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Research Staff

	Atsushi Makino

Research Group
Biotic and Human Interaction Research Group
Degree
Sociology Master
Photograph Explanation
In front of the Lake Biwa Museum.

E-MAIL: atushi@lbm.go.jp

	Career

I graduated from the Economics Department of Kwansei Gakuin University and completed a master's degree in sociology at the same university. I worked for Shiga Prefecture (Art and Science member) and joined the Lake Biwa Museum in April, 1999.

Specialty

1. Regional planning of farm villages.
2. Problems of bird and animal damage in farming regions.
3. Water utilization in farming regions.

Key Words of Research

Environmental coexistence, lifestyles, villages.

Professional Society Membership

The Japanese Society for Environmental Sociology, the Japan Association of Regional and Community Studies, the Japanese Association for Rural Studies.