Dr Keita Furukawa, Affiliated Research Fellow, the Ocean Policy Research Institute of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation (OPRI/SPF), Japan. He is also an affiliated professor at Yokohama National University and Tokushima University, and president of the Association for Shore Environment Creation (NPO).
He has more than 30 years’ experience with marine and coastal environmental research and in coastal ecosystem restoration project implementation. This includes work within governmental institutions, along with ocean policy studies at OPRI-SPF.
His scientific work has focused on the open ocean, estuaries, tidal-flats, seagrass beds, coral reefs, and mangrove forests. He has been actively involved in local, national, regional, and global action for marine environment conservation and restoration.
専門分野
Coastal ecosystem restoration
integrated coastal management (ICM)
mangrove forest
gobies revival project
blue carbon
climate change adaptation and mitigation, and civil science