2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Assessing the value of ecological infrastructure on residents health in an aquatic city
Project/Area Number |
21K20070
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Review Section |
0104:Geography, cultural anthropology, folklore, and related fields
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Research Institution | The University of Tokyo (2022) The University of Tokushima (2021) |
Principal Investigator |
Tashiro Ai 東京大学, 未来ビジョン研究センター, 特任講師 (40812962)
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Project Period (FY) |
2021-08-30 – 2023-03-31
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Keywords | 生態系インフラ / 公衆衛生 / 環境と健康 / 環境心理学 |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study conducted a questionnaire survey on students and their parents at three secondary and high schools in Kaiyo Town, Tokushima Prefecture. I examined residents’ health benefits by getting in touch with nature in their living environments. Considering residents' perceptions and the necessity of ecological infrastructure for Eco-DRR, I examined how effective in reducing health and medical costs for residents' mental and physical health by being exposed to Blue-Green spaces and doing physical activities there in their daily lives. The respondents' health value on physical activity was evaluated as medical expense avoidance by calculating calorie consumption based on the respondents' METs and body weight based on previous studies.
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Free Research Field |
健康地理学、環境心理学
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Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
災害大国である日本は、気候変動による規模・頻度が激甚化する自然災害の影響が危惧されており、地域の自然と人の健康との両面のレジリエンスが試されている。住民が防災減災に対応しながらも、水と緑の自然から心身の健康の便益を享受するには、生活環境における一定の防災減災能力をコミュニティとして強化する必要がある。その点において、本研究は住民の防災意識レベル、環境心理からみた自然とのつながり、生態系インフラへの認識と必要性、心身の健康状態との関連をはじめて医療抑制費としての経済効果を踏まえて検証した基礎研究と位置付けられる。
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