Recent issues on mitigating global warming

National for Environmental Stedied2005 International Symposium on Environmental Mornitoring in East Asia -Remote Sensing and Forests-,Hosted The EMEA Project, Kanazawa University 21st=Century COE Program -Environmental Monitoring and Predicition of Long- and Short- Term Dynamics of Pan-Japan Sea Area- ,予稿集, EMEA 2005 in Kanazawa, 国際学術研究公開シンポジウム『東アジアの環境モニタリング』－リモートセンシングと森林－,年月日：200511月28日～29日, 場所：KKRホテル金沢, 金沢大学自然科学研究科, 主催：金沢大学EMEAプロジェクト, 共催：金沢大学21世紀COEプログラム「環日本海域の環境変動と長期・短期変動予測

6.EMEA International Symposium in Kanazawa, Japan

National Institute for Environmental StudiesProject Number 14404021, Peport of Research Project ; Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(B)(2), from April 2002 to March 2006, Edited by Muramoto,Ken-ichiroKamata, NaotoKawanishi, TakuyaKubo, MamoruLiu, JiyuanLee, Kyu-Sung , 人工衛星データ活用のための東アジアの植生調査、課題番号14404021, 平成14年度～平成17年度科学研究費補助金, 基盤研究（B)(2)研究成果報告書, 研究代表者：村本, 健一郎, 金沢大学自然科学研究科教

DEVELOPMENT OF EVALUATION MODEL FOR SAFETY PERCEPTION IN PASSING BY VEHICLES ON CARRIAGEWAY CYCLING

安全で快適な自転車利用環境の創出に向けたガイドラインは，自転車専用通行帯や，車道混在による通行空間を中心として，ネットワークを形成する方針を示している．一方，多くの自転車利用者は，車道部を通行することに不安を感じているのが現実と思われる．車道部自転車通行空間の普及には“安全感”を確保するための交通条件や街路要素を明らかにすることが肝要と言える．本研究では，自転車が自動車に追い越される現象に着目して，追い越され時の安全感評価モデルを開発することで，追い越した自動車の速度，自転車との離隔幅，車種といった特性に加えて，自転車専用通行帯，カラー舗装，矢羽根，ピクトグラムなどの車道での通行空間表示が安全感に与える影響を定量的に明らかにした ．“Guidelines for creating a safe and comfortable bicycle friendly environment” in 2012 adopted a policy that bicycle networks should be created mainly by bicycle lane type, and shared space on carriageway. Street design to secure safety sense of cyclists is needed because most of cyclists feel danger when they cycle on carriageway. The aim of this study is to build evaluation models from a viewpoint of bicycles' safety perception in order to clear the condition for the safety sense of cyclists in passing by vehicles. In conclusion, the effects by several features of passing vehicles and streets are measured, and colored bicycle lane itself can improve safety sense of cyclists even the distance and velocity of passing vehicles are same

Evaluation of Cyclists' Safety Sense for the Various Type of Bicycle Space on Carriageway

国・警察による「安全で快適な自転車利用環境創出ガイドライン」では，自転車専用通行帯や車道混在を中心とした自転車ネットワーク形成方針を示している．一方，自転車利用者の多くは車道通行に不安を感じており，車道部の自転車通行空間の普及には “安全感” 確保のための街路交通条件を明らかにすることが肝要と言える．本研究は、自転車の車道走行時の安全感に影響を与える要因を明らかにすることを目的としている．そのため，東京都内の街路交通特性の異なる街路 22 区間についてビデオクリップ・アンケートを用いて、サイクリストの安全感とその要因への意識を調査し、安全感に影響を与える要因及び街路交通特性との関係を分析した．その結果，「追い越され」の要因が高く，レーン設置，通行帯幅確保が安全感向上に寄与することが明らかになった."Guideline for creation of safety and comfort bicycle environment" published by The Ministry of Land Infrastructure and Transport and The National Police Agency appears the policy that bicycle network plan should be formed mainly by bicycle lanes and shared lanes on carriageway. Because, most of cyclists, however, are afraid of running on the carriageway in Japan, improvement of safety sense towards carriageway is needed to promote cycling on carriageway. The aim of this study is to make clear the relationship between cyclists' safety sense and the conditions of streets and traffic characteristics along bicycle space. WEB questionnaire survey showing the video from bicycles was carried out in order to search cyclists' safety sense for 22 streets of various type of bicycle infrastructure selected in Tokyo Metropolitan area. As results, factors related to overtaking behaviors are significant, and existence of bicycle lanes or shared space on roadway has effects on the safety sense

A survey of national sustainable development indicators

We surveyed sustainable development indicators (SDIs) adopted by 28 national governments, regions, and international organisations and compiled them into a database. The aims of this study were to understand the elements of sustainable development (SD), examine SDIs developed in certain fields and countries, and determine future tasks to improve SDI development. A total of 1,790 indicators were surveyed and classified into 77 subcategories in four categories. Most of the indicators measured various SD elements, and the indicators reflected each country's developmental stage and specific concerns. Several advanced or unique indicators were also identified. Five major tasks in the future development of SDIs were identified: 1) creating time-conscious indicators; 2) measuring interactions between elements of a system; 3) dealing with transboundary issues in a national SDI system; 4) measuring SD quality (including subjective elements); 5) including ordinary citizens by showing the relationships between SDI and everyday life.sustainable development; national indicators; database; environmental information; statistics; categorisation; sustainability; social indicators; environmental indicators; economic indicators.