Researcher's Information

Professor

ICHIKI, Atsushi

Environmental Systems Engineering

Phenomenon analysis for use in formulating environmental management plans and a policy analysis method

Lake Biwa, for example, has a vast water catchment area with 100 or more large and small rivers flowing into it, thus making comprehension of the contaminant outflow and outflow characteristics of the water catchment area necessary in formulating appropriate water management policy to conserve water quality and carrying out concrete facility developments to controlling the outflow load of contaminants. We are therefore clarifying the existing characteristics of contaminants, their behavior characterization that includes generation, accumulation and outflow, and the mechanism of pollution, and working at making inspections and suggestions of appropriate water management policy using policy simulations and an environmental management model. Some concrete research themes are given below.
・Dynamics analysis of contaminating substances/small amounts of harmful substances in urban or agricultural land
・Existing evaluations of urban activity-derived air-pollution substances
・Ecological risk evaluations of small amounts of harmful substance that exist in the environment
・Development of a contaminant outflow management support system for the water catchment area of Lake Biwa and evaluation of its availability
・Water quality formation process for Lake Biwa and its model
  • Scene of river water quality survey from a ship in the Kapuas river in Indonesia