Kaz's research explores the conditions of sustainable governance of critical natural capital (such as water, land and forest), and his current research project focuses explicitly on evaluating the impact of Landcare in Australia. His research areas contain four categories: 1) Community-Based Resource Management, 2) Climate Change Adaptation, 3) Sustainable Development and 4) Value Theory and Measurement. The first two categories include practical environmental problems, while the latter focuses on theoretical aspects.

Community-Based Resource Management:

• Landcare Impact Assessment
• Environmental Governance
• Agroforestry

Climate Change Adaptation:

• Drought Adaptation
• Water Sharing In Japan
• Traditional Knowledge of Pond Irrigation In Japan
• Social Resilience

Sustainable Development:

• Weak and Strong Sustainability
• Substitutability of Natural Capital
• Critical Natural Capital
• Water Valuation

Value Theory and Measurement:

• Relational Values
• Environmental Ethics
• Subjective Well-being

Please refer to the following URL to see his publications in English.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5428-9637

See also the link below for those interested in all the works he has published/conducted in Japanese.
https://researchmap.jp/kazuki_kago84?lang=ja

Dr. 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.

Current Grants:

• 2023-04-01 to 2028-03-31 | Grant Number: 23H03608
  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Tokyo, JP) - "Achieving sustainable consumption through a happiness approach with a focus on disposable time" 
  URL: https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-23H03608/
• 2023-04-01 to 2028-03-31 | Grant Number:  23H02315
  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Tokyo, JP) - "Research on standardization business and sustainability in the seafood eco-labeling system"
  URL: https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-23H02315/
• 2022-04-01 to 2027-03-31 | Grant Number: 22H00604
  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Tokyo, JP) - "Social ethical research on the "between" of autonomy and collaboration through theoretical and empirical studies of the principle of subsidiarity" 
  URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.12859695
  
• 2021-07-09 to 2025-03-31 | Grant Number: 21K18114
  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Tokyo, JP) - "Interdisciplinary Research on Ethical Transformations of Cities" 
  URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.9744524
• 2020-04-01 to 2025-03-31 | Grant Number: 20K06289
  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Tokyo, JP) - "Investigating the conservation mechanisms of native crops and local agri-food cultures in Monsoon Asia: A cross-national comparative analysis"
  URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.9197277
  
  

Recent Grants:

• 2019-06-28 to 2021-03-31 | Grant Number: 19K21619
  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Tokyo, JP) - "Transdisciplinary research for ethics of city and urban sustainability"
  URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.8534403
• 2019-04-01 to 2022-03-31 | Grant Number: 19H01189
  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Tokyo, JP) - "Social-Ethics-Based Research on Sustainability and Subsidiarity Underpinning the Ethical Justification of Resilience"
  URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.8426249
• 2018-04-01 to 2023-03-31 | Grant Number: 18K00761
  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Tokyo, JP) - "A longitudinal and cross-sectional investigation on the impact of CLIL type short-term study abroad"
  URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.7527591
• 2018-04-01 to 2022-03-31 | Grant Number: 18K18238
  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Tokyo, JP) - "A study of sustainable drought adaptation based on an empirical analysis of the scarcity and substitutability of water resources"
  URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.7545068
• 2016-04-01 to 2019-03-31 | Grant Number: 16K13153
  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Tokyo, JP) - "Ethics and "Strength": Exploring Foundations of Social Ethics for the Concept of Resilience"
  URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.5915998
• 2014-04-01 to 2017-03-31 | Grant Number: 26870690
  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Tokyo, JP) - "A study of community-based drought adaptation: The case of the Sanuki Plain"
  URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.6162836
• 2013-04-01 to 2016-03-31 | Grant Number: 25740068

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Tokyo, JP) - "Effects of climate change on water use: from the perspective of international trade"

  URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.6134272
• 2013-04-01 to 2015-03-31 | Grant Number: 25550108

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Tokyo, JP) - "An Institutional Analysis of Australian Landcare and Sustainable Communal Development"

  URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.6116648