Wildlife, Landscape Use and Society

Sugimura evaluates the importance of landscape change, government policies and economy on the ecosystems of Japan and how such a rich variety of species have been able to survive, albeit in limited numbers, despite the rapid expansion of the Japanese human population in the 20th century.

Ken Sugimura is former professor of Environmental Science at Nagasaki University, Japan (he retired in March 2020).

Introduction: aims and scope  1.Terrestrial biodiversity and landscape use across the country 2. Amami Oshima  3. Amami Oshima (2) 4. Forest utilisation in Fukushima before and after the 2011 power plant accident  5. Forests and Satoyama landscapes in the suburb of a metropolitan area  6. Regional comparison and summary discussion