Junko Mochizuki
Senior Research Scholar
Water Security Research Group
Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program
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Biography
Junko Mochizuki currently serves part-time as a senior research scholar in the Water Security Research Group of the IIASA Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program.Her 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 the USA, where she received her doctoral degree in Natural Resources and Environmental Management (NREM) and a 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: 09 DEC 2022
Publications
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
UNDRR (2022). Prospects and challenges of transdisciplinary research approaches for managing and communicating climate-related risks. 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.
Tramberend, S. , Burtscher, R. , Burek, P. , Kahil, T. , Fischer, G., Mochizuki, J. , Greve, P., Kimwaga, R., Nyenje, P., Ondiek, R., Nakawuka, P., Hyandye, C., Sibomana, C., Luoga, H.P., Matano, A.S., Langan, S. , & Wada, Y. (2021). Co-development of East African regional water scenarios for 2050. One Earth 4 (3) 434-447. 10.1016/j.oneear.2021.02.012.