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Makoto Takahashi PhD MA

Professor at Environmental Policies / Geography
Department of Social and Human Environment
Graduate School of Environmental Studies
Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

Japanese / Disaster & Society / Kopi Kopi Indonesia!
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RESEARCH INTEREST
Professor Takahashi has specialized in human/social geography, in particular geographical theories of society and space, focusing city and countryside of the contemporary world including Japan, China and Indonesia. His primary research interests are:

Changing rural societies and regions,
Community development in city and countryside,
Natural hazard and disaster risk reduction.

Recently, he has been engaged in integrated researches on the 2004 Sumatra earthquake and tsunami, the recovery processes in its aftermaths, and socio-spatial restructuring in the post-recovery period, mainly focusing on Banda Aceh and Aceh Besar, Indonesia. His research has further extended to issues of disaster in general, in particular the community-based disaster risk reduction in underdeveloped counties and regions, and also in towns and villages of coastal northeast and southwest Japan. For further, please visit the Study Group on Disaster & Soceity.