Nishi, Maiko
Research Fellow
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- INSTITUTE:
- UNU-IAS
- OFFICE:
- Jingumae 5-53-70, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-8925, Japan
- E-MAIL:
- nishi@unu.edu
- PHONE:
- +81-3-5467-1212
- NATIONALITY:
- 日本
Research Interests
- Agricultural land policy
- Environmental governance
- Land use planning
- Socio-ecological production landscapes
- Urban planning
Education
- PhD in Urban Planning (Columbia University)
- MA in Development Studies (Institute of Social Studies, The Netherlands)
- MEng in Urban Engineering (The University of Tokyo)
- BEng in Civil Engineering (Waseda University)
Biographical Statement
Maiko Nishi joined UNU-IAS as a Research Fellow for the International Satoyama Initiative in May 2019. Her area of research interest includes social-ecological system governance, local and regional planning, and agricultural land policy. In particular, her interest lies in the notions of multi-level governance, land tenure and use, and perspectives and subjectivities of institutional actors in the processes of governing natural resources. She began her career as a consultant in urban planning in Japan, and experienced both overseas and domestic projects including those related to participatory planning, rural water supply, and regional development. She was also engaged in several research and assessment activities as a coordinator to follow up the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, including a multi-stakeholder assessment on the interaction between humans and ecosystems in Japan.
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Articles
- Torralba, Mario, Nishi, Maiko, Cebrián-Piqueras, Miguel A., Quintas-Soriano, Cristina, García-Martín, María and Plieninger, Tobias (2023). Disentangling the practice of landscape approaches: a Q-method analysis on experiences in socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes. Sustainability Science, 18(2), n/a-n/a
- Nishi, Maiko and Hashimoto, Shizuka (2022). Health and landscape approaches: A comparative review of integrated approaches to health and landscape management. Environmental Science & Policy, 136, 314-325
- Nishi, Maiko (2022). Japanese land reform in the new era?: Farmers’ wellbeing and sustainable farmland management. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, n/a-n/a
- Shoyama, Kikuko, Nishi, Maiko, Hashimoto, Shizuka and Saito, Osamu (2021). Outcome-Based Assessment of the Payment for Mountain Agriculture: A Community-Based Approach to Countering Land Abandonment in Japan. Environmental Management, 68(3), 353-365
- Gupta, Himangana, Nishi, Maiko and Gasparatos, Alexandros (2021). Community-based responses for tackling environmental and socio-economic change and impacts in mountain social–ecological systems. Ambio, 51, 1123-1142
- Kishioka, Tomoya, Hashimoto, Shizuka, Nishi, Maiko, Saito, Osamu and Kohsaka, Ryo (2017). Fostering cooperation between farmers and public and private actors to expand environmentally friendly rice cultivation: intermediary functions and farmers' perspectives. International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 593-612
- Nishi, Maiko, Pelling, Mark, Yamamuro, Masumi, Solecki, William and Kraines, Steven B. (2017). Risk Management Regime and Its Scope for Transition in Tokyo. Journal of Extreme Events, 3(3), 1650011-1-1650011-29
- Hashimoto, Shizuka and Nishi, Maiko (2016). Policy Evolution of Land Consolidation and Rural Development in Postwar Japan. Geomatics, Landmanagement and Landscape (3), 57-75
Books
- Ecosystem Restoration through Managing Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes (SEPLS), ed. Nishi, Maiko and Subramanian, Suneetha M. (Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2023).
- Biodiversity-Health-Sustainability Nexus in Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes (SEPLS), ed. Nishi, Maiko, Subramanian, Suneetha M. and Gupta, Himangana (Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2022).
- Fostering Transformative Change for Sustainability in the Context of Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes (SEPLS), ed. Nishi, Maiko, Subramanian, Suneetha M., Gupta, Himangana, Yoshino, Madoka, Takahashi, Yasuo, Miwa, Koji and Takeda, Tomoko (Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2021).
- Satoyama–Satoumi Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes of Japan, ed. Duraiappah, Anantha Kumar, Nakamura, Koji, Takeuchi, Kazuhiko, Watanabe, Masataka and Nishi, Maiko (Tokyo: UNU Press, 2012).
Book Chapters
- Nishi, Maiko, “Bridging Between Owners and Users in Japan’s Private Property Regime: The Case of Farmland Banking” in The Political Economy of Land: Rent, Financialization and Resistance, ed. Hyötyläinen, Mika and Beauregard, Robert (London: Routledge, 2022), 160-179.
- Kohsaka, Ryo, Pereira, Henrique M., Elmqvist, Thomas, Chan, Lena, Moreno-Peñaranda, Raquel, Morimoto, Yukihiro, Inoue, Takashi, Iwata, Mari, Nishi, Maiko, Mathias, Maria da Luz, Souto Cruz, Carlos, Cabral, Mariana, Brunfeldt, Minna, Parkkinen, Anni, Niemelä, Jari, Kulkarni-Kawli, Yashada and Pearsall, Grant, “Indicators for management of urban biodiversity and ecosystem services : city biodiversity index” in Urbanization, biodiversity and ecosystem services: challenges and opportunities (Heidelberg: Springer Netherlands, 2013), 699-718.
Reports
- Nishi, Maiko, Subramanian, Suneetha M. and Varghese, Philip (2024). Sustainable Business Practices for Biodiversity: Leveraging Landscape Approaches. UNU-IAS Policy Brief series. United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS).
- Subramanian, Suneetha M. and Nishi, Maiko (2023). Nature as Culture: Conceptualizing What It Implies and Potential Ways to Capture the Paradigm in Scenario Building Exercises. UNU-IAS Working Paper series. United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability.
- Nishi, Maiko and Subramanian, Suneetha M. (2023). Landscape Approaches to Ecosystem Restoration: Lessons Learned from Managing Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes & Seascapes. UNU-IAS Policy Brief series. United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS).
- Nishi, Maiko, Subramanian, Suneetha M. and Gupta, Himangana (2022). The Biodiversity–Health–Sustainability Nexus: Integrated Solutions from Landscapes & Seascapes. United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability.
- Nishi, Maiko, Subramanian, Suneetha M. and Gupta, Himangana (2021). Transformative Change for Sustainability: Nurturing Seeds of Change in Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes & Seascapes. United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability.
- Nishi, Maiko, Natori, Yoji and Dublin, Devon R. (2021). Resilience in Landscapes & Seascapes: Building Back Better from COVID-19. UNU-IAS Policy Brief series. United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability.
- Takahashi, Yasuo, Kien, Dang, Camacho, Leni, Nishi, Maiko, Dunbar, William, Matsuo, Akane, Miwa, Koji, Mader, Andre, Yanagiya, Makiko and Takeuchi, Kazuhiko (2020). Role of socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes in the face of COVID-19 and towards transformative change. Institute for Global Environmental Strategies.
- Nishi, Maiko and Yamazaki, Mari (2020). Landscape Approaches for the Post-2020 Biodiversity Agenda: Perspectives from Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes. UNU-IAS Policy Brief series. United Nations University.
- Duraiappah, Anantha Kumar, Nakamura, Koji, Takeuchi, Kazuhiko, Watanabe, Masataka and Nishi, Maiko (2010). UNU Policy Brief Number 7, 2010: Satoyama–Satoumi Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Assessing Trends to Rethink a Sustainable Future. Policy Briefs. United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies of Sustainability.
- Duraiappah, Anantha Kumar, Nakamura, Koji, Takeuchi, Kazuhiko, Watanabe, Masataka and Nishi, Maiko (2010). Satoyama–Satoumi Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Assessing Trends to Rethink a Sustainable Future. United Nations University Press.