Nobuyuki YAMAMOTO | Forest Circular Economy

Nobuyuki Yamamoto

Nobuyuki YAMAMOTO

Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, National Forestry Research and Development Institute

Director of Forestry Management and Policy Research Area, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, National Institute of Forestry Research and Development / Specializes in forest policy and forestry economics. His recent research focuses on modernization and forests and forestry. His publications include "Forests and Time: A Social History of Forests", "Long-Term Sustainability of Local Forest Management: Future Perspectives from 100 Years in Europe and Japan", and "Theory of Forest Management Systems". His research on the modernization process of forest management systems won the Prize for Academic Achievement from the Forestry Economics Society of Japan, and "The Origins of the Forest Planning System in Japan" won the Paper Award from the Forestry Society of Japan.

11.4Tue 2025

The life course of a forestry technology bureaucrat who worked hard to modernize Japan's forestry industry intersects with the history of slowly growing Japanese cedar plantation forests.

In my edited book, "Forests and Time: A Social History of Forests in the Region," the idea of life course analysis is used as the theoretical framework that runs through the entire book [...].

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10.10Fri 2025

People and Society Inheriting Forests that Have Lived for a Long Time: Memories of Seven Communities Depicted in "Forests and Time

It was last summer when I published a book titled "Forest and Time: A Social History of the Region Surrounded by Forests" with my fellow researchers from Shinsensha Publishing Co. We went to the backwoods [...]...

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