Yoko Nagase

Dr. Yoko Nagase is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the Oxford Brookes Business School, affiliated with Oxford Brookes University. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Oregon and has over a decade of academic experience across the US and UK. Her teaching focuses on microeconomics, environmental and natural resource economics, and mathematical economics. She supervises PhD candidates and serves on academic panels, emphasizing environmental policy research.

Dr. Nagase’s research centers on environmental and natural resource economics using applied microeconomic methods. She collaborates with system dynamics scholars to model ecological-economic systems, addressing issues like waste management, recycling policies, and long-term environmental discounting. Current projects include analyzing landfill tax refund schemes, Right to Repair policies, and dynamic ecological-economic systems modeling.

Her work bridges interdisciplinary approaches, integrating theoretical models with policy simulations. Notable contributions include studies on UK waste management policies, banking union centralization in Europe, and discounting methodologies for climate change mitigation. She actively participates in multi-stakeholder initiatives to inform sustainable policy design.

Dr. Nagase collaborates with institutions like Portland State University, KU Leuven, and the University of Oregon. Her research emphasizes practical policy implications, with a focus on circular economy frameworks and sustainable resource management. She has published widely in journals such as Waste Management, Ecological Economics, and Scottish Journal of Political Economy.