M. Takahashi's Website

WELCOME TO
Makoto Takahashi's Website
Doctor of Geography (1994, Nagoya Univ), Master of Arts (1988, Nagoya Univ)

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

Researchers (Faculty Profiles) / researchmap / ORCiD
Japanese / Disaster & Society / Kopi Kopi Indonesia!

RESEARCH INTEREST
Professor Takahashi has specialized in human/social geography, in particular geographical theories of society and space, focusing on 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 community-based disaster risk reduction, theories of disaster prevention literacy, and so on. For further, please visit the Study Group on Disaster & Soceity.

Please note that, as his retirement is approaching, he does not plan to accept any further students into his laboratory.