摘要:Despite its significance in achieving sustainability in an era of frequent disasters, environmental emergency management (EEM) is a field that has not attracted enough attention from policy makers. This article provides an overview of and outlook for EEM studies at the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES). For this, a framework is presented for EEM based on recent international literature, and representative works undertaken by NIES are presented in line with this framework to examine research gaps and outlook. Our analysis shows good coverage of research topics aimed at enhancing understanding of the impact of environmental emergencies and advancing both pre- and post-disaster actions for disaster waste management (DWM). Some research gaps are also identified: namely, research on post-disaster assessment of environmental impacts and decision making under emergency circumstances, research on responses and recovery actions against impacts from hazardous substances released in the course of natural hazard events, and research collaboration within the EEM discipline and between natural hazard experts (especially regarding physical countermeasures).