After serving as Director and Fellow Researcher of the Forestry Economic Research Institute / Deputy Director of the Guidance and Audit Department of the Japan Forestry Federation, he became Associate Professor of Agriculture and Forestry at the University of Tsukuba in 2000, and Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry at the Faculty of Life and Environment. He specializes in forest community organization theory, regional forest management theory, and Swiss forestry and forest policy theory. His publications include "Long-Term Sustainability of Community Forest Management: Future Perspectives from 100 Years in Europe and Japan," "Private Forest Issues in Contemporary Japan," "Public Control of Forest Management and Institutional Change: Public Forest Management and Regions in Switzerland and Japan," and "Forest Management Issues in Contemporary Japan. His current interests include public forest management theory and the history of forest management thought.
10.14Tue 2025
Sustainable Forest Management and Institutional Design Learning from Switzerland Integrated Management of Public Forests to Create Forest Cycles
Why has the "circular forest economy" not been realized in Japan? Chapter 7 of "Forests and Time," for which the author was in charge of writing, "Forest Management's Party Nature [...].
