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Overview

Kiyoshi Takahashi is affiliated with the National Institute for Environmental Studies in Japan and specializes in Environmental Science, with a strong focus on Global and Planetary Change. Their research integrates themes from Economics and Econometrics, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Atmospheric Science, and Environmental Engineering.

The scientist has contributed extensively to several key topics, including Climate variability and models, Climate Change and Health Impacts, Climate Change Policy and Economics, Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Environmental Impact and Sustainability, and Climate change impacts on agriculture.

Recent publications by Takahashi include the following papers:

  • Extreme climate events increase risk of global food insecurity and adaptation needs, 2021, Nature Food
  • Heat health risk assessment in Philippine cities using remotely sensed data and social-ecological indicators, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Global trends and scenarios for terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem services from 1900 to 2050, 2024, Science
  • Land-based climate change mitigation measures can affect agricultural markets and food security, 2022, Nature Food
  • Measuring the sustainable development implications of climate change mitigation, 2020, Environmental Research Letters

The work of Takahashi has appeared frequently in journals such as Environmental Research Letters, Nature Climate Change, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Nature Food, and Communications Earth & Environment.

Frequent collaborators in Takahashi's body of work include Shinichiro Fujimori, Tomoko Hasegawa, Jun'ya Takakura, Hideo Shiogama, and Wenchao Wu.

Best Publications

  • The Shared Socioeconomic Pathways and their energy, land use, and greenhouse gas emissions implications: An overview

    Keywan Riahi;Detlef P. van Vuuren;Elmar Kriegler;Jae Edmonds

  • Climate change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability : Working Group II contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    Tarekegn Abeku;Pamela Abuodha;Francis Adesina;Neil Adger

  • Assessment of adaptation practices, options, constraints and capacity

    WN Adger;S Agrawal;Mmw Mirza;C Conde

  • Flood risk and climate change: global and regional perspectives

    Zbigniew W Kundzewicz;Shinjiro Kanae;Sonia I Seneviratne;John W Handmer

  • Land-use futures in the shared socio-economic pathways

    Alexander Popp;Katherine Calvin;Shinichiro Fujimori;Petr Havlik

  • Global emissions pathways under different socioeconomic scenarios for use in CMIP6: a dataset of harmonized emissions trajectories through the end of the century

    Matthew J. Gidden;Keywan Riahi;Steven J. Smith;Shinichiro Fujimori;Shinichiro Fujimori

  • SSP3: AIM implementation of Shared Socioeconomic Pathways

    Shinichiro Fujimori;Tomoko Hasegawa;Toshihiko Masui;Kiyoshi Takahashi

  • Risk of increased food insecurity under stringent global climate change mitigation policy

    Tomoko Hasegawa;Tomoko Hasegawa;Shinichiro Fujimori;Shinichiro Fujimori;Shinichiro Fujimori;Petr Havlík;Hugo Valin

  • Emergent risks and key vulnerabilities

    Michael Oppenheimer;Maximiliano Campos;Rachel Warren;Joern Birkmann

  • IPCC reasons for concern regarding climate change risks

    Brian C. O'Neill;Michael Oppenheimer;Rachel Warren;Stephane Hallegatte

  • Changes in impacts of climate extremes: Human systems and ecosystems

    John Handmer;Yasushi Honda;Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz;Nigel Arnell

  • Extreme climate events increase risk of global food insecurity and adaptation needs

    Tomoko Hasegawa;Tomoko Hasegawa;Gen Sakurai;Shinichiro Fujimori;Shinichiro Fujimori;Shinichiro Fujimori;Kiyoshi Takahashi

  • A global water scarcity assessment under Shared Socio-economic Pathways – Part 2: Water availability and scarcity

    N. Hanasaki;S. Fujimori;T. Yamamoto;S. Yoshikawa

  • Agriculture and climate change in global scenarios: why don't the models agree

    Gerald C. Nelson;Gerald C. Nelson;Dominique van der Mensbrugghe;Helal Ahammad;Elodie Blanc

  • Heat health risk assessment in Philippine cities using remotely sensed data and social-ecological indicators

    Ronald C. Estoque;Makoto Ooba;Xerxes T. Seposo;Takuya Togawa

  • Future climate change: Implications for Indian summer monsoon and its variability

    Lal Murari;T. Nozawa;S. Emori;H. Harasawa

  • A multi-model assessment of food security implications of climate change mitigation

    Shinichiro Fujimori;Shinichiro Fujimori;Shinichiro Fujimori;Tomoko Hasegawa;Tomoko Hasegawa;Tomoko Hasegawa;Volker Krey;Keywan Riahi;Keywan Riahi

  • Impact assessment of climate change on rice production in Asia in comprehensive consideration of process/parameter uncertainty in general circulation models

    Yuji Masutomi;Kiyoshi Takahashi;Hideo Harasawa;Yuzuru Matsuoka

  • A global water scarcity assessment under Shared Socio-economic Pathways – Part 1: Water use

    N. Hanasaki;S. Fujimori;T. Yamamoto;S. Yoshikawa

  • Land-based climate change mitigation measures can affect agricultural markets and food security

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  • Changes in impacts of climate extremes: human systems and ecosystems. A Special Report of Working Groups I and II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

    J. Handmer;Y. Honda;Kundzewicz;N. Arnell

Frequent Co-Authors

Shinichiro Fujimori
Shinichiro Fujimori Kyoto University
Tomoko Hasegawa
Tomoko Hasegawa Ritsumeikan University
Toshihiko Masui
Toshihiko Masui National Institute for Environmental Studies
Naota Hanasaki
Naota Hanasaki National Institute for Environmental Studies
Seita Emori
Seita Emori University of Tokyo
Hideo Shiogama
Hideo Shiogama National Institute for Environmental Studies
Yasushi Honda
Yasushi Honda University of Tsukuba
Petr Havlik
Petr Havlik International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Akihiko Ito
Akihiko Ito University of Tokyo
Taikan Oki
Taikan Oki University of Tokyo

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