The Mitsui & Co. Environment Fund
Introduction to Grant Projects
INDEX="105"
NAME="Research comparing REDD+ incentives and safeguards by region"
TYPE="研究助成,"
YEAR="2014年度,"
AREA="中南米,アジア,"
KIND="大学,"
ORG="Kyoto University Center for Southeast Asian Studies Shigeo Kobayashi, Researcher, adjunct professor, and professor emeritus of Kyoto University"
Kyoto University Center for Southeast Asian Studies Shigeo Kobayashi, Researcher, adjunct professor, and professor emeritus of Kyoto University
Research comparing REDD+ incentives and safeguards by region
Research grant
- Project Description
There has yet to be any research carried out on the viability of REDD+ incentives and safeguards for local people. This project involves multi-disciplinary research encompassing natural sciences and humanities and aims to evaluate the use of tropical forest resources in traditional practices by local peoples, clarify the impact of development on forest ecosystems, consider systems for increasing the participation of local peoples in the management of forest resources, and clarify the level of awareness of REDD+ incentives and safeguards among locals.
- Grant year
- FY14/3 Research Grants
- Grant term
- 3 years
April 2015 - March 2018
- Grant amount
- 11,569,000 yen
- Activity region
- Vientiane and Luang Namtha, Laos; Charikot, Nepal; Pucallpa and Iquitos, Peru; Bossou, Guinea

Overview of the Organization

- Representative
- Shigeo Kobayashi, Researcher, adjunct professor, and professor emeritus of Kyoto University
- Profile
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- Specialist fields
Forest ecology, forest soil science, regional ecology research - Affiliated academic societies
The Japanese Forest Society, The Japan Society of Tropical Ecology, Japan Wetland Society, IUFRO, ATBC - Background
Doctorate in agriculture from Kyoto University
1972-1996 Researcher: Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Forest Agency, Forest Research Institute
1996-1999 Research lead: CIFOR (Center for International Forestry Research), CGIAR
2000-2003 Coordinator and manager for overseas research: Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute
2003-2015 Professor: Kyoto University Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Division of Southeast Asian Area Studies
- Specialist fields
- WEB site
- http://www.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp
- Collaborating organizations
- Kyoto University Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies
- Research record
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- Kobayashi Shigeo, Manuel Soudre, Arberto Ricse. "Secondary succession of mixed plantations established to rehabilitate abandoned pasture in the Peruvian Amazon." TOROPICS, 23, 83-90. (2014)
- Kobayashi Shigeo et al., Ed. Kanae Ishimaru and Shigeo Kobayashi. "Evaluation of carbon credit by semi-domestication of forest resources and safeguard." The Proceedings of the International Workshop 67-179. (2013)
- Many others