Akira Miyawaki

Akira Miyawaki (宫 胁 昭Japanese, Akira Miyawaki, born January 29, 1928 in Nariwa (today: Takahashi ), Okayama Prefecture) is a Japanese university professor and sociologist plants.

Career

Miyawaki studied at the University of Hiroshima biology, where in 1952 he earned the academic degree of bachelor. After that, he was until 1958 a research assistant at the State University of Yokohama and worked from 1858 to 1960 and again from 1963 to 1964 as a research associate at Reinhold Tüxen at the former Federal Institute for vegetation mapping in Stolzenau. Miyawaki 1961 received his doctorate at the State University of Yokohama Doctor of Science.

Following an assistant professor from 1962 to 1973 he directed until 1993, the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Environmental Technology at the State University of Yokohama and held from 1985 until his retirement in 1993, the Office of the Director. Since 1993 he is Director of the Japanese Center for International Studies in Ecology ( Jise ).

From 1977 to 1978 Miyawaki held a visiting professorship at the University of Saarbrücken.

Work

Miyawaki is a profiled botanists, which has adopted the methods of Braun- Blanquet Tüxen School in Japan and popularized. Leading the way are his works and activities for the development in Japan of native forest communities on the concept of " potential natural vegetation ".

Memberships and Honors

Writings (selection )

• Plants and Human ( NHK Books)
• The Last Day for Man ( Chikuma Shobo )
• Testimony by Green Plants (Tokyo Shoseki )
• Prescription for Restoration of Green Environments ( Asahi Shinbun -sha)
• Chinju -no- mori ( Native Forests of Native Trees ) ( Shincho -sha).