Editors:
- Analyzes current and new approaches to formulate a sustainable development strategy and its implementation
- Provides a cross-pollinating platform to share research results
- Presents problem-oriented research and solutions in environmental science
Part of the book series: Environmental Science and Engineering (ESE)
Conference series link(s): ACESD: Asia Conference on Environment and Sustainable Development
Conference proceedings info: ACESD 2021.
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Table of contents (36 papers)
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Hydrology and Water Resources Management
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Green Building Technology and Urban Planning
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Front Matter
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Resource Management, Green Behavior and Sustainable Development
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Front Matter
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Environmental Biology and Biodiversity Conservation
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Front Matter
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
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Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan
Keiji Ujikawa
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Japan International Cooperation Agency, Tokyo, Japan
Mikio Ishiwatari
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Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, University of Paris, Paris, France
Eric van Hullebusch
About the editors
He is an editorial committee member of the Pan Pacific Association of Input–Output Studies (PAPAIOS). He is also a member of the Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies (SEEPS) and many other academic organizations.
Mikio Ishiwatari is a senior advisor on disaster management and water resources management at the Japan International Cooperation Agency, and a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo. He has been engaged in projects and research work on disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, and water issues. He led the formulation of the Japanese assistance policies of climate change adaptation and community-based disaster management.
At the World Bank he worked as a senior disaster risk management specialist and published Learning from Megadisaster: Lessons from the Great East Japan Earthquake. He worked in various positions at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport, Japan, for 17 years. He formulated and supervised national projects on flood risk management and highways in Iwami District as the director of the Hamada River and Road Office, and he was responsible for research and technology development as a senior deputy director for river technology and information. He also worked as an urban development specialist at the Asian Development Bank.
Dr. Ishiwatari was a member of the Committee on Building Resilience to Natural Disasters of the Japan Science Society, and he served as a member of the Advisory Council of Development Assistance in Climate Change Adaptation of the Ministry of Land Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Japan; the Steering Committee of Water and Climate Change of the Asia-Pacific Water Forum; and other committees of government organizations. He holds a Ph.D. in international studies and an M.Sc. in urban engineering from The University of Tokyo.
Eric D. van Hullebusch holds a Ph.D. in aquatic chemistry and microbiology, and he is a full professor in the biogeochemistry of engineered ecosystems at the Université de Paris and Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (Paris, France). His main research interests include environmental technologies and biogeochemistry with special focus on 1) study of metals and metalloids biogeochemistry in engineered ecosystems, 2) biohydrometallurgy of secondary resource streams, and 3) soil bioremediation. Within these research areas, he has published more than 250 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals and is a co-author of more than 25 book chapters.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Environment and Sustainable Development
Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the 2021 6th Asia Conference on Environment and Sustainable Development
Editors: Keiji Ujikawa, Mikio Ishiwatari, Eric van Hullebusch
Series Title: Environmental Science and Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1704-2
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-1703-5Published: 07 April 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-1706-6Published: 08 April 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-1704-2Published: 06 April 2022
Series ISSN: 1863-5520
Series E-ISSN: 1863-5539
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 404
Number of Illustrations: 37 b/w illustrations, 150 illustrations in colour
Topics: Climate, general, Sustainable Development, Waste Management/Waste Technology, Water, general, Pollution, general, Ecosystems