Critical geographies on production and consumption of nature

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25284164
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Human geography
• Research Institution: Kanazawa University
• Principal Investigator: Nakashima Koji 金沢大学, 人間科学系, 准教授 (90217703)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): ASANO Toshihisa 広島大学, 総合科学研究科, 教授 (00284125) ; IGA Masaya 名古屋大学, 環境学研究科, 准教授 (70547075) ; ISHIYAMA Noriko 明治大学, 政治経済学部, 教授 (70386415) ; TACHIBANA Setsu 神戸山手大学, 現代社会学部, 教授 (70441409) ; FUKUDA Tamami 大阪府立大学, 人間社会学部, 教授 (80285311) ; MORI Masato 三重大学, 人文学部, 准教授 (10372541)
• Research Collaborator: Jay BOLTHOUSE ニューヨーク州立大学, ビンガムトン校, 博士後期課程大学院生
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 自然の地理学 / 自然の審美学 / 自然の政治学 / グローバル化と自然

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research program critically examines the role of “nature” in contemporary society, and aims to develop “geographies of nature” in Japan and to share its result with overseas critical geographers of nature. Through three years of research workings, we achieved satisfying result as follows: 1) publication of academic papers and books on geographies of nature and paper presentation at academic conferences, 2) five times research meetings of our group, 3) international sessions on “Rethinking geographies of nature” organized by our group at the International Geographical Congress Kyoto Regional Conference 2013, 4) a publication of Special Issue of Japanese Journal of Human Geography (66-6, 2014) titled “Rethinking geographies of nature” edited by Nakashima, and 5) a symposium of “Production and consumption of nature: from the viewpoint of geographies of nature” organized by our research group at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Japanese Geographers 2016.

Free Research Field

人文地理学、自然の地理学