RESEARCHERS

Ocean governance, China's maritime policy, regional oceans governance, integrated coastal management (ICM), and marine protected policy

1. Gao, Xiang, Keita Furukawa. 2019. "Construction of Regional Environmental Governance in Seas of East Asia", in Erdal Ӧzhan(eds.), Proceedings of the Fourteenth International MEDCOAST Congress on Coastal and Marine Sciences, Engineering, Management & Conservation (Marmaris, Turkey.), 45-56. (in English)

2. Gao, Xiang, Keita Furukawa. 2018 "The Chinese Ocean and Coastal Zone Policy: the Activities on Marine Protect Areas." Journal of Coastal Zone Studies, 30(4), 67-75. (in Japanese)

3. Makino, Mitsutaku, Masakazu Arima, Yuki Inoue, Tomoko Kakee, Xiang Gao, Chika Suzuki, Yasuhiro Tojo, Kazumi Wakita, Keisuke Watanabe, Yoshiyasu Watanabe, Hiroyuki Nakahara. 2017. "An Analysis of the Previous and Current Basic Plan on Ocean Policy and the Government Annual Report on Implemented Measures with regard to the Oceans: For the Review of the Basic Plan on Ocean Policy "Based on an Evaluation of the Effect of Measures with regard to the Oceans". Journal of Japan Society of Ocean Policy, 7, 23-41. (available in English and Japanese)

4. Gao, Xiang. 2015. "The Starting Point of China's Maritime Strategy: Mao Zedong's Maritime Strategic Theory." International Public Policy Studies, 19 (2), 55-63. (in Japanese)

Japan Society of Ocean Policy
Japanese Association for Coastal Zone Studies

Apr. 2015- has worked for OPRI-SPF on projects including Ocean Governance, Japan-China Maritime Dialogue, Integrated coastal management and Arctic Governance.

Ph.D. in International Public Policy from Osaka University (2015)