Professor Mitsuyasu Yabe

Mitsuyasu Yabe is a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at Kyushu University in Japan. He has over 30 years’ experience in the fields of environmental economics, agricultural economics and health economics. He is an expert on environmental valuation and has worked on biodiversity and landscape valuation and the use of economic analysis in the design of agro-environmental policy. Additionally, he has been involved in a variety of research activities on the effective use of biomass, bio-energy policy, organic waste management and food safety. He has published numerous articles on economic valuation and agro-environmental policy design and works as a supervising PhD and on other research projects. He has a PhD from the Department of Agricultural Economics, Kyoto University, Japan.