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About StaffAbout StaffKONO, Yasuyuki
Current Research Interests
Jungle rubber garden is thought to be a typical type of low-input low-return production systems. But the renewal mechanism of rubber trees are well managed by smallholders, securing sustainable production in spite of flood damages and termite attacks. I study the transformation of rural livelihood systems, land and water
resources management, and environmental conservation and development programs
in Mainland Southeast Asia. My study sites cover a wide range of ecological
settings, from deltaic areas of the Red River and the Mekong River in Vietnam,
the Chaophraya River in Thailand, and the Ayeyarwady River in Myanmar,
to plateau areas of Northeast Thailand, Upper Burma and Tamil Nadu State
in India, and mountainous areas of northern Vietnam, northern Laos, northern
Thailand, and Yunnan Province of China. Fieldwork combined with remote
sensing and GIS analyses are the major tools of my research.
My major research concern is, first, to develop an area-specific synthesis
of technology, institutions, and natural environment for land and water
resources management in a globalizing environment. Land and water is rapidly
recognized to be a scarce resource on which rural livelihood, agricultural
production and forest ecosystem conservation depends. We have to consider
how to adapt resource management to the environmental and historical settings
of local societies. Second, livelihood systems in rural Southeast Asia
are drastically changing and have diversified during the last several decades,
which has furthermore increased the complexity in resources management
and the importance of site-specific researches. It is worth challenging
the generalization of these changes. The third concern is sustainable humanosphere
studies in which my specific concern is, utilizing potentiality of tropical
environment, to investigate environment-inspired technologies.
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