Reports/Publication

30th March, 2022

Report on Municipalities’ attitude toward making forest environmental transfer tax PES-like

The above report presented at the annual Japan forest academy convention held on 29 March is uploaded.

29th March, 2022

Emotional revelation by walking in the forest and the effects of the guide by IT

At the Japan Forest Society Convention held yesterday, Shibata, Tsuge, and Takahashi reported on "Emotional revelation by walking in the forest and the effects of the IT guide -From the experimental results in "Sophia Forest "". The presentation materials are uploaded to the research results section of this site.

19th February, 2022

An article on “Sustainability” is published.

An article titled “Innovativeness of Japanese Forest Owners Regarding the Monetization of Forest Ecosystem Services by Takuya Takahashi, Takahiro Tsuge and Shingo Shibata was published on “Sustainability”. Its abstract and the main text is uploaded.

29th January, 2022

Result of Municipality Survey on Payment for Forest Ecosystem Services

16th September, 2021

Result of “Questionnaire survey on mountain, forest and life”

In 2020, we conducted a questionnaire survey on mountains, forests and life. Thank you for your cooperation. We received 260 responses from Shimokawa Town, Hokkaido, 235 from Ryujinmura, Hidaka City, Wakayama Prefecture, 90 from Nishiawakura Village, Okayama Prefecture, 366 from Aya Town, Miyazaki Prefecture, and 1 from unknown, for a total of 952 responses. The recovery rate was about 14%. We hereby report the aggregated results.

9th May, 2021

Presentation made at Japan Forest Academy convention

Results of questionnaire surveys on forest owners were presented at the Japan Forest Academy convention conducted in March, 2021. The presentation file is uploaded here (in Japanese only).