Muneta Yokomatsu
Senior Research Scholar
Systemic Risk and Resilience Research Group
Advancing Systems Analysis Program
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Muneta Yokomatsu is a senior research scholar jointly associated with the Systemic Risk and Resilience Research Group of the IIASA Advancing Systems Analysis Program and the Equity and Justice Research Group of the IIASA Population and Just Societies Program. He first joined IIASA as a guest research scholar in March 2018, and after having participated in several projects as an associate research scholar, took up his current position in April 2022.He received his Bachelor’s, Master’s, and PhD degrees from Kyoto University, Japan. He started his career at Tottori University in Japan as a research associate in 2001. He moved to the Disaster Prevention Research Institute at Kyoto University as an associate professor in 2005 and worked there until March 2022. He has held and continues to hold visiting fellow positions at several universities including as a visiting researcher at the University of Minnesota in the US (2008-2009), Waseda University in Japan (2008-present), the University of Tokyo, Japan (2018-present), and as visiting associate professor at the University of Tokyo (2008-2012).
His research fields include the economic analysis of climate-related risk management, where he has developed methods of cost-benefit analysis of disaster prevention and infrastructure provision; and social network analysis, where he has focused on the dynamics of network formation of people in a local community. He is now intensively working on simulation models of macroeconomic dynamics of climate-change-related natural hazards and exploring the impacts of risk reduction policies.
Last update: 04 APR 2023
Publications
Inter-American Development Bank (2021). Public Investment Profile for Climate Risk Reduction in Barbados: A Macroeconomic Cost-Benefit Analysis for Reducing the Socio-Economic Risk of Coastal Erosion. Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) , Technical Note No. IDB-TN-2393. 10.18235/0003915.
Kotani, H., Yokomatsu, M., & Ito, H. (2020). Potential of a shopping street to serve as a food distribution center and an evacuation shelter during disasters: Case study of Kobe, Japan. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 44 e101286. 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2019.101286.
Yokomatsu, M., Ishiwata, H., Sawada, Y., Suzuki, Y., Koike, T., Naseer, A., & Cheema, M. (2020). A multi-sector multi-region economic growth model of drought and the value of water: A case study in Pakistan. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 43 e101368. 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2019.101368.
Yokomatsu, M. & Hochrainer-Stigler, S., eds. (2020). Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience. Singapore: Springer. ISBN 978-981-15-4319-7 10.1007/978-981-15-4320-3.
Yokomatsu, M. & Kobayashi, K. (2020). Disaster Risk and a Household’s Dynamic Asset-Formation Behavior: Jump Control Model of Household. In: Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience. pp. 91-113 Singapore: Springer. ISBN 978-981-15-4320-3 10.1007/978-981-15-4320-3_6.