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Rupprecht Christoph D. D.
 
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Faculty of Collaborative Regional Innovation Department of Environmental Design Associate Professor
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Associate Professor
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Degree

  • PhD ( 2015   Griffith University )

  • MA ( 2009   Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität )

Research Interests

  • sustainability

  • solarpunk

  • urban agriculture

  • global environmental studies

  • degrowth

  • multispecies

  • urban geography

Research Areas

  • Environmental Science/Agriculture Science / Landscape science  / urban green space, landscape theory, food and agriculture

  • Environmental Science/Agriculture Science / Environmental policy and social systems  / sustainability, multispecies, degrowth

  • Environmental Science/Agriculture Science / Environmental agriculture  / edible landscape

  • Environmental Science/Agriculture Science / Environmental agriculture  / urban agriculture, urban food

Education

  • Griffith University   Environmental Futures Research Institute   PhD course

    2011.2 - 2015.7

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  • Ludwig-Maximilian Universität   Faculty of Cultural Studies   Japanese Studies MA course

    2003.10 - 2009.2

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Research History

  • Ehime University   Graduate School of Science and Engineering   Affiliated Faculty

    2024.9

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  • Ehime University   Regional Resilience Interfaculty Initiative

    2023.4

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  • Ehime University   Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences   Associate Professor

    2021.4

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  • Ehime University   Faculty of Collaborative Regional Innovation Dept of Environmental Design   Associate Professor

    2021.4

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  • Research Institute for Humanity and Nature   Research Department   Senior Researcher

    2018.6 - 2021.4

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  • Research Institute for Humanity and Nature   Research Department   Project Researcher

    2016.4 - 2018.6

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  • FEAST NPO   Founding Director

    2021.4

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    Country:Japan

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  • Doshisha University   Graduate School of Global Studies   Adjunct Lecturer

    2017.10 - 2021.2

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  • Kyoto University, Faculty of Agriculture   Adjunct Lecturer

    2017.10 - 2020.1

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  • The University of Tokyo   Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences   Adjunct Lecturer

    2017.1

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Professional Memberships

  • Human Geographical Society of Japan

    2020.6

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  • The City Planning Institute of Japan

    2020

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  • JAPANESE INSTITUTE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

    2016

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  • Royal Geographic Society

    2016

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  • Association of American Geographers

    2015

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  • JAPAN GEOSCIENCE UNION

    2013

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Committee Memberships

  • National Institute of Science and Technology Policy   Expert investigator  

    2024.4 - 2025.3   

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    Committee type:Government

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  • Bulletin of Geography Socioeconomic Series   Editorial Board  

    2017.10   

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  • 造園学会   編集委員会  

    2017.7 - 2021.6   

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    Committee type:Academic society

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  • ACME International Journal for Critical Geographies   International Advisory Board  

    2017.6   

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Papers

  • Urban rewilding for sustainability and food security Reviewed

    Alessio Russo, Mallika Sardeshpande, Christoph D.D. Rupprecht

    Land Use Policy   149   107410 - 107410   2024.11

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    DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107410

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  • From locked-down to locked-in? COVID-induced social practice change across four consumption domains Reviewed

    Simona Zollet, Julia Siedle, Miriam Bodenheimer, Steven R. McGreevy, Caroline Boules, Clemens Brauer, Md. Habibur Rahman, Christoph D. D. Rupprecht, Johannes Schuler

    Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy   18 ( 1 )   796 - 821   2022.12

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    DOI: 10.1080/15487733.2022.2127294

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  • Learning, playing, and experimenting with critical food futures Reviewed

    Steven R. McGreevy, Christoph D. D. Rupprecht, Norie Tamura, Kazuhiko Ota, Mai Kobayashi, Maximilian Spiegelberg

    Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems   6   909259   2022.10

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    Imagining sustainable food futures is key to effectively transforming food systems. Yet even transdisciplinary approaches struggle to open up complex and highly segregated food policy governance for co-production and can fail to critically interrogate assumptions, worldviews, and values. In this Perspective we argue that transdisciplinary processes concerned with sustainable food system transformation need to meaningufully engage with critical food futures, and can do so through the use of soft scenario methods to learn about, play with, and experiment in futures. Specifically, soft scenarios contribute in four ways: 1) questioning widely held assumptions about the future; 2) being inclusive to multiple perspectives and worldviews; 3) fostering receptiveness to unimaginable futures; 4) developing futures literacy. Based on insights from a 5-year transdisciplinary action research project on sustainable food transformation across Asia, we demonstrate how these processes play out in narratives, serious games and interactive art featuring soft scenarios. We conclude by discussing the potential for collaboration between transdisciplinary and futures researchers, especially for transforming food systems.

    DOI: 10.3389/fsufs.2022.909259

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  • Sustainable agrifood systems for a post-growth world Reviewed

    Steven R. McGreevy, Christoph D. D. Rupprecht, Daniel Niles, Arnim Wiek, Michael Carolan, Giorgos Kallis, Kanang Kantamaturapoj, Astrid Mangnus, Petr Jehlička, Oliver Taherzadeh, Marlyne Sahakian, Ilan Chabay, Ashley Colby, Jose-Luis Vivero-Pol, Rajat Chaudhuri, Maximilian Spiegelberg, Mai Kobayashi, Bálint Balázs, Kazuaki Tsuchiya, Clara Nicholls, Keiko Tanaka, Joost Vervoort, Motoki Akitsu, Hein Mallee, Kazuhiko Ota, Rika Shinkai, Ashlesha Khadse, Norie Tamura, Ken-ichi Abe, Miguel Altieri, Yo-Ichiro Sato, Masashi Tachikawa

    Nature Sustainability   2022.8

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    Sustainable agrifood systems are critical to averting climate-driven social and ecological disasters, overcoming the growth paradigm and redefining the interactions of humanity and nature in the twenty-first century. This Perspective describes an agenda and examples for comprehensive agrifood system redesign according to principles of sufficiency, regeneration, distribution, commons and care. This redesign should be supported by coordinated education and research efforts that do not simply replicate dominant discourses on food system sustainability but point towards a post-growth world in which agroecological life processes support healthy communities rather than serving as inputs for the relentless pursuit of economic growth.Sustainable agrifood systems are critical to redefining the interactions of humanity and nature in the twenty-first century. This Perspective presents an agenda and examples for the comprehensive redesign of agrifood systems according to principles of sufficiency, regeneration, distribution, commons and care.

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  • Living through multispecies societies: Approaching the microbiome with Imanishi Kinji Reviewed

    Laÿna Droz, Romaric Jannel, Christoph D.D. Rupprecht

    Endeavour   100814 - 100814   2022.6

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    DOI: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2022.100814

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  • Constructing practice-oriented futures for sustainable urban food policy in Bangkok Reviewed

    Kanang Kanatamaturapoj, Steven R. McGreevy, Natapol Thongplew, Motoki Akitsu, Joost Vervoort, Astrid Mangnus, Kazuhiko Ota, Christoph D.D. Rupprecht, Norie Tamura, Maximillian Spiegelberg, Mai Kobayashi, Sittidaj Pongkijvorasin, Suwit Wibulpolprasert

    Futures   139   102949 - 102949   2022.4

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  • Not just playing: The politics of designing games for impact on anticipatory climate governance Reviewed

    Joost M. Vervoort, Manjana Milkoreit, Lisette van Beek, Astrid C. Mangnus, David Farrell, Steven R. McGreevy, Kazuhiko Ota, Christoph D.D. Rupprecht, Jason B. Reed, Matthew Huber

    Geoforum   2022.4

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    DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2022.03.009

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  • Unlocking the potential of gaming for anticipatory governance Reviewed

    Joost Vervoort, Astrid Mangnus, Steven McGreevy, Kazuhiko Ota, Kyle Thompson, Christoph Rupprecht, Norie Tamura, Carien Moossdorff, Max Spiegelberg, Mai Kobayashi

    Earth System Governance   11   100130 - 100130   2021.12

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  • Climate-Responsive Green-Space Design Inspired by Traditional Gardens: Microclimate and Human Thermal Comfort of Japanese Gardens Reviewed

    Lihua Cui, Christoph D. D. Rupprecht, Shozo Shibata

    Sustainability   13 ( 5 )   2736 - 2736   2021.3

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    Urban green spaces can provide relaxation, exercise, social interaction, and many other benefits for their communities, towns, and cities. However, green spaces in hot and humid regions risk being underutilized by residents unless thermal environments are designed to be sufficiently comfortable. Understanding what conditions are needed for comfortable outdoor spaces, particularly how people feel in regard to their thermal environment, is vital in designing spaces for public use. Traditional gardens are excellent examples of successful microclimate design from which we can learn, as they are developed over the generations through observation and modification. This study analyzed how Japanese gardens affect people’s thermal stress on extremely hot summer days. Meteorological data was collected in three Japanese gardens, and human thermal comfort was evaluated through physiological equivalent temperature (PET). Statistical analysis examined the relationship between spatial configurations of the gardens and thermal comfort. Our study revealed that Japanese gardens can efficiently ameliorate thermal stress. Spatial analysis showed that garden elements affect thermal comfort variously depending on time of the day and spatial distribution.

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  • Decentralization & local food: Japan’s regional Ecological Footprints indicate localized sustainability strategies Reviewed

    Kazuaki Tsuchiya, Katsunori Iha, Adeline Murthy, David Lin, Selen Altiok, Christoph D.D. Rupprecht, Kiyono Hisako, Steven R. McGreevy

    Journal of Cleaner Production   292   126043 - 126043   2021.1

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    © 2021 The Authors Sustainable management and informed policy making at the sub-national level requires an understanding of regional resource base regeneration and the demand it places on wider geographical areas. Ecological Footprint is one of the most widely used and accepted ecological accounting methodologies and available for calculating multiple consumption categories such as food, housing and transportation. Japan's 47 prefectures are diverse in their urbanization and ageing situations and provide an opportunity for understanding the relationship between regional socioeconomic and demographic factors and Ecological Footprint outcomes. To assess potential environmental impacts and planning implications of future urbanization and ageing, we analyzed the existing relationships between the proportion of urban and elderly populations and incomes, and the total and categorical Ecological Footprint per capita. We used a standard top-down scaling methodology to quantify the Ecological Footprint of prefectures, that included three steps: 1) acquiring national level data of Ecological Footprints, 2) applying environmental extended multi-regional input-output model to derive Ecological Footprint values by economic sector, and 3) scaling down Ecological Footprints to the prefecture level with household expenditure survey and other data sources. We show that Ecological Footprint per capita varies considerable among prefectures, being highest in Tokyo (5.24 global hectare) and lowest in Yamanashi (4.06 global hectare). Prefectures with a higher proportion of urban and elderly population had high total and food Ecological Footprint per capita. Prefectures with higher income per capita also had higher total and food Ecological Footprint per capita. Lower Ecological Footprints of less urbanized prefectures provide an argument for economic decentralization. Policy makers in ageing regions should consider supporting local food activities with elderly populations, as processed food dominates majority part of the food Ecological Footprint.

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  • Learning About, Playing With, and Experimenting in Critical Futures Through Soft Scenarios—Directions for Food Policy— Reviewed

    MCGREEVY Steven R., TAMURA Norie, RUPPRECHT Christoph D. D., OTA Kazuhiko, KOBAYASHI Mai, SPIEGELBERG Maximilian

    ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   34 ( 2 )   46 - 65   2021

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    <p>The challenge before environmental science is not simply to provide cogent information to spur action, but to stimulate the imagination of society to see possible futures that have been invisible. At the same time, policy development processes can be limited by their inability to span institutional structures and the needs and views of multiple stakeholder groups. Utilizing scenarios in policy-co-production processes offers a solution to these issues, by catalyzing a collective process of defining and exploring critical futures that draw on multiple disciplines, cross multiple scales of governance, and recognize multiple learning styles. This paper introduces a framework for soft scenario methods as tools to allow learning about, playing with, experimenting in critical futures, and expand forms of engagement to increase accessibility to diverse societal actors. Using cases from the FEAST Project, narratives, serious games, interactive art, and models demonstrate how future scenarios can provide a transdisciplinary space for engagement and how agency, policy change, and scale interact in scenario co-creation processes for food policy. In order to overcome the highly-segregated nature of food policy governance, evidence from these cases shows that soft scenario methods can build consensus among disparate stakeholders and bring to the fore critical perspectives necessary for fostering sustainable food systems.</p>

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  • Edible green infrastructure or edible landscapes? A case for co-stewardship in multispecies commons Reviewed

    Christoph Rupprecht

    Proceedings of the 4th APSAFE Symposium   79 - 85   2020.12

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  • Multispecies sustainability Reviewed

    Christoph D. D. Rupprecht, Joost Vervoort, Chris Berthelsen, Astrid Mangnus, Natalie Osborne, Kyle Thompson, Andrea Y. F. Urushima, Maya Kóvskaya, Maximilian Spiegelberg, Silvio Cristiano, Jay Springett, Benedikt Marschütz, Emily J. Flies, Steven R. McGreevy, Laÿna Droz, Martin F. Breed, Jingchao Gan, Rika Shinkai, Ayako Kawai

    Global Sustainability   3   e34   2020.12

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    <title>Non-technical summary</title>
    The sustainability concept seeks to balance how present and future generations of humans meet their needs. But because nature is viewed only as a resource, sustainability fails to recognize that humans and other living beings depend on each other for their well-being. We therefore argue that true sustainability can only be achieved if the interdependent needs of all species of current and future generations are met, and propose calling this ‘multispecies sustainability’. We explore the concept through visualizations and scenarios, then consider how it might be applied through case studies involving bees and healthy green spaces.

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  • Edible urban commons for resilient neighbourhoods in light of the pandemic Reviewed

    Mallika Sardeshpande, Christoph Rupprecht, Alessio Russo

    Cities   103031 - 103031   2020.11

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  • Understanding Threats to Young Children’s Green Space Access in Unlicensed Daycare Centers in Japan Reviewed

    Rupprecht, Christoph D. D., Cui, Lihua

    International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health   17 ( 6 )   1948 - 1948   2020.3

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  • Typology and Perception of Informal Green Space in Urban Interstices::A case study of Ichikawa City, Japan Reviewed

    Kim Minseo, Rupprecht Christoph D.D., Furuya Katsunori

    International Review for Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development   8 ( 1 )   4 - 20   2020

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    <p>Multitudinous studies about urban green space (UGS) reveal that designed and managed UGS may provide not only social, environmental, and economic benefits for cities, but also mental, physical, and physiological benefits for their residents. However, past studies have focused on widely recognized green spaces in urban areas such as parks, gardens, and forests. Wasteland, wilderness, and unplanned in-between margins, which have been called informal green space (IGS), could provide supplementary green space. This study explores IGS in Ichikawa City, a post-industrial satellite town of Tokyo with scarce UGS, by addressing the following questions: (a) What types of non-standardized and unsystematised green space exist in the target area? (b) How is IGS in the target area perceived? (c) Could IGS be considered supplementary green space for the city? Using a systematic land use survey, we identified nine types of IGS in Ichikawa City that accounted for 6.35% of total land use. A questionnaire survey showed that undergraduate students recognize the existence of IGS in their neighbourhood, perceive multiple benefits and see especially street verges, unimproved land and water verges as potential supplementary green space. We conclude that IGS can serve as a supplementary green space and discuss how IGS might be integrated into green space planning to improve residents' well-being.<b> </b></p>

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  • New pathways for governing food system transformations: a pluralistic practice-based futures approach using visioning, back-casting, and serious gaming Reviewed

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    Ecology and Society   2019.10

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    DOI: 10.5751/es-11014-240402

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  • Degrowth and Landscape

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    Journal of the Japanese Institute for Landscape Architecture   83 ( 1 )   6 - 7   2019.4

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  • Advancing sustainable consumption and production in cities - A transdisciplinary research and stakeholder engagement framework to address consumption-based emissions and impacts Reviewed

    Schroder Patrick, Vergragt Philip, Brown Halina Szejnwald, Dendler Leonie, Gorenflo Neal, Matus Kira, Quist Jaco, Rupprecht Christoph D. D, Tukker Arnold, Wennersten Ronald

    JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION   213   114 - 125   2019.3

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  • Urban Agriculture as a Sustainability Transition Strategy for Shrinking Cities? Land Use Change Trajectory as an Obstacle in Kyoto City, Japan Invited Reviewed

    Kimisato Oda, Christoph D. D. Rupprecht, Kazuaki Tsuchiya, Steven R. McGreevy

    Sustainability   10 ( 4 )   1048   2018.4

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    Can shrinking cities harness population decline to improve their sustainability by repurposing land use, for example, for localizing food production? Whether such a transition is feasible depends on the pre-shrinkage state of urban agricultural land use, including ongoing trends in local land use change. This study examined agricultural land use from 2007-2017 in Kyoto City, Japan. Kyoto is on the brink of a large projected population decline (similar to 190,000 or similar to 13% until 2040) and serves as a representative for a large number of regional Japanese cities in a similar situation. Analysis was based on a public 2007 land use data set, aerial and satellite imagery and ground truthing. Results showed a decline of 209 ha or 10% in agricultural land use over ten years, but also highlight the diversity of ongoing agricultural land use types not captured by standard categories. The main post-agricultural land uses were residential (40%) and vacant land (28%). These results have implications for planning and policy. Kyoto City is currently not set to benefit from the projected shrinking process through localizing food production, despite a tradition of vegetable production. Future research should analyze drivers of change for observed agricultural land use.

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  • Informal urban green space: Residents' perception, use, and management preferences across four major Japanese shrinking cities Reviewed

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    Land   6 ( 3 )   59   2017.9

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    Urban residents' health depends on green infrastructure to cope with climate change. Shrinking cities could utilize vacant land to provide more green space, but declining tax revenues preclude new park development-a situation pronounced in Japan, where some cities are projected to shrink by over ten percent, but lack green space. Could informal urban green spaces (IGS
    vacant lots, street verges, brownfields etc.) supplement parks in shrinking cities? This study analyzes residents' perception, use, and management preferences (management goals, approaches to participatory management, willingness to participate) for IGS using a large, representative online survey (n = 1000) across four major shrinking Japanese cities: Sapporo, Nagano, Kyoto and Kitakyushu. Results show that residents saw IGS as a common element of the urban landscape and their daily lives, but their evaluation was mixed. Recreation and urban agriculture were preferred to redevelopment and non-management. For participative management, residents saw a need for the city administration to mediate usage and liability, and expected an improved appearance, but emphasized the need for financial and non-financial support. A small but significant minority (~10%) were willing to participate in management activities. On this basis, eight principles for participatory informal green space planning are proposed.

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  • Ready for more-Than-human? Measuring urban residents' willingness to coexist with animals Reviewed

    Christoph D.D. Rupprecht

    Fennia   195 ( 2 )   142 - 160   2017

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    In the context of rapid urbanisation, geographers are calling for embracing non-humans as urban co-inhabitants. But if animals and plants are seen as 'out of place', sharing urban space can lead to wildlife conflicts. We therefore need to better understand residents' willingness to coexist if we are to work towards more-Than-human cities. This study quantitatively compared residents' preferences toward sharing their neighbourhood, as well as perceptions of belonging across urban green space in two geographically and culturally distinct cities: Brisbane, Australia, and Sapporo, Japan. Results suggest that geographical and cultural context alongside educational attainment and age influenced respondents' willingness to coexist, but not sex and income. Mapping respondents' preferences for animals in their neighbourhood revealed four groups of animals along two axes - global-local and wanted-unwanted. These arose from the way animals contested the human notions of control over urban space. As spaces where animals belong in cities, most respondents chose informal green space (e.g. vacant lots, brownfields) after forests and bushland. Drawing upon recent theoretical and empirical research on liminal urban spaces, I argue that such informal green space can offer 'provisional arrangements' which allow for conciliatory engagements with non-humans. I thus propose informal green spaces as territories of encounter - a possible path towards more-Than-human cities. Finally, I discuss some implications for planning and management of interspecies interactions.

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  • 'It's real, not fake like a park': Residents' perception and use of informal urban green-space in Brisbane, Australia and Sapporo, Japan Reviewed

    Christoph D. D. Rupprecht, Jason A. Byrne, Hirofumi Ueda, Alex Y. Lo

    LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING   143   205 - 218   2015.11

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    Urban parks and gardens may be failing to meet the diverse "nature needs" of a growing global urban population. Informal urban greenspace (IGS) such as vacant lots, street or railway verges and riverbanks may provide space for unstructured recreation and nature contact. Yet we know little about residents' relationship with IGS outside of Europe and North America, what factors influence IGS use and evaluation, or what role geographic and cultural context play.
    Our paper combines qualitative and quantitative methods to examine how residents in Brisbane, Australia (n = 123) and Sapporo, Japan (n = 163) perceive, evaluate and use IGS. Using statistical methods (e.g. correlation analysis) we analyzed what factors influence how respondents interact with IGS, including the amount of formal greenspace within 500m of survey locations using a GIS buffer analysis. Results were tested for differences and similarities between the cities.
    We found that respondents knew of IGS in their neighborhood (&gt;80%), appreciated and used it (&gt;30%), but more respondents in Brisbane used and appreciated IGS. The influence of demographic factors and local formal greenspace area was limited, but respondents' attitude towards urban nature was correlated with IGS evaluation. Littering was perceived as IGS' most common problem (90% of respondents), but was reported by &lt;20% of IGS users. Geographic (e.g., IGS type prevalence) and cultural (e.g., human-nature relationship) contexts represented potential influence factors. We argue that the liminal nature of IGS (e.g., liability) management poses a challenge traditional greenspace planning. To address this problem, further research should explore participatory management approaches. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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  • Informal urban green space: A trilingual systematic review of its role for biodiversity and trends in the literature Reviewed

    Christoph D. D. Rupprecht, Jason A. Byrne, Jenni G. Garden, Jean-Marc Hero

    URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING   14 ( 4 )   883 - 908   2015

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    Urban greenspaces harbor considerable biodiversity. Such areas include spontaneously vegetated spaces such as such as brownfields, street or railway verges and vacant lots. While these spaces may contribute to urban conservation, their informal and liminal nature poses a challenge for reviewing what we know about their value for biodiversity. The relevant literature lacks a common terminology. This paper applied a formal definition and typology of informal urban greenspace (IGS) to identify and systematically review a total of 174 peer-reviewed papers in English (152), German (14) and Japanese (8). We identified three main topics: value for conservation (94 papers), factors influencing diversity (80), and non-indigenous species (37). Additionally, we analyzed this literature for temporal trends, spatial patterns, studied IGS types, taxa, climate zones, human impact types, and key authors. Results show IGS plays an important role for biodiversity. Management practices were identified as the most common and negative impact on diversity, while vegetation, site age, distance to city center, and habitat diversity were positive-influence factors. The number and impact of non-indigenous species varied widely. The analysis of literature patterns reveals: an increase in publications over the last 15 years and a strong geographic bias in publications, as well as toward temperate and humid climate zones. Studies of gap, powerline and microsite IGS were scarce, as were studies of mammals and reptiles. Results suggest different maintenance regimes for IGS may improve its contribution to urban conservation. We therefore propose adapting management to the local context. (C) 2015 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.

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  • Informal Urban Green-Space: Comparison of Quantity and Characteristics in Brisbane, Australia and Sapporo, Japan Reviewed

    Christoph D. D. Rupprecht, Jason A. Byrne

    PLOS ONE   9 ( 6 )   e99784   2014.6

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    Informal urban green-space (IGS) such as vacant lots, brownfields and street or railway verges is receiving growing attention from urban scholars. Research has shown IGS can provide recreational space for residents and habitat for flora and fauna, yet we know little about the quantity, spatial distribution, vegetation structure or accessibility of IGS. We also lack a commonly accepted definition of IGS and a method that can be used for its rapid quantitative assessment. This paper advances a definition and typology of IGS that has potential for global application. Based on this definition, IGS land use percentage in central Brisbane, Australia and Sapporo, Japan was systematically surveyed in a 10610 km grid containing 121 sampling sites of 2,500 m 2 per city, drawing on data recorded in the field and aerial photography. Spatial distribution, vegetation structure and accessibility of IGS were also analyzed. We found approximately 6.3% of the surveyed urban area in Brisbane and 4.8% in Sapporo consisted of IGS, a non-significant difference. The street verge IGS type (80.4% of all IGS) dominated in Brisbane, while lots (42.2%) and gaps (19.2%) were the two largest IGS types in Sapporo. IGS was widely distributed throughout both survey areas. Vegetation structure showed higher tree cover in Brisbane, but higher herb cover in Sapporo. In both cities over 80% of IGS was accessible or partly accessible. The amount of IGS we found suggests it could play a more important role than previously assumed for residents' recreation and nature experience as well as for fauna and flora, because it substantially increased the amount of potentially available greenspace in addition to parks and conservation greenspace. We argue that IGS has potential for recreation and conservation, but poses some challenges to urban planning. To address these challenges, we propose some directions for future research.

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  • Informal urban greenspace: A typology and trilingual systematic review of its role for urban residents and trends in the literature Reviewed

    Christoph D. D. Rupprecht, Jason A. Byrne

    URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING   13 ( 4 )   597 - 611   2014

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    Urban greenspace is vital in fulfilling people's nature needs. Informal urban greenspace (IGS) such as vacant lots, street or railway verges and riverbanks is an often-overlooked part of the natural urban landscape. We lack a formal definition of IGS and a comprehensive review of knowledge about IGS and its role for urban residents. This paper advances a formal definition and typology of IGS that can be applied globally. Based on this definition, a total of 65 peer-reviewed papers in English (57), Japanese (7) and German (1) were reviewed. We analyzed this literature for its temporal trends, spatial patterns, studied IGS types, methods used and key authors, and summarized the individual research papers' findings concerning IGS. Results show IGS plays an important role for urban residents, but also highlight limitations and problems in realizing IGS' full potential. Research papers focused on perception, preferences, value and uses of IGS. Residents could distinguish between formal and informal greenspace. They preferred a medium level of human influence in IGS. The analysis of patterns in the literature reveals: a marked increase in publications in the last 20 years; a strong geographical bias towards the USA; and a lack of multi-type IGS studies including all IGS types. Publications outside of scholarly research papers also make valuable contributions to our understanding of IGS. Our results suggest IGS is emerging as an important sub-discipline of urban greening research. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier GmbH.

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  • Learing about, playing with, and experimenting in critical food futures using soft scenarios

    McGreevy, Steven R, Rupprecht, Christoph DD, Tamura, Norie, Ota, Kazuhiko, Kobayashi, Mai, Spiegelberg, Maximilian

    AESOP-Sustainable Food Planning Conference   1 - 4   2022.10

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  • Public Perceptions of Green Roofs and Green Walls in Tokyo, Japan: A Call to Heighten Awareness Reviewed

    C. Y. Jim, Ling Chui Hui, Christoph D. D. Rupprecht

    Environmental Management   2022.4

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  • Novel Reviewed

    Christoph Rupprecht

    An A-Z of Shadow Places CONCEPTS   2020.11

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  • The importance of collecting basic data on beekeeping in Japan: issues and ideas for reform based on an analysis of differences between prefectural application forms for beekeeping registrations

    Rika Shinkai, Maximilian Spiegelberg, Christoph Rupprecht, Norie Tamura

    Sustainable Livestock Production and Human Welfare   74 ( 11 )   921 - 929   2020.10

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  • Trust me? Consumer trust in expert information on food product labels Reviewed

    Christoph D. D. Rupprecht, Lei Fujiyoshi, Steven R McGreevy, Ichiro Tayasu

    Food and Chemical Toxicology   137   111170   2020.2

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  • Residents’ Perception of Informal Green Space—A Case Study of Ichikawa City, Japan Reviewed

    Minseo Kim, Christoph D, D. Rupprecht, Katsunori Furuya

    Land   7 ( 3 )   102   2018.9

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    Urban green space (UGS) has been proven to be essential for improving the health of residents. Local governments thus need to provide attractive UGS to enhance residents' wellbeing. However, cities face spatial and finanical limitations in creating and managing UGS. As a result, greening plans often fail or are postponed indefinitely. To evaluate whether informal urban green space (IGS) can supplement existing UGS, we conducted a questionnaire survey of 567 residents in Ichikawa (Japan), a city currently providing only 3.43 m(2) green space per capita. In particular, we analyzed how residents' existing green space activities affect IGS perception, as it may be difficult to recognize IGS as greenery because it is not an officially recognized space for recreation. Results show that residents took a favorable stance towards IGS, but perception differs depending on their green environment exposure. Residents who are frequently exposed to green environments in their daily lives highly recognized the environmental improvement aspects of IGS and significantly perceived spatial accessibility as an advantage of IGS. Willingness to participate in conservation activities of UGS was linked with a likelihood of recognizing IGS as UGS. Our results encourage understanding IGS as supplementary green space taking into account the attitude of residents to UGS, and contribute to introducing the IGS discourse into green space planning.

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  • Information Harvesters and Virtual Farmers: How Smartphone Food Apps are Enabling Consumers to Co-create more Sustainable Food Systems Invited Reviewed

    Steven McGreevy, Christoph D, D. Rupprecht

    Journal of the Japanese Institute for Landscape Architecture   81 ( 3 )   288 - 291   2017.11

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  • Memories of vacant lots: how and why residents used informal urban green space as children and teenagers in Brisbane, Australia, and Sapporo, Japan Reviewed

    Christoph D. D. Rupprecht, Jason A. Byrne, Alex Y. Lo

    CHILDRENS GEOGRAPHIES   14 ( 3 )   340 - 355   2016.5

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    Contact with nature is vital for the development of children and teenagers. In the past, informal urban green spaces (IGS) such as vacant lots appear to have been used for such purposes. We need to better understand how previous generations used IGS to make sure young people today can also enjoy its social, mental, emotional and physical health benefits. This study quantitatively compared adult residents' memories of IGS use in their childhood and teenage years in two geographically and culturally distinct cities: Brisbane, Australia, and Sapporo, Japan. The results showed most respondents (&gt;70%) remembered using IGS in the past, and preferred it over other green space because it was easily accessible. Most (&gt;70%) recalled experiencing no problems (e.g. danger of injury) when using IGS, a contrast to recently increasing parental concern for children's safety. Such factors may limit present IGS use and prevent it from fulfilling the important role it played for previous generations' recreation.

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  • The Potential of Absence Informal Green Space and its Unexpected Legacies Reviewed

    Christoph D, D. Rupprecht

    MAS Context   25-26   2015

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  • The Role of Green Spaces in the City Image of Sapporo Reviewed

    Hirofumi Ueda, Christoph D, D. Rupprecht

    Journal of the Japanese Institute for Landscape Architecture   77 ( 5 )   487 - 490   2014

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    Sapporo is considered one of the most attractive cities in Japan, a city image it partly owes to its rich greenspace. But we know little about how exactly greenspace contributes to a city's image, because prior research has focused mostly on its quantitative aspects. Using a mail-back questionnaire (n = 130), this study examined the relationship between two types of greenspaces, those forming residents' image of Sapporo and those residents frequently use. In addition to questions about residents' used greenspaces we employed the Landscape Image Sketching Technique, asking respondents to draw a visual sketch of a 'typical Sapporo landscape'. Visual sketch data were then analyzed for objects and line of sight distance, and compared with the greenspaces respondents used. Results showed that reported city image-forming greenspaces and used greenspaces largely overlapped, and their spatial positions were consistently related. Residents combine greenspaces they use in daily life with those they see to form their city image. In this image of Sapporo, parks and mountains create the main structure of the city and connect its center and periphery. These findings suggest an attractive city image is derived from symbolic scenery perceived by residents in their daily life.

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  • Solarpunk Creatures

    Christoph Rupprecht, Deborah Cleland, Rajad Chaudhuri, Sarena Ulibarri, Melissa Ingaruca, Norie Tamura( Role: Joint editor)

    World Weaver Press  2024.1  ( ISBN:9781734054576

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  • Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures

    Rupprecht, Christoph, Cleland, Deborah, Tamura, Norie, Chaudhuri, Rajat, Ulibarri, Sarena( Role: Joint editor)

    World Weaver Press  2021.4  ( ISBN:1734054522

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  • みんなでつくる「いただきます」 食から創る持続可能な社会

    田村典江, クリストフ・D・D・ルプレヒト, スティーブン・R, マックグリービー( Role: Joint editor)

    昭和堂  2021.3 

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    Rupprecht, Christoph( Role: ContributorTowards a city designed for all life to flourish: what is a multispecies city?)

    Heureka Books  2024.9  ( ISBN:9784909753199

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  • Urban Foraging in the Changing World International journal

    Rupprecht, C.D.D, Cui, L, Yoshida, A, Shinkai, R, Spiegelberg, M( Role: ContributorMore-Than-Human Urban Foraging: Designing Landscapes for Multispecies Sustainability in Shrinking Urban Japan)

    Springer  2024.6  ( ISBN:9789819703449

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    Can a city be turned into a more-than-human feast? Edible landscapes are increasingly valued for their multiple socio-ecological benefits. Here we propose that making the urban fabric fertile grounds for foraging by humans, birds, bees, and other inhabitants alike expands the potential of edible cities as a paradigm for sustainability transformations to answer recent calls in sustainability research for meeting more-than-human needs. To this end, we reflect on ongoing landscape design research across shrinking Japanese cities: (1) a multispecies community garden concept, (2) bird and pollinator-oriented edible restoration of vacant lots, (3) wild-keeping of Japanese honeybees in urban contexts as entry to multispecies landscape stewardship.

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  • 都市の微生物多様性を“拡張”するビジョン(VISIONARY FES VOL.2、Miraikanトークス)

    Ito, Kohei, Katano, Kosuke, Rupprecht, Christoph, Naka, Hiroki( Role: Joint author)

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  • Almanac for the Anthropocene: A Compendium of Solarpunk Futures (Salvaging the Anthropocene)

    Christoph D D Rupprecht( Role: ContributorA Collective Gardening Shed of Concepts for Planting Solarpunk Futures)

    West Virginia University Press  2022.9  ( ISBN:1952271509

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  • Almanac for the Anthropocene: A Compendium of Solarpunk Futures (Salvaging the Anthropocene)

    Christoph D D Rupprecht, Aoi Yoshida, Lihua Cui( Role: ContributorMultispecies Community Garden: A More-Than-Human Design Concept Proposal for Well-Being in Shrinking Cities)

    West Virginia University Press  2022.9  ( ISBN:1952271509

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  • Limits: Why Malthus Was Wrong and Why ENvironmentalists Should Care (Japanese Edition)

    Giorgos Kallis, Mai Kobayashi, Kazuhiko Ota, Norie Tamura, Masayoshi Kobayashi, Kohei Saito, FEAST( Role: Supervisor (editorial)Project management, commentary)

    Otsuki Shoten Publishers  2022.8  ( ISBN:9784272111282

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  • Urban Wastelands

    Minseo Kim, Christoph D, D. Rupprecht( Role: ContributorGetting to Know Urban Wasteland—A Look at Vacant Lands as Urban Green Space in Japan)

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  • Just Green Enough: Urban development and environmental gentrification

    Christoph D, D. Rupprecht, Jason A. Byrne( Role: ContributorChapter Informal urban green space as anti-gentrification strategy?)

    Routledge  2017.12 

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  • Thinking through tourism with multispecies sustainability principles Invited

    Christoph D. D. Rupprecht

    APU Conference  2023.12 

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  • Conceptualizing and definition multispecies edible landscapes

    Rupprecht, Christoph, Cui, Lihua, Gaertner, Nadine, Sardeshpande, Mallika, McGreevy, Steven R, Spiegelberg, Maximilian

    American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting 2023  2023.3 

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  • A multilingual systematic review of edible landscapes

    Cui, Lihua, Rupprecht, Christoph, Gaertner, Nadine, Sardeshpande, Mallika, McGreevy, Steven R, Spiegelberg, Maximilian

    American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting 2023  2023.3 

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  • Imagining Japan's sustainable futures through food and urban planning Invited

    Christoph D. D. Rupprecht

    Lecture Series Japan-Center Department of Asian Studies LMU Munich  2021.11 

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  • Multispecies sustainability: concept and future directions Invited

    Rupprecht, Christoph

    Biodiverse Anthropocene programme seminar, University of Oulu  2023.2 

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  • Multispecies sustainability and IT: intersections and bridges Invited

    Christoph Rupprecht

    Ethics and sustainability in digital cultures  2023.9 

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  • Post-growth agrifood systems: Now!

    Steven McGreevy, Daniel Niles, Christoph Rupprecht, Norie Tamura, Mai Kobayashi, Max Spiegelberg, Rika Shinkai

    9th International Degrowth Conference, Zagreb  2023.8 

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  • Multispecies health: multispecies thinking as a response to conceptual challenges of recent microbiome insights Invited

    Christoph D, D. Rupprecht

    第四回エコヘルス研究会  2019 

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  • 非公式緑地における人の自然観が緑の形成にどのように活用できるのか? Invited

    Christoph D, D. Rupprecht

    道路生態研究会第5回研究発表会  2018.6 

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  • More-than-human geography for the Anthropocene: from urban greenspace to redefining sustainability Invited

    Christoph D. D. Rupprecht

    2021 Association of Ehime Geographers Annual Lecture  2021.7 

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  • Beyond anthropocentrism - Towards a multispecies concept of sustainability Invited

    Christoph D, D. Rupprecht

    RIHN-Peking University Lectures  2019.3 

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  • Multispecies sustainability Invited

    Christoph D. D. Rupprecht

    Global Sustainability Journal Webinar  2021.7 

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  • More-than-human gardening for multispecies sustainability Invited

    Rupprecht, Christoph

    RIHN 16th International Symposium: The Arts of Living With Nature  2022.3 

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  • Thinking truly sustainable cities through edible landscapes Invited

    Rupprecht, Christoph

    45th Urban Planning Seminar  2022.2 

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  • Multispecies Sustainability Invited

    Christoph D. D. Rupprecht

    Sustainability Science Days Conference  2022.5 

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  • Multispecies sustainability: concept and future directions Invited

    Christoph Rupprecht

    Ecolopes Talks  2024.4 

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  • Human-Animal-Environment “One Health” - Focusing on the Healthy Co-existence of the Japanese honeybee and the Western honeybee

    Shinkai, Rika, Tamura, Norie, Spiegelberg, Maximilian, Rupprecht, Christoph

    Asia Pacific Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics Conference 2023  2023.3 

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  • Radically reimagining stormwater infrastructure through art-research collaborations

    Rupprecht, Christoph, Yoshida, Aoi, Shu Liao, Yen, Spiegelberg, Maximilian, Tamura, Norie

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  • Current Status of Beekeeping Registration and its Potential Role in Honeybee and Wild Pollinator Protection

    Rika Shinkai, Norie Tamura, Maximilian Spiegelberg, Christoph Rupprecht

    Association of Wildlife and Human Society  2021.11 

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  • Multispecies cities: theory, planning & imagination Invited

    Christoph D. D. Rupprecht

    Planetary Crisis and Local Change JSPS Project Research Meeting  2021.10 

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  • Science and survival in the anthropocene Invited

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    Sakura Science Invitation Program 2022  2022.11 

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  • Learning about, playing with, and experimenting in critical food futures using soft scenarios-- directions for food policy and planning

    Steven R. McGreevy, Christoph D. D. Rupprecht, Norie Tamura, Kazuhiko Ota, Mai Kobayashi, Maximilian Spiegelberg

    10th Annual Conference of the AESOP, Sustainable Food Planning Group  2022.10 

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  • Futures of food in the anthropocene Invited

    Christoph D. D. Rupprecht

    AEON Asia Youth Leaders 2022  2022.7 

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  • Rewilding & sustainability: informal greenspaces as sites of change? Invited

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    Urban Rewilding International Design Workshop  2023.3 

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  • Research Development Topic 3-3: Integrated research on regional collaboration towards social implementation of weather control

    Hatori, Tsuyoshi, Rupprecht, Christoph, Kobayashi, Kunihiko, Onishi, Masamitsu

    Moonshot Program Kickoff Symposium: Realization of a society safe from the threat of extreme winds and rains by controlling and modifying the weather by 2050  2022.6 

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  • Imagining multispecies cities Invited

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    With Nature Vol. 1  2022.6 

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  • Fear and hope of living in the anthropocene Invited

    Christoph D. D. Rupprecht

    Matsuyama East High School Glocal Project  2022.6 

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  • 非公式緑地・都市農地 - 地図にでないものを探して

    Christoph D, D. Rupprecht

    国際比較を通してみる都市に緑や農を活かす仕組み  2017.1 

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  • Depopulation in East Asia: An Opportunity to Rethink Long-Term Human-Nature Relationships Invited

    Christoph D, D. Rupprecht

    Culturally Mediated Environmental Issues: Ecological Connectedness in East Asia  2016.7 

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  • Fear and hope of living in the anthropocene Invited

    Christoph Rupprecht

    Uchiko Community College  2023.9 

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  • Principles of sustainable agrifood systems and multispecies sustainability in Japanese beekeeping

    Maximilian Spiegelberg, Christoph D. D. Rupprecht, Rika Shinkai, Steven R. McGreevy, Jingchao Gan, Norie Tamura

    Deutscher Kongress für Geographie  2023.9 

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  • "You should research real beekeepers": The need to transform beekeeping

    Spiegelberg, Maximilian, Shinkai, Rika, Rupprecht, Christoph

    9th International Degrowth Conference, Zagreb  2023.8 

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  • Apps for transformative change? Making ecokana

    Christoph D. D. Rupprecht, FEAST Team

    Tsukuba Conference  2023.9 

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  • Residents’ appreciation and management preferences of informal green space across four major Japanese shrinking cities

    Christoph D, D. Rupprecht

    日本地球惑星科学連合2018年大会  2018.5 

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  • 住民の自然観から人間を超えた都市計画・デザインにむけて

    Christoph D, D. Rupprecht

    平成30年度日本造園学会全国大会、アーバン・ランドスケープのエコロジカル・デザイン  2018.5 

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  • 計画と邂逅ー隙間や境界域の探検から学んだ教訓 Invited

    Christoph D, D. Rupprecht

    『草の根から地域住民が生み出す「食」と「農」の空間 ― どうやって見つけ、調べるか?』フィールドネットラウンジ  2018.1 

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  • Biocultural cityscapes: Towards urban landscape stewardship. Invited

    Christoph D, D. Rupprecht

    Food, Agriculture and Human Impacts on the Environment: Japan, Asia and Beyond;RIHN/UCB International Workshop  2017.11 

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  • Fear and hope of living in the anthropocene Invited

    Christoph Rupprecht

    Matsuyama Higashi High School  2023.6 

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  • 暮らして楽しい、暮らし続けられる日本の脱成長ランドスケープ Invited

    Christoph D, D. Rupprecht

    カセギに流されないシゴトづくり理論ゼミ「脱成長 degrowth×(ランドスケープ+コミュニティ)」  2019.1 

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  • Multispecies thinking Invited

    Christoph D. D. Rupprecht

    8th SRIREP Project seminar  2020.12 

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  • Multispecies Community Garden:縮小都市の豊かな暮らしに向けて、人間の枠を超えた共生のデザインコンセプト提案

    Christoph D. D. Rupprecht, Aoi Yoshida, Lihua Cui

    Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture Annual Meeting  2020.5 

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  • Solarpunk x Multispecies: On editing "Multispecies Cities" Invited

    Christoph D. D. Rupprecht, Norie Tamura

    Ethics 4 Cities JSPS Project Research Meeting  2021.9 

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  • Inhabiting multispecies imaginaries: science fiction anthologies as speculative landscape worldbuilding

    Christoph Rupprecht

    (Un)common Worlds III  2023.10 

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  • Multispecies sustainability Invited

    Christoph D. D. Rupprecht

    Sustainability Transitions and Futures Course, Aalto University  2021.9 

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  • Making sustainable everday food futures stick: practices, policies, and palates

    Steven R. McGreevy, FEAST Team

    Tsukuba Conference  2023.9 

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  • How to engage with the SDGs in times of environmental crises? Invited

    Christoph D. D. Rupprecht

    Ehime University Internal Communication & Collaboration Seminar  2021.9 

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  • Degrowing Japan through food- lifestyles, lunches, and local policy

    Steven R McGreevy, Christoph D D Rupprecht

    Is rural Japan sustainable?  2021.10 

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  • Sustainable Multispecies Cities: Concepts, Experiments, Visions Invited

    Christoph Rupprecht

    Sustain Asia. International Conference on (Un)Sustainable Growth and Environment in Asian Territories  2023.10 

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  • Multispecies sustainability and the idea of an edible campus Invited

    Rupprecht, Christoph

    SDGs Promotion Office Seminar  2022.3 

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  • Traditional Japanese Beekeeping with Native Japanese Honey Bee (Apis cerana japonica) Invited

    Rika Shinkai, Maximilian Spiegelberg, Christoph D. D. Rupprecht

    Scottish Beekeepers Association Webinar  2022.1 

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  • A vision of expanding urban microbial diversity Invited

    Ito, Kohei, Katano, Kosuke, Rupprecht, Christoph, Naka, Hiroki

    VISIONARY FES VOL.2 A vision of expanding urban microbial diversity  2022.4 

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  • Technologies of Care in More-Than-Human Entanglements in Japan (Discussant) Invited

    Christoph Rupprecht

    Association for Asian Studies 2022 Annual Conference  2022.3 

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  • Ehime University Multispecies Campus: FY2022 Progress report

    Rupprecht, Christoph

    Ehime University Multispecies Campus: FY2022 Final Workshop  2023.2 

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  • Multispecies weather commons

    Christoph Rupprecht

    American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting 2024  2024.4 

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  • Multispecies campus and speculative fiction as practices for changing meanings, connections, and power

    Christoph Rupprecht

    American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting 2024  2024.4 

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  • Multispecies sustainability: concept and future directions Invited

    Christoph Rupprecht

    Communicating Sustainability Workshop  2024.5 

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  • 愛媛大学マルチスピーシーズ・キャンパス事業の背景と現状

    Christoph Rupprecht, Mari Nakayama, Lihua Cui, Hiroki Kasamatsu, Motoko Shimagami, Kumiko Takeshima, Yoshinori Tokuoka, Hiroko Takeshita, Muko Heiwa, Adriana Hidding, Toshiko Ando

    Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture Annual Meeting  2024.6 

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  • Investigation and proposal for urban lighting with reduced impact on insects due to light pollution

    Yohei Ishinaka, Christoph Rupprecht

    Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture Annual Meeting  2024.6 

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  • Current status of community cats and community cat care in Shimizu, Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture

    Mari Nakayama, Christoph Rupprecht

    Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture Annual Meeting  2024.6 

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  • 人新世を生きる恐怖と希望 Invited

    Christoph Rupprecht

    愛媛県立松山東高等学校  2024.6 

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  • Sustainable multispecies cities: concepts, experiments, visions Invited

    Christoph Rupprecht

    Urban Ecology Research Lab Talks  2024.1 

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Works

Awards

  • Early Career Researcher Special Award

    2020.11   Research Institute for Humanity and Nature  

    Christoph D. D. Rupprecht

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  • RIHN Young Researcher Award

    2019.11   Research Institut for Humanity and Nature  

    Christoph D, D. Rupprecht

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  • Urban Geography Specialty Group Dissertation Award

    2016.4   American Association of Geographers  

    Christoph D, D. Rupprecht

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  • Outstanding Student Presentation Award

    2013.6   Japan Geoscience Union  

    Christoph D, D. Rupprecht

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Research Projects

  • グリーンインフラを用いた雨水管理による都市の防災機能強化に関する研究

    2020.7 - 2023.3

    日本学術振興会  科学研究費助成事業 挑戦的研究(萌芽)  挑戦的研究(萌芽)

    永瀬 彩子

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    (1) GIの環境改善効果(汚染物質除去・雨水流出削減・雨水流出遅延)の可視化:千葉大学西千葉キャンパス内の屋上において、ココピートともみ殻燻炭をそれぞれ屋上緑化土壌に配合を変えて混合(50%,25%,10%,0%)し、シバをコンテナに植栽した。コンテナを通過した後の雨水を採取し、雨水量の削減、雨水の改善、特に汚染物質の除去能力、時間系列に伴う水質改善について調査を行った。1年間の調査の結果、屋上緑化土壌にもみ殻燻炭を混合することにより、雨水の流出量や流出するCaやMgの量が減少すること、その減少割合はもみ殻燻炭の混合率が高いほど高くなることが分かった。また、ココピート添加に関しては、もみ殻燻と同様に雨水流出緩和効果を向上させる可能性が示唆されたものの、全有機態炭素濃度の上昇が問題となることが明らかとなった。雨水流出の削減を期待して屋上緑化土壌にココピートを添加する際には、同時に全有機態炭素濃度が許容できる範囲に収められるよう添加割合の十分な検討が必要である。
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  • Exploring the potential of edible landscapes for socio-ecological restoration of vacant land in shrinking Japanese cities

    2020.4 - 2023.3

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists  Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists

    Christoph Rupprecht

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  • Multispecies Cities: Co-designing more-than-human well-being in the Asia-Pacific

    2019.10 - 2020.3

    Research Institute for Humanity and Nature  Research Program 

    Christoph D, D. Rupprecht

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  • Institutions and methods for protecting nector source plants in managed forests

    2018.10 - 2020.9

    Yamada Research Grant  Bee Research Grant 

    Norie Tamura

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  • Investigating the transformative elements of Kyoto's beescape

    2018.9 - 2019.3

    Research Institute for Humanity and Nature  Early Career Researcher Support Group Grant 

    Maximilian Spiegelberg

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  • 重大な環境被害を受けた中山間地域におけるリスクベースの社会・生態的環境の再生

    2018.6 - 2020.3

    JSPS  Grant-in-Aid for Exploratory Research 

    Hirokazu Abe

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    Grant amount:\3640000

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  • Community development for socio-ecological restoration in areas with severe environmental damage

    2018.4 - 2019.3

    Obayashi Foundation  Research Grant 

    Hirokazu Abe

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  • What, for you, is good food?

    2017.8 - 2018.3

    National Institute for the Humanities  Cutting Edge Research Visualisation Grant 

    Christoph D, D. Rupprecht

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  • Assessing localized rural & urban socio-ecological beekeeping potential

    2017.8 - 2018.3

    Research Institute for Humanity and Nature  Early Career Researcher Support Group Grant 

    Maximilian Spiegelberg

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  • Understanding threats to young childrens green space access in unlicensed daycare centers

    2017.4 - 2020.3

    JSPS  Grant-in-Aid for Young Researchers (B) 

    Christoph D, D. Rupprecht

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  • Private and informal green space as green infrastructure: towards participatory maintenance policies

    2017.4 - 2020.3

    JSPS  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

    Katsunori Furuya

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    Grant amount:\4810000

    How can existing urban green spaces (including vacant lots) be used to their full potential? In Japan, public investment has led to progress in this matter for green spaces on public land, but for those on private land progress remains limited. This research gathered and analyzed basic data required for using existing public and private green spaces in cities. Results confirmed the importance of publicly maintained green space, while showing that for residents, local private green spaces are easy to use because they are located nearby. Finally, it should be emphasized that private green spaces and vacant lots play a complimentary role in cities with many constraints.

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  • Residents’ appreciation and management preferences of informal green space across four major Japanese shrinking cities

    2016.9 - 2016.12

    Research Institute for Humanity and Nature  Early Career Researcher Support Grant 

    Christoph D, D. Rupprecht

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  • Human perception, preference, and use of informal urban greenspace: a comparative analysis of Brisbane, Australia and Sapporo, Japan

    2011 - 2015

    Griffith University  Griffith University International Postgraduate Research Scheme (PhD) 

    Christoph D, D. Rupprecht

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Teaching Experience (On-campus)

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Teaching Experience

  • Sustainability Theory

    2024 Institution:Ehime University

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  • Considering the Environment: Considering Sustainability

    2024 Institution:Ehime University

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  • Professional Research & Writing

    2022 Institution:Ehime University

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  • Advanced Fieldwork Training

    2022 - 2023 Institution:Ehime University

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  • Sustainability Science

    2021 Institution:Ehime University

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  • Socio-environmental System Studies

    2021 Institution:Ehime University

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  • Global Environmental Studies

    2021 Institution:Ehime University

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  • Basic/Applied/Advanced Project Training

    2021 Institution:Ehime University

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  • Environmental Design Seminar 1-4

    2021 Institution:Ehime University

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  • Introduction to environmental design

    2021 Institution:Ehime University

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  • Environmental Policy Project Research

    2021 Institution:Ehime University

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  • Advanced Field Practice in Environmental Design Ⅰ

    2021 Institution:Ehime University

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  • Foreign Food and Environmental Economics III

    Institution:Kyoto University, Faculty of Agriculture

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  • Global Society and Environmental Issues II

    Institution:Doshisha University

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Media Coverage

  • Urbane Gärtner als Revolutionäre (Urban gardeners as revoluationaries) Newspaper, magazine

    Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung  Nr. 32 p. 56  2022.8

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