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Kazuki's Profile

Dr Kazuki Kagohashi's portrait | 篭橋一輝の近影

Dr. Kazuki (Kaz) Kagohashi is a Visiting Fellow at the Fenner School for Environment and Society, Australian National University (ANU), and an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Global Liberal Studies, Nanzan University, Japan. He also has a concurrent position as a Research Fellow at Nanzan University Institute for Social Ethics and has led the "Social Resilience" research project since 2015. He has also been a Board Member of Global Landcare since 2021.

Kaz received his Ph.D. from Kyoto University in 2012. His thesis was on the theoretical and practical investigation of drought adaptation that occurred in the 1990s in Japan. After doing a post-doc at Nanzan University Institute for Social Ethics and a research fellow at the Graduate School of Economics of Kyoto University, he was a Senior Lecturer at Nanzan University from 2015 to 2018. He has been an Associate Professor at Nanzan University and has taught sustainability studies courses at the Faculty of Global Liberal Studies since 2018.

Kaz received a Young Achievement Award from the Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies in 2016 for the published paper "The Effects of International Trade on Water Use" (PLOS ONE, 10(7), 2015), co-authored by Tetsuya Tsurumi and Shunsuke Managi.

Education

2006-2012

PhD
Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Japan

I completed my PhD thesis, "Sustainable Water Management in the Drought-prone Areas" (supervisor: Prof. Kazuhiro Ueta). I analysed the effectiveness of water sharing and traditional knowledge in the pond irrigation system in Japan (Sanuki Plain) toward drought.

2004-2006

M.A

Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies,
Kyoto University, Japan

I was specifically interested in water resource management in the Pacific islands, as water is a critical natural capital in times of climate change. This interest led me to visit Tuvalu, one of the most vulnerable countries to sea level rise, and I submitted a thesis on sustainable water resources management in the Pacific islands.

2007-2014

BEc

Faculty of Economics,
Kyoto University, Japan

I studied environmental economics as an undergraduate. I wrote a paper on the theme of waste management. Specifically, I compared different municipalities (Nagoya and Kyoto) to examine the cost-effectiveness of waste management.

Professional Career

September 2023 - present

Visiting Fellow,

Fenner School of Environment and Society, ANU

I am on sabbatical from September 2023, and I've had a great opportunity to proceed with my research on Landcare in Australia at Fenner School, ANU.

https://fennerschool.anu.edu.au/people/affiliates/dr-kazuki-kagohashi

2021 - present

Board Member,

Global Landcare

I have been part of Global Landcare as a Board Member, which aims to "encourage globally, adoption of the Landcare approach to the management of the natural environment and enhancement of livelihoods, by supporting community owned and led approaches to the protection and sustainable management of land, water and biodiversity resources."

Global Landcare webpage:

https://globallandcare.org/

October 2019 - present

Research Fellow,

Institute for Social Ethics, Nanzan University

This is a concurrent position at Nanzan University for me. I am currently leading a research project on social resilience at the Institute for Social Ethics, which aims to examine the trade-off between the objects of "sustaining a society" and "increasing individual well-being" in times of adversity such as disasters, climate change, droughts, biodiversity loss and so on.

October 2019 - present

Associate Professor,

Faculty of Global Liberal Studies, Nanzan University

I teach sustainability studies at the Faculty of Global Liberal Studies. The faculty is highly interdisciplinary, and I collaborate with my colleagues in the courses of sustainability studies, who have backgrounds in environmental ethics and forest ecology.

September 2015 - March 2018

Assistant Professor,

Institute for Social Ethics, Nanzan University

I led a research project on social resilience. One of the highlights was that I could be part of the steering committee and organised the 1st International Conference of Landcare Studies, Nagoya, Japan, in collaboration with Australian Landcare International.

You can download the conference report:

Global Resilience Through Local Self-Reliance - The Landcare Model (2018)

April 2015 - August 2015

Research Fellow

Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University

I had participated in a research project on natural capital management.

April 2018 - September 2019

Associate Professor,

Institute for Social Ethics, Nanzan University

As an associate professor at the Institute for Social Ethics, I continued to lead the social resilience research project.

April 2012 - March 2015

Project Research Fellow

Institute for Social Ethics, Nanzan University

This was my first position after I received my PhD. I was part of the environmental governance research project, which Dr Michael Seigel was leading. Through participating in this project and organizing several national/international workshops, I realised the importance of landcare. I also started to get in touch with Landcare in Australia.

Reports are available: