研究室紹介

The Watershed Management Laboratory at Kyushu University places importance on the perspective of “engaging in research and education to solve the social problems we face and to build a sustainable and prosperous society” in the area of rivers and watersheds. The academic fields involved are wide-ranging, including the humanities, natural sciences, engineering, science, and agriculture. Although the base discipline of our laboratory is engineering, we aim to develop and establish new fields of study that integrate all boundary areas related to rivers and watersheds. Therefore, our research activities cover a wide range of academic fields such as river engineering, applied ecological engineering, ecology, disaster prevention engineering, hydraulics, consensus building, landscape design, and urban planning. Our research activities are open to society through joint research with researchers in many other fields, collaboration with government and civic activities, and interaction with children through environmental education.
We also consider social implementation and environmental education activities to improve rivers and watersheds in the world as a very important mission. We are particularly committed to practical research using transdisciplinary (TD/transdisciplinary) methods, in which we think and act together with all stakeholders involved in social issues, not just researchers.