Transnational Studies - Japan and the World (edX)
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Marcin Pawel Jarzebski
Marcin is an environmental scientist and sustainability science expert from the training, with a strong focus on interdisciplinary research and education. In his doctoral research, he was exploring the resilience pathways of community forestry, with a case study of indigenous and non-indigenous communities in the Philippines. As post-doctoral research, he has been engaged in two major projects (a) Food Security Impacts of Industrial Crop Expansion in Sub-Sahara Africa (FICESSA), and (b) Climate change adaptation capacity development processes in Southeast Asia. In the food security project, he worked on resilience, vulnerability, and survey design and implementation in Africa. In the climate change adaptation project, he worked on a qualitative approach in which we recognize the priorities of local stakeholders and the urgency of different sectors that are affected by climate change and modeling on human health impacts caused by heat. Currently, he continues working on the resilience in the interface of industrial crops growing in Sub-Saharan Africa, but also he expanded his interests into a sustainable future society with attention to ageing and shrinking, from the perspective of not only challenges but also opportunities that these demographic processes cause. He is also interested in the ecological identity of Japanese people.
Marcin received his PhD in Sustainability Science at Sustainability Science Global Leadership Initiative Program and Natural Environmental Science Department, the University of Tokyo, in 2015. After that he worked as Project Researcher at the Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science (IR3S), as well as at Institute for Future Initiatives (IFI), the University of Tokyo, from 2016 to 2020, and he joined Tokyo College, the University of Tokyo, in 2020 as Project Assistant Professor. He has experience in teaching sustainability and interdisciplinary research.