学术报告通知

报告题目：From Pollution indicidences to Environmental Problems

报告人：Junko Nakanishi      

报告人职务：日本产业技术综合研究所化学物质风险管理研究中心主任

报告时间：9月21日上午9点～10：00

报告地点：环境系系馆第一会议室

主办人：环境模拟与污染控制国家重点实验室

简介：Junko Nakanishi is director of the Research Center for Chemical Risk Management (CRM), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) which was organized as the first national research center for the purpose of risk analysis of chemicals under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Economics, International Trade and Industry in 2001. Prior to her directorship at CRM, AIST, she was a Professor at the Environmental Science Center, the University of Tokyo, and a Professor at Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University. Dr. Nakanishi received her PhD. in engineering from the University of Tokyo. She was involved in the research and designing of sewerage systems in rural and urban areas for two decades. Her present research areas include risk assessment, risk management and environmental policy. She was awarded Medal with Purple Ribbon by extinguished contribution in the field of environmental risk management study in 2003. Moreover, from the 1996 fiscal year to the 2000 fiscal year, she acted as the project leader of the environmental research project entitled “Establishment of a scientific framework for the management of toxicity of chemicals based on environmental risk-benefit analysis”. The October 2003 issue (Volume 53, No.4) of Chemosphere, the scientific journal published by Pergamon Press features 15 papers of the achievements of the research project above. She has given emphasis to the development of the methodologies of risk evaluation by which we can compare quantitatively the risks posed by a broad spectrum of endpoints that differ in severity of impact on human health and ecological system in terms of resource allocation and risk management. For this purpose, She proposed loss of life expectancy (LLE) as a single metric for evaluating various types of human health risks, and the probability of species extinction as another single metric for evaluating various types of ecological risks. She attained the purpose to some extent through the research project and the typical results appear in the special issue of Chemosphere.

Her representative publications in the area of risk management include “Environmental Strategies for Water Systems” (in Japanese: by Iwanami Publishers), “On Environmental Risk” (in Japanese: by Iwanami Publishers) and “Environmental Risk Studies: compass for ocean of anxiety” (in Japanese: by Nihon Hyoronsya). The last publication received famous and honored prizes. Dr. Nakanishi is a member of many distinguished governmental councils; the Council of Chemicals (Ministry of Economics, International Trade and Industry), the Advisory Committee for Energy and Resources (Agency of Natural Resources and Energy) and the Council of Living Environment (Ministry of Health and Welfare) and others.  

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