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Name FURUKAWA Tsutomu
Official Title Associate Professor
Affiliation Environmental Management and Sustainability
E-mail furukawa@tcu.ac.jp
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  1. http://www.risys.gl.tcu.ac.jp/Main.php?action=profile&type=detail&tchCd=7000161
Profile My specialty is environmental law. I've been studying the legal system for biodiversity conservation from the perspective of international and domestic law.Internationally, I have conducted study on the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and the Convention on Biological Diversity. In doing so, I have focused on Ecosystem Approach, which is a guideline for ecosystem conservation adopted by the Convention on Biological Diversity. Domestically, I have conducted study on Urban Green Space Act, Urban Park Act, and Basic Act on Promotion of Urban Agriculture, as well as study on the formation of ecological network based on these laws.
For the past few years, I've been studying the application of the ecosystem approach to land use policy, based on previous research on the ecosystem approach.One of the principles of the Ecosystem Approach calls for management at the lowest appropriate level. I have to examine whether decision-making in land use planning based on the current National Land Use Planning Act, etc. is conducted at the lowest appropriate level, and study the state of the legal system and its rationality when the ecosystem approach is applied.
Research Field(Keyword & Summary)
  1. Ecosystem approach and land use policy

    The Ecosystem Approach has 12 principles, and I will examine the consistency of these principles with the current land use legislations. Based on those verifications, I will propose amendments to land use legislations.
Representative Papers
  1. (1)Proposed legal amendments for municipal land use basic plans, etc. and tentative assumption of municipal land use ordinances, The Journal of Environmental and Information Studies, Tokyo City University, Vol.8, February 2021.
  2. (2)Prerequisite Considerations about the applicability of the ecosystem approach to land use legislation, The Journal of Environmental and Information Studies, Tokyo City University, Vol.7, February 2020.
  3. (3)Urban Agriculture and Green Space Network : A Study on the placement of the Urban Agricultural Land after enactment of the Basic Act on Promotion of Urban Agriculture, Journal of land and environmental studies, Vol.25, December 2018.
Recruitment of research assistant(s) No
Affiliated academic society (Membership type) Japan Association for Environmental Law and Policy (Fellow), Japan Land and Environment Institute (Executive Director)
Education Field (Undergraduate level) Environmental Law, International Environmental Law, Land Use Policy
Education Field (Graduate level) Environmental Law

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