Kensuke Fukushi
Biographic Data
| ID | 6315803 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kensuke Fukushi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kensuke |
| FAMILY NAME | Fukushi |
| SIGNATURE | FUKUSHI K |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Tokyo |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Association of Nature‐Based (Satoyama) Activities and Multiple Health Outcomes Among Older Adults: A Pilot Study
“Satoyama” refers to traditional socio-ecological landscapes in rural Japan, shaped by the harmonious interaction between humans and nature, typically consisting of woodlands, farmlands, grasslands, and ponds near settlements. Satoyama areas account for about 39.4% of Japan's land and are distributed nationwide, reflecting diverse land-use patterns. They tend to appear in transitional zones between urban districts and surrounding forests, especia…
Can simply illustrated life cycle-based environmental information help promote Life Cycle Thinking
This study, conducted in Japan, develops and tests a method to promote life cycle thinking (LCT) through clear, accessible information design. Simplified, comparable life cycle–based information was created for various everyday areas like transportation, food, and consumption behaviors. The information was organized to highlight key LCT aspects: how environmental impacts are distributed across different stages, the underlying mechanisms, and how …
Linking cultural ecosystem services with individual and collective wellbeing in recreational urban blue spaces: Insights from Danang, Vietnam
Urban green and blue spaces contribute many non-material benefits to human wellbeing. However, there are many gaps at this interface including (a) unclear conceptualisation of the mechanisms mediating the linkages between the non-material benefits of Nature and human wellbeing, (b) disproportionate focus of studies on individual wellbeing than collective wellbeing, (c) lack of understanding of possible synergies and trade-offs between individual …
Multifunctionality benefits of small-scale urban agriculture
Introducing the Food Value Framework (FVF) to empower transdisciplinary research and unite stakeholders in their efforts of building a sustainable global food system
The global food system provides numerous benefits to humanity but also faces critical sustainability challenges with respective costs often burdened by society. As these costs are not sufficiently represented in market prices, increasing monetization efforts of externalities aim to reveal such hidden costs. However, monetary evaluation approaches have limitations such as conformity or including arguably unmonetizable impacts. Given that food prod…
Insurance value of biodiversity in the Anthropocene is the full resilience value
Recently two distinctly different conceptualisations of insurance value of biodiversity/ ecosystems have been developed. The ecosystem framing addresses the full resilience value without singling out subjective risk preferences. Conversely, the economic framing focuses exactly on this subjective value of risk aversion, implying that the insurance value is zero for risk neutral persons. Here we analyse the differences conceptually and empirically,…
The missing intangibles: Nature’s contributions to human wellbeing through place attachment and social capital
Communities in socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes are aging and depopulating. While longstanding interdependence of humans and nature in such areas holds crucial hints for sustainable development, they continue to be undervalued by existing economic frameworks. We suspect omission of non-material nature’s contributions to people (NCPs) as a possible reason for this undervaluation and focus on the intangible aspects of human–natu…
Ageing and population shrinking: Implications for sustainability in the urban century
Population ageing and shrinking are demographic phenomena with far-reaching implications for sustainability in the current context of extensive and rapid urbanization. This Perspective rationalizes their interface by (a) identifying the challenges and opportunities that ageing and shrinking urban populations will have for implementing the sustainable development goals (SDGs), and (b) discussing some emerging interventions to capitalise on the opp…
An Analysis of the Factors Influencing Public Attitudes toward Implementing Basic Income (BI) from an Individual Perspective: A Case Study of Hokuriku Region, Japan
With increasing interest in basic income (BI) in recent years around the world, a precise understanding of public attitudes toward this policy can provide valuable evidence for discussions on its feasibility among scholars and policymakers. This study quantitatively investigates what factors influence public attitudes toward implementing BI, taking the Hokuriku region of Japan as an example. The hypothesis and variables were designed based on the…
Empirical analysis of flood risk perception using historical data in Tokyo
Advancing sustainability science for the SDGs
Assessing local-scale inclusive wealth: A case study of Sado Island, Japan
Sustainability science for meeting Africa’s challenges: Setting the stage
Sustainability science for meeting Africa’s challenges
Sustainability science in action: A review of the state of the field through case studies on disaster recovery, bioenergy, and precautionary purchasing
Historical assessment of Chinese and Japanese flood management policies and implications for managing future floods
Floods are among the world's most devastating natural disasters, causing immense damage and accounting for a large number of deaths world-wide. Good flood management policies play an extremely important role in preventing floods. It is well known that China has more than 5000 years of experience in flood management policy beginning with the reign of DaYu and Gun. Although culturally related, Japanese flood management developed differently from th…
Estimation of the effects of chemically-enhanced treatment of urban sewage system based on life-cycle management
Effluent requirements have frequently been established that are more stringent than those traditionally considered possible using biological secondary treatment. We evaluated aeration energy and CO2 emissions using an inorganic polymer coagulant of polysilicato-iron (PSI) as a pre-treatment alternative to an aluminium coagulant. Use of the PSI coagulant for CO2 reduction was evaluated in terms of the effects on the quality of the treated water an…
Innovation for sustainability: Toward a sustainable urban future in industrialized cities
Sustainability science: Bridging the gap between science and society
Sustainability science: Bridging the gap between science and society
Historical assessment of Chinese and Japanese flood management policies and implications for managing future floods
Floods are among the world's most devastating natural disasters, causing immense damage and accounting for a large number of deaths world-wide. Good flood management policies play an extremely important role in preventing floods. It is well known that China has more than 5000 years of experience in flood management policy beginning with the reign of DaYu and Gun. Although culturally related, Japanese flood management developed differently from th…
Innovation for sustainability: Toward a sustainable urban future in industrialized cities
Assessing local-scale inclusive wealth: A case study of Sado Island, Japan
The missing intangibles: Nature’s contributions to human wellbeing through place attachment and social capital
Communities in socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes are aging and depopulating. While longstanding interdependence of humans and nature in such areas holds crucial hints for sustainable development, they continue to be undervalued by existing economic frameworks. We suspect omission of non-material nature’s contributions to people (NCPs) as a possible reason for this undervaluation and focus on the intangible aspects of human–natu…
An Analysis of the Factors Influencing Public Attitudes toward Implementing Basic Income (BI) from an Individual Perspective: A Case Study of Hokuriku Region, Japan
With increasing interest in basic income (BI) in recent years around the world, a precise understanding of public attitudes toward this policy can provide valuable evidence for discussions on its feasibility among scholars and policymakers. This study quantitatively investigates what factors influence public attitudes toward implementing BI, taking the Hokuriku region of Japan as an example. The hypothesis and variables were designed based on the…
Empirical analysis of flood risk perception using historical data in Tokyo
Sustainability science for meeting Africa’s challenges: Setting the stage
Sustainability science for meeting Africa’s challenges
Innovation for sustainability: Toward a sustainable urban future in industrialized cities
Sustainability science: Bridging the gap between science and society
Estimation of the effects of chemically-enhanced treatment of urban sewage system based on life-cycle management
Effluent requirements have frequently been established that are more stringent than those traditionally considered possible using biological secondary treatment. We evaluated aeration energy and CO2 emissions using an inorganic polymer coagulant of polysilicato-iron (PSI) as a pre-treatment alternative to an aluminium coagulant. Use of the PSI coagulant for CO2 reduction was evaluated in terms of the effects on the quality of the treated water an…
Sustainability science in action: A review of the state of the field through case studies on disaster recovery, bioenergy, and precautionary purchasing
Historical assessment of Chinese and Japanese flood management policies and implications for managing future floods
Floods are among the world's most devastating natural disasters, causing immense damage and accounting for a large number of deaths world-wide. Good flood management policies play an extremely important role in preventing floods. It is well known that China has more than 5000 years of experience in flood management policy beginning with the reign of DaYu and Gun. Although culturally related, Japanese flood management developed differently from th…
Sustainability science for meeting Africa’s challenges
Sustainability science for meeting Africa’s challenges: Setting the stage
Advancing sustainability science for the SDGs
Assessing local-scale inclusive wealth: A case study of Sado Island, Japan
Empirical analysis of flood risk perception using historical data in Tokyo
An Analysis of the Factors Influencing Public Attitudes toward Implementing Basic Income (BI) from an Individual Perspective: A Case Study of Hokuriku Region, Japan
With increasing interest in basic income (BI) in recent years around the world, a precise understanding of public attitudes toward this policy can provide valuable evidence for discussions on its feasibility among scholars and policymakers. This study quantitatively investigates what factors influence public attitudes toward implementing BI, taking the Hokuriku region of Japan as an example. The hypothesis and variables were designed based on the…
Ageing and population shrinking: Implications for sustainability in the urban century
Population ageing and shrinking are demographic phenomena with far-reaching implications for sustainability in the current context of extensive and rapid urbanization. This Perspective rationalizes their interface by (a) identifying the challenges and opportunities that ageing and shrinking urban populations will have for implementing the sustainable development goals (SDGs), and (b) discussing some emerging interventions to capitalise on the opp…
The missing intangibles: Nature’s contributions to human wellbeing through place attachment and social capital
Communities in socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes are aging and depopulating. While longstanding interdependence of humans and nature in such areas holds crucial hints for sustainable development, they continue to be undervalued by existing economic frameworks. We suspect omission of non-material nature’s contributions to people (NCPs) as a possible reason for this undervaluation and focus on the intangible aspects of human–natu…
Introducing the Food Value Framework (FVF) to empower transdisciplinary research and unite stakeholders in their efforts of building a sustainable global food system
The global food system provides numerous benefits to humanity but also faces critical sustainability challenges with respective costs often burdened by society. As these costs are not sufficiently represented in market prices, increasing monetization efforts of externalities aim to reveal such hidden costs. However, monetary evaluation approaches have limitations such as conformity or including arguably unmonetizable impacts. Given that food prod…
Insurance value of biodiversity in the Anthropocene is the full resilience value
Recently two distinctly different conceptualisations of insurance value of biodiversity/ ecosystems have been developed. The ecosystem framing addresses the full resilience value without singling out subjective risk preferences. Conversely, the economic framing focuses exactly on this subjective value of risk aversion, implying that the insurance value is zero for risk neutral persons. Here we analyse the differences conceptually and empirically,…
Multifunctionality benefits of small-scale urban agriculture
Linking cultural ecosystem services with individual and collective wellbeing in recreational urban blue spaces: Insights from Danang, Vietnam
Urban green and blue spaces contribute many non-material benefits to human wellbeing. However, there are many gaps at this interface including (a) unclear conceptualisation of the mechanisms mediating the linkages between the non-material benefits of Nature and human wellbeing, (b) disproportionate focus of studies on individual wellbeing than collective wellbeing, (c) lack of understanding of possible synergies and trade-offs between individual …
Association of Nature‐Based (Satoyama) Activities and Multiple Health Outcomes Among Older Adults: A Pilot Study
“Satoyama” refers to traditional socio-ecological landscapes in rural Japan, shaped by the harmonious interaction between humans and nature, typically consisting of woodlands, farmlands, grasslands, and ponds near settlements. Satoyama areas account for about 39.4% of Japan's land and are distributed nationwide, reflecting diverse land-use patterns. They tend to appear in transitional zones between urban districts and surrounding forests, especia…
Can simply illustrated life cycle-based environmental information help promote Life Cycle Thinking
This study, conducted in Japan, develops and tests a method to promote life cycle thinking (LCT) through clear, accessible information design. Simplified, comparable life cycle–based information was created for various everyday areas like transportation, food, and consumption behaviors. The information was organized to highlight key LCT aspects: how environmental impacts are distributed across different stages, the underlying mechanisms, and how …
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