Resource-circulating society and urban-rural sustainable landscape planning in the urban fringes of Asian large cities

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26850221
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Environmental agriculture(including landscape science)
• Research Institution: Wakayama University
• Principal Investigator: Hara Yuji 和歌山大学, システム工学部, 准教授 (30422455)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 緑地 / アジア都市 / バイオマス / 生態系サービス / 都市農村混在 / 郊外 / 土地利用計画 / 循環型社会

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Many Asian large cities are located on deltaic lowlands, characterized with a variable land-use mixture of urban housing and rice-dominant agricultural lands. Mono-functional zoning could not control this land-use variability, and could not handle emerging environmental problems. I aimed at developing urban-rural planning which is suitable for the deltaic Asian urban fringe, with special focuses on two key bio-resource flows between urban and rural land uses; foods and organic wastes. Sakai City in central Japan and Bangkok in Thailand were selected as main case study cities. I examined spatiotemporal dynamics of urban-rural land uses, and examined bio-resource generations in these land uses. Then I developed land-use scenarios for better bio-resource uses and circulations using GIS.

Free Research Field

景観生態学