Researcher's Profile

Research Summary
Based on the interrelationship between the individual (Agent) and the social structure (Structure), I am interested in survival strategies including residential mobility, livelihood and assets during the disaster recovery phase. In addition to Japan, I am also looking at cases in ASEAN countries and North America, where disasters frequently occur, and aim to develop conceptual, institutional, and methodological theories of pre-disaster recovery planning that comprehensively captures recovery and the natural environment.

A specific area of interest
Climate change adaptation, including retreat and re-naturalizing, and resettlement options
In the modern age of the Anthropocene, there is a need to redefine the distance between nature and humans. Vulnerable populations are forced to leave the lands that were once habitable. In terms of post-disaster residential mobility, the four typologies are identified (Mobility; Immobility; Trapped Populations and force-displacement. I am unraveling such residential mobilities for each of these attributes, and aims to construct a planning theory for land use, disaster prevention, and recovery and reconstruction that takes into account climate change adaptation.