While forests are a source of wood and energy, they are also renewable.
They are also important for absorbing and fixing carbon dioxide, watershed conservation, preventing soil loss, preserving biodiversity and as a place for health, recreation, culture and education. This course seeks to foster personnel who can further increase the value and functions of forests and can find ideal solutions for their use.
| Research Laboratories | Main Subject |
|---|---|
| Forest Genetics |
In order to develop methods for conservation and utilization of forest genetic resources studies based on population genetics and molecular biology will be conducted. Researches will be done mainly on tree populations in temperate forests and also in tropical rain forests in the world. |
| Forest Resources Biology | Silviculture, reforestation, rehabilitation, and reclamation of the forests are studied by methods of ecology, eco-physiology, soil science and forest protection. Our objectives are clarification of organic matter dynamics, nutrient circulation, biodiversity and tree eco-physiological processes for the appropriate management of forest ecosystems. |
| Wood Science and Technology | Various enhancements of wood properties and system development of forest resources for sustainable use. |
| Woody Biomass Conversion | This laboratory promotes research and education aimed at the development of conversion technologies for bioenergy and value-added products, based on chemical approaches grounded in a systematic understanding of the cell wall components of woody biomass derived from forest resources. |
| Mountain Conservation and Disaster Mitigation | To achieve both environmental conservation and disaster mitigation in mountainous areas, we conduct education and research on the dynamics of sediment generation and transport, topographic changes on slopes and in streams, and methods to predict their occurrence. |
| Forest Resources Planning | Regarding forests as global and local environmental assets as well as material resources, this laboratory is actively involved in research leading to forest resources planning at the local and global levels through forest mensuration and ecological analysis of forest dynamics. |
| Forest Education | Forest resource is an essential element to develop a sustainable society. From this point of view, we will promote outstanding strategies in forest education programs through practical research. Such programs will reform our consciousness and action to forest and forestry by understanding the multi-functionality, circularity and sustainability of forest resources. |
| Forest Environment Management | With the goal of regional development of forests and forestry, a policy that balances the management of the forest environment indispensable in the utilization of resources and environmental conservation is required where the relationship between humans and forest is central to research from the micro-perspective of forest work to the macro-perspective of forestry planning. |