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School of Environmental Science
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Promoting harmony between people and
the environment : cultivating people with broad views
and highly developed specialist
skills
The School of Environmental
Science consists of four departments. The Department of
Ecosystem Studies emphasizes the causal relationship
between human activities and environmental elements from
the viewpoint of ecology. The Department of
Environmental Policy and Planning is concerned with
transforming our society into a sustainable one by
making social, organizational, and individual behaviors
more environmentally friendly. The Department employs
multidisciplinary approaches in its education and
research, and offers a wide variety of courses ranging
from social sciences to natural sciences. The Department
of Design and Architecture studies living space design
as human habitat, landscape architecture for the
coexistence of humans and nature, and urban
environmental planning for sustainable community, to
establish harmony between human life and the natural,
historical or cultural environment. The Department of
Biological Resources Management deals with sustainable
development of industry by inputting the smallest amount
of resources and develops its management
methodology.
The School was established on the
basis of considerable experience and knowledge of
environmental problems of Shiga Prefecture.Since the
activities of environmental sciences involve various
fields of pure and applied sciences as well as social
sciences, environmentaleducation should be taken in a
more integrated approach, which can be done by combining
four departments in the School.
The School
intends to educate knowledgeable students who have not
only a comprehensive understanding regarding the complex
interaction between man and the surrounding environment
in a system, but also the professional knowledge and
technology to solve problems arising from the system.
The characteristics of the curriculum of the School
focuses on the training for outdoor researches
represented by gEnvironmental Fieldworkh to nurture the
integral ability for understanding complex environmental
subjects. Along with these outdoor researches, lectures
and experiments are conducted to foster
inter-disciplinary knowledge and professional ability so
as to manage diverse environmental issues.
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