Welcome to Hasegawa-Laboratory!

Our laboratory conducts researches mainly on climate change mitigation, using a computer simulation model called “Integrated assessment model” that integrates relevant discipline such as energy, economy, agriculture, land use, and water use into a single platform. We primarily focus on future greenhouse gas emissions, their reduction measures, and economic implications of such climate mitigation policies. Meanwhile, the economic analysis of climate change impacts is also one of the scopes of our studies. Moreover, beyond the climate change issue, to provide solutions to achieve broader sense of sustainable development is the newly focused area in the research arena. We cover multi-scale areas spatially temporally. For instance, spatial resolution varies from national (each country of Asia), whole Asia, to the globe and sometimes gridded scale analysis is also carried out (0.5 °x0.5 °). The temporally coverage is near to long-term future such as next decade to entire this century.

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NEWS Dr. Hasegawa received the 2024 Women's Challenge Award in the Special Category.
NEWS Dr. Hasegawa appeared on the NHK Special program 'Human Age: The Age of Humans, Episode 3: The Desire for Food and the Future of 8 Billion People.'

NEWS Associate Professor Hasegawa gets a prize of Highly Cited Researchers 2023 from Cross-Field.

NEWS Associate Professor Hasegawa gets a prize of Highly Cited Researchers 2022 from Cross-Field. 90 from Japanese institute are selected.

NEWS Dr. Hasegawa provided scientific knowledge as a resource person in the high-level segment of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. The discussion focused on how to recover from Corona and how to achieve the SDG.
The session will be transmitted live (and will remain available on demand) on UN WebTV:
NEWS Associate Professor Hasegawa gets a prize of Highly Cited Researchers 2021 from Cross-Field 3years in a row.
NEWS Dr.Risper Nyairo will retire at the end of October. Thank you for everything.
Dr. Hasegawa received the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Young Scientist's Prize .
NEWS Mr. Ichimori, B4 student, won the Excellent Presentation Award in the Joint Seminar for the graduation research. Congratulations!
NEWS Associate Professor Hasegawa gets a prize of Highly Cited Resesarchers 2020 from Cross-Field.
NEWS Dr. Risper Buyaki Nyairo has assigned to the Senior Researcher. Welcome, Nyairo-san!
NEWS We hold a meeting for the B4 students ' Interim Report for the graduation thesis.
Pre-release Plant and animal species across the world are steadily disappearing due to human activity. Our international research group led by International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) published a major new study suggesting that without ambitious, integrated action combining conservation and restoration efforts with a transformation of the food system, turning the tide of biodiversity by 2050 or earlier will not be possible.

The study, which has been published in Nature and forms part of the latest Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) Living Planet Report, for the first time set out to explore biodiversity targets as ambitious as a reversal in global biodiversity trends and shed light on what integrated future pathways to achieving this goal might entail.
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NEWS We hold a online welcome party for the B4 students to the Lab.
NEWS A new paper "Bending the curve of terrestrial biodiversity needs an integrated strategy" has been published in Nature!
NEWS An article has appeared in Matters Arising, Nature Climate Change. The method we used in the paper "Reply to: An appeal to cost undermines food security risks of delayed mitigation" has discussed here.
NEWS The seven B4 students have assigned to the Lab.
NEWS B4 Students, Yuya SEKI and Naoto MAKIYAMA get awards of excellence in the Joint Seminar among 4laboratories from Ritsumeikan University and the University of Shiga Prefecture.
NEWS Associate Professor Hasegawa gets a prize of Highly Cited Resesarchers 2019 from Cross-Field.
NEWS A new paper “Tackling food consumption inequality to fight hunger without pressuring the environment” has been published in Nature Sustainability!
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-019-0371-6?fbclid=IwAR0PsjzJ7Dza0K9Syis26scadIskPskBWjCLVa8_6S1zdtVbACOy-UTscIU
Here is a press release issued by IIASA↓
https://iiasa.ac.at/web/home/about/news/190911-food-security-and-conservation.html?fbclid=IwAR04bY_cCRyZiMu-LxH1y3CjZfmwIuF-Ny75whYl9GjSkxPCLtzEOJ1TD1g
NEWS Our new homepage is open.
NEWS Dr. Tomoko HASEGAWA has arrived the position of Associate Professor.
The four students, Yuya SEKI, Yusuke TABATA, Ryosuke NISHIMURA, and Naoto MAKIYAMA have assigned to the Lab.
Laboratory Assistant Ms. Naoko KISHIDA has assinged to the office.

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Ritsumeikan BKC Campus 1-1-1 Noji-higashi, Kusatsu, Shiga 525-8577 Japan

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BKC Campus

Email:thase(a)fc.ritsumei.ac.jp

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