Prof Chieko Umetsu

Chieko Umetsu is a Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics at the Tohoku University of Community Service and Science, Japan. She is also a Professor Emeritus of the Kyoto University. Her previous job assignments include the Division of Natural Resource Economics at the Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, the Graduate School of Fisheries and Environmental Sciences, Nagasaki University, the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN) and the Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kobe University. 

Prof. Umetsu was the Project Leader of "Vulnerability and Resilience of Social-Ecological Systems" at RIHN and studied farmers' resilience in rural Zambia under rainfall variability. She specialises in resource and environmental economics, productivity analysis, water allocation models and institutions for resource management. She has research experience in arid and semi-arid regions, including Zambia, Turkey and India. Prof. Umetsu has published articles in the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control and Agricultural Economics and Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy.