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Michinori Kimura
Department of Integrated Analysis, Lake Biwa Environmental Research Institute, 5-34 Yanagasaki, Otsu, Shiga 520-0022, Japan

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Journal article
Published: 07 February 2020 in Sustainability
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As the effects of climate change increase in severity, organizations across the world are attempting to measures to mitigate these effects. In accordance with the Paris Agreement of November 2015, wherein participating nations agreed to restrict the increase in global temperature below 2 °C, Japan has formulated guidelines on creating adaptation plans that can be implemented by local governments. A Climate Change Adaptive Information Platform was also launched to promote understanding and cooperation by sharing information on climate risks. However, the literature on this topic lacks information related to the organization of requirements and challenges faced by municipal administrative officials that formulate adaptation plans. To address these issues, we examined the four municipal forums hosted at Hosei University to encourage administrative needs for new technological ideas in areas such as climate modeling and impact assessment. We used text mining on the transcripts of the various workshops conducted in these forums and attempted to understand the changes in discussions and to extract issues related to the formulation process. The results showed that various topics, such as creating adaptation promotion systems, assessing the impacts of climate change, formulating adaptation plans, communicating with related organizations and stakeholders, developing human resources, and capacity building, were discussed, and a need for information, procedures, and assistance was identified for the formulation of feasible adaptation plans. This study is expected to provide a useful reference to stakeholders involved in framing adaptation plans to mitigate the effects of climate changes, particularly at the municipal level.

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Asako Iwami; Takanori Matsui; Michinori Kimura; Kenshi Baba; Mitsuru Tanaka. Organizing the Challenges Faced by Municipalities while Formulating Climate Change Adaptation Plans. Sustainability 2020, 12, 1203 .

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Asako Iwami, Takanori Matsui, Michinori Kimura, Kenshi Baba, Mitsuru Tanaka. Organizing the Challenges Faced by Municipalities while Formulating Climate Change Adaptation Plans. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (3):1203.

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Asako Iwami; Takanori Matsui; Michinori Kimura; Kenshi Baba; Mitsuru Tanaka. 2020. "Organizing the Challenges Faced by Municipalities while Formulating Climate Change Adaptation Plans." Sustainability 12, no. 3: 1203.

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Published: 14 September 2018 in Water
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The objective of this study is to describe a target water–energy–food (WEF) nexus domain world including causal linkages and trade-off relationships between WEF resources and their stakeholders, and to develop a WEF nexus system map as an interdisciplinary tool used for understanding the subsequent complexity of WEF nexus systems. An ontology engineering method, which is a qualitative method, was applied for the replicability of the WEF nexus domain ontology and the map, because ontology engineering is a method of semantic web development for enhancing the compatibility of qualitative descriptions logically or objectively. The WEF nexus system map has three underlying concepts: (1) systems thinking, (2) holistic thinking, and (3) an integrated approach at an operational level, according to the hypothesis that the chains of changes in linkages between water, energy, and food resources holistically and systemically affect the WEF nexus system, including natural and social systems, both temporally and spatially. This study is significant because it allows us to (1) develop the WEF nexus domain ontology database, including defining the concepts and sub-concepts of trade-offs relating to WEF for the replicability of this study; (2) integrate the qualitative ontology method and quantitative network analysis method to identify key concepts serving as linkage hubs in the WEF nexus domain ontology; and (3) visualize human–nature interactions such as linkages between water, energy, and food resources and their stakeholders in social and natural systems. This paper also discusses future challenges in the application of the map for a science–policy–society interface.

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Aiko Endo; Terukazu Kumazawa; Michinori Kimura; Makoto Yamada; Takaaki Kato; Kouji Kozaki. Describing and Visualizing a Water–Energy–Food Nexus System. Water 2018, 10, 1245 .

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Aiko Endo, Terukazu Kumazawa, Michinori Kimura, Makoto Yamada, Takaaki Kato, Kouji Kozaki. Describing and Visualizing a Water–Energy–Food Nexus System. Water. 2018; 10 (9):1245.

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Aiko Endo; Terukazu Kumazawa; Michinori Kimura; Makoto Yamada; Takaaki Kato; Kouji Kozaki. 2018. "Describing and Visualizing a Water–Energy–Food Nexus System." Water 10, no. 9: 1245.

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Published: 17 April 2018 in The Water-Energy-Food Nexus
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In the sustainable use of groundwater resources, there is a need for smooth governance by stakeholders. Local communities use groundwater resources for a variety of purposes and many different stakeholders are involved, making it difficult to get an overall idea of how groundwater is being used. The purpose of this study is to use social network analysis (SNA) to visualize differences in latent talking point that exist among stakeholders of groundwater resources to structurally understand the potential relationship between the stakeholders of groundwater resources of Obama City, Fukui Prefecture. Results show that stakeholders come to a shared understanding regarding general issues such as “necessity of conservation”, “maintaining current usage level”, “sanitation”, among others. However, the stakeholders do not have a shared understanding regarding specific issues such as “salinization”, “temperature”, and “natural flow”. From a nexus perspective, groundwater is used for various purposes. The fact that concrete issues are not shared between stakeholders with different uses is considered to be a potential conflict.

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Michinori Kimura; Naoki Masuhara; Kenshi Baba. Making Social Networks Visible: Shared Awareness Among Stakeholders on Groundwater Resources. The Water-Energy-Food Nexus 2018, 273 -286.

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Michinori Kimura, Naoki Masuhara, Kenshi Baba. Making Social Networks Visible: Shared Awareness Among Stakeholders on Groundwater Resources. The Water-Energy-Food Nexus. 2018; ():273-286.

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Michinori Kimura; Naoki Masuhara; Kenshi Baba. 2018. "Making Social Networks Visible: Shared Awareness Among Stakeholders on Groundwater Resources." The Water-Energy-Food Nexus , no. : 273-286.

Chapter
Published: 17 April 2018 in The Water-Energy-Food Nexus
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As the trade-offs within nexus issues of water-energy-food usually come along with scientific disputes, building a consensus among stakeholders with the scientific evidence is required to realize sustainable and resilient societies. In this chapter, we explore the capability of problem-solving for potential disputes that may occur among nexus issues at a local level from case studies in Beppu, Japan by using our scenario-based approach customized to integrate expert knowledge and local knowledge. Our scenario-based approach contains not only the elements of the existing scenario planning but also stakeholder analysis and the Delphi method which enables co-design and co-production of science and society. By integrating these methods, we intend to improve scientific evidence-based policy making processes. As we are now developing the Delphi method, we focused the first half of the process of stakeholder analysis and stakeholder meeting.

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Kenshi Baba; Naoki Masuhara; Michinori Kimura. Scenario-based Approach to Local Water-energy-food Nexus Issues with Experts and Stakeholders. The Water-Energy-Food Nexus 2018, 321 -333.

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Kenshi Baba, Naoki Masuhara, Michinori Kimura. Scenario-based Approach to Local Water-energy-food Nexus Issues with Experts and Stakeholders. The Water-Energy-Food Nexus. 2018; ():321-333.

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Kenshi Baba; Naoki Masuhara; Michinori Kimura. 2018. "Scenario-based Approach to Local Water-energy-food Nexus Issues with Experts and Stakeholders." The Water-Energy-Food Nexus , no. : 321-333.