Name Fumihide ONISHI (given name, family name)
Sex Male
Date of Birth April 4, 1951.

Affiliation TAKENAKA CORPORATION

Subject:
Creation of “Human-Nature System Model (HNSM)” from the Point of View of River Basin
Keywords:
Human-Nature System (HNS), River Basin (Watershed), Urban-Nature System (UNS), Ecological Planning, Watershed Environmental Capacity (WEC), River Basin Management, Multi-disciplinary Research, Human Lifestyle, GIS

1. Background and Motivation:
In recent years, there has been a pressing need to solve the environmental problems such as global warming and other global problems concerning water, food, forest resources and regional problems such as heat island effects in urban areas. These problems are supposed to be caused by interaction between significant growing activities of human being and natural systems. 　To solve them, therefore, it may be indispensable to create a process to quantitatively grasp the interaction between humans and nature in the living environment. This research aims to analyze “Human and Nature system” quantitatively from the point of view of natural ecosystems and human ecosystems.

2. Approach:
For quantitative analysis on accumulation of human activities and the resilience of natural systems, a concept of “Watershed Environmental Capacity (WEC)” based on catchment area as an ecosystem has been established. For modeling of the pluralistic “Human-Nature System”, five indices of WEC have been set CO2 Fixation, WEC of Cooling, WEC of Space, WEC of Water Resource, WEC of Wooden Resource. The analyzing unit, which is based on catchment area as an ecosystem, includes three different scaleｓ to set the hierarchical river management model: River Basin Unit, Sub River Basin Unit and Community Unit.
To do the modeling efficiently, through utilization of Digital National Land Information, a quantitative analysis system of database by numerical model and geographic information system (GIS) has been established. To grasp the extensive and current status in Japan, a quantitative analysis has been conducted in the three Metropolitan areas of Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya and the surrounding regions.

3. Significance and Objective:
The grasp of quantitative relationship between humans and nature in the environment of human residence is now at the starting line, aiming for environmental protection in cities, the earth and new lifestyles. It is also regarded as an environmental structure; however, it is hard to recognize and to construct an agreement as it is invisible. In this system, we’ve intergrated scientific knowledge and environmental data accumulated in society by using GIS and have tried to easily transmit comprehensive information. Our target is to promote recognition on the raison d’etre of nature, human attribute, to contribute to development of environmental planning method, lifestyle as well as to promote to consolidate the knowledge, information on inhabitants, planner, the areas of city and nature.

Books
1.Fumihide Onishi（2002）Operating Manual for Spaceship River Basin by GIS、Environmental Guide for Human and Nature 1, U-time Publishing, 159pp, ESRI ’s permanent collection recognized by Dr. Jack Dangermond
2.JIA Sustainable Architecture Action Committee (2005) Guide Book for Sustainable Architecture, Shokokusha Publishing, 243pp

Main papers
1.Fumihide Onishi (1975) A Study on the Ecological Land Analysis on the Kitayamagawa River Basin, Bachelor 's thesis, Kobe University, 89pp
2.Fumihide Onishi (1977) An Experimental Approach to Ecological Planning by Means of Drainage Basin, Master's thesis, Osaka Prefecture University, 189pp
3.Fumihide Onishi, et al (1995) New methods for trial calculation of the Environmental Capacity from the Point of View of River Basin, Journal of Environmental Information Science, 24-1,59-71
4.Fumihide Onishi, et al (1997) An Analysis of Environmental Capacity of the Three Metropolitan Areas in Japan by Using GIS, Proceedings of Geographic Information System Association, Vol.6, 199-204
5.Fumihide Onishi, et al (1998) Fundamental Study on the Fluctuations of Environmental Capacity in Yodo River Basin and Yamato River Basin, Landscape Research Japan, Vol. 61(5), 737-742
6.Fumihide Onishi (1999) Fundamental Study on Conception and Quantitative Approach and also Fluctuation of Environmental Capacity by Means of River Basin, Doctor's thesis, Osaka Prefecture University, 231pp
7.Fumihide Onishi (2004) River Basin Research for Human Habitat by using GIS, Proceedings of Ecology and Civil Engineering Society Vol.8, 151-154,
8. Fumihide Onishi (2005) Multi-disciplinary River Basin Research for Environmental Capacity of Water Resources by Using GIS, Proceedings of General Meeting of the Association of Japanese Geographers, No.67, 83
9.Fumihide Onishi (2005) A Study on the Environmental Capacity of CO2 Fixation of River Basin, Proceedings of the Forum of JSCE Committee on Global Environment Engineering, Vol.13, 299-304
10.Fumihide Onishi (2005) A Study on the Model for ” Human･Nature System” of River Basin by Using GIS, Proceedings of Tokyo University CSIS DAYS 2005, 9

1.Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN), Project 5-2, (Joint researcher)
2.Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, 21st Century COE Program, ESTeC, Committee on Task Forth for Planning and Assessment, (Member)
3.Japan Society of Civil Engineering (JSCE), Committee on Global Environment Engineering, (Secretary)
4.Japan Institute of Architects (JIA), Sustainable Architecture Action Committee, (Observery group member)
5.Geographic Information System Association (GISA), Special Interest Group for Bioregion, (Establishment member)
6.Hosei University, Academic Frontier Promotion Center (AFPC)
7.Center for Environmental Information Science (CEIS)
8.City Planning Institute of Japan (CPIJ)
9.Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture (JILA)
10.Japanese Society of Limnology (JSL)
11.Association of Japanese Geographers (AJG)
12.Ecological Society of Japan (ESJ)
13.Ecology and Civil Engineering Society (ECES)
14.Japan Association for Landscape Ecology (JALE)

March 1975: B.A., Kobe University
March 1977: M.A., Osaka Prefecture University
March 1977 - the present: TAKENAKA CORPORATION
March 1999: Ph.D., Osaka Prefecture University
April - September 2004: Part time lecturer at Kyoto Women University
Present post: TAKENAKA CORPORATION Project Promotion Department

River touring by using spaceship canoe and camping with friends and family