Research Center forEnvironmental Quality ManagementKyoto University, Japan京都大学大学院工学研究科附属流域圏総合環境質研究センター

Research Center for Environmental Quality Management Kyoto University京都大学大学院工学研究科附属 流域圏総合環境質研究センター

Hamaotsu Sta.浜大津駅

Biwako Hall滋賀県立芸術劇場びわ湖ホール Otsu Prince Hotel

大津プリンスホテル

Route No.18県道18号線

（大津ー草津線）

Keihan Zeze Sta.京阪膳所駅

JR Zeze Sta.JR膳所駅

Route No.161国道161号線

Route No.1国道1号線

Meishin Highway名神高速道路

JR Tokaido（Biwako Line）JR東海道本線（琵琶湖線）

JR Otsu Sta.JR大津駅

SEIBUDepartment Store西武百貨店

Omi-Ohashi近江大橋

Otsu I.C.名神大津I.C.

Biwako Culture Museum琵琶湖文化館

Lake Biwa琵琶湖

Nishiki Sta.錦駅Nishiki Sta.錦駅

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Otsu City大津市

Shinkansen東海道新幹線

Lake Biwa琵琶湖

10 minutes by car from JR Otsu Sta.JR琵琶湖線　大津駅下車タクシー10分

15 minutes on foot from Zeze Sta.(JR&Keihan Railways)膳所駅（JR＆京阪）下車徒歩15分

7 minutes on foot from Keihan Nishiki Sta.京阪石坂線　錦駅下車徒歩7分

10 minutes by car from Otsu I.C.(Meishin Highway) 名神大津インターから10分

1-2 Yumihama, Otsu, 520-0811. JapanPhone ＋81-77-527-6220～4FAX ＋81-77-524-9869

〒520-0811 滋賀県大津市由美浜1-2TEL 077-527-6220～4 FAX 077-524-9869http://www.eqc.kyoto-u.ac.jp

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Kyoto University

Research Center for Environmental Quality Management

Education

Research

Outreach

Research● Domestic and international research● Academia‒society collaboration for innovation

Education● Lectures, including international e-learning● Opportunities for both domestic and foreign students

Outreach● Cooperative research with international, national, and local governments, the private sector, and

　private companies● Technical, scientific and public seminars

Environmental Quality Management◆ Integrated watershed management of lotic and lentic water environments in Japan and Asia◆ Taxonomy of natural organic matter to understand its role and function in the aquatic environment

and in water and wastewater treatment◆ Development of bio-mimic sensors for evaluating environmental toxicity◆ Development of innovative genotoxicity tests◆ Evaluation of the toxicity of chemicals by using “Omics” approaches: proteome, genome,

transcriptome, metabolome, DNA adductome

Environmental Quality Prediction◆ Water quality management for a healthy aquatic ecosystem◆ Risk management of emerging pollutants in water recycling systems◆ Municipal wastewater management, including advanced water treatment and countermeasures

against combined sewer overflows◆ Water reclamation and reuse◆ Pathogen control in wastewater, water reuse and the aquatic environment

Environmental Quality Monitoring◆ Cooperative research and education with visiting foreign scholars

■ The Research Center for Environmental Quality Management (RCEQM) was inaugurated in 2005.

It has three research and educational divisions: Environmental Quality Management,

Environmental Quality Prediction, and Environmental Quality Monitoring.■ The main goal of the RCEQM is to become an advanced research and educational institution, by

integrating various fields of expertise to target integrated watershed management and to

investigate the adverse effects of existing and new environmental contaminants on human

health and ecosystems.■ The RCEQM’s research and education will contribute greatly toward solving current and future

environmental problems.

Outline

To create and maintain a healthy, safe, resilient environment through:■ Risk-based, integrated watershed management that considers the effects of climate change on

hydrology and water quality, the environmental risk assessment of toxic chemicals, and gover-

nance.■ Development of innovative technologies for managing and controlling contaminants in the

environment. Sitting on the shore of Lake Biwa and near a municipal wastewater treatment

plant, the RCEQM focuses on the management and pollution in the lake and its watershed and

on municipal wastewater man-

agement.■ Revealing how human activity

and nature generate contami-

nants, and the fate and effects

of pollutants in the environment.■ Assays of environmental toxicity

and biology, technologies for

the management of contami-

nants, and establishment of an

urban water recycling system.

Research at RCEQM

Research topics

Activities