"Adaptation" to external development plan: A field research in south China and it's neighboring area in Southeast Asia

2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23710312
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Area studies
• Research Institution: Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
• Principal Investigator: JIANG Hongwei 総合地球環境学研究所, 研究部, プロジェクト研究員 (50436573)
• Project Period (FY): 2011 – 2013
• Keywords: 中国 / ラオス / 土地利用 / GIS応用 / 加速度計

Research Abstract

In the present study, we targeted 2 villages in Lao PDR and 1 village in China. We investigated how villagers "adapt" to external development plan from the following issues. Those are: population change, land use change and health status evaluation, time allocation, food intake. Our results indicated that the external development plan did not improve the villagers' life steadily, rather than made an enormous impact on current village life. We suggested that it is necessary for local government to make some policies to alleviate these effects. In the present study, we also developed human activity survey method with accelerometer and VBA. And our results indicated that NDVI around house has positive impacts on malaria infection risk

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Association between Physical Activity and Neighborhood Environment among Middle-Aged Adults in Shanghai, (2013)
  • Author(s): Rena Zhou, Yang Li, Masahiro Umezaki, Yongming Ding, Hongwei Jiang, Alexis Comber, and Hua Fu
  • Journal Title: Journal of Environmental and Public Health
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Using shadow in high resolution imagery to map residential density (2011)
  • Author(s): Comber, A., Umezaki, M., Zhou, R., Ding, Y., Li,Y., Fu, H, Jiang, H. and Tewkesbury, A
  • Journal Title: Remote Sensing Letters Volume: 3 Pages: 551-556
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] Human outdoor defecation in endemic area of liver fluke: a case tudy in a village in Savannakhet, province, Lao PDR (2012)
  • Author(s): Hongwei JIANG
  • Organizer: The 4th Biennial Conference of International Association for Ecology an Health
  • Place of Presentation: Kunming China
  • Year and Date: 20121015-18
• [Presentation] Variations in malaria incidence by household positions within a community in high risk region (2012)
  • Author(s): Hongwei JIANG, Toshihiko SUNAHARA and Kazuhiko MOJI
  • Organizer: The 4th Biennial Conference of International Association for Ecology an Health
  • Place of Presentation: Kunming China
  • Year and Date: 20121015-18
• [Presentation] ラオスにおけるタイ・肝吸虫病流行地域におる村落住民野外排便行動の季節変動 (2012)
  • Author(s): 蒋 宏偉
  • Organizer: 日本生態人類学会総会
  • Place of Presentation: 姫路
  • Year and Date: 2012-03-26