Takehiro Watanabe is Associate Professor at Sophia University, Faculty of Liberal Arts and the Graduate School in Global Studies, where he teaches anthropology with a focus on natural environments. He specializes in social and cultural dimensions of environmental issues and focuses on industrial pollution, natural resource management, wildlife conservation, and urban ecology. Currently, he is working on a volume on freshwater environments in Japan. His work has been published in English and Japanese, in journals such as Society & Natural Resources, Wetland Research, Landscape Research, and Gendai shiso.