Research Director
Research Topics & Areas of Expertise
3R Policy, Sustainable Resource Management, Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), transnational environmental issues, Circular Economy, Sustainable Consumption and Production, Zero Emissions policy, marine plastic issues, industry and environmental issues, self-regulation, Ecological Modernization.
Education
- Dphil in International Relations, Centre for Culture, Development and Environment, University of Sussex, UK
- M.A. in Political Science, Graduate School of Political Science, Waseda University
- B.A. in Political Science, School of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University
早稲田大学政治経済学部政治学科（政治学士）卒業
早稲田大学大学院政治学研究科（政治学修士）修了
英国サセックス大学文化･開発・環境研究所（国際関係論博士）修了
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Conference Paper
The 2nd ERIA’s Experts Working Group on Marine Plastic Debris
This is a scoping paper to frame the study to assess current state and changing patterns of usages, consumption as well as regulation on single use plastics which is triggered or accelerated by COVID-19 pandemic. The study aims to reveal changing consumption patterns of single use plastics through case-studies in selected cities. The study tries to...
Presentation
Plastic Waste Management & Single Use Plastics In India 2022 Roles and Responsibilities of Multiple Stakeholders
Hotta made a guest presentation on how extended producer responsibility can be applied in the context of emerging economies such as India in the occasion of policy dialogue orgnized by Policy Times of India.
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ASEAN-Japan Online Forum on Harnessing Trade to Promote Circular Economy and Address the Problem of Marine Plastic Debris
Hotta made a keynote presentation in front of ASEAN member countries and Japanese businesses on how plastic issues can be an opportunity to promote circular economy in ASEAN member states.
Training or Learning Material
JICA Training Course "Development of Recycling Policy"
Yasuhiko Hotta acted as a lectuerer and commentator for JICA training course on "Development of Recycling Policy" organied in January 13, 2022. The course was organized as an on-line training course and participated by the participants from Kosovo, Palestine, Thailand, Samoa, Cuba, Egypt, Georgia, Micronesia, Vanuatu, and Tunisia.
Non Peer-reviewed Article
In P2Mマガジン
ビジョン創発型政策形成は、脱炭素や脱プ ラスチックなどの中長期的な政策目標の実現 へ向けた持続可能な社会のビジョンの共有、政策の完全実施前のビジョンに基づく社会実 験を包含している。そして、関係者間の連携によるビジョンの共創と社会の方向性に関する合 意形成と持続可能性の社会的側面が重視される。これは、SCP3.0 時代における持続可能性の課題は、環境政策分野にとどまるものではなく、広く社会技術システムのデザインに関 わるものであることに由来する。ここで提示した協働デザインによるビジョン創発型政策形成 のフレームワークは、研究者と政策担当者による将来シナリオ分析や社会実験による社会デ ザインへ向けた連携の重要性を明確に示すものである。
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2021 International Conference on Cleaner Production and Sustainability
Paris agreement should not be seen as just one policy process But,in more wider changes in policy landscape on sustainability. Since 2015, we see mainstreaming of very ambitious sustainability goals such as decarbonization by the end of century in the Paris Agreement, marine plastic-free society by 2050 in G20’s Osaka Blue Ocean Vision, or...
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14th Integrated Assessment Modeling Consortium (IAMC) annal meeting
Poster presentation at the IAMC academic conference held online in December 2021. The authors presented the current development of Local Climate Change Action Plan for Da Nang city based on carbon neutral strategy by 2050.
Peer-reviewed Article
In Global Environmental Research
The focus of SCP policy has shifted from management of environmental pollution to wider socio-technical change including infrastructure, lifestyles and business models that are sustainable over decades. This paper first examines the expansion of the SCP policy domain through changes in focus of the following two aspects; product lifecycle policy...
Peer-reviewed Article
In Global Environmental Research
Ensuring sustainable consumption and production (SCP) patterns in the Asia region is a high-priority policy issue but challenged by a number of obstacles and the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020. This article argues that not only conventional policy approaches but also alternative approaches are needed in Asia to decouple socio...
Presentation
SEA of Solutions Back-to-Back Meeting: Building Synergy and Collaboration on Plastics in the ASEAN Member States: Towards Integrated Solutions to Marine Plastic Pollution
Dr Yasuhiko Hotta, Sustainable Consumption and Production Program Director of IGES, on behalf of Mr Michikazu Kojima, Research Fellow of ERIA, emphasized the need to collect more data on which, science-driven policymaking has to develop. He also put forth the new capacity building needs in the region that the Regional Knowledge Centre can...
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Project
Updated: March 2026
IGES Plastic Focus: Tackling Pollution and Advancing Circular Solutions
This special webpage highlights global developments in addressing plastic pollution, focusing on the growing importance of the circular economy as a solution. It also showcases IGES contributions to this agenda, including its environmental policy...