Ⅰ- 5. An Overview of Research on Disaster Environment

As part of efforts towards recovery and restoration from the Great East Japan Earthquake and “Environmental Creation”, the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) arranged the various research topics currently being implemented at NIES as “Research on Disaster Environment” into the "Panorama of Research on Disaster Environment".

•   [An Overview of Research on Disaster Environment]

Great East Japan Earthquake Information Page

•  Ⅰ.Initiatives at the National Institute for Environmental Studies
  •  1.Appropriate treatment and disposal of disaster waste and waste contaminated by radioactive substances
  •  2.Clarifying behaviors for radioactive substances in multimedia (atmosphere, soil, water, plants, organisms and ecosystems, etc.)
  •  3.Studies and projections on environmental change originating from the disaster and associated effects
  •  4.Details of research outcomes presented at the NIES Public Symposium
  •  5.An Overview of Research on Disaster Environment
  •  6.Other
    •  (1) Tsukuba City radioactive substances and radiation measurements
    •  (2) Research outcomes etc., from NIES researchers (Presented prior to the occurrence of the Great East Japan Earthquake)
    •  (3) Kankyo Tenbodai (Environmental Observatory), search service for disaster information relating to environment in environmental information media
•  Ⅱ. Information Sources Related to the Disaster