The members of the Material Flow Innovation Research Program consist of researchers and technicians, who belong to the Material Cycles Division, Biodiversity Division, Regional Environment Conservation Division, Social Systems Division, or the Fukushima Regional Collaborative Research Center of National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan.
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- Regional emissions inventory and air quality simulations of ambient pollutants
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- Integrated assessment models / Decarbonization and sustainable society scenarios
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- Regional impact analysis focusing on future resource constraints in Japan
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- Biodiversity modeling and assessment
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- Life cycle assessment of product-service systems / Consumer behavior simulation and scenario analysis
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- Material circulation design / Evaluating the effectiveness of the Minamata Convention on Mercury
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- Resource use and human health impacts / Future resource trade / Scenario-based footprint analysis
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Wataru Takayanagi
- Data visualization and presentation design (Visualization assistance)
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- Biodiversity analysis
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- Science-based targets for material use / Material efficiency strategies / Material-X-Nexus
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- Remote sensing analysis
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- Development of plastic recycling scenarios that consider toxic substance restrictions and carbon positives
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- Modeling and inventory of micro- and nano-plastics emissions during plastics disposal and recycling processes
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- Environmentally sound management of POP (Persistent Organic Pollutants) wastes/POP-BFR (Brominated Flame Retardants) behavior in plastic recycling
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- Identification and characterization of wastes containing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances
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- Modeling substance flows and stocks of chemical substances in material cycle systems
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- Interaction between recycling flows and environmental risks of recycled materials in construction
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- Risk management of microplastics and related chemicals during the product life cycle
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- Microplastic generation behavior and additive release behavior from plastics based on accelerated deterioration tests
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- Generation of micro- and nano-plastics and their environmental behavior
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- WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) and plastic material cycle management policies
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- Methodology and supervision of treatment and disposal technologies for hazardous wastes
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- Constructing frameworks to manage hazardous substances in the extreme long term
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- Mathematical modeling of mass transfer in sequestration and storage technologies
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- Scenarios and strategies for waste management towards decarbonized society
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- Development of an innovative thermo-bio hybrid system for carbon recycling
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- Development of biomass utilization technologies and control of environmental pollutants
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- Multi-pathway bio-methanation using conductive carbon materials
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Toshiyuki Motoki
- Analysis and data curation of environmental pollutants in circulation technologies (Experiment assistance)
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Kanami Nagamoto
- Experimental investigation of the performance of sequestration technologies (Experiment assistance)
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- Utilization of recycled materials for carbon recycling
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- Fate of plastics in waste disposal and circulation systems
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- Robust bio-process for the direct methanation of pyrolyzed synthesis gas
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- Supervision on safe design and installation of storage and sequestration systems
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- Prediction of environmental pollutant behaviors in circulation technologies
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