An integration of social science into global water resources assessment

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15H04047
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Hydraulic engineering
• Research Institution: Tokyo Institute of Technology
• Principal Investigator: KANAE Shinjiro 東京工業大学, 環境・社会理工学院, 教授 (20313108)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 遠藤 崇浩 大阪府立大学, 現代システム科学域, 准教授 (50414032) ; 長野 宇規 神戸大学, 農学研究科, 准教授 (70462207) ; 千葉 知世 阪南大学, 経済学部, 准教授 (80751338)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 世界水危機 / 文理融合 / ソフトパス / 地下水管理 / リモートセンシング

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This is a research project that tries to incorporate aspects of social science into global scale water resources assessment which has been carried out by natural scientists. A major outcome is as follows. We were able to present the global distribution of potential areas where water markets could be instituted by analyzing 296 water laws. This was realized by taking into account a set of three provisions in a legal sense. In addition, we investigated a few more globally distributed conditions. Another output in this research as a basic development of necessary technology for this objective is a development of an advanced satellite remote sensing technology to grasp water crisis. In addition, some studies on economics of global water resources were carried out.

Free Research Field

水文学