Mikiyasu Nakayama

Mikiyasu Nakayama, who has been collaborating with ELI for more than two decades, became an ELI Scholar-in-Residence on April 1, 2020.

He presently works with ELI on migration of people from the Pacific and other areas to the developed world. This research aims at securing findings which should be useful for migrants to re-establishment livelihood painlessly and successfully after their arrival at destinations. Nakayama and researchers at ELI have conducted field research for this research agenda in Majuro (Republic of the Marshall Islands), Pohnpei (Federal States of Micronesia), Springdale (AR), Portland and Salem (OR), and Fukushima (Japan).

Publications in this field include "Migration with Dignity: A Case Study on the Livelihood Transition of Marshallese to Springdale, Arkansas (McClain, Bruch, Nakayama & Laelan, 2019)" and "Addressing the Health Problems After Immigration Faced by the Marshallese in Springdale, Arkansas: Lessons Learned from the City of Vienna (Fujikura, Nakayama, McClain & Drinkall, 2019)".

Previously, Nakayama has also worked with ELI on management of internationally shared water resources and on natural resouces management in post-conflict settings. Academic articles published on these subjects include "Assessing the Assessments: Improving Methodologies for Impact Assessment in Transboundary Watercourses (Bruch, Nakayama, Troell, Goldman & Mrema, 2007)" and "Natural Resources, Infrastructure, and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding: Lessons from the United States and Japan (Bruch, Nakayama, Leonelli & Leitch, 2010)."

Nakayama obtained his doctor degree from the Faculty of Agriculture, the University of Tokyo in 1986. He has worked for the World Bank, United Nations Environment Programme, Utsunomiya University (Japan), Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, and the University of Tokyo between 1986 and 2020, focusing on management of natural resources and the environment.