Details of a Researcher - Morita, Kanako

Morita, Kanako

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Affiliation: Faculty of Economics ( Mita )

Position: Professor

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Paper Count: 15 Citation Count: 460 h-index: 10

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持続可能な社会の実現には、国際・国家・地方といったマルチレベルの目的の異なる「公式・非公式の制度（法・政策・計画など）」や役割や関心の異なる「アクター（国際機関、政府、金融機関、企業、非政府組織、市民など）」間の相互作用を理解しながら、目標達成に向けたこれらの良いガバナンスのあり方（制度・アクターの関係性やそのプロセスなど）を分析し、社会システムをどのように変革できるかを考える必要があります。
これまで、広く持続可能な発展、気候変動、生物多様性分野に関わるマルチレベルのガバナンスやファイナンスについて、国際関係論を軸とした学際的なアプローチで研究をしてきました。アジア太平洋地域の先進国・開発途上国の事例調査や分析も多く行ってきています。
持続可能な社会実現のための社会システム変革には、人文・社会科学や自然科学の学際を超えて、実務的な知見も統合した超学際研究が必要です。環境ガバナンスやファイナンスを軸に本分野の超学際研究の推進も目指していきたいと思っています。

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Challenges and lessons learned for REDD+ finance and its governance

Morita K., Matsumoto K.

Carbon Balance and Management 18 ( 1 ) 2023.12

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Discussion on reducing emissions from deforestation in developing countries began at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties in 2005, and the agenda for “reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, and the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries (REDD+)” was introduced under the UNFCCC. The REDD+ framework was developed with the expectation that it would significantly contribute to climate change mitigation at a relatively low cost and produce benefits for both developed and developing countries. Finance is a key element of REDD+ implementation, and many financial sources, approaches, and mechanisms have supported REDD+-related activities in various developing countries. However, the comprehensive challenges and lessons learned for REDD+ finance and its governance have not been fully explored. This paper reviews the relevant literature to understand the challenges for REDD+ finance and its governance in two areas—(1) REDD+ finance aligned with the UNFCCC and (2) REDD+-related finance outside the UNFCCC—which have developed differently and have different implications. This paper first identifies the six key elements of REDD+ finance and its governance across the two fields, and then reviews the related challenges and lessons learned with respect to public and private finance. The challenges for REDD+ finance and its governance aligned with the UNFCCC include enhancing the performance of REDD+ finance using mainly public finance, such as results-based finance and the jurisdictional approach. In contrast, the challenges regarding REDD+-related finance outside the UNFCCC include enhancing the engagement of the private sector in REDD+ finance, mainly targeting the project level, and the relationship between voluntary carbon markets and other investment and finance mechanisms. This paper also identifies the common challenges across REDD+ finance and its governance in the two fields. These challenges include the need to enhance linkages between REDD+ and other objectives, such as carbon neutrality/net-zero, deforestation-free supply chains, and nature-based solutions, as well as the need to develop learning systems for REDD+ finance.
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Exploring the role of local governments as intermediaries to facilitate partnerships for the Sustainable Development Goals

Masuda H., Kawakubo S., Okitasari M., Morita K.

Sustainable Cities and Society 82 2022.07

ISSN 22106707

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Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires localization and multi-stakeholder partnerships, and local governments have the best potential to act as intermediaries to facilitate partnerships. This study examines how local governments have facilitated partnerships for the SDGs, especially partnerships with private sectors. It focuses on how local governments conducted their intermediary roles from the perspective of sustainable transitions and analyzes Japanese cases. The results of our analysis provide the following suggestions for local governments to enhance their intermediary roles to facilitate partnerships for the SDGs. First, the SDGs should be recognized as a driver of sustainable transitions. Second, there needs a balance in terms of the level of the public sector's involvement in partnerships, so that local governments can maximize the benefits of informal networks in relation to SDG localization. Third, new intermediaries can be created by local governments. The findings of this study contribute to the growing body of literature on SDG localization and partnerships by identifying possible roles and suggestions that local governments can adopt as transition intermediaries.
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SDGs mainstreaming at the local level: case studies from Japan

Masuda H., Okitasari M., Morita K., Katramiz T., Shimizu H., Kawakubo S., Kataoka Y.

Sustainability Science 16 ( 5 ) 1539 - 1562 2021.09

ISSN 18624065

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There has been increasing interest in local-level implementation of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Despite the emergence of various initiatives undertaken by local governments, studies on the process of mainstreaming the 2030 Agenda within local contexts remain limited. This study is aimed at identifying possible approaches for supporting local governments in successfully mainstreaming the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs. We developed an analytical framework covering key components for local-level mainstreaming of the SDGs based on our review of recent policy guidelines for implementing the SDGs and the policy integration and coherence literature. Subsequently, we applied this framework within case studies of two designated municipalities under the Japanese government’s “SDGs Future Cities” initiative aimed at localizing the SDGs. The analysis demonstrated how local governments could develop and apply key components of the SDGs mainstreaming process. Our findings suggest that the following approaches can facilitate local governments’ efforts to mainstream the SDGs: first, municipalities can foster local ownership to address the challenges they face. Second, existing policy resources can be linked with formal procedures. Third, multi-stakeholder partnerships can be developed. Fourth, vertical communication channels can be established with international and national-level organizations. Overall, the article contributes to a growing literature on SDGs implementation at the local level by identifying key components required for their mainstreaming, introducing perspectives derived from Japanese case studies.
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Governance challenges for implementing nature‐based solutions in the asian region

Morita K., Matsumoto K.

Politics and Governance 9 ( 4 ) 102 - 113 2021

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Nature‐based solutions (NbS) are recognized under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Convention on Biological Diversity. This relatively new concept has become a key element in strategies for green recovery from the Covid‐19 pandemic. NbS consist of a range of measures that address various societal challenges, including climate change, natural disasters, and water security, by combining human well‐being and biodiversity benefits. Although the importance of NbS has been widely recognized, existing studies on aspects of their governance are limited and mainly focus on NbS in European countries. There is little relevant research in other regions, including Asia. This study aimed to explore challenges for NbS governance by analyzing the development and implementation of NbS in Asia. We focused on NbS in the fields of climate change mitigation and adaptation, disaster risk reduction, and infrastructure. In these three fields, NbS are linked to climate security issues and have been widely implemented in Asian countries. This analysis identified the challenges for NbS governance for countries at different stages of economic development, and for developing measures for NbS with different institutions and actors. It recognizes the importance of a framework that matches the need for NbS with relevant institutions and actors at various scales and in various sectors. Guidelines are required to integrate NbS into strategies and policies at national and local levels and also into international cooperation.
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Factors for changing global institutions for sustainable development in terms of configuration of actors

Morita, Kanako

科学研究費補助金研究成果報告書 2023

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Publisher Correction to: SDGs mainstreaming at the local level: case studies from Japan (Sustainability Science, (2021), 16, 5, (1539-1562), 10.1007/s11625-021-00977-0)

Masuda H., Okitasari M., Morita K., Katramiz T., Shimizu H., Kawakubo S., Kataoka Y.

Sustainability Science 16 ( 5 ) 1761 - 1762 2021.09

ISSN 18624065

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The original version of the article has a number of corrections due to typesetting errors and corrected in this version. Under the section “Analysis of SDGs mainstreaming in two “SDGs Future Cities””, the sentence “The following sections’, as these section numbers are gone when reflected in the journal format present a comparative analysis of the results for each category shown in Tables 4 and 5…” should have read as “The following sections present a comparative analysis of the results for each category shown in Tables 4 and 5…”. In Table 5 of this article, some texts were published incorrectly under the columns Kitakyushu (city), Shimokawa (town) and corrections are listed below.
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