Resilient and Adaptive Tokyo (PDF)

Yan, Wanglin, Professor, Dr., Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University. Email: w_yan@keio.jp. Prof. Yan is a distinguished scholar in Environmental and Geo-informational Science for urban and regional planning by multi-disciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches. He is currently the president of Geographic Information System Association, Japan. He is also serving the sub-regional node of Asia-Pacific Adaptation Network of UNEP and is devoted to climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction in Japan and northeast Asian countries. He has recently led the international consortium for the SUGI Nexus Program/M-NEX project and contributed to the co-creative design-led approach for urban food-energy-water management.







Galloway, Will, Assistant professor, Dr., Department of Architecture, Toronto Metropolitan University. Email: will.galloway@torontomu.ca. Will is an architect and urban planner, trained in Canada, the UK, and Japan. He taught at several universities in Japan, including Keio University and Waseda University, and currently teaches at Toronto Metropolitan University, Department of Architectural Science. In addition to research and teaching, he is the co-founder and director of the architecture office, frontoffice tokyo. His research focuses on resilience and adaptation, often making use of lessons learned from the examination of growth and change in cities.







Shaw, Rajib, Professor, Dr., Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University. Email: shaw@sfc.keio.ac.jp. Shaw is the Co-chair of the United Nations Asia-Pacific Science Technology Advisory Group (AP-STAG) and Coordinating Lead Author (CLA) IPCC's 6th Assessment Report. He is the editor of a book series on disaster risk reduction, published by Springer, and the Chief Editor of an academic journal Progress in Disaster Science by Elsevier. He is the recipient of Pravasi Bhartiya Samman Award (PBSA) of 2021 in