Member

HAGA, Chihiro

Assistant Professor
Earth and Planetary System Science Group

Office: -850
E-mail:
HP: http://hagachi.github.io/

Research Field

Environmental Science, Landscape Ecology, Social– Ecological Systems

Current Research

I aim to understand how environments that have been shaped and maintained by human activities change over time and what states they may reach in the future. Natural environments are influenced not only by climate change and natural disturbances, but also significantly by land and resource use driven by social factors such as demographic change and policy decisions. My research focuses on Social–Ecological Systems composed of human societies and natural ecosystems, with the goal of identifying the conditions under which these systems reach critical transition points, as well as how human societies can respond to and manage such changes.

Representative Publications

1. Haga C, Maeda M, Hotta W, et al (2023) Modeling desirable futures at local scale by combining the nature futures framework and multi-objective optimization. Sustain Sci. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-023-01301-8
2. Haga C, Hotta W, Inoue T, et al (2022) Modeling Tree Recovery in Wind-Disturbed Forests with Dense Understory Species under Climate Change. Ecological Modelling 472:110072. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2022.110072
3. Haga C, Inoue T, Hotta W, et al (2019) Simulation of natural capital and ecosystem services in a watershed in Northern Japan focusing on the future underuse of nature: by linking forest landscape model and social scenarios. Sustain Sci 14:89–106. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-018-0623-9