This book focuses on eco-evaluation system monitoring and sensing, carbon-water modeling, mapping, and disaster prediction. It is the 3rd book on tropical peatland issues, following 1st 'Tropical Peatland Ecosystem' and 2nd 'Tropical Peatland Eco-management' publications. Tropical peatland is also a wetland, mangrove, and rainforest. With this nature, two major key elements of tropical peatland are water and forest. This book introduces the relationship and interaction among water, oxygen, and nutrients as well as aspects of the forest as the driving force of carbon stock and the carbon cycle. Eco-evaluation system is key to conserving, managing, and restoring tropical peatlands, however comprehensive system for Eco-evaluation in the Tropics is not yet established. This book reviews and proposes Eco-evaluation methods in the Tropics Ecosystem, focusing mainly on the peatland ecosystem and others, covering Social Capital such as Credit, Bonds, National Accounting, etc.
Mitsuru OSAKI, Ph, D (Japan)
He was Professor at the Research Faculty of Agriculture and the Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, from 2006 to 2017. He is Professor Emeritus at Hokkaido University, President of the Japan Peatland Society. and the President of NPO FutureForest Institute, Japan. He trained as a plant physiologist and soil scientist and obtained his doctorate degree from the Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, in 1981.
After graduating from the Department of Physics, Saga University, Japan, he worked at Saga University, Saga Medical School, Japan, Sasebo College of Technology, Japan, National Institute of Environment Studies, Japan, and Center for Sustainability Science, and Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan. In 2016, he moved to the Institute of Tropical Biology and Conservation, and Small Island Research Centre (2020-2022), University Malaysia Sabah, Sabah, Malaysia. He obtained his PhD from Kyusyu University, Japan, in 1990. He is a member of the Japan Peatland Society.
Tsuyoshi Kato (Japan)
He is a deputy divisional manager of the Environment and Resource Division, at Sumitomo Forestry Co, Ltd, Japan. He studied forest ecology at Kyoto University, conducting a five-year field research to understand the recovery process after commercial logging of a tropical forest in the Jambi district of Sumatra, Indonesia. From 2010 to 2022 he managed two forest plantations on peatlands, and conducted field studies in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Albertus Sulaiman (Indonesia)
He received BS in Meteorology and PhD in Theoretical Physics, the Bandung Institute of Technology. His research interest on environmental monitoring and modelling in tropical peatland, nonlinear atmospheric and ocean phenomena especially in the equatorial region. He is currently Head of the Research Center for Climate and Atmosphere, Badan Riset dan Inovasi Nasional (BRIN, Indonesia).
