Climate, Food, and Energy Security
Climate, Food, and Energy Security
Intersections of climate change and social inequality, food self-sufficiency structures, energy security, and aging water infrastructure.
22 items
Insights & Analysis
For a Distant Tsunami That Brings No Shaking, Only Trust in the Warning Drives Evacuation — the Dilemma of False Alarms and Misses
DisasterPolicy AnalysisEnvironmentJapan
Insights & Analysis
The Linear-Shizuoka Agreement Now Carries a Clause to Halt the Work — How a Century-Old Memory of Water Loss Became Procedure
RegionalEnvironmentPolicy AnalysisJapan
Insights & Analysis
Bear Injuries Hit a Record 216 in Japan — Depopulation Has Emptied the Hands That Tended the Boundary
RegionalEnvironmentPolicy AnalysisJapan
Insights & Analysis
Kumamoto's Car Society Cannot Be Solved by Roads — Transit's Downward Spiral and Planning Backward from Where People Live
RegionalDemographicsPolicy AnalysisJapan
Labs
WHO 2018 Environmental Noise Guidelines vs. Japan's Standards — What a Gap of Up to 25 dB Actually Means
Traffic NoiseNoise RegulationEnvironmental JusticePolicy Analysis
Labs
Japan's Structural Reproduction of Climate Skepticism (How Doubt Circulates)
AgnotologyDoubt ManufacturingMediaJapan
Labs
Soundproofing Subsidies Choose Their Roads — The Disparity Structure of the Roadside Housing Soundproofing Program
Traffic NoiseNoise RegulationEnvironmental JusticeHousing
Labs
Why Victims Stay Silent — The Social Psychology Behind the Failure of Collective Noise Complaints
Traffic NoiseSensory SensitivityComplaint GapSocial Psychology
Labs
The Learning Curve of Nine Noise Lawsuits — From the Tolerable Limit Doctrine to a ¥5.9 Billion Verdict
Traffic NoiseNoise RegulationPolicy AnalysisEnvironmental Justice
Insights & Analysis
Chemical Management and SDS Compliance: Legal Reform and the Burden Structure on Japanese SMEs
EnvironmentLabor & EmploymentHealth & MedicinePolicy Analysis
Insights & Analysis
20% of Japan's Water Pipes Are Past Their Service Life — Data on an Invisible Infrastructure Crisis
Public PolicyEnvironmentJapan
Insights & Analysis
The Intersection of Climate Change and Social Inequality — Who Emits and Who Bears the Harm?
Climate ChangeInequalityGlobalSocial Issues
Insights & Analysis
Structural Problems in Agriculture and Food Security——Reading the Meaning of 38% Self-Sufficiency
JapanEnvironmentEconomyPolicy Analysis
Practice Guides
Integrating Climate Justice and Social Policy — A Design Guide
GuideClimate ChangeEnvironmental JusticeWelfare
Insights & Analysis
The Day the Strait Closes — Japan's Structural Vulnerability in Energy Security
EnergyPolicy AnalysisGeopoliticsJapan
Debates
Can Nuclear Power Be a Viable Option for 'Decarbonization'?
DebateEnergyEnvironmentClimate Change
Insights & Analysis
The Structure Behind 38% Food Self-Sufficiency — Rethinking Food Security in an Age of Globalization
International AffairsEnvironmentJapanSocial Issues
Insights & Analysis
Renewable Energy and the Regional Economy — New Inequalities Born of the Energy Transition
EnergyEnvironmentRegionalEconomy
Debates
Can Climate Action and Economic Growth Coexist?
DebateClimate ChangeEconomyEnvironment
Labs
Those Living Along Arterial Roads Bear the Greatest Noise Burden — An Environmental Justice Hypothesis for Japan
Environmental JusticeZoningNoise InequalityUrban Planning
Labs
Four Research Hypotheses and Verification Plan
Traffic NoiseSensory SensitivityResearch DesignMisophonia
Insights & Analysis
US-Israeli Attacks on Iran — Ripple Effects on Energy Security and Civil Society
International AffairsMiddle EastEnergyJapan