Database development, spatial analysis, and theory verification for the design of Payment for Ecosystem Services

• Project/Area Number: 18K11735
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 64040:Social-ecological systems-related
• Research Institution: National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention (2019-2021); 国際連合大学サステイナビリティ高等研究所 (2018)
• Principal Investigator: Shoyama Kikuko 国立研究開発法人防災科学技術研究所, 防災情報研究部門, 主幹研究員 (40526711)
• Project Period (FY): 2018-04-01 – 2022-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2021)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,160,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥960,000); Fiscal Year 2020: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000); Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000); Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
• Keywords: 土地利用 / 空間分析 / 農地生態系 / 生態系サービス / 支払制度 / エージェントベースモデル

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Focusing on the spatial heterogeneity of agroecosystems, this study clarified the requirements for incorporating an outcome-based payment scheme into the current payment system and then demonstrated the effectiveness of the target strategies. This study (1) clarified the land use impacts of introducing multiple target strategies into the payment system using an agent-based land use model, and (2) identified eligibility criteria, including the selection of ecosystem service indicators and the required spatial extent, to quantify the effectiveness of payments.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

国内の農業生態系は生物多様性維持機能や様々な生態系サービスを供給する社会・生態学的生産システムとして評価されている。特に中山間地域の農業生態系の多面的機能は生態系サービスとして経済的にも評価されていることから、直接支払制度実施の根拠となっている。本研究では農業生態系の空間的異質性に着目し、近年確立しつつある生態系サービス指標を支払制度の評価に用いることで、生態系サービス評価研究の成果を制度評価につなげたことに独自性と意義がある。

Research Products

• [Int'l Joint Research] 中国科学院(中国)
• [Int'l Joint Research] 中国科学院(中国)
• [Journal Article] Outcome-Based Assessment of the Payment for Mountain Agriculture: A Community-Based Approach to Countering Land Abandonment in Japan (2021)
  • Author(s): Shoyama Kikuko、Nishi Maiko、Hashimoto Shizuka、Saito Osamu
  • Journal Title: Environmental Management Volume: 68 Issue: 3 Pages: 353-365
  • DOI: 10.1007/s00267-021-01497-4
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
• [Journal Article] Assessment of Land-Use Scenarios at a National Scale Using Intensity Analysis and Figure of Merit Components (2021)
  • Author(s): Shoyama Kikuko
  • Journal Title: Land Volume: 10 Issue: 4 Pages: 379-379
  • DOI: 10.3390/land10040379
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
• [Journal Article] Impact assessment of land use functions on the sustainable regional development of representative Asian countries ? A comparative study in Bangladesh, China and Japan (2019)
  • Author(s): Xue Zhichao、Zhen Lin、Miah Md Giashuddin、Shoyama Kikuko
  • Journal Title: Science of The Total Environment Volume: 694 Pages: 133689-133689
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.133689
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Outcome-based assessment of the payment for mountain agriculture: a community-based approach to countering land abandonment in Japan (2021)
  • Author(s): Kikuko Shoyama
  • Organizer: International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC) Land Commons Virtual Conference
  • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
• [Presentation] 集落型生態系サービス支払制度による農地維持効果：集落・世帯要因のマルチレベル分析 (2021)
  • Author(s): 庄山紀久子
  • Organizer: 日本生態学会第68回全国大会
• [Presentation] Effects of intercommunity partnership for direct payment for mountain agriculture in Japan: A case study using agent-based modeling (2019)
  • Author(s): Kikuko Shoyama
  • Organizer: 4th Open Science Meeting of the Global Land Programme,Bern, Switzerland
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Effects of intercommunity partnership for direct payment for mountain agriculture in Japan: A case study using agent-based modeling (2019)
  • Author(s): Shoyama, K.
  • Organizer: Global Land Project 4th Open Science Meeting 2019
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Development of land use scenarios using vegetation inventories in Japan (2018)
  • Author(s): Shoyama, K., Matsui, T., Hashimoto, S., Kabaya, K., Oono, A., Saito, O.
  • Organizer: Global Land Project 2018 Asia conference
  • Int'l Joint Research