The Mitsui & Co. Environment Fund
Introduction to Grant Projects
Hokkaido University Professor: Taisuke Miyauchi
Research on community restoration and natural resource management system reconstruction after a natural disaster
Research grant
- Project Description
The area around surrounding the Kitakami River estuary of Ishinomaki-shi (Miyagi Prefecture) has mountains, rivers and ocean based on a rich ecosystem which suffered tsunami damage in the Great East Japan Earthquake. The ecosystem has been maintained through the moderate harvesting of resources in accordance with rules set by the local residents. However, due to the earthquake and tsunami, residents were forced to relocate to high ground and the community became reorganized. This research will explore how people can reconstruct natural resource management mechanisms after relocation. Surveys detailing the current situation and past data were also examined to create understanding on how to revitalize the area. This issue is universally applicable due to the number of group relocations caused by natural disasters, so based on these findings, policy recommendations will be made. [No. R16-1002]
- Fields
- Ecosystems and the Symbiotic Society
- Grant year
- FY2016 Research Grants
- Grant term
- 3 years
From April 2017 to March 2020
- Grant amount
- 3.920 million yen
- Activity region
- Miyagi Prefecture, Ishinomaki City, Kitakami-district

Overview of the Organization

- Representative
- Professor: Taisuke Miyauchi
Hokkaido University - Area of specialty: Environmental Sociology
Academic affiliation: Environmental Sociology Conference, Japanese Society Conference, Oceania Conference, Ecological Anthropology Conference
CV (work history, academic qualifications): After withdrawing from Tokyo University's Sociology doctorate program in 1991 went on to receive a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Tokyo in 2009. Currently an assistant professor at the Fukui Prefectural University. Conducted environmental sociology research in the Solomon Islands, Hokkaido, Miyagi, and Okinawa (studied the relationship between regional communities and the environment as well as natural disasters and relief). - Recent Activities
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- Taisuke Miyauchi (2017) "How to conduct successful environmental conservation. Advancing 'Adaptive Governance' on location" Shinsensha
- Taisuke Miyauchi (2017) "Nature restoration by walking, seeing, hearing people" (Iwanami new release) Iwanami bookstore.
- Taisuke Miyauchi (2016) Society and research: Citizen survey on the consensus building process in policy formation (17:38-44)
- Makoto Nishikido, Taisuke Miyauchi, Akira Kuroda (2016) "Earthquake disaster and regional rehabilitation: The people of Kitami-cho, Ishinomaki-shi" Hosei University Press
- WEB site
- http://taimiyauchi.jimdo.com