早稲田大学 社会基盤工学部教授

ミゲル・エステバン

Miguel Esteban

Professor at the Research Institute
of Sustainable Future Society,
Faculty of Civil and Environmental
Engineering of Waseda University

 

2007年、横浜国立大学で沿岸工学の博士号を取得。その後、博士研究員としての研究、国連大学サステイナビリティ高等研究所（UNU-IAS）、京都大学での研究を経て、東京大学准教授を務める。様々なテーマに関する135以上のジャーナル論文を執筆している。
研究テーマは自然災害が異なる国の社会経済構成要素に与える影響。海から起こる様々な種類の災害、主に熱帯低気圧や津波などの破壊的な要素を推定している。これらの出来事がどのように沿岸地域を壊滅させ、多くの命を奪うかを理解することが保護戦略を策定する上で重要だと考える。また、気候変動が自然災害、特に将来的に強度が増すと予想される熱帯低気圧に与える影響に焦点を当て、これに海面上昇が加わることで多くの国の経済に影響を与えると予想した上で交通、インフラ、農業に与える経済的損失の定量化についても研究を行なっている。

Dr.Esteban is currently a Professor at the Research Institute of Sustainable Future Society, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Waseda University, in Tokyo, Japan. He received his PhD in Coastal engineering from Yokohama National University in Japan in 2007, and then he continued his work with Post-Doctoral Fellowships and the United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS) and at Kyoto University. Subsequently he also worked as an Associate Professor at The University of Tokyo. He has authored over 135 journal papers on a variety of subjects.
Dr.Esteban’s research deals with the effect that natural disasters will have on various components of the socio-economic make-up of different countries. In this respect, he is involved in the estimation of the different destructive components of various types of disasters that originate from the sea, namely tropical cyclones and tsunamis. Understanding how these events can devastate coastal areas and cause the loss of many lives is important to formulate protection strategies. Furthermore, his research deals on the effect that climate change will have on natural disasters, and in particular tropical cyclones, which are expected to increase in intensity in the future. This, coupled with sea-level rise, is expected to have a great impact on the economy of many countries, and his research attempts to quantify the economic damage that this can cause to transport, infrastructure and agriculture.