Yoshito Takasaki
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1571114 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Yoshito Takasaki |
| PRENOMES | Yoshito |
| SOBRENOME | Takasaki |
| ASSINATURA | TAKASAKI Y |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The University of Tokyo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4324-4668 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 93 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1988 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Impacts of Social Assistance During the Covid‐19 Pandemic in Poor Remote Communities
Providing social assistance to poor populations in remote communities in times of crises, such as pandemics, is challenging but crucial. This paper examines how food assistance during the COVID‐19 pandemic affected people's behaviour, using our surveys among over 400 rural communities without road access in the Peruvian Amazon. Food assistance affected people's travel to cities by riverboat to collect cash assistance in distinct ways, depending o…
Pervasive Indigenous and local knowledge of tropical wild species
The promise of Indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) for conservation policy depends on how pervasively ILK is held among local people. In the Peruvian Amazon, we conducted a landscape-scale concordance analysis between (1) ILK for game, timber, and fish species collected by the largest representative ILK survey as yet undertaken in tropical forests, and (2) remotely sensed land cover as proxies for species habitat. From our survey among 4000 hous…
Covid-19 y medidas de protección adoptadas en comunidades rurales amazónicas durante los primeros meses de la pandemia
Implications. Identifying the factors that contributed to contagion and the barriers to the adoption of protective measures in rural Amazonian populations will help to face future pandemics
Impacts of vocational training for persons with disabilities
Tropical forest environments provide insurance against Covid-19
Research prior to the COVID-19 pandemic has shown that the rural poor often turn to wild resources to cope with adverse shocks. We report on the first study addressing natural insurance against health shocks during the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on riverine communities without road access in the Peruvian Amazon. We consider the most devastating shock people may experience, the death of a close family member. Using data from an in-person survey o…
Chiefly Patronage and Schooling
In developing countries, indigenous chiefly systems can be a main driver of patronage, potentially hampering development. This paper explores how chiefly patronage shapes people’s incentives for schooling in Fiji. I develop a model to show how chiefly status can influence a household's child schooling decision, depending on whether the patronage operates in labor markets. I employ a triple-difference approach by combining the novel direct measure…
Covid-19 information and self-protective behaviors among rural communities in tropical forests
Our findings call for improved media access to better manage pandemics in rural areas, especially among remote Indigenous communities
Sparing of Amazonian old-growth forests with floodplain access
Integrated multi-scalar analysis of vulnerability to environmental hazards
Impacts of applying for international labor migration before migration occurs
Personal intergroup contact between different groups of ex‐combatants and civilians
Although personal intergroup contact is known to predict positive intergroup outcomes, little is known about the kind of positive personal contact that reduces prejudice in real‐world post‐conflict societies. Using a behavioural experiment, the present study examined the effect of face‐to‐face personal contact between three groups of ex‐combatants (national army, former national army and armed group) and civilians with disabilities in Rwanda. A t…
Smallholder agriculture results in stable forest cover in riverine Amazonia
Recent studies point to a rapid increase in small-scale deforestation in Amazonia. Where people live along the rivers of the basin, customary shifting cultivation creates a zone of secondary forest, orchards and crop fields around communities in what was once was old-growth terra firme forest. Visible from satellite imagery as a narrow but extensive band of forest disturbance along rivers, this zone is often considered as having been deforested. …
What drives clearing of old-growth forest over secondary forests in tropical shifting cultivation systems? Evidence from the Peruvian Amazon
The Lower Ucayali River in Prehistory
Published evidence of prehistoric settlement from the lowlands of Amazonian Peru is sufficiently scarce to perpetuate debates over the presence and impact of early populations in western Amazonia. In this paper we review the cultural prehistory of the Lower Ucayali River, assess the presence of archeological sites and recovered artifacts, and describe a promising new site (Suni Caño) which may have been the chiefdom seat of the late prehistoric C…
Impoverishment of local wild resources in western Amazonia
A growing number of studies point to the depletion of flora and fauna along rivers of the Brazilian Amazon but the status of wild resources over large areas in Western Amazonia remains poorly known. In this paper we report on findings from the Peruvian Amazon based on the first large-scale community survey that uses local ecological knowledge to assess the presence of indicator species and expected harvest yields of game, fish and timber along fo…
Peer Effects on Vaccination Behavior
Understanding how and why social interactions influence people’s vaccination behavior is important for disease control. This paper conducts the first causal analysis of peer effects on vaccination behavior in developing countries. We created exogenous variations in peers’ vaccination behaviors by randomizing cash incentives for tetanus vaccine take-up among Nigerian women. Vaccine take-up among friends strongly increased women’s take-up. The peer…
Risky Coping
This paper examines whether, in an effort to cope with adverse shocks, poor people with limited coping capacity take large risks (risky coping). About two years after a tropical cyclone in Fiji, many people decided to apply for dangerous international jobs involving casualty risk through a recruitment agency that later turned out to be a fraudster. The analysis reveals that victims with damaged housing are more likely to undertake this risky inve…
Rural Social Networks along Amazonian Rivers
Research on Amazonian communities has focussed more often on rural‐urban linkages than on links among rural communities. This is unsurprising, given the low density of population, limited intercommunity commerce, and importance of direct city‐market relations. Social relations among rural communities are also important in shaping rural livelihoods and lifeways. We report on the findings of a large‐scale census of communities in the Napo River bas…
What fate for swidden agriculture under land constraint in tropical forests? Lessons from a long-term study in an Amazonian peasant community
Post-disaster Informal Risk Sharing Against Illness
Do Natural Disasters Decrease the Gender Gap in Schooling
Natural Disaster, Poverty, and Development
Natural Disaster, Poverty, and Development
Environmental and market determinants of economic orientation among rain forest communities
Forests as landscapes of social inequality
Coomes, O. T., Y. Takasaki. and J. M. Rhemtulla. 2016. Forests as landscapes of social inequality: tropical forest cover and land distribution among shifting cultivators. Ecology and Society 21(3):20.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08684-210320
Natural Disaster, Poverty, and Development
Amazonian Peasants, Rain Forest Use, and Income Generation
Rapid Rural Appraisal in Humid Tropical Forests
Amazonian Peasants, Rain Forest Use, and Income Generation
This article explores the role of wealth and geographical factors in shaping livelihood strategies among forest peasant households in the Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve area of the Peruvian Amazon. Using household survey data (n = 251), the article shows significant livelihood heterogeneity, differential specialization in resource use, and variations in wealth portfolios across and within villages. Analyses of relationships among household wealt…
Rural Social Networks along Amazonian Rivers
Research on Amazonian communities has focussed more often on rural‐urban linkages than on links among rural communities. This is unsurprising, given the low density of population, limited intercommunity commerce, and importance of direct city‐market relations. Social relations among rural communities are also important in shaping rural livelihoods and lifeways. We report on the findings of a large‐scale census of communities in the Napo River bas…
What fate for swidden agriculture under land constraint in tropical forests? Lessons from a long-term study in an Amazonian peasant community
Forests as landscapes of social inequality
Coomes, O. T., Y. Takasaki. and J. M. Rhemtulla. 2016. Forests as landscapes of social inequality: tropical forest cover and land distribution among shifting cultivators. Ecology and Society 21(3):20.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08684-210320
Do the Commons Help Augment Mutual Insurance Among the Poor
Peer Effects on Vaccination Behavior
Understanding how and why social interactions influence people’s vaccination behavior is important for disease control. This paper conducts the first causal analysis of peer effects on vaccination behavior in developing countries. We created exogenous variations in peers’ vaccination behaviors by randomizing cash incentives for tetanus vaccine take-up among Nigerian women. Vaccine take-up among friends strongly increased women’s take-up. The peer…
Targeting Cyclone Relief within the Village
This article investigates the targeting of cyclone relief within villages in Fiji. It focuses on how relief allocation is linked with informal risk sharing and elite capture, both of which are directly related to kinship. The results are as follows. First, food aid is initially targeted toward kin groups according to their aggregate shocks and then shared among group members. Right after the cyclone, when aid is scarce, households with damage to …
Do Natural Disasters Decrease the Gender Gap in Schooling
Integrated multi-scalar analysis of vulnerability to environmental hazards
Post-disaster Informal Risk Sharing Against Illness
Natural Disaster, Poverty, and Development
Trends in food intake and digestive cancer mortalities in Japan
Rapid Rural Appraisal in Humid Tropical Forests
Amazonian Peasants, Rain Forest Use, and Income Generation
Amazonian Peasants, Rain Forest Use, and Income Generation
This article explores the role of wealth and geographical factors in shaping livelihood strategies among forest peasant households in the Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve area of the Peruvian Amazon. Using household survey data (n = 251), the article shows significant livelihood heterogeneity, differential specialization in resource use, and variations in wealth portfolios across and within villages. Analyses of relationships among household wealt…
Targeting conservation–development initiatives in tropical forests
Do the Commons Help Augment Mutual Insurance Among the Poor
Do Local Elites Capture Natural Disaster Reconstruction Funds
Using original survey data with rich, direct measures of local elites in rural Fiji, this article examines potential elite capture in the allocation of natural disaster reconstruction funds. Allocations of housing construction materials – both receipt and amount received – across villages, clans, and households are strongly targeted on cyclone damage, and local elites do not receive larger benefits over time. As the supply of reconstruction funds…
Targeting Cyclone Relief within the Village
This article investigates the targeting of cyclone relief within villages in Fiji. It focuses on how relief allocation is linked with informal risk sharing and elite capture, both of which are directly related to kinship. The results are as follows. First, food aid is initially targeted toward kin groups according to their aggregate shocks and then shared among group members. Right after the cyclone, when aid is scarce, households with damage to …
Natural Disasters, Gender and Handicrafts
Using original post-disaster household survey data gathered in rural Fiji, this article explores the disaster–gender nexus. Female-headed households are disadvantaged, not because of bias against them in disaster damage or relief, but because of a newly emerging gendered division of labour for dwelling rehabilitation that tightens their constraints on intra-household labour allocation. Female-headed households with damaged dwellings resort to fem…
Environmental and market determinants of economic orientation among rain forest communities
Forests as landscapes of social inequality
Coomes, O. T., Y. Takasaki. and J. M. Rhemtulla. 2016. Forests as landscapes of social inequality: tropical forest cover and land distribution among shifting cultivators. Ecology and Society 21(3):20.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08684-210320
What fate for swidden agriculture under land constraint in tropical forests? Lessons from a long-term study in an Amazonian peasant community
Post-disaster Informal Risk Sharing Against Illness
Do Natural Disasters Decrease the Gender Gap in Schooling
Natural Disaster, Poverty, and Development
Natural Disaster, Poverty, and Development
Risky Coping
This paper examines whether, in an effort to cope with adverse shocks, poor people with limited coping capacity take large risks (risky coping). About two years after a tropical cyclone in Fiji, many people decided to apply for dangerous international jobs involving casualty risk through a recruitment agency that later turned out to be a fraudster. The analysis reveals that victims with damaged housing are more likely to undertake this risky inve…
Rural Social Networks along Amazonian Rivers
Research on Amazonian communities has focussed more often on rural‐urban linkages than on links among rural communities. This is unsurprising, given the low density of population, limited intercommunity commerce, and importance of direct city‐market relations. Social relations among rural communities are also important in shaping rural livelihoods and lifeways. We report on the findings of a large‐scale census of communities in the Napo River bas…
Peer Effects on Vaccination Behavior
Understanding how and why social interactions influence people’s vaccination behavior is important for disease control. This paper conducts the first causal analysis of peer effects on vaccination behavior in developing countries. We created exogenous variations in peers’ vaccination behaviors by randomizing cash incentives for tetanus vaccine take-up among Nigerian women. Vaccine take-up among friends strongly increased women’s take-up. The peer…
Impoverishment of local wild resources in western Amazonia
A growing number of studies point to the depletion of flora and fauna along rivers of the Brazilian Amazon but the status of wild resources over large areas in Western Amazonia remains poorly known. In this paper we report on findings from the Peruvian Amazon based on the first large-scale community survey that uses local ecological knowledge to assess the presence of indicator species and expected harvest yields of game, fish and timber along fo…
Smallholder agriculture results in stable forest cover in riverine Amazonia
Recent studies point to a rapid increase in small-scale deforestation in Amazonia. Where people live along the rivers of the basin, customary shifting cultivation creates a zone of secondary forest, orchards and crop fields around communities in what was once was old-growth terra firme forest. Visible from satellite imagery as a narrow but extensive band of forest disturbance along rivers, this zone is often considered as having been deforested. …
What drives clearing of old-growth forest over secondary forests in tropical shifting cultivation systems? Evidence from the Peruvian Amazon
The Lower Ucayali River in Prehistory
Published evidence of prehistoric settlement from the lowlands of Amazonian Peru is sufficiently scarce to perpetuate debates over the presence and impact of early populations in western Amazonia. In this paper we review the cultural prehistory of the Lower Ucayali River, assess the presence of archeological sites and recovered artifacts, and describe a promising new site (Suni Caño) which may have been the chiefdom seat of the late prehistoric C…
Chiefly Patronage and Schooling
In developing countries, indigenous chiefly systems can be a main driver of patronage, potentially hampering development. This paper explores how chiefly patronage shapes people’s incentives for schooling in Fiji. I develop a model to show how chiefly status can influence a household's child schooling decision, depending on whether the patronage operates in labor markets. I employ a triple-difference approach by combining the novel direct measure…
Covid-19 information and self-protective behaviors among rural communities in tropical forests
Our findings call for improved media access to better manage pandemics in rural areas, especially among remote Indigenous communities
Geography (26 obras) · Economics (18 obras) · Ecology (17 obras) · Business (14 obras) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (13 obras) · Economic growth (13 obras) · Amazon rainforest (12 obras) · Agriculture (10 obras) · Environmental Science (9 obras) · Psychology (9 obras)