| Career Summary |
1974 B.A. at Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo
1977 M.A. at Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Science, The University of Tokyo
1981 M.A. at Graduate School of Science (Department of Philosophy and History of Sciences) , The University of Tokyo
1984 Ph.D. candidate at Graduate School of Science (Department of Philosophy and History of Sciences) , The University of Tokyo
1984: Assistant Professor of Yamaguchi University, Faculty of Liberal Arts
1987: Associate Professor of Yamaguchi University, Faculty of Liberal Arts
1993: Professor of Aomori Public University, Faculty of Economics and Managements
1997: Professor of Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Faculty of Agriculture
2003: Professor of Keisen University, Graduate School of Humanities
2005-: Professor of The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences
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| Educational Activities |
Graduate school: Environmental Ethics, Seminar on Environmental Ethics and Sociology, Landscape Design Studio, Transdisciplinary Seminar on Socio-Cultual Environmental Studies
Faculty of Literature: Special Lecture on Environmental Ethics, Environmental Ethics and Society
Faculty of Agriculture: Biodiversity and Environmental Ethics
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| Research Activities |
One of the most essential purposes of environmental ethics studies is to pursue the examination of our "relationships" to various, bat especially natural, environments. Through our practical and ideal research approach, which focuses on subsistence activities, including children's play, we investigate the ideas of culture, technology, social design, and arrangements in our relationship to nature. These studies will be brought together to establish a systematic construction of transdisciplinary and universal environmental ethics, which is in a relations-based approach. The most basic and important points behind this approach is to fulfill not only "environmental sustainability", but also "social justice" and "ontological richness".
The main themes of our investigations are as follows:
1. Studies on a theoretical framework of environmental ethics with a relationship approach;
2. Theoretical and empirical studies on biodiversity and nature regeneration ideas;
3. Studies on the socio-cultural evaluation index for the monitoring of biodiversity; and
4. Theoretical and empirical studies of consensus building in environmental decision-making.
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Literature
1) Kitoh, Shuichi, Shizenhogo wo Toinaosu: Kankyourinri to Network (Reexamination of Nature Conservation: Environmental Ethics and Network, in Japanese), Chikuma Shobou, 1996.
2) Kitoh, Shuichi (ed.), Kankyou no Yutakasa wo Motomete: Rinen to Undou (Towards Environmental Richness: Ideas and Movements, in Japanese), Shouwadou, 1999.
3) Washitani, Izumi and Kitoh, Shuichi (eds.), Seibutsutayousei Monitoring (Biodiversity Monitoring: Collaboration to Build Capacity for Ecosystem Management, in Japanese), University of Tokyo Press, 2007.
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| Other Activities |
Japanese Society for Science and Technology Studies (Director 2003-2004)
Japanese Association for Environmental Sociology (Director and Editorial Board member 1999-2007)
Wildlife Conservation Society Japan (Director 2005-2007)
Associate Member of Science Council of Japan (2005-2008)
Council member of The Nature Conservation Society of Japan (2003-present)
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| Future Plan |
1. We plan to develop a grand design of environmental ethics for the holistic relationships with nature including benefits, values and risks.
2. We plan to visualize and organize the local knowledge in various areas to design the local area landscapes and to build the proper relationships with nature.
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| Messages to Students |
I hope that you will join us on this new frontier of a transdisciplinary approach to environmental ethics, sociology, and politics. For the new approach to environmental ethics, closely investigating research field sites with transdisciplinary sensibility and thought will be necessary.
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