PhD in Urban Planning, Columbia University

Sustainable businesses

Social-ecological systems

Environmental Governance

Agricultural Policy

Land Use Planning

Social infrastructure (civil Engineering, architecture, disaster prevention), Architectural and city planning

Social infrastructure (civil Engineering, architecture, disaster prevention), Civil engineering (planning and transportation)

Environmental science/Agricultural science, Environmental policy and society

Apr. 2025 - Present
United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS), Adjunct Professor

Apr. 2025 - Present
Nihon University, College of Bioresource Sciences, Department of Global Coexistence Studies, Professor

May 2019 - Mar. 2025
United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS), ISI Programme, Research Fellow

Jun. 2012 - Jul. 2013
United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS), Sustainable Urban Futures Programme, Fellow

May 2008 - May 2012
United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS), Ecosystem Services Assessment Programme, Scientific Assessment Coordinator

Nov. 2007 - Apr. 2008
United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS), Ecosystem Services Assessment Programme, Program Associate

Jul. 2005 - Oct. 2007
Ishikawa International Cooperation Research Center (IICRC), Junior Professional Fellow

Aug. 2004 - Jun. 2005
Japan Techno Co., Ltd., Operation Group, Socio-Economist

Apr. 2004 - Jul. 2004
Japan Center for Area Development Research, Researcher

Sep. 2001 - Aug. 2002
The University of Tokyo, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), Project Assistant

Apr. 2000 - Jul. 2001
PACIFIC CONSULTANTS CO., LTD, 総合計画本部, Researcher

Sep. 2013 - May 2019
Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAP), PhD Program in Urban Planning

Sep. 2002 - Dec. 2003
Institute of Social Studies, Local and Regional Development

Apr. 1998 - Mar. 2000
The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Engineering, Urban Engineering

Apr. 1994 - Mar. 1998
Waseda University, School of Science and Engineering, Major in Civil Engineering

Oct. 2025 - Present
Member, Yokosuka City Environmental Council

Aug. 2025 - Present
Lead Author, Methodological assessment of integrated biodiversity-inclusive spatial planning and ecological connectivity (spatial planning and connectivity assessment), IPBES

Mar. 2022 - Mar. 2025
IPBES Domestic Liaison Committee, Committee member, Ministry of the Environment, Japan

Feb. 2022 - Dec. 2024
Lead Author, Thematic assessment of the underlying causes of biodiversity loss and the determinants of transformative change and options for achieving the 2050 Vision for Biodiversity (transformative change assessment), Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)

Mar. 2022 - Mar. 2024
Trade-offs and synergies in multifunctional landscapes Working Group Member, Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS) (Future Earth Core-Project)

Aug. 2013
Fulbright Japan, Fulbright Grants for Graduate Study
Maiko Nishi

Collective stewardship in a Japanese peri‐urban interface: Landowners' perspectives on farmland
Maiko Nishi
Earth Stewardship, Dec. 2025, Refereed, Not invited
Lead

Reflecting stakeholder values in urban green space planning: a case study of Greater Accra Metropolitan Area in Ghana
Isaac Nevis Fianoo; Maiko Nishi
Sustainability Science, Sep. 2025, Refereed, Not invited
Last

Factors affecting relational values of nature: a case of the Nagara River, Japan
Yuno Tajima; Tomomi Saito; Rajarshi Dasgupta; Mrittika Basu; Maiko Nishi; Shizuka Hashimoto
Sustainability Science, Apr. 2025, Refereed, Not invited

Synthesis: Business and Biodiversity in the Context of Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes (SEPLS)
Maiko Nishi; Suneetha M. Subramanian; Philip Varghese
Satoyama Initiative Thematic Review, Feb. 2025, Refereed
Lead

Putting power in perspective: a systematic review of power dynamics in social-ecological traps
Miles Lambert-Peck; Pierre Echaubard; Osamu Saito; Maiko Nishi
Discover Sustainability, Dec. 2024, Refereed, Not invited
Last

Exploring the benefits of invasive alien plant species for human well-being: a systematic review of the state-of-the-art and directions for prospective research
Matthew Boadie-Ampong; Maiko Nishi
Discover Sustainability, Oct. 2024, Refereed, Not invited
Last

United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration and Ways Forward: Sustainable Society Building on Human-Nature Relationships
Maiko Nishi; Tsunao Watanabe
Landscape Ecology and Management, 2024, Not refereed, Invited
Lead

Synthesis: Ecosystem Restoration in the Context of Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes (SEPLS)
Maiko Nishi; Suneetha M. Subramanian; Alebel Melaku
Ecosystem Restoration through Managing Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes (SEPLS), Sep. 2023, Refereed
Lead

Disentangling the practice of landscape approaches: a Q-method analysis on experiences in socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes
Mario Torralba; Maiko Nishi; Miguel A. Cebrián-Piqueras; Cristina Quintas-Soriano; María García-Martín; Tobias Plieninger
Sustainability Science, Mar. 2023, Refereed

Bridging Between Owners and Users in Japan's Private Property Regime
Maiko Nishi
The Political Economy of Land, Nov. 2022, Refereed
Lead

Japanese land reform in the new era? Farmers’ wellbeing and sustainable farmland management
Maiko Nishi
Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, Nov. 2022, Refereed, Not invited
Lead

Health and landscape approaches: A comparative review of integrated approaches to health and landscape management
Maiko Nishi; Shizuka Hashimoto
Environmental Science and Policy, Oct. 2022
Lead

Correction to: Outcome-based assessment of the payment for mountainagriculture: a community-based approach to countering land abandonment in Japan (Environmental Management, (2021), 68, 3, (353-365), 10.1007/s00267-021-01497-4)
Kikuko Shoyama; Maiko Nishi; Shizuka Hashimoto; Osamu Saito
Environmental Management, May 2022

Community-based responses for tackling environmental and socio-economic change and impacts in mountain social–ecological systems
Himangana Gupta; Maiko Nishi; Alex; ros Gasparatos
Ambio, May 2022, Refereed

Synthesis: Concept, Methodologies, and Strategies to Address the Nexus in SEPLS
Maiko Nishi; Suneetha M. Subramanian; Himangana Gupta
Biodiversity-Health-Sustainability Nexus in Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes (SEPLS), 2022, Refereed

Outcome-Based Assessment of the Payment for Mountain Agriculture: A Community-Based Approach to Countering Land Abandonment in Japan
Kikuko Shoyama; Maiko Nishi; Shizuka Hashimoto; Osamu Saito
Environmental Management, Sep. 2021, Refereed

Synthesis: Conception, Approaches and Strategies for Transformative Change
Maiko Nishi; Suneetha M. Subramanian; Himangana Gupta; Madoka Yoshino; Yasuo Takahashi; Koji Miwa; Tomoko Takeda
Fostering Transformative Change for Sustainability in the Context of Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes (SEPLS), Apr. 2021, Refereed

Fostering cooperation between farmers and public and private actors to expand environmentally friendly rice cultivation: intermediary functions and farmers’ perspectives
Kishioka, T.; Hashimoto, S.; Nishi, M.; Saito, O.; Kohsaka, R.
International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 2017, Refereed, Not invited

Risk Management Regime and Its Scope for Transition in Tokyo
Maiko Nishi
Journal of Extreme Events, Sep. 2016, Refereed, Invited

Policy evolution of land consolidation and rural development in postwar Japan
Maiko Nishi
Geomatics, Landmanagement and Landscape, 2016, Refereed, Not invited

Sustainable Societies in the Context of Harmonization between Human Beings and Natural Ecosystems
Yasushi Tadami; Maiko Nishi; Kazuhiko Takeuchi
Journal of Environmental Consideration Engineering, 2014, Refereed, Not invited

Indicators for management of urban biodiversity and ecosystem services: scientific evaluation of Cities’ Biodiversity Index
Kohsaka, R; Pereira, H; M; Elmqvist, T; Chan, L; Moreno-Peñaranda, R; Morimoto, Y; Inoue, T; Iwata, M; Nishi, M; Mathias, d.,L.,M; Cruz S.,C; Cabral, M; Brunfeldt, M; Parkkinen, A; Niemelä, J; Kulkarni-Kawli Y; Pearsell,G
City and Biodiversity Outlook, Springer, 2013, Refereed, Not invited

Discussion on the New Commons : From the Viewpoint of the Satoyama Initiative
Takeuchi Kazuhiko; Takemoto Kazuhiko; Yasushi Tadami; Maiko Nishi
Environmental Research Quarterly, 2012, Not refereed, Not invited

Socio-ecological Production Landscapes: Japanese Assessment and International Partnership
Fumiko Nakao; Maiko Nishi
Journal of Environmental Conservation Engineering, 2011, Not refereed, Not invited

Sub-global Assessments and Their Contributions to Policy Processes – Ecosystem Services Assessment on Satoyama and Satoumi in Japan –
Maiko Nishi
Environmental Research Quarterly, 2010, Not refereed, Not invited

Follow-up to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: Sub-global Assessment of Satoyama and Satoumi in Japan
Maiko Nishi; Toshimori Takahashi
Journal of Japan Society for Impact Assessment, 2009, Not refereed, Not invited

Institutions for the ODA’s financial cooperation with NGOs – towards the partnership between NGOs and the ODA
Maiko Nishi; Fumihiko Seta
Japan Association for Planning Administration Conference, 2002, Not refereed, Not invited

Evaluation of Recycling Activities Basing on a Recycling Centre in Low-income Communities in Metro Manila – Building Recycling System in Developing Countries –
Maiko Nishi; Tetsuo Kidokoro; Takashi Onishi; Fumihiko Seta
Japan Association for Planning Administration Conference, 2000, Not refereed, Not invited

Evaluation of Recycling Activities from a Viewpoint of Low-income Communities in Metro Manila by Participatory Observation – Building Recycling System in Developing Countries
Maiko Nishi; Tetsuo Kidokoro; Takashi Onishi
City Planning, 2000, Refereed, Not invited

Social System for Establishing Recycling System – To Establish Recycling Society in Developing Countries –
Maiko Nishi; Fumihiko Seta; Tetsuo Kidokoro; Takashi Onishi
Japan Association for Planning Administration Conference, 1999, Not refereed, Not invited

Me and That City: New York (USA)
Maiko Nishi
City Planning Review, 15 Jul. 2025, Not refereed, Invited
Lead

The Biodiversity–Health–Sustainability Nexus: Integrated Solutions from Landscapes & Seascapes
Maiko Nishi; Suneetha M. Subramanian; Himangana Gupta
UNU-IAS Policy Brief Series, Jun. 2022, Refereed
Lead

Resilience in Landscapes & Seascapes: Building Back Better from COVID-19
Maiko Nishi; Yoji Natori; Devon R. Dublin
UNU-IAS Policy Brief, 2021, Refereed
Lead

Role of socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes in the face of COVID-19 and towards transformative change
Yasuo TAKAHASHI; Dang KIEN; Leni CAMACHO; Maiko NISHI; William DUNBAR; Akane MATSUO; Koji MIWA; André MADER; Makiko YANAGIYA; Kazuhiko TAKEUCHI
Dec. 2020, Not refereed

Landscape Approaches for the Post-2020 Biodiversity Agenda: Perspectives from Socio- Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes
Maiko Nishi; Mari Yamazaki
UNU-IAS Policy Brief, Aug. 2020, Refereed, Not invited
Lead

Satoyama-Satoumi Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Assessing Trends to Rethink a Sustainable Future
Anantha K. Duraiappah; Koji Nakamura; Kazuhiko Takeuchi; Masataka Watanabe; Maiko Nishi
United Nations University Policy Brief, 2010, Not refereed, Not invited

Niche Markets for Economic Revitalisation of Satoyama Forest Resources in Ishikawa Prefecture: Prospects, Challenges and Policy Responses
Alphonse Kambu; Utiang P Ugbe; Masanori Toga; Grant Boyle; Maiko Nishi
IICRC Report, 2008, Not refereed, Not invited

Chiiki no Mondai to Kokusaiteki Kadai: Ishikawa no Satoyama Hozen Saisei (Local Problems and International Agenda: Conservation and Revitalisation of Satoyama in Ishikawa)
Maiko Nishi
Planners, 2007, Not refereed, Invited

Ensuring Ecological Connectivity in Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes (SEPLS)
Maiko Nishi; Suneetha M. Subramanian; Philip Varghese; Juliano Sènanmi Hermann Houndonougbo, Joint editor
Springer Singapore, Oct. 2025
9789819514731

Business and Biodiversity: Reciprocal Connections in the Context of Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes (SEPLS)
Maiko Nishi; Suneetha M. Subramanian; Philip Varghese, Joint editor
Springer Singapore, Feb. 2025
9789819775736

Ecosystem Restoration through Managing Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes (SEPLS)
Maiko Nishi; Suneetha M. Subramanian, Joint editor
Springer Singapore, Sep. 2023
9789819912926

Biodiversity-Health-Sustainability Nexus in Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes (SEPLS)
Maiko Nishi; Suneetha M. Subramanian; Himangana Gupta, Joint editor
Springer Singapore, Jun. 2022
9789811698934

Fostering Transformative Change for Sustainability in the Context of Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes (SEPLS)
Maiko Nishi, Suneetha M. Subramanian, Himangana Gupta, Madoka Yoshino, Yasuo Takahashi, Koji Miwa, Tomoko Takeda, Joint editor
Springer Singapore, 2021
9789813367609

Urbanization, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Challenges and Opportunities
Ryo Kohsaka; Henrique M. Pereira; Thomas Elmqvist; Lena Chan; Raquel Moreno-Peñaranda; Yukihiro Morimoto; Takashi Inoue; Mari Iwata; Maiko Nishi; Maria da Luz Mathias; Carlos Souto Cruz; Mariana Cabral; Minna Brunfeldt; Anni Parkkinen; Jari Niemelä; Yashada Kulkarni-Kawli; Grant Pearsell, Joint work, Indicators for Management of Urban Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: City Biodiversity Index
Springer, 2013, Not refereed
9789400770874

里山・里海：自然の恵みと人々の暮らし
日本の里山; 里海評価委員会, Joint work, Conclusion
Asakura Publishing Co., Ltd., 2012, Not refereed
4254180357

Satoyama-Satoumi Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes of Japan
Kazuhiko Takeuchi; Masataka Watanabe; Maiko Nishi, Joint work, Conclusion
United Nations University Press, 2012, Not refereed
9789280812107

Ecosystems and Human Well-being: A Manual for Assessment Practitioners
Thomas P. Tomich; Alejandro Argumedo; Ivar Baste; Esther Camac; Colin Filer; Keisha Garcia; Kelly Garbach; Helmut Geist; Anne-Marie Izac; Louis Lebel; Marcus Lee; Maiko Nishi; Lennart Olsson; Ciara Raudsepp-Hearne; Maurice Rawlins; Robert Scholes; Meine van Noordwijk, Joint work, Conceptual Frameworks for Ecosystem Assessment: Their Development, Ownership, and Use
Island Press, 2010, Not refereed
9781597267113

Sustainability Gaku (Sustainability Studies)
A. H. Zakri; Maiko Nishi, Joint work, Millennium Seitaikei Hyouka – Seitaikei to Ningen no Fukuri wo Kangaeru (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment – Thinking Ecosystems and Human Well-being)
University of Tokyo Press, 2010, Not refereed

Weaving Indigenous and local knolwedge in climate smart agriculture: Practical insights from the Satoyama Initiative for transformative change
Maiko Nishi
TC/ESG2025 Conference “Navigating Sustainability Transformations Towards Justice & Equity”, Aug. 2025, Not invited

Science and Policy of Biodiversity
Maiko Nishi
Global Youth MIDORI Platform (GYM) International Joint Training, Aug. 2025, Not invited

The transformative change assessment and research trends: Introduction to transformative change research
Maiko Nishi
FFPRI Webinar “Achieving Biodiversity Targets and Realizing a Sustainable Society: Latest Research Trends and Future Challenges from the Perspectives of the IPBES Nexus and Transformative Change Assessments”, Jun. 2025, Invited

Assessing social-ecological resilience for sustainable landscape governance: Application of resilience indicators in Ifugao Rice Terraces, Philippines
Maiko Nishi; Rizalita Edpalina
American Association of Geographers (AAG) 2025 Annual Meeting, Mar. 2025

IPBES Transformative Change Assessment: Overview of Summary for Policymakers
Maiko Nishi
IPBES-11 Results Briefing Meeting, Jan. 2025, Invited

Nature and Agriculture Case Studies: Introduction to the Satoyama Initiative and an Example of Satoyama
Maiko Nishi
Training Workshop on Agriculture and Nature: policies, economic valuation, and nature-based solutions, Nov. 2024, Invited

Conservation and Production in Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) and the Satoyama Initiative: Examples from Japan
Maiko Nishi
2024 Global Congress of the International Land Conservation Network, Oct. 2024, Invited

Social-Ecological Resilience in Productive Landscapes under Climate Change: Experiences from the Satoyama Initiative
Maiko Nishi
7th International Conference on Multidisciplinary Approaches for Sustainable Rural Development (ICMA SURE), Sep. 2024, Invited

Negotiating multiple values of farmland in a rural-urban interface: Challenges and opportunities for collective stewardship through farmland tenancy in a Japanese suburban commuity
Maiko Nishi
PECSIII Conference, Aug. 2024

Developing a monitoring and evaluation framework for biocultural diversity hotspots: Review and insights from heritage sites in Japan
Maiko Nishi; Katsue Fukamachi
PECSIII Conference, Aug. 2024, Not invited

Science of Biodiversity
Maiko Nishi
Global Youth MIDORI Platform (GYM) International Joint Training, Aug. 2024

Landscape Approaches to Ecosystem Restoration
Maiko Nishi
ADB-Japan Scholarship Program Conference, Jul. 2024

Development Path of OECMs in Japan: Process, Evalutaion Standards, Certification, and Incentive Mechanisms
Maiko Nishi
Be Part of the Plan: Non-State Actors Advancing the Kunming-Montreal Framework Implementation and Exploration on OECMs, Jul. 2024, Invited

Business and Biodiversity for Sustainable Development: Perspectives from Productive Landscapes and Seascapes
Maiko Nishi
2024 ACUNS Annual Meeting “Global Governance and Sustainable Development: Revitalizing Research to Support Multilateral Solutions”, Jun. 2024, Not invited

Nexus between biodiversity, health, and sustainable development
Maiko Nishi
2024 ACUNS Annual Meeting “Global Governance and Sustainable Development: Revitalizing Research to Support Multilateral Solutions”, Jun. 2024, Invited

OECMs in Japan: Perspectives from the Satoyama Initiative
Maiko Nishi
ILCN Webinar “How OECMs in China, Japan and Korea can contribute to achieving 30x30”, Jun. 2024, Invited

International Partnership for the Satoyama Initiative (IPSI): Retrospective and Future Perspectives
Maiko Nishi
2024 IPSI Collaborative Activity: Taiwan Partnership for the Satoyama Initiative (TPSI) and Taiwan IPSI Members Annual Exchange joint event (TPSI-IPSI Workshop) “Next stop – Biocultural Diversity: Satoyama art and craft for conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in SEPLS”, May 2024, Invited

Rural-urban interface as a social field of negotiating multiple values of farmland: Collective stewardship through tenancy arrangements in the Japanese suburban context
Maiko Nishi
American Association of Geographers (AAG) 2024 Annual Meeting, Apr. 2024, Not invited

Social-ecological resilience indicators for productive landscapes and seascapes
Maiko Nishi
8th Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation (APAN) Forum: “Enhancing Community Resilience in the Asia-Pacific Region: Promoting Effective Governance for Locally Led Adaptation and Sustainable Adaptive Practices”, Sep. 2023

Challenges and Opportunities for Identifying OECMs from Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes (SEPLS)
Maiko Nishi
The 20th GIS Community Forum, May 2023, Invited

A local perspective on agricultural land governance: Transformation of social capital in a Japanese agrarian community
Maiko Nishi
American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting 2023, Mar. 2023

Bridging between Owners and Users in Japan's Private Property: The Case of Farmland Banking
Maiko Nishi
American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting 2023, Mar. 2023, Invited

Ecosystem assessments: Resilience indicators for community-based assessments of socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes
Maiko Nishi
The 34th International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS) General Assembly: IYBSSD symposium II “Biological Science for Sustainable Living”, Mar. 2023, Invited

Biodiversity-Health-Sustainability Nexus in Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes (SEPLS)
Maiko Nishi
The 3rd Global Conference on Strengthening Synergies between the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: Side Event: “Catalysing Nature-based Solutions for Biodiversity, Climate Change and Sustainable Development through Ecosystem Restoration”, Jul. 2022

Nexus between biodiversity, health, and sustainable development: Addressing trade-offs for better synergies in socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes (Session 15 “Fostering Collective Action: Mainstreaming Biodiversity Across Sectors”)
Dresden Nexus Conference 2022 (DNC2022): Biodiversity - Stewardship for vital resources, May 2022

Some Insights from the Satoyama Initiative (Session 3 Responses to the Changes of the Ifugao Rice Terraces Landscape)
Maiko Nishi
1st Ifugao Rice Terraces Assessment International Summit 2022, Mar. 2022, Invited

An International Certification Scheme: Challenges and Opportunities for Enabling a Sustainable Supply Chain of Wild Plant Products (Medicinal and Aromatic Plants)
Maiko Nishi
Sophia Symposium: Environmental Offshoring, Mar. 2022, Invited

Integrated Landscape Approaches to Achieve Societies in Harmony with Nature
Maiko Nishi
India-Japan Webinar on "Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Development", Feb. 2022, Invited

Interlinkages between land rights, value perspectives, and wellbeing of farmers in the context of agricultural abandonment of Japan
Maiko Nishi
3rd ESP Asia Conference: Eco-health and ecosystem services in Asia: Bottom-up aspects for planetary health, Dec. 2021

Experiences in the Satoyama Initiative: Multiple benefits through managing Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes (SEPLS)
Maiko Nishi
ILCN-ELCN 2021 Global Congress, Dec. 2021, Invited

The Rural-Urban Interface as a Social Field of Contesting Multiple Values of Farmland: Negotiated Tenancy Arrangements in the Japanese Suburban Context
Maiko Nishi
Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Conference 2021, Oct. 2021, Not invited

Building Resilience in Societies after COVID-19
Maiko Nishi
2021 United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) Development Conference: COVID-19 and development – effects and new realities for the Global South, Sep. 2021, Invited

Ways you can be a Part of the Solution #ForNature (Panel)
Maiko Nishi
International Day for Biological Diversity 2021 Symposium “Finding Solutions for Nature – Commemorating International Day for Biological Diversity”, May 2021, Invited

Experiences from the Satoyama Initiative: Working with stakeholders to maintain cultural landscapes – A decade of efforts by the Satoyama Initiative
Maiko Nishi
Land Webinar | Cultural Landscapes: Old and New Challenges for Sustainability, May 2021, Invited

Lessons learned from managing SEPLS and their implications for transformative change in the post-COVID19 era
Maiko Nishi
International Forum for Sustainable Asia and the Pacific (ISAP) 2020, Nov. 2020, Invited

Negotiated Trajectory of Farmland Tenancy: Emergence of Farmland Banking in Japan
Maiko Nishi
Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Conference 2020, Nov. 2020

Landscape Approaches to National Biodiversity Policy Making and Implementation
Maiko Nishi
Global Landscapes Forum Biodiversity 2020, Oct. 2020, Invited

Experiences and Lessons from the International Partnership for the Satoyama Initiative (IPSI): A Case Study of Forest Grazing in Japan
Maiko Nishi
Burren Winterage School: The Burren Winterage Weekend, Oct. 2020, Invited

Politics and the Environment (Panel)
Maiko Nishi
International Workshop “Transdisciplinary Approaches to Good Governance”, Feb. 2020, Kyoto University Center for South East Asian Studies (CSEAS), Invited

The Satoyama Initiative
Maiko Nishi
Symposium of World Wetlands Day (WWD) 2020 “Wetlands and Biodiversity”, Feb. 2020, 日本国際湿地保全連合、国連大学サステイナビリティ高等研究所（UNU-IAS）、 地球環境パートナーシッププラザ（GEOC）, Invited

Boundary organizations in governing agricultural land: Comparative analysis of two agrarian communities in Japan
Maiko Nishi
Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Conference 2019, Oct. 2019, Not invited

The Satoyama Initiative
Maiko Nishi
Environmental Leadership Course, Aug. 2019, Conservation International Japan, Invited

Experiences and lessons from the International Partnership for Satoyama Initiative (IPSI)
Maiko Nishi
JICA Training Course: Community-Based Forest Management / Monitoring for Solomon Islands, Jul. 2019, Invited

Reshaping a tenancy model in Japan: farmers and the Farmland Bank Program in ad delta suburban community
Maiko Nishi
Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Conference 2018, Oct. 2018, Not invited

Farmers’ Value Perspectives in Multi-Level Governance: The Farmland Bank Program in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan
Maiko Nishi
Annual Meeting of Law and Society Toronto 2018, Jun. 2018, Not invited

Governance of Farmland through Tenancy: Farmers’ Participation in the Farmland Bank Program in a Hilled Rural Community of Japan
Maiko Nishi
Tenth Annual Krueckeberg Doctoral Conference in Urban Studies, Urban Planning, and Public Policy, Mar. 2018, Not invited

Multi-level Governance of Agricultural Landscapes:Role of value perspective on farmland tenancy arrangements in Japan
Maiko Nishi
The Toyota Foundation Research Grant Program Open Workshop: Exploring New Values for Society, Apr. 2017, The Toyota Foundation, Invited

Multi-Level Governance of Agricultural Landscapes in Japan: Perceptions of Farmland and Property Rights Re-Arrangements
Maiko Nishi
Ostrom Workshop Research Series Spring 2016, Apr. 2016, Ostrom Workshop, Indiana University, Bloomington, Not invited

Experiences and Lessons from Japan Satoyama Satoumi Assessment (JSSA)
Maiko Nishi; Osamu Saito; Shizuka Hashimoto
The 3rd NIE Forum: International Ecosystem Services Symposium 2015, Oct. 2015, National Institute of Ecology, Invited

Concept of Satoyama and Satoumi: Lessons from Japan Satoyama Satoumi Assessment
Maiko Nishi
Studio-X Tokyo Lecture Series 2014 Summer: XXIC Japan Home Land Cure - SATOYAMA & SATOUMI, Aug. 2014, Not invited

Transformational Process of Social-Ecological System Governance: Case Study of Noto Region, Japan
Maiko Nishi; Tetsuo Kidokoro; Eduardo S. Brondizio
The 5th Workshop on the Ostrom Workshop (WoW5), Jun. 2014, Indiana University, Bloomington, Not invited

Role of the Natural Environment Management Plan of Tama River in Integrated Watershed Management
Maiko Nishi; Toshimori Takahashi
The 14th Global Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC), Jun. 2013, Not invited

Assessing Biodiversity for Adaptive Co-Management: A Perspective of Urban Sustainability in City of Yokohama
Maiko Nishi; Tetsuo Kidokoro; Aki Suwa; Hiroshi Kishida; Jose. A; P. Oliveira; Eduardo S. Brondizio
The 3rd International Conference of Urban Biodiversity and Design (URBIO 2012), Oct. 2012, Not invited

Sub-global Follow-up to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA): Scaling Up an Ecosystem Services Assessment in Japan
Maiko Nishi
International Workshop on Vulnerability and Resilience of Land System in Asia, Jun. 2009, Not invited

Sub-global Assessment of Satoyama and Satoumi in Japan: Overview
Maiko Nishi
Roundtable Dialogue: Linking Ecosystem Knowledge and Development, Mar. 2008, Not invited

Land Use Change in Satoyama (Traditional Rural Landscapes) and Its Links to the Ownership
Maiko Nishi
Advanced Institute in Integrated Land Systems Modeling, Aug. 2007, Not invited

Global Human Resource Management
Sep. 2025 - Present
College of Bioresource Sciences, Nihon University

Environmental Planning
Apr. 2025 - Jul. 2025
College of Bioresource Sciences, Nihon University

Studies of Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes (SEPLS)
Apr. 2025 - Jul. 2025
United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS)

Studies of Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes (SEPLS)
Apr. 2023 - Jul. 2023
United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS)

Studies of Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes (SEPLS) (分担）
Apr. 2022 - Jul. 2022
United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS)

Special Lecture on Environmental Science and Technology III
Dec. 2021 - Dec. 2021
Mie University Graduate School & Faculty of Bioresources

Sustainable Bioproduction and Ecosystems Management (SBEM) (分担)
Oct. 2019 - Feb. 2020
United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS)

Apr. 2024 - Present
Society for Social-Ecological Systems (SocSES)

Oct. 2022 - Present
American Association of Geographers (AAG)

Feb. 2018 - Present
Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning

Apr. 2005 - Present
Japan Society of Urban Planners

May 1998 - Present
JAPAN ASSOCIATION FOR PLANNING AND PUBLIC MANAGEMENT

Apr. 1998 - Present
THE CITY PLANNING INSTITUTE OF JAPAN

Jan. 2019 - Jan. 2020
Law and Society Association

Development of an Integrated Assessment Model linking Biodiversity and Socio-Economic Drivers, and its Social Application (IAM-B): Nature-Derived Local Cultural Diversity and Biodiversity
Environmental Restoration and Conservation Agency (ERCA), Environment Research and Technology Development Fund, Apr. 2023 - Mar. 2028
Katsue Fukamachi; Maiko Nishi; Wen Wang

Aging and shrinking population-driven transition of the nature conservation (ASP-NC)
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Apr. 2023 - Mar. 2026
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Roles of Rights-Holders' Perspectives on Natural Resources in Transformative Change: Comparative Study on Agricultural Land Governance
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Multi-level Governance of Agricultural Landscapes:Role of value perspective on farmland tenancy arrangements in Japan
The Toyota Foundation, The Toyota Foundation Research Grant Program, Apr. 2017 - Oct. 2018
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