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TAKAHASHI Takuya currently works at the School of Environmental Science, The University of Shiga Prefecture. Takuya conducts research in Forestry, Managerial Economics and Corporate Environmentalism. His current projects include 'Socially-supported forest management under different schemes' and 'Well-being and forest management' and other ones. He uses mainly econometric and other statistical techniques for his research. |
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Takuya Takahashi currently works at the School of Environmental Science, The University of Shiga Prefecture. Takahashi conducts research in Forestry and Managerial Economics and Corporate Environmentalism. His current projects include 'socially-supported forest management under different schemes', 'well-being and forest management', 'management and policies of common forests' and other ones. He employs mainly econometric and other statistical techniques for his research.
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University of British Columbia Faculty of Graduate Studies Resource Management and Environemntal Studies Program Doctor's Course 2001.03
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University of Shiga Prefecture School of Environmental Science Department of Environmental Policy and Planning Professor 2015.04 - Now
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University of Shiga Prefecture School of Environmental Science Department of Environmental Policy and Planning Associate Professor 2007.10 - 2015.03
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University of Shiga Prefecture Socio-Environment Planning Course Lecturer 2007.04 - 2007.09
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University of Shiga Prefecture School of Environmental Science Department of Biological Resources Management Lecturer 2001.04 - 2007.03
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Japanese Forest Economic Society
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Center for Environmental Information Science
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Greening of Industry International Network
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Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies
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Japanese Association for Water Resources and Environment Director
Field of expertise (Grants-in-aid for Scientific Research classification) 【 display / non-display 】
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Forest science
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Environmental impact assessment
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How to deal with forests, the owners or the borders of which are unknown?
forest ownership, land registry, surveying technology
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commons, customary holdings, Iriai forests, forest producers' cooperatives
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corporate environmentalism, environmental management system, environmental performance, carbon offsetting
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Subjective well-being as a potential policy indicator in the context of urbanization and forest restoration
Takahashi, T., Y. Uchida, H. Ishibashi, N. Okuda
Sustainability 13 (6) 3211 - 2021.03
10.3390/su13063211 Joint Work Joint(The main charge)
[Abstract]
The enhancement of human well-being is one of the ultimate goals of resource management; however, it is not explicitly considered by forest policy indicators. Our previous studies examined how Japanese citizens in the Yasu River watershed of the Shiga Prefecture perceived subjective well-being related to forests (forest SWB).We found a negative correlation between forest SWB and forest ownership, suggesting dissatisfaction with the low profitability of forest ownership. Based on this result, in this paper, we argue that forest SWB can be an important indicator for policymaking in the context of urbanization and forest restoration and can complement existing forest indicators focusing mainly on physical and objective properties. First, we propose that a direct measurement of well-being (e.g., forest SWB) is preferable over an indirect measurement (e.g., GDP), for policymaking processes related to forests. Second, forest SWB can reflect the quality of our interactions with forests, which is important in urbanized societies which tend to have reduced experiences with nature. Third, forest SWB could identify inequalities between the users of forest ecosystem services and forest managers. Overall, forest SWB can be a holistic indicator to capture a variety of perspectives held by citizens.
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Community actions against anticommons of forests in contemporary Japan: Case studies of former common forests
Takuya Takahashi, Koji Matsushita, Toshiaki Nishimura
Taylor & Francis Journal of Forest Research 2020.10
10.1080/13416979.2020.1834715 Joint Work Joint(The main charge)
[Abstract]
Over the past few decades, many Japanese forest owners and communities have suffered from the outcomes of anticommons (parcelization) phenomenon. Since the Edo Era (17th through 19th centuries), many Japanese commons forests have been subdivided and placed under private ownership. Individual owners of the subdivided small forests (carved out from former commons forests) have lost interest in forestry, resulting in unclear borders. Many owners have relocated outside the villages (absent owners) and/or have passed the land down through generations, resulting in unknown ownership. There are several ways to ameliorate the anticommons phenomenon in Japan, as illustrated by these examples, which we examined employing case study and comparative study approaches. 1) Despite the expense, a residents’ association successfully re-appropriated co-ownership land by “technically” suing the current respective co-owners. 2) Some residents’ associations collectively manage subdivided forests as one unit to reduce the damage caused by animals such as wild boars or deer. However, the units are still legally separate and owned by individuals. 3) A land owners’ association stipulated that a vacating resident owner must sell her forest to the remaining residents. These three cases show how motivations, other than profits, could help address the anticommons phenomenon. These motivations include the intent to keep the community’s holding intact in the event of consolidation at the municipality level, to protect the land against pest animals, and to keep the community’s drinking water pure.
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Takahashi, T., Matsushita, K., Yoshida, Y., & Senda, T.
Ubiquity Press International Journal of the Commons 13 (2) 1021 - 1034 2019.10
10.5334/ijc.936 Joint Work Joint(The main charge)
[Abstract]
After World War II, Japan’s policy makers believed that common forests were underutilized because of their legal status and organization method under customary iriai-type ownership and that modern ownership in the form of group ownership, such as forest producers’ cooperatives, or as individual, separate ownership, would improve the situation. Thus, the Common Forests Modernization Act of 1966 was enacted, following successive modernization policies since the Meiji Restoration in 1868. We evaluated the impacts of the past modernization policies on the management of common forests by statistically comparing the performance of modernized and non-modernized 19,690 common forests based on the World Census of Agriculture and Forestry 2000. The performance measures for comparison included planting, weeding, thinning, and harvesting activities. We found less modernized, customary holdings are more active in tending activities such as weeding and thinning, while modernized holdings may have an advantage in harvesting and timber sales.
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A Statistical Analysis of Forest Producers' Cooperatives Using Microdata from the 2005 and 2010 World Censuses of Agriculture and Forestry: Forest Practices and Forest Product Sales Classified by Forest Holding Area
Koji Matsushita, Takuya Takahashi, Tetsushi Senda
Central Japan Common Forest Research Society Journal of Forest Commons 39 60 - 70 2019.03
Single Work Joint(The vice charge)
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Forest management before establishment of a production forest cooperative: Three hamlets' common forests in Nishi-azai cho, Nagahama City
Koji Matsushita, Takuya Takahashi
38 77 - 89 2018.03
Joint Work Joint(The vice charge)
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Impacts of modernization policy on the management of commons forests in Japan: A statistical analysis of individual data
Takuya Takahashi, Koji Matsushita, Yoshio Yoshida, Tetsuji Senda
International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC) 2017 Conference 2017.07
Joint Work Joint(The main charge)
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Differences of developement in modernization of forest commons in relation to agricultural communities' characteristics
Takuya Takahashi
The Central Japan Forest Commons Research Society Journal of Forest Commons (37) 67 - 72 2017.03
Single Work
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An essay on changes of titles for ownership registration of forest commons
Koji Matsushita, Takuya Takahashi
The Central Japan Forest Commons Research Society Journal of Forest Commons (37) 73 - 75 2017.03
Joint Work Joint(The vice charge)
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Factors affecting the creation of modern property ownership of forest commons in Japan: An examination of historical, prefectural data
Koji Matsushita, Wil de Jong
Elsevier Forest Policy and Economics 74 62 - 70 2017.01
10.1016/j.forpol.2016.10.012 Joint Work Joint(The main charge)
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Influence of corporate culture on environmental management performance: An empirical study of Japanese firms
Masaki Sugita, Takuya Takahashi
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management 22 (3) 182 - 192 2015.05
10.1002/csr.1346 Joint Work Joint(The main charge)
[Abstract]
This paper investigates the relationships between the scores of 109 Japanese corporations found in the NIKKEI environmental management ranking survey and the corporate culture of each firm. Corporate culture is measured with the instrument developed by Cameron and Quinn (2006). The instrument measures corporate culture in terms of four categories: clan culture, adhocracy culture, hierarchy culture, and market culture. The results indicate that adhocracy culture has statistically significant positive relationships with the management system, product development, and climate change mitigation aspects of environmental management or sustainability management. Excessive hierarchy culture has a negative relationship with the overall score of environmental management. An appropriate combination of hierarchy culture and adhocracy culture enhances the overall score.
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"The economics of forest resources" in Encyclopedia of Environmental Economics and Policy Studies
Takuya Takahashi
Maruzen Publishing 2p 2018.05
Dictionary/Encycropedia Single Work
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Economics of the Environment and Resources: A Case Study Approach
270p 2013.10
Textbook Joint Work
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A Survey of International Corporate Responsibility
M. Dobashi, J. N. Hooker, and P. Madsen (Eds.), Takuya TAKAHASHI, et. al
Philosophy Documentation Center 366p 2009.11
Scholarly Book Joint Work
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Environmental management in three-way satisfaction way: Learning from Ohmi merchants
Takahashi, Takuya
Electric Glass (61) 9 - 13 2019.10
Single Work
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Economic Valuation of Ecosystem Services: Current Status and Challenges of TEEB
Takuya Takahashi
Center for Environmental Information Science Environmental Information Science 48 (1) 14 - 19 2019.03
Single Work
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Iriai, cooperatives, and commons in the world: IASC 2017 in Utrecht, the Netherlands
Takuya Takahashi
Study of Common Forests 38 33 - 39 2018.03
Single Work Joint(The main charge)
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Forestry and forest products industry in Canada and tenure systems
Takuya Takahashi
Forest Technologies 8 - 11 2018.03
Single Work Joint(The main charge)
Conferences 【 display / non-display 】
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Recent changes in performance of production forest cooperatives: differences among various sizes
The 132nd Japan Forest Society Conference 2021.03
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Subjective well-being as a potential policy indicator in the context of urbanization and forest restoration
The 132nd Japan Forest Association Congress 2021.03
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Attitudes of forest owners on provision of ecosystem services
The 132nd Japan Forest Society Conference 2021.03
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Statistical analysis on relationship between size and profitability of forestry cooperatives
Forest Economics Society Autumn 2020 2020.12
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生産森林組合の財務に関する一考察
2020年度林業経済学会秋季大会 2020.12
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Statistical analysis of performance of production forestry cooperatives
The 71st Applied Forest Science Society 2020.11
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Evidence Statements - Japan
SINCERE (Spurring INnovations for forest eCosystem sERvices in Europe) Learning Lab, Stream 2 (Cultural and spiritual forest ecosystem services from an Asian and a European perspective) 2019.10
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How does forest ownership influence forest-related subjective well-being? A case study in the upper Yasu River watershed, Shiga Prefecture, Japan
Society of Environmental Economics and Policy Studies 24th Annual Conference 2019.09
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Community actions against anticommons in contemporary Japan: Case studies of former commons forests
International Association for the Study of Commons Global Conference 2019.07
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Economic Valuation of Ecosystem Services: Current Status and Challenges of TEEB
CEIS Salon on the Environment No. 141 2019.04
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Statistical analysis on the increase in forests with unknown owners or borders
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) 2020.04 - 2024.03
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Exploratory study on the introduction of payment for environmental services for forests
Japan Soceiey for the Promotion of Science JSPS Grants-In-Aids for Scientific Research (C) 2021.04 - 2024.03