Name: |
Masahiro Matsuura (a.k.a. Masa)
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Organization: |
University of Tokyo
Graduate School of Public Policy
Sustainable Energy/Environment and Public Policy Project
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Title: |
Visiting Assistant Professor |
Office Address: |
7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-0033 |
Contact: |
matsuura  pp.u-tokyo.ac.jp |
Degrees: |
Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning (2006: MIT)
Master in City Planning (1998: MIT)
(both supervised by Professor
Lawrence E. Susskind) |
Research Interests: |
- Consensus building and public dispute resolution techniques
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Cultural differences in negotiation
- Policy-making, environmental politics, and bureaucracy in Japan
- International policy transfer (lesson drawing)
- Organizational studies
- Ethnography, thick description, profiles of planners
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Professional Expertise: |
Consensus building skills:
- Facilitation and mediation
- Deliberative dialogue and public involvement strategy planning
- Dealing with the media, Outreach
Negotiation and consensus buidling training:
- Lecturing professional training sessions
- Authoring and administering negotiation simulations
Policy analysis skills:
Computer-related skills:
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Internet-based communication strategy development, especially
for public agencies.
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Programming for interactive communication on the WWW [HTML, PHP,
ASP].
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Network administration, server maintenance.
- Software operation [including Microsoft (Office), Adobe (Photoshop,
Illustrator, Premiere), Macromedia (Dreamweaver), QSR (NVivo), ESRI
(ArcGIS)]
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