Junko Mochizuki
Research Scholar
Water Security Research Group
Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program
Biography
Junko Mochizuki joined IIASA's Risk and Resilience (RISK) program as a research scholar in August 2013.Dr. Mochizuki's current assignment at IIASA focuses on advancing the macroeconomic and fiscal modeling of natural disaster risk for both developed and developing countries. This entails exploring the empirical linkages between fiscal risk management, economic growth and changes in climate extreme risks and other socioeconomic variables over-time. Her particular interest lies in the interface between policy and scientific knowledge - investigating barriers and enablers for risk reduction actions at the fiscal and macroeconomic planning levels. In addition to conducting integrated risk assessments, she has also led a number of capacity building workshops for developing country policy-stakeholders, focusing on macroeconomic risk management and probabilistic cost-benefit analysis of disaster risk reduction investment.
Prior to joining IIASA, she was a PhD degree fellow at the East-West Center/University of Hawaii in USA, where she received her doctoral degree in Natural Resources and Environmental Management (NREM) and graduate certificate in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (DMHA). She completed an MSc degree in Global Agricultural Sciences at the University of Tokyo in 2006, and graduated magna cum laude from the University of California Irvine with a BA in political science in 2001.
Last update: 29 APR 2016
Publications
Irshaid, J., Mochizuki, J. , & Schinko, T. (2022). Challenges to local innovation and implementation of low-carbon energy-transition measures: A tale of two Austrian regions. In: Österreichischer Klimatag 2022, 20-22 April 2022.
Irshaid, J., Mochizuki, J. , & Schinko, T. (2022). Herausforderungen für die lokale Energiewende in Österreich: Innovation und Umsetzung in ländlichen und städtischen Gemeinden. In: Österreichischer Klimatag 2022, 20-22 April 2022.
Yokomatsu, M., Mochizuki, J. , Tellez Leon, E., & Burek, P. (2022). Macroeconomic co-benefits of DRR investment: Assessment using the Dynamic Model of Multi-hazard Mitigation CoBenefits (DYNAMMICs) model. United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
Dunz, N., Tanaka, H., Shiiba, N., Mochizuki, J. , & Naqvi, A. (2021). Building Back Better in Small Island Developing States in the Pacific: Initial Insights from the BinD Model of Disaster Risk Management Policy Options in Fiji. ADBI Working Paper 1290. Asian Development Bank Institute , Tokyo, Japan.
Irshaid, J., Mochizuki, J. , & Schinko, T. (2021). Challenges to local innovation and implementation of low-carbon energy-transition measures: A tale of two Austrian regions. Energy Policy 156 p. 112432. 10.1016/j.enpol.2021.112432.