for Environment and Quality(JACO))	2002.1-2004.12

FY2002

Development of Civic Model on Materials Technology for Recycling-Based Society UMEZAWA Osamu (Assistant professor, Faculty of Engineering, Yokohama National University)	2002.11-2005.10
Environment-Compatible Treatment of Problematic Substances and Associated Social Solutions in the Sustainable Society MAEDA Masafumi (Professor, Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo)	2002.11-2005.10
A Study for Realization of Environmentally Sound Material-Cycle Society Based on Citizen's Participation YAGISHITA Masaharu (Professor, Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Sophia University)	2002.11-2005.10

FY2003

Osaka Model of Circulation Oriented Society Through Case Study of Existing City & Neighborhood Nature IKEGAMI Toshiroh (Vice Chairman, NPO ECODESIGN NET WORK)	2003.10-2006.9
Material/Substance Flow as A Sustainability Indicator NAGASAKA Tetsuya (Professor, Graduate School of Environmental Studies,Tohoku University)	2003.10-2006.9
Research on the Establishment of Iwate Recycling Basin Economic Area MOROZUMI Kazuo (Professor, Graduate School of Agricultural Science,Tohoku University)	2003.10-2006.9

FY2004

Application of the Proposed Eco-Efficiency Indicator Based on Value Added INABA Atsushi (Director, Research Center for Life Cycle Assessment of National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology)	2004.12-2007.11
A Study of Underlying Technology for the Realization of Sustainable/Ubiquitous Society TAKAOKA Mika (Associate professor, College of Economics, Rikkyo University)	2004.12-2007.11
Research on Inverse Distribution in Borderless Supply Chain HAYASHI Hidetaka (Director, NPO Eco Design Promotion Network)	2004.12-2007.11