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In order to solve public issues, it is essential to rebuild the system by repairing the existing social system that has become old and rusty and presenting a direction for solving it. This is a dynamic process that is trying to change the old-fashioned society, and it can be said that "environmental planning" or "environmental policy" is the practice of this in the environmental field.
Nishikizawa Laboratory aims to contribute to solving public issues by verifying and proposing social systems from an approach based on environmental planning and policy. Specifically, we are working on the development of policy methods and planning technologies for resolving and avoiding environmental problems and environmental conflicts caused by renewable energy such as wind and solar-PV projects. In my research, Our research emphasizes fieldwork. The target is mainly "Human and Society" , that is, human recognition, awareness, behavior, and the organization, mechanism, and system surrounding them. For this reason, we collect interview surveys, questionnaire surveys, administrative materials and minutes, and use them as data sources.
In today's civil society, it is not just specific experts or governments, but individual citizens who promote social transformation in order to resolve public issues. Therefore, “consensus building” is important for bundling the thoughts and ideas of people with diverse values in one direction and implementing them.
Public issues and consensus building are complex worlds where people's awareness, values, positions and interests clash. The attractiveness of environmental planning and policy lies in the fact that we can see the structure of society through careful investigations, and that we can be involved in actual policy planning based on that knowledge.
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