Social Implementation
Naoya Abe
Associate Professor
Environmental and social sustainability assessmentAnalysis of social acceptance of environmentally freidnly technoloogiesInternational DevelopmentApplied Economics
Biography
After finishing Master of Engineering degree at Tokyo Tech in 1995, Naoya Abe started his carrer at the Oversea Econonmic Cooperation Fund (OECF), which was a Japan's official development aid agency. Dr. Abe obtained Ph.D. in applied economics at Cornell University in 2006. Since 2007, he has been at Tokyo Tech as an associate professor. From October 2018 to January 2019, he had been a visiting professor at the University of Toronto, Canada.
| 2016- | Associate Professor, School of Environment and Society, Tokyo Institute of Technology |
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| 2018 | Visiting Professor, University of Toronto |
| 2007-2016 | Associate Professor, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Department of International Development Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| 2005-2007 | Assistant/Post-Doc Fellow, National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) |
| 1995-2000 | Officer, Oversea Economic Coooperation Fund (OECF)/Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) |
| 2019 | Tokyo Tech Best Teacher Award |
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| 2015 | Tokyo Tech Best Teacher Award (one of two top honorees) |
| 2003 | Fulbright Scholarship |
| 2021 | Decarbonisation of the power sector to engender a ‘Just transition’ in Japan: Quantifying local employment impacts |
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| 2021 | Factors inhibiting the use of sharing economy services in Japan |
| 2020 | Food Insecurity and Associated Socioeconomic Factors: Application of Rasch and Binary Logistic Models with Household Survey Data in Three Megacities in Indonesia |
| 2014 | Stakeholders’ perspectives of a building environmental assessment method: The case of CASBEE |
| 2012 | Sustainability assessment of renewable energy projects for off-grid rural electrification: The Pangan-an Island case in the Philippines |
| 2011 | Residential PV system users’ perception of profitability, reliability, and failure risk: An empirical survey in a local Japanese municipality |