Population Dynamics and Livelihood Changes of Small-Scale Societies in Laos
暫譯: 寮國小型社會的人口動態與生計變遷

Dr. Satoshi Yokoyama is a Professor in the Department of Geography, the School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University. His research interests lie in the field of human-nature interactions, with a particular emphasis on land use change, natural resource use, and livelihood change. His most recent research interests include traditional fermented foods in the Himalayas and Southeast Asia. He has authored or edited 11 books, and published over a hundred academic book chapters and research articles. He has been a member of the Science Council of Japan (SCJ) since October 2020 and a program officer of the Research Center for Science Systems, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) since April 2023. Additionally, he held the position of a Visiting Scholar at East-West Center, U.S.A. from 2005 to 2006; a Visiting Associate Professor at the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature in 2011; and a Visiting Professor at Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University from 2013 to 2014.

Dr. Takahito Niwa is an Associate Professor in the Collage of Human and Social Sciences, Kanazawa University. He received his Ph.D. in Science from the Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University in 2012. His specialties are economic geography and population geography. His research focuses on the spatial patterns of population migration and adaption of workers in local labor markets around Southeast Asia. He has continued to research internal labor migration in Thailand, transnational migration between Laos and Thailand, lifestyle migration among Japanese youth, and retirement migration among Japanese elderly, based on empirical case studies. He has recently published his edited book on "Current global human resources" (in Japanese) in 2018.

Dr. Hongwei Jiang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, the School of Humanities, Osaka University. His research interests lie in the field of human ecology with emphasis on subsistence transition and human health, spatio-temporal analysis of human activities, ecohealth. His recent research interests include land use change and emerging infectious disease (EID) risk, and he published an article entitled "Factors Contributing to the Pre-Elimination of Malaria from Hainan Island, China, 1986-2009" on the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Additionally, he is a Visiting Assistant professor at the Research Institute of Humanity and Nature.

山本聰志博士是名古屋大學環境學院地理系的教授。他的研究興趣集中在人與自然的互動領域，特別強調土地使用變化、自然資源利用和生計變化。他最近的研究興趣包括喜馬拉雅山和東南亞的傳統發酵食品。他已經撰寫或編輯了11本書籍，並發表了超過一百篇學術書章和研究文章。自2020年10月以來，他一直是日本科學會議（SCJ）的成員，並自2023年4月起擔任日本學術振興會（JSPS）科學系統研究中心的計畫官。此外，他曾於2005年至2006年擔任美國東西中心的訪問學者；在2011年擔任人文與自然研究所的訪問副教授；以及在2013年至2014年擔任京都大學東南亞研究中心的訪問教授。

丹羽隆仁博士是金澤大學人文社會科學學院的副教授。他於2012年在東北大學科學研究所獲得科學博士學位。他的專長是經濟地理和人口地理。他的研究專注於東南亞地區人口遷移的空間模式以及當地勞動市場中工人的適應。他持續研究泰國的內部勞動遷移、老撾與泰國之間的跨國遷移、日本青年生活方式遷移以及日本老年人的退休遷移，並基於實證案例進行研究。他最近於2018年出版了編輯書籍《當前全球人力資源》（日文）。

江宏偉博士是大阪大學人文學院地理系的助理教授。他的研究興趣集中在人類生態學領域，強調生計轉型和人類健康、人類活動的時空分析以及生態健康。他最近的研究興趣包括土地使用變化和新興傳染病（EID）風險，他在《美國熱帶醫學與衛生雜誌》上發表了一篇題為《1986-2009年中國海南島疟疾前消除的因素》的文章。此外，他還是人文與自然研究所的訪問助理教授。