About OPRI
Staff Members
Ocean Policy Research Institute
(Division of Ocean Policy Research)
Senior Research Fellow
Tomoya Akimichi
(Division of Ocean Policy Research)
Senior Research Fellow
Tomoya Akimichi
Expertise
- Community-based marine resource management
- the commons
- territoriality
- nawabari
- eco-history
- spirituality
- ethno-network
Publications
Papers
| AKIMICHI, Tomoya 2019. Human History of Tataki. Tamagawa University Publication Department. (in Japanese) |
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| AKIMICHI, Tomoya 2017. The access rights to marine resources and the commons with reference to the marine protected areas. Japanese Society of Ocean Policy 7: 4-22 (in Japanese) |
| AKIMICHI, Tomoya 2017. Civilization of Fish and People’s Interrelations. Rinsen-Shoten. (in Japanese) |
| AKIMICHI, Tomoya 2016. Fishermen in the Coral Seas- Ecological Ethnography in the Ryukyu Islands. Youju-Shorin, (in Japanese) |
| AKIMICHI, Tomoya 2013. Living with the Ocean- People in a Changing World. University of Tokyo Press (in Japanese) |
| AKIMICHI, T. 2011. Changing Coastal Commons in a Sub-Tropical Island Ecosystem, Yaeyama Islands, Japan. In: Island Futures: Conservation and Development Across the Asia-Pacific Region. Global Environmental Studies. Springer, pp.125-137. |
| AKIMICHI, T. 2001 Species-oriented resource management and dialogue on reef fish conservation: a case study from small-scale fisheries in Yaeyama Islands, Southwestern Japan. J.R. MacGoodwin ed. Understanding the Cultures of Fishing Communities: A Key to Fisheries Management and Food Security., FAO Fisheries Technical Paper 401, pp.109-31. |
| MANTJORO, E. and T. AKIMICHI 1995. Sea Tenure and its Transformation in the Sangihe Islands of North Sulawesi, Indonesia: The Seke Purse-Seine Fishery. In T. Akimichi ed. Coastal Foragers in Transition. Senri Ethnological Studies 43. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology. |
| Ruddle K and T. Akimichi eds. 1984. Maritime Institutions in the Western Pacific. Senri Ethnological Studies No.7. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology. |
Media
Projects
Academic/Professional Background
Professional Background
Current Positions
Executive Senior Researcher, Ocean Policy Research Institute (OPRI)
Director-General, Yamanashi Prefectural Fujisan World heritage Center
Member of International COSMOS Prize Committee
Director-General, Yamanashi Prefectural Fujisan World heritage Center
Member of International COSMOS Prize Committee
Past positions
Deputy Director-General, Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan
Editor-in Chief, Ocean NewsLetter
Editor-in Chief, Ocean NewsLetter
Academic Background
- M.Sc.and D.Sc. Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo
- B.A. Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Kyoto University