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Kazuhiko Takeuchi

Director and Project Professor, Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science
Senior Visiting Professor, United Nations University

 

Profile

Kazuhiko Takeuchi is the Director and Professor, Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science (IR3S) at the University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study (UTIAS), and also serving as President, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) and Senior Visiting Professor at the United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS). He is a Vice-President of the Science Council of Japan (SCJ), Chair of the Central Environment Council, Government of Japan, and Editor-in- Chief of the journal Sustainability Science (Springer).

Research interests

Educated and trained as a geographer and landscape ecologist at the University of Tokyo, he engages in research and education on creating eco-friendly environments for a harmonious coexistence of people and nature, especially focusing on Asia and Africa. He is keenly interested in the restoration of ecosystems and effective utilization of environmental resources in Japan, a good example being the revitalization of traditional rural landscapes locally called Satoyama.

Research Projects
  • Predicting and Assessing Natural Capital and Ecosystem Services (PANCES)
  • Food Security Impacts of Industrial Crop Expansion in Sub-Sahara Africa(FICESSA)
  • Building a sustainable society through the integration between food sharing, low-carbon and resource efficient food supply system
  • Biodiversity and Ecosystem Assessment in Asia-Pacific Region
  • Enhancing Resilience to Climate and Ecosystem Changes in Semi-Arid Africa: An Integrated Approach (CECAR-Africa)
  • Strategy to Enhance Resilience to Climate and Ecosystem Changes Utilizing Traditional Bio-production Systems in Rural Asia (CECAR-Asia)

 

Selected Publications

2016

  • Takeuchi. K., Ichikawa. K., and Elmqvist. T., :Satoyama landscape as social–ecological system: historical changes and future perspective, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 19: 30-39.
  • Takeuchi K., Geetha Mohan, Kensuke Fukushi, Alexandros Gasparatos, Binaya Kumar Mishra: “Energy, Environment and Ecosystems (3E) Nexus Initiative: Towards Building
    Sustainable Society in Asia-Pacific Region”, Proceedings of the International Symposium Hanoi Geoengineering 2016, Vietnam National University Press, Hanoi, pp. 1-7.
  • Takeuchi, K., Matsuda, H., Saito, S., Herath, S., Naito, D. Mohan,G: Building resilience in rural Asia: combining traditional and modern bio production systems, The challenges of agro-environmental research in monsoon Asia, NIAES series no.6, pp. 13-25.
  • Yanagawa, A., Fujimaki, H., Okuro, T., Jamsran, U. and Takeuchi, K.: Comparison of drought tolerances in a root water uptake model for two co-occurring grass species in Mongolia. Japanese Society of Soil Physics (in press).

2015

  • Zhou, D., Aoyagi, M., Matsuda, H., Hara, Y., Okuro, T. and Takeuchi, K.: The resilience of traditional rice-dominated agricultural communities to precipitation variability in the North China Plain. Climate Research: 62, 149-161.
  • Jasaw, GS., Saito, O. and Takeuchi, K.: Shea (Vitellaria paradoxa) butter production and resource use by urban and rural processors in Northern Ghana. Sustainability, 7, 3592-3614.

For more publications, please refer to the CV below.

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