総説
社会地球化学の系譜
キーワード:
Geochemistry,
Material balance,
Human activity,
System theory,
and Integration of natural and social sciences
2010 年 6 巻 1 号 p. 4-8
詳細
2010 年 6 巻 1 号 p. 4-8
The idea of sociogeochemistry, which aims to analyze the roles of human activity from the geochemical point of view, was first proposed by Takahisa Hanya, then a professor of Tokyo Metropolitan University, in around 1960. He reached to this idea through studies of geochemical material balance of chemical elements in Japan islands under the influences of similar ideas by some pioneers, like Buffon and Vernadsky, who had pointed out the importance of the effects of human activity on the history of the earth or geochemical cycles of elements. Based on the idea of sociogeochemistry, Hanya and his coworkers made lots of studies on water pollution and material flow in urban areas. Parallel to these problems, they made studies on methodology of sociogeochemistry introducing a systems-analysis method. While the concept of sociogeochemistry was not widely accepted at first, it is becoming popular more and more along with the increase of environmental problems in the present day.
