YAMAMOTO Mitasu

Researcher Profile and Settings

Education

•  - 1986 , Hokkaido University, Graduate School, Division of Fisheries
•  - 1984 , Hokkaido University, Faculty of Fisheries

Degree

• Master of Fisheries(Hokkaido University)
• Ph.D. in the field of Bio-systems Sustainability(Hokkaido University)

Association Memberships

• The Regional Science Association International
• Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies
• the Japan Section of the Regional Science Association International
• Japan Association for Human and Environmental Symbiosis
• Japan Association for Planning Administration
• The Agricultural Economics Society of Japan
• The Operations Research Society of Japan
• Society of Environmental Science, Japan
• Center for Environmental Information Science

Research Activities

Research Areas

• Environmental science, Environmental policy and social systems
• Environmental science, Design and evaluation of sustainable and environmental conscious system
• Area studies, Area studies
• Agricultural science in society and economy, Agricultural science in rural society and development

Research Interests

Environmental Economics, Macro Environmental Accounting

Misc

• Mental Model Analysis of Biogas Energy Perceptions and Policy Reveals Potential Constraints in a Japanese Farm Community
  ASAI Masayasu, HAYASHI Takashi,YAMAMOTO Mitasu, Sustainability, 11,   2019 , Refereed
• Differences in interest between arable farmers and dairy farmers for crop-livestock integration in biogas production systems
  HAYASHI Takashi, ASAI Masayasu,YAMAMOTO Mitasu, THE FRONTIERS OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS, 21, (1) 123 - 130,   2018 08 , Refereed
• Using Best-Worst Scaling to Investigate Preference s of Chinese Tourists for Visitor Services at National Parks
  Ke An. Kentaro Yoshida, Mitasu Yamamoto, Papers on Environmental Information Science, 31,   2017 11 , Refereed
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• A Study of Environmental-Conscious Behavior and Present-Oriented
  YAMAMOTO Mitasu,TOGUCHI Tomochika,HAYASHI Takashi, The Economic Review, 66, (4) 61 - 86,   2016 03
• Sustainability of Bioenergy : GBEP Sustainability Indicators for Bioenergy
  63, (2) 87 - 150,   2012 12
• Possibility of Environmental Misrecognition by Using Heuristics
  YAMAMOTO Mitasu, Papers on Environmental Information Science, (28) 343 - 348,   2014 12 , Refereed
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• A Study on the Environmental Consciousness of the Residents in a Rural Area
  YAMAMOTO Mitasu, 65, (2.3) 37 - 70,   2014 12
• Analysis of the evaluation structure of residents on the river environment : A case study of river improvement program in Otaru
  63, (2) 259 - 274,   2012 12
• Hideo Aizaki, Economic Valuation of Agricultural and Rural Development Projects: Stated Preference Methods
  Yamamoto Mitasu, The frontiers of agricultural economics, 15, (1) 106 - 108,   2010 02 28
• An empirical study on macro environmental accounting for evaluation of sustainability
  Memoirs of the Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, 31, (2) 87 - 185,   2010
• Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emission of Newly Introduced Processes in a Wheat-Based Bio-Ethanol Production System
  MASUDA Kiyotaka, HAYASHI Takashi, YAMAMOTO Mitasu, 2008,   2008 12 15
• An evaluation of the sustainability of Hokkaido pref. by using hybrid environmental accounting and ecological footprint
  Yamamoto Mitasu, Takahashi Yoshifumi, Hayashi Takashi, The economic review, 58, (4) 65 - 80,   2008 03 25
• A Study on New Evaluation Method of Sustainability Considered Agricultural Environmental Load and Multifunctionality
  TAKAHASHI Yoshifumi, HAYASHI Takashi, YAMAMOTO Mitasu, 2005,   2006 03 31
• An estimation of hybrid meso-environmental accounting: a case study of Hokkaido Prefecture
  2006,   2006
• How Can We Evaluate the Sustainability of Agriculture? An Evaluation by NAMEA and the Ecological Footprint
  Hayashi Takeshi, Takahashi Yoshifumi, Yamamoto Mitasu, The economic review, 56, (2) 131 - 143,   2005 12 22
• A Study of Comprehensive Evaluation for Multifunctionalities of Agriculture and Forestry by using Macro Environmental Accounting Framework
  Hayashi Takashi, Yamamoto Mitasu, Aizaki Hideo, Demura Katsuhiko, Mitsuhashi Hatsuhito, Kunimitsu Yoji, The economic review, 54, (4) 107 - 130,   2004 03 25
• Evaluation of Recycle System for Organic Resources in the Agricultural Sector Using Waste Accounts
  HAYASHI Takashi, YAMAMOTO Mitasu, MASUDA Kiyotaka, Proceedings of annual conference of the Agricultural Economics Society of Japan, 2003,   2003 11 30
• A Consideration of Macro Environmental Benefits
  Yamamoto Mitasu, Hayashi Takashi, Ariyoshi Noritoshi, The economic review, 54, (1) 233 - 248,   2003 07 25
• A Study of the Waste Account(3)
  Yamamoto Mitasu, The economic review, 53, (4) 137 - 153,   2003 03 27
• Evaluation of the Recycling of biomass resources by using the waste accout
  HAYASHI Takashi, YAMAMOTO Mitasu, MASUDA Kiyotaka, Studies in Regional Science, 34, (3) 289 - 295,   2003 , A part of biomass resources are used for agricultural production and are recycled for materials of other activities, such as compost made from livestock excrement or rice plant straw used for litter. However, these activities are not revealed in economic statistics because of bartering and trading without any charge. It is necessary to understand transactions of biomass resources in agricultural sector properly.The purpose of this soudy is to propose an accounting system for evaluating biomass resources used in the agricultural sector, as well as to understand the status of wastes and environmental pressure arising from agricultural production.The waste acounting system can be adapted to the case of the agricultural sector to grasp the status of transactions of organic resources. It can also show the amount of environmental pressure arising from agricultural production in addition to the amount of biomass resources and their disposal and recycling. Finally, as an example of the use of information obtained from the accounting system, reducing environmental pressure is estimated if imported rice plant straw is substituted for domestic supplies.The results of the analysis are 1) Environmental pressure reduction due to reduction of burnt straw is 2, 089 ton-SPM, 1, 572 ton-CH4 and 25 ton-N2O in the case without regional constraint of straw supply, 2) When considering the regional constraint of the straw supply, the effect is reduced to 71% of the total. 3) Chubu area shows the largest effect of environmental pressure reduction.
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• A Study of the Waste Account(2)
  Yamamoto Mitasu, The economic review, 53, (2) 165 - 186,   2002 12 25
• A Study of the Waste Account (1)
  Yamamoto Mitasu, The economic review, 53, (1) 307 - 341,   2002 07 25
• NAMEA's Framework
  Yamamoto Mitasu, The economic review, 52, (4) 165 - 187,   2002 03 29
• Estimation and Consideration of the Waste Account in Hokkaido prefecture
  YAMAMOTO Mitasu, Studies in Regional Science, 33, (1) 33 - 44,   2002 , The integrated environmental and economic accounting is a satellite account of SNA which represents interrelations between the economy and the environment. On the hand, the environmental expenditure account and the waste account are satellite accounts of the integrated environmental and economic accounting, these represents a more detailed relation between specific environmental issues and the economy. In this paper, I tried to estimate the waste account in Hokkaido prefecture that focused on waste/recycling under the concepts of the SEEA.As a result of this trial estimation, external diseconomies as the imputed environmental costs caused by waste treatment are 70, 214 million yen in Hokkaido prefecture in 1995. The breakdown of external diseconomies are 133 million yen for air pollution, 4. 950million yen for global warming, and 65, 131 million yen for the final disposal of waste. And the consumption of industry-related waste treatment services was 53, 222 million yen, the consumption of government-related waste treatment services was 46, 695 million yen, and total amount of output of recyclable goods was 1, 434 million yen in Hokkaido prefecture in 1995. In the other words, the waste treatment costs actually spent are 99, 917 million yen (=consumption of waste treatment services), but the additional waste treatment costs expected to be spent are 70, 214 million yen (=the imputed environmental costs).In Japan, the waste treatment costs actually spent were 394.7 billion yen, and the additional waste treatment costs expected to be spent are 100.8 billion yen in 1995. The share in former of Hokkaido prefecture is 3.2%, and the share in latter is 7%. So it is necessary to decrease wastes and GHGs in Hokkaido prefecture.
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• A prospect of Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting (Essasys in Honor of Takao Kanda)
  Yamamoto Mitasu, The economic review, 52, (2) 247 - 271,   2001 12 26
• A Study of Tourism and Regional Economy
  Yamamoto Mitasu, The economic review, 51, (4) 213 - 230,   2001 03 28
• A Study of Evaluation of Public Benefit of River (3)
  Yamamoto Mitasu, The economic review, 50, (4) 47 - 69,   2000 03 31
• A Study of Evaluation of Public Benefit of River(2) (Essays in Honor of Tsuneo Shinozaki)
  Mitasu Yamamoto, The economic review, 50, (2) 127 - 137,   2000 02 25
• A study of Evaluation of Public Benefit of River (1)
  Yamamoto Mitasu, The economic review, 50, (1) 131 - 150,   1999 07 30
• Constructing of Regional Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting: A Case Study of Hokkaido Prefecture
  Hayashi Takashi, Yamamoto Mitasu, Demura Katsuhiko, The Review of agricultural economics of Hokkaido University, 55,   1999
• An Appraisal of Integrated Environmental and Economic Accouting in Hokkaido : Estimation of Hokkaido Green GDP (Essays in Honor of Hiroshi Toshima)
  Yamamoto Mitasu, The economic review, 49, (2) 93 - 122,   1998 12 25
• Estimation of Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting in Hokkaido
  YAMAMOTO Mitasu, HAYASHI Takashi, DEMURA Katsuhiko, Studies in Regional Science, 29, (1) 25 - 40,   1998
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• A Study on the Evaluation of Potential Benefits Accruing from Water Utilization for Environmental Improvement
  Yamamoto Mitasu, The economic review, 46, (4) 177 - 203,   1996 03
• Structure of Evaluating the Living Environment by Urban Inhabitants:A Case Study of River Environment in Urban Areas
  YAMAMOTO Mitasu, KATOH Shuichi, Studies in Regional Science, 25, (1) 235 - 249,   1994 , During the periods of high economic growth, river environment in urban areas has undergone a remarkable change and lost the amenities, caused by the improvements are given priority to flood control and water use.Recently, ensuring the amenity and healthiness in river environment that is regarded as important with the improvement of civil life. Thus, the conservation of ecology, improving water quality and water amentiry is promoting as political action.This study purposed to obtain an expressly information for the planning of river improvement which towards a high quality life. For the purpose, we investigated inhabitant's consciousness of evaluating river environment as a living environmental factor by questionnaire survey, and attempted to explain the structure of inhabitant's consciousness as quantitative relation by using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) technique. In result, following acknowledgments were given.1) There is a growing need for the improvement of river environment about water quality, water amenity and ecology, inhabitants recognize that rever environment is a part of the nature in living environment.2) To confirmed flood control is the most important function that based on giving the largest priority (53.1%) to 'flood control, ' and to keep safety that is the most basic function.3) According to that 'environmental function' is given priority (28.1%) in the second place, inhabitants have a need of the nature in river space. It also means that 'conservation of ecology' has higher priority (10.2%) compared with 15 items on same level of the hierarchy structure.4) According to that 'estimating ecological river environement' is given the largest priority (41.0%) in alternatives, the conservation of ecology in river space has a direction that satisfies inhabitant's preference.These results give suggestions a growing need to measure and evaluate 'nonuse value' of river environment.
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• Study on Measurement and Evaluation of the Benefits of River Environmental Improvement -An Application of Multiattribute Utility Function Method-
  Abstracts of 1990 Annual Meeting of Environmental Science Symposium,   1990
• The Measurement and Evaluation of Potential Benefits Accruing from Environmental Improvement Projects on Urban River -A Case Study of TOYOHIRA RIVER-
  Abstracts of The 31th Annual Meeting of the Japan Section of the RSAI,   1994
• Structure of Evaluating the Living Environment by Urban Inhabitants -A Case Study of River Environment in Urban Areas-
  Studies in Regional Science, 25,   1995
• Evaluation of Potential Benefits Accruing from Use for Recreation on Urban River : A Case Study of River Park in the suburbs of Sapporo
  Abstracts of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Japan Section of the RSAI,   1996
• A Study on the Evaluation of Potential Benefits Accraing from Water Utilization for Environmental Improvement
  The ECONOMIC REVIEW (OTARU University of Commerce), 46,   1996
• Evaluation of Potential Benefits Accraing from River Environmental Improvement Projects of TOYOHIRA River in Sapporo
  The 5th World Congress of the RSAI PROCEEDINGS,   1996
• An Appraisal of Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting in Hokkaido : Estimation of Hokkaido Green GDP
  THE ECONOMIC REVIEW, 49, (2-3) 93 - 122,   1998
• Activation of Hokkaido economy by oil and natural gas development project in Sakhalin Vol. 1
  Institute of Economic Research OTARU University of Commerce Discussion Paper Series,   1998
• A Study of Evaluation of Public Benefit of River(1)
  THE ECONOMIC REVIEW, 50, (1) 131 - 150,   1999
• Estimation of Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting in Hokkaido
  Studies in Regional Science, 29, (1) 25 - 40,   1999
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• A Study of Evaluation of Public Benefit of River(3)
  THE ECONOMIC REVIEW, 50, (4) 47 - 69,   2000
• A Study of Evaluation of Public Benefit of River(2)
  THE ECONOMIC REVIEW, 50, (2-3) 127 - 137,   2000
• A Study of Tourism and Regional Economy
  THE ECONOMIC REVIEW, 51, (4) 213 - 230,   2001

Research Grants & Projects

• Environmental Accounting for Sustainable Management of Agriculture and Forestry
  Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research(基盤研究(C)),   2005  - 2007 , Mitasu YAMAMOTO, Environmental accounting system is a valuable management tool for considering the interdependence between economy and ecological system. Macro level environmental accounting, like SEEA (System for integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting), focuses on interrelationship between economic activities and ecological system at national level. Similarly, Meso level environmental accounting system focuses on regional level interrelationship. And Micro environmental accounting focuses on business level.In this study, we applied Meso and micro level environmental accounting system for regional...
• Comparative research on the diversity of human activities harmonized with agro-eco resources and the environment
  Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research(基盤研究(A)),   2004  - 2007 , Katsuhiko DEMURA, The main goal of this project is to carry out empirical researches on evaluating the diversity of agriculture and rural society as well as the multi-functionality of ecosystems. To this end, we set up four subjects for analysis, namely, (1) reservation of and interactions among agro-eco resources, (2) the diversity of agricultural and rural activities utilizing agro-eco resources, (3) impacts on the environment resulted from utilizing agro-eco resources, and (4) a sustainability analysis between human activities and agro-ecosystem. We have evaluated such diversity and multi-functionality th...
• Life Cycle Assessment of Dairy Production Systems Including Material Cycles of Grasslands
  Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research(基盤研究(B)),   2001  - 2003 , Katsuhiko DEMURA, The environmental problems associated with dairy farms are not only local problems such as water pollution and offensive odor, but also global problems including global warming and acidification. Quantifying dairy farm's environmental problems is necessary for the disclosure of the environmental information of dairy farms. In this study, we use LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) to quantify them. LCA studies the environmental aspects and potential impacts throughout a product's life (i.e. cradle-to-grave) from raw material acquisition through to its production, use and disposal (ISO14040). We have...
• A Study in Regional Science of Economic Evaluation of Coastal Water Environment and Local Economy related with Fishery
  Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research(基盤研究(C)),   1999  - 2001 , Mitasu YAMAMOTO, In general, the oceanic recreation use including the spectacles and the production of marine products by the sea fishery and the aqua cultivation industry are recognized as for economical value of the water environment in the coast region. However, the method of an economic evaluation such as a function including the function that the role which the sink function of the purification action by the carbon dioxide absorption with the sea water and the coast ecosystem etc. played was important, and such standard recognition is low, economic value, CVM, the conjoint analyzes, and TCM was arrange...
• Area study about the North East Asian economy along with development of resources in Far East Russia
  Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research(基盤研究(B)),   1999  - 2001 , Fukuo ODA, In the theme, "Area study about the North East Asian economy along with development of resources in Far East Russia", we have been researched about the connection possibility of the North East Asian economy and Hokkaido economy (2001).First, from the macro economy viewpoint, we have been researched about the actual condition of the Sakhalin project in recent years and the Sakhalin economy.Next, from the micro economy viewpoint, we have been researched about the residence building of Vladivostok and the global competence of Hokkaido Corporation in the global age, and the patent strategy mode...
• Macro,Mezo Environmental Accounting
    2002  - 2007

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