Kyushu University [Toshinori TANAKA (Associate Professor) Kyushu University Institute for Asian and Oceanian Studies, Department of Research Promotion]

Toshinori TANAKA

Last modified date：2024.04.03

Associate Professor / Department of Research Promotion / Kyushu University Institute for Asian and Oceanian Studies

Papers

1.	Jihwan Kim, Wonhyeop Shin, Seunguk Kim, Hyeyeong Choe, Toshinori Tanaka, Youngkeun Song, Use of ecosystem services and land ownership to prioritize conservation areas on Jeju Island, Republic of Korea, Ecosystem Services, 10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101605, 66, 2024.02.
2.	Soyo Takahashi, Masanao Toyama, Toshinori Tanaka, Incorporating Biocultural Values in Biodiversity Conservation Policies: A Case Study of the Regional Strategy for Biodiversity in Okinawa, Journal of Marine and Island Cultures, 10.21463/jmic.2023.12.3.02, 12, 3, 2023.12.
3.	Doreen Ingosan Allasiw, Toshinori Tanaka, Shogo Kudo, Takashi Mino, Opportunities and limitations to social learning for sustainability: empirical insights from a participatory approach to community-based resource management in the Philippines, International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, https://doi.org/10.1080/14735903.2023.2239075, 21, 1, 2023.08.
4.	Toshinori Tanaka, Nao Takashina, Governance paradox: implications from Japan’s national parks for managing complex protected areas, Sustainability Science, 10.1007/s11625-023-01332-1, 2023.05, [URL], Herein, we discuss the governance implications for emerging protected areas with complexity in the 2020s by analyzing public–private partnership frameworks in Japan’s national parks. First, we summarize previous literature to elucidate the characteristics of Japan’s national park management as “weak government” represented by a lack of administrative resources and weak regulatory power. Second, we identify the weak implementation of two legal public–private partnership frameworks from questionnaires and interviews: the Park Management Organization and the Scenic Area Protection Agreement. We discuss the high transaction costs and lack of sufficient benefits to the private sector as the main reasons behind weak implementation. We identify this mismatch as a “governance paradox” and argue that sufficient administrative support and institutional design are indispensable for active partnership implementation..
5.	Toshinori Tanaka, Nao Takashina, Governance paradox: implications from Japan’s national parks for managing complex protected areas, Sustainability Science, 10.1007/s11625-023-01332-1, 2023.05, [URL].
6.	Tanaka, T., Tiku, O. & Takashina, N., Empowering voluntary approaches for environmental sustainability and resilient communities: a case study from Okinawa, Japan, Discover Sustainability, s43621-022-00094-7, 3, 2022.08, [URL], What can government do to secure environmental sustainability and resilient communities? We discuss an emerging policy approach in natural tourism resource management in the Okinawa Prefecture using the case of the ‘Conservation and Use Agreement’ (CUA, hereafter) defined in the Act on Special Measures for the Promotion of Okinawa. The CUA is the certification by the Governor of Okinawa Prefecture, which endorses the self-regulation concluded by site-level eco-tour operators. We analysed the legal and administrative structure of the CUA and the implementation process of nine (existing/expired) CUA cases based on thorough literature reviews and in-depth interviews. We discuss three points from the analysis. Firstly, the number of CUAs remains small because of its huge transaction costs compared to the benefits of the status. Secondly, the CUA generally works as a precaution; however, it is not effective for solving the existing overuse issues for its voluntary characteristics. Thirdly, the administrative resources need to be strengthened for better communication with operators to further enhance the implementation..
7.	Nao Takashina, Toshinori Tanaka, Spillover-mediated harvesting competition: effects of fishing ground configuration on fisheries targeting transboundary species, Journal of Environmental Management, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115360, 317, 2022.07.
8.	Kumar Bhatta, Prakash Gautam, Toshinori Tanaka, Travel Motivation during COVID-19: A Case from Nepal, Sustainability, https://doi.org/10.3390/su14127165, 2022.06, [URL].
9.	Nao Takashina, Toshinori Tanaka, Immediate and cumulative stresses associated with the multiscale impacts of ecotourism on ecological status and resilience, Sustainability Science, 10.1007/s11625-022-01142-x, 2022.05.
10.	Analysis of the Implementation Structure of the Yushan Peak Trails in Yushan National Park, Taiwan.
11.	Study on the Characteristics of National Parks Administration and Evaluation on the Operation Situation of National Parks in Taiwan.
12.	Tanaka, T, Governance for Protected Areas "beyond the boundary" - A conceptual framework for biodiversity conservation in the Anthropocene, Charting Environmental Law Futures in the Anthropocene, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9065-4_6, 71-79, 2019.09.
13.	Bureaucracy in Nature Conservation: a new perspective on technocratic bureaucracy.
14.	Tanaka, T, Wakamatsu N, Analysis of the Governance Structures in Japan’s Biosphere Reserves: Perspectives from Bottom–Up and Multilevel Characteristics, Environmental Management, 10.1007/s00267-017-0949-6, 61, 1, 155-170, 2018.01.
15.	Doreen Ingosan Allasiw, Toshinori Tanaka, Takashi Mino, Costly Barriers to Sustainable Institutions: Empirical Evidence from State-Reinforced Management of a Communal Irrigation System in the Philippines, SUSTAINABILITY, 10.3390/su9050755, 9, 5, 2017.05, This study examines the process and outcome of institutional change from a self-governing common-pool resources (CPR) model into state-reinforced self-governance. Empirical evidence is drawn from the Philippines' experience in decentralizing the management of communal irrigation systems (CIS) to local farmers through Irrigators Associations (IAs). The field data were collected through archival research, a review of secondary documents, and key informant interviews in Sagada, Philippines. Through institutional analysis, the study confirms earlier empirical findings that self-governing bodies can work well with the state provided they do not impinge on the autonomy of resource users. However, user expectations regarding the costs and benefits of state-reinforced self-governance affect its likelihood of success. Drawing from the case study, changes in the value and distribution of transaction costs are the two biggest challenges to sustaining state-reinforced IAs. The first challenge is the introduction of membership and irrigation fees, a huge shift from the non-monetary contribution that farmers were accustomed to. The second challenge is the change in the allocation and distribution of transaction costs or, simply, who bears what cost. Further research is recommended to expand the current discourse on state-reinforced self-governance to include more in-depth transaction cost analysis..
16.	China Yanada, Toru Terada, Toshinori Tanaka, Makoto Yokohari, Directions for Vacant Lot Management in the Outer Suburbs of the Tokyo Metropolitan Region, Urban and Regional Planning Review, 3, 66-84, 2016.04.
17.	Jarkko Havas, Osamu Saito, Keisuke Hanaki, Toshinori Tanaka, Perceived landscape values in the Ogasawara Islands, ECOSYSTEM SERVICES, 10.1016/j.ecoser.2016.02.036, 18, 130-140, 2016.04, The ecologies, economies and societies of remote islands are characterized by their vulnerability to external shocks. This vulnerability stems from the limited available resources on these islands. For this reason, it is important to have a careful balance between the use and protection of remote island resources. Understanding the needs and values of all stakeholders in development and protection policy making is vital for a robust outcome. Citizen participation has been underrepresented in Japanese remote island policies, and this study displays a method for collecting and sharing quantitative and spatial information on values that residents perceive in their environment. Landscape values are used in quantifying residents perceived values. The results of this study show how residents of Ogasawara value their environment, how these values have changed in the past five years and what places are especially important in each landscape value category. Quantitative information on values, and spatial distribution of values on different land use zones form a potential knowledge base for better informed policy decision making. The method used in this study is a promising methodology to mapping and quantifying cultural ecosystem services that are often underrepresented in ecosystem services assessments. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved..
18.	The Structure of Decision-Making and the Information Sharing in the National Implementation of the Ramsar Convention: Public-private collaborative networks and local institutions This paper defines the national implementation of the Ramsar convention as "designation of the suitable wetlands for the list of Wetlands of International Importance and ensure their effective management" and argues the structures of decision-making processes and information sharing in the implementation processes in Japan. Literature reviews, interview surveys to the key informants, participatory observation to various meetings and the analyses of meeting minutes are taken as the methodology and this study clarified three new aspects of the national implementation of the convention.Firstly, the structure of decision-making in the selection of wetlands is generally based on the request from the local governments and the approval from the Director-General of Nature Conservation Bureau in the Ministry of the Environment. This scheme is different from the World Heritage Convention which has the pre-consultation meetings among ministries before the nomination.Secondly, there are various frameworks for information sharing over scales and actors. In domestic level, there are two major frameworks that include related ministries and agencies, related local governments and NGOs. Especially, "Domestic Ramsar Committee for Relevant Municipalities" holds annual conference and functions as the center of multilevel communications among stakeholders in Japan. Each wetland also participate in various networks including international migratory birds' networks, sister wetlands, and local networks. Finally, local level management and CEPA activities are basically done by the public-private collaborative networks initiated by the local municipalities. In Manko, a case study site in this study, the network makes the local level voluntary regulation for the use of the wetland and effectively implements the rules through close collaboration among key stakeholders. This phenomenon hasn't been fully discussed in the previous studies which mainly focus only on the national law enforcement..
19.	Joanne Yu Ting Khew, Makoto Yokohari, Toshinori Tanaka, Public Perceptions of Nature and Landscape Preference in Singapore, HUMAN ECOLOGY, 10.1007/s10745-014-9709-x, 42, 6, 979-988, 2014.12, Widespread urbanization has led to urban areas becoming increasingly seen as sites for biodiversity conservation. Urban and landscape planners are required to concurrently tackle environmental and social issues, such as facilitating public acceptance towards naturalistic habitats and its associated biodiversity in urban areas. The research presented here quantifies public perception of nature in relation to landscape choices in Singapore, a highly urbanized city in which sustainable landscape planning movements have recently begun to take root. Results indicate that landscape preference tended towards manicured landscapes despite an overall tendency towards nature conservation, which is best achieved in naturalistic habitats. Reasons driving landscape choice were found to be aesthetic, with a focus on visual hues present in a landscape. Specific education in ecology/conservation as well as increased opportunities to experience first-hand natural areas abroad were factors that may influence landscape choice to encompass more naturalistic habitats..
20.	Governance of Japan's National Parks in 21st Century: a Perspective from Public Administration.
21.	Adaptive Governance of Natural Tourism Resources::a case study on the process of consensus building at Shiretoko National Park This paper explores the dynamics of policy making processes of the Natural Tourism Resource management focusing on the consensus building processes among various stakeholders introducing the Utilization Regulation Zone based on Natural Parks Law in Shiretoko-Goko lakes in Shiretoko National Park from a perspective of Adaptive Governance.From key informant interviews and the analysis of meeting minutes, the author discusses four main factors for the success; 1. sound relationship between the Park authority and land ownerships, 2. collaborative relationship between the authority and tourism industry for the need of safety control against brown bears, 3. the support of local conservation NGO and the historical background of local nature conservation, 4. adaptive governance in the consensus building process. The factors 1-3 are inherent in Shiretoko-goko lakes, however, the framework of comprehensive inclusion and stakeholders' efforts of mutual understanding is applicable to other regions..
22.	田中俊徳, Implementing Sustainable Tourism in Complex Situations: A Case Study of Minami-jima in Ogasawara Islands, UNESCO World Heritage Paper Series, 38, 68-75, 2014.08.
23.	Concluding Remarks: the historical overview and the future develpment of the UNESCO MAB Programme in Japan.
24.	Characteristics of the World Heritage Convention.
25.	Japan's National Park Management without Sufficient Authority and Resources.

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