Progress in public health practice has often been reached by professionals who worked in routine practice and solved the problems they met with scientific methods. A classic example is John Snow’s intervention in the London cholera epidemic, closing a water pump after analysing the spread of cholera cases. However, the expansion of the knowledge base of public health leaves to be answered wheth...

virtual water adds a new dimension to crop trades and provides a new way of thinking about water scarcity. a systematic analysis of virtual water flows requires integration of all critical drivers of virtual water flows under a single consistent framework. the aim of this study was to assess virtual water flows related to trades of grain crops (wheat, corn, rice, and coarse cereals) and their i...

3.1 Members Toshiyuki Imamura (Team Leader) Yoshiharu Ohi (PostDoctoral Researcher) Yusuke Hirota (PostDoctoral Researcher) Daichi Mukunoki (PostDoctoral Researcher) Daisuke Takahashi (Senior Visiting Researcher) Franz Franchetti (Visiting Researcher) Yoshio Okamoto (Visiting Researcher) Takeshi Fukaya (Visiting Researcher) Cong Li (Student Trainee) Doru Thom Popovich (Student Trainee) Yukiko A...

11.1 Members Hirofumi Tomita (Team Leader) Yoshiyuki Kajikawa (Senior Scientist) Shin-ichi Iga (Research Scientist) Seiya Nishizawa (Research Scientist) Hisashi Yashiro (Research Scientist) Sachiho Adachi (Research Scientist) Yoshiaki Miyamoto (Special Postdoctoral Researcher) Yousuke Sato (Postdoctoral Researcher) Tsuyoshi Yamaura (Postdoctoral Researcher) Ryuji Yoshida (Postdoctoral Researche...