眞弓 浩三

Kozo Mayumi graduated from the Graduate School of Engineering at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics of Kyoto University. Between 1984 and 1988 he studied bioeconomics at Department of Economics of Vanderbilt University under Prof. Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen’s supervision. Since then, Mayumi has been working in the field of energy analysis, ecological economics and complex hierarchy theory. Mayumi is a professor at Tokushima University and currently an editorial board member of journals, such as Ecological Economics, International Journal of Ecological Economics and Statistics, Journal of Economic Structures, and Ecosystem Services. His works include the following books:
(1) The Origins of Ecological Economics: The Bioeconomics of Georgescu-Roegen. London: Routledge, 2001; (2) The Jevons Paradox and the Myth of Resource Efficiency Improvements, The Earthscan, 2007 (with John Polimeni, Mario Giampietro and Blake Alcott); (3) The Biofuel Delusion: The Fallacy of Large Scale Agro-Biofuel Production, The Earthscan, 2009 (with Mario Giampietro)；(4) The Metabolic Pattern of Societies: Where Economists Fall Short, Roultedge, 2011 (with Mario Giampietro and Alev Sorman); (5) Energy Analysis for a Sustainable Future: Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Societal and Ecosystem Metabolism, Routledge, 2012 (with Mario Giampietro and Alev Sorman); (6) Sustainable Energy and Economics in an Aging Population: Lessons from Japan, Lecture Notes in Energy, Springer.　Mayumi is the first recipient of Georgescu-Roegen Awards (Unconventional Thinking Category) at the 13th Delhi Sustainable Development Summit in 2013.