Murayama Lab., Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Publication list has been updated, while some papers and presentations should be added.

Annual meeting of IAIA was held online, and some members made presentations. Also, Murayama provided his treasurer report at General Annual Meeting. It includes in 2020 annual report.

The 33rd annual meeting of the Society for Risk Analysis, Japan was held online from November 21 to 22, and Atsushi Imanaka, a PhD student, received an excellent presentation award.

Some members attended the annual meeting of IAIA in Brisbane, Australia, and Mr. Ali Rahmat Kurniawan, PhD student from Indonesia, made a presentation on EIA system in Indonesia. At the meeting, JICA received IAIA Institutional Award for outstanding activities on environmental and social considerations for their projects. Murayama served as a chair of advisory committee on JICA environmental and social considerations for more than 10 years.

As a director of the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA), which is the leading organization on impact assessment for various fields, Murayama was elected with other two members, Ben Cave as President-elect and Eddie Smith as secretary. Murayama will work as treasurer for 3 years.

Held on February 2nd and 3rd in Ookayama campus, around 170 pearsons attended the meeting. the program is here (in Japanese).

Japan Center for Environmental Information Science (CEIS) held a symposium on measures for SDGs related to the 5th Environmental Basic Plan and contribution of environmental reasearches in the 32th annual meeting. At the symposium, Murayama made a presentation on contribution of EIA for SDGs and discussed with other panelists.

As an advisory member of pilot projects on zoning system for wind farm construction organized by Japan Ministry of the Environment, we visited Aomori prefecture to look around the potential areas and discuss with stakeholeders.

Ms. Yukiko Iida, a PhD student, attended The 3rd Asian Network of Occupational Hygiene Conference held at National Yang-Ming University in Taipei, she got Best poster popularity award.

Prof. Murayama visited Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam to discuss with faculties of Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology as well as conduct site visit around a MSW dumping facility which is related to a research of a PhD student, Linh Tran.

International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA) held a special symposium, The competing challenges of sustainability and economic development: Using impact assessment to achieve the SDGs in Asia,  in Kuching City of Sarawak state, Malaysia, and we made presentations with 4 PhD students.

Prof. Murayama and some students attended the 12th conference of Asian Impact Assessment (AIC2018), made presentations.

Professor Murayama attended annual meeting of International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA18) held in Durban, South Africa.

Presentation title is “Social response for CCS facilities in Japan (with Atsushi Nagaoka and Shigeo Nishikizawa)”.

Publication list has been updated, and the following paper has been published online.
“Social impacts induced by a development project in Tanzania: a case of airport expansion” (Nyandaro Mteki, Takehiko Murayama, Shigeo Nishikizawa), Journal of Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, published online, May 8, 2017

Prof. Murayama attended annual conference of International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA) held in Montreal, Canada, and provided the information on the social response for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) policy and related projects, as well as a short report on the activities of Japan Branch.

Prof. Murayama discussed with Cristiàn Franz Thorud, Director General of Environmental Enforcement Superintendence of Chile about follow-up survey of EIA and inspection procedures for factories.

Prof. Murayama attended the 2016 annual meeting of the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) held in San Diego, CA, and made a poster presentation on ”Estimation of annual human risks induced by a hazardous pollutant by chemical accidents.”

As an activity of Asbestos Risk Abatement Association, prof. Murayama conducted a survey on current situation of victims support groups and other local activities in UK.

Prof. Murayama attended the 13th Conference on Green House Gas control Technology (GHGT-13) in Lausanne, Switherland.

Prof. Murayama attended the 33rd Conference of Japan Environmental Council held in Naha City, Okinawa, which focused on Environment, Peace, Autonomy and Human rights.

Page on Research Projects was updated.

Prof. Murayama attended a meeting of Research group on consensus building at Kumamoto University.

Professor Murayama conducted a survey on MSW in Penang Island, Malaysia with Ms. Lee Fung Teh (Felicia) for her Master’s research.

Professor Murayama and Dr. Iizuka attended round-table meeting with residents of Mamie Town, Fukushima Pref., and discussed on “what is necessary for daily lives and revitalization of the town?”.

Annual Meeting of Japan Society for Impact Assessment (Chuo University)

Annual Meeting of Japan Association for Planning and Public Management (Kwansei Gakuin University)

Prof. Murayama joined International workshop on risk governance of chemical substances (Osaka Univ.).

News of Tokyo Tech on annual meeting of IAIA16, 11-14 May was released.

International Association for Impact Assessment conference held in Japan

Prof. Murayama visited CCS facility in Tomakomai, Hokkaido.

Prof. Murayama made a presentation at a session on Addressing Climate Fragility Risks in Asia and Pacific: Challenges and Opportunities for Achieving Sustainable Development, International Forum for Sustainable Asia and the Pacific (ISAP2016)