In the Green Space Environmental Studies Department, we aim to create a healthy and moist green environment (landscape) where people and nature can coexist, and we study the ecological and amenity functions of a variety of green spaces ranging from the global level to the regional scale. Our goal is to develop human resources who can contribute to the restoration, conservation, and creation of green spaces by learning about this from an ecological and planning perspective.
Diverse greenery and the space that supports it can be viewed as a landscape. In Japan, the word "landscape" is often used from a visual perspective such as "scenery" or "scenery," but the concept of landscape originally refers to "a regional unity formed by the activities of people and nature." It means "spread." Therefore, in order to properly understand landscapes, we need the ability to read the interrelationships between the natural and social elements behind the scenery we see.
In the Department of Green Space Environmental Studies, in order to create sustainable and attractive landscapes, we study "green" from both the perspectives of ecology to elucidate environmental phenomena and planning to return and deploy research results to the real world. I think we need to deepen our understanding of this. To this end, we aim to integrate landscape ecology and green space planning with a wide range of related fields such as urban and rural planning, environmental informatics, and conservation ecology. We have prepared a curriculum to help students acquire problem awareness and comprehensive thinking skills.
