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Corinthias P. M. Sianipar is an Assistant Professor at Kyoto University, Japan, where he is affiliated with the Department of Global Ecology and the Division of Environmental Science and Technology. His former affiliations include, among others, the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria; the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), Indonesia; Tokyo University of Science (TUS), Japan; and Swisscontact Indonesia. He has served as, inter alia, a co-leader of the Business Special Interest Group (BSIG) at System Dynamics Society; an external supervisor at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI); a visiting professor at BINUS University, Indonesia; an expert assessor and examiner for the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), Indonesia; and a consultant to various development projects in East and Southeast Asia. He was/is a three-times Best Graduate Awards, a recipient of Best Paper Awards, and a Principal Investigator (PI), Co-Investigator (Co-I), as well as Collaborator of several research grants. In addition, he is, among others, an Associate Editor for the Environmental Development journal (Elsevier), a member of the Editorial Boards for the Journal of Socioeconomics and Development (JSeD) and the Journal of Indonesia Sustainable Development Planning (JISDeP), and a Guest Editor for the International Journal of Business and Globalisation, the International Journal of Learning and Change, and Land. In 2016, he was elected by fellow young scientists at IIASA to deliver key speech in front of H.E. Tarja Halonen (11th President of Finland) and H.E. Heinz Fischer (11th President of Austria) during their presidential visits to the institute^[1].

An interdisciplinary scholar trained in engineering and social science education, his research interests include multi-actor systems^[2], socio-ecological modelling^[3], regional planning^[4], technological change^[5], and development economics^[6] towards sustainability and resilience—all grounded in the science-to-policy-to-action framework—, with applied focuses on renewable energy^[7], land-use planning^[8], water resources^[2], ecosystem services^[9], food security^[5], circular economy, climate change adaptation^[10], value and supply chain management^[11], development engineering, and appropriate technology^[12]. In practice, his methodological expertise is in complex systems analysis (Systems Thinking; QUANTITATIVE: System Dynamics, Agent-Based Modeling, Discrete-Event Simulation, Game Theory, Interpretive Structural Modeling, Serious Games, Graph Theory, and Stochastic Optimizations; QUALITATIVE: Causal-Loop Diagram, Grounded Theory, Drama Theory, Critical System Heuristics^[2], Actor-Network Theory, and Soft System Methodology), spatial analysis (GeoAI, Spatial Statistics, Geomatics, Spatial Econometrics, Maximum Entropy Modeling, Spatially-explicit Agent-Based Modeling, Cellular Automata and Chaos Models, Spatial System Dynamics, and Participatory GIS), life-cycle assessment (Life-Cycle Assessment^[13], Social Life-Cycle Assessment, and Circular Economy), and socio-technical design^[12] (Socio-Technical Systems, Design Thinking). For more than a decade, his work has been delivering systemic and systematic socio-technical solutions across diverse development contexts. He crafts various methodical integrations of computational modeling and qualitative analysis to foster resilience and empowerment by delivering an "adequate fit of innovation" for vulnerable societal groups. He has been working with vulnerable communities, organizations, governments, etc., across developed and developing countries that have technical inadequacy, lack economic resources, suffer from environmental constraints, and experience social confrontations.

On the other hand, Dr. Sianipar has long been an acknowledged technologist and endorser of Appropriate Technology for Sustainable Development. Earlier in his career, he began to rise in the scholarly communities for the development of the Design Methodology for Appropriate Technology^[14] (DMAT), which remains the first completely-dedicated methodology for guiding the design process of Appropriate Technologies, along with an international team of collaborators. The methodology itself is known for being the first design methodology for humanitarian purposes that formally encode the position of humans as the center of design process, a maxim on which philosophers of design have been calling for years^[15]. Before the first release of the DMAT, he also proposed the Seven Pillars of Survivability^[16] to address the idea of technological solution for community empowerment purposes, by which he proposed an in-depth three-level classification of technological appropriateness^[12] (i.e., basically-appropriate, environmentally-appropriate^[5], and socially-appropriate). The seven pillars are distinguished into three tangible (technical, economic, and environmental) and three intangible pillars (cultural, judicial, and political), which are connected by an intermediating pillar (social). Later, the seven pillars become the fundamental understanding of many core principles in the DMAT.

• Sodri, A., Rahawarin, M.F., Sakina, N.A., Sianipar, C.P.M. (2026). Between vulnerable and sustainable: An assessment on livelihood of fishermen in Bintan Island, Indonesia. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 223, 119018. DOI:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2025.119018
• Khusaini, M., Parmawati, R., Sianipar, C.P.M., Ciptadi, G., Hoshino, H. (2024). Natural water sources and small-scale non-artisanal andesite mining: Scenario analysis of post-mining land interventions using System Dynamics. Water, 16(17), 2536. DOI:10.3390/w16172536
• Hidayat, H., Acciaioli, G., Jafar, T.M., Rachmawan, D., Sianipar, C.P.M., Sundary, L.V., Siburian, R., Ekawati, S., Utomo, M.M.B. (2024). Evaluating a forestry partnership between a private company and local people in East Kalimantan, Indonesia: a political ecology approach. International Forestry Review, 26(2), 212–223. DOI:10.1505/146554824838819923
• Jayakody, S., Estacio, I., Sianipar, C.P.M., Onitsuka, K., Basu, M., Hoshino, H. (2024). Maxent modeling for predicting the potential distribution of human-elephant conflict risk in Sri Lanka. Applied Geography, 173, 103447. DOI:10.1016/j.apgeog.2024.103447
• Sutomo, Y.A.W., Sianipar, C.P.M., Hoshino, H., Onitsuka, K. (2024). Self-reliance in community-based rural tourism: Observing tourism villages (desa wisata) in Sleman Regency, Indonesia. Tourism and Hospitality, 5(2), 448–471. DOI:10.3390/tourhosp5020028
• Estacio, I., Sianipar, C.P.M., Onitsuka, K., Hoshino, H. (2024). Impacts of socio-environmental policy mix on mitigating agricultural abandonment: An empirical agent-based modeling. Ecological Informatics, 80, 102491. DOI:10.1016/j.ecoinf.2024.102491
• Djatmika, P., Listiningrum, P., Sumarno, T.B., Mahira, D.F., Sianipar, C.P.M. (2024). Just transition in biofuel development towards low-carbon economy: Multi-actor perspectives on policies and practices in Indonesia. Energies, 17(1), 141. DOI:10.3390/en17010141
• Mardiyanto, A., Riyanto, Sianipar, C.P.M., Shibata, S. (2024). Forest ecosystem services and local communities neighboring Biha Resort in Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park, Southern Sumatra, Indonesia. Asian Journal of Forestry, 8(1), 24–36. DOI:10.13057/asianjfor/r080102
• Madyatmadja, E.D., Sianipar, C.P.M., Wijaya, C., Sembiring, D.J.M. (2023). Classifying crowdsourced citizen complaints through data mining: Accuracy testing of k-Nearest Neighbors, Random Forest, Support Vector Machine, and AdaBoost. Informatics, 10(4), 84. DOI:10.3390/informatics10040084
• Hidayat, A.R.T., Sianipar, C.P.M., Hashimoto, S., Hoshino, S., Dimyati, M., Yustika, A.E. (2023). Personal cognition and implicit constructs affecting preferential decisions on farmland ownership: Multiple case studies in Kediri, East Java, Indonesia. Land, 12(10), 1847. DOI:10.3390/land12101847
• Sianipar, C.P.M., Chao, Y.-M., Hoshino, S. (2023). Multi-actor systems in water–energy nexus: Identifying critical stakeholders in floatovoltaic (floating photovoltaic) project. Water, 15(6), 1241. DOI:10.3390/w15061241
• Estacio, I., Sianipar, C.P.M., Onitsuka, K., Basu, M., Hoshino, H. (2023). A statistical model of land use/cover change integrating logistic and linear models: An application to agricultural abandonment. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 120, 103339. DOI:10.1016/j.jag.2023.103339
• Hidayat, Ar.R.T., Onitsuka, K., Sianipar, C.P.M., Basu, M., Hoshino, S. (2023). To migrate or not to migrate: Internet use and migration intention among rural youth in developing countries (case of Malang, Indonesia). Digital Geography and Society, 4, 100052. DOI:10.1016/j.diggeo.2023.100052
• Sutomo, Y.A.W., Sianipar, C.P.M., Basu, M., Onitsuka, K., Hoshino, H. (2023). Tourism Value Chain: Synthesizing value webs to support tourism development and planning. Tourism Review, 78(3), 726–746. DOI:10.1108/tr-12-2021-0566
• Sianipar, C.P.M. (2022). Environmentally-appropriate technology under lack of resources and knowledge: Solar-powered cocoa dryer in rural Nias, Indonesia. Cleaner Engineering and Technology, 8, 100494. DOI:10.1016/j.clet.2022.100494
• Hidayat, Ar.R.T., Onitsuka, K., Sianipar, C.P.M., Hoshino, S. (2022). Distance-dependent migration intention of villagers: Comparative study of peri-urban and remote villages in Indonesia. Administrative Sciences, 12(2), 48. DOI:10.3390/admsci12020048
• Estacio, I., Basu, M., Sianipar, C.P.M., Onitsuka, K., Hoshino, H. (2022). Dynamics of land cover transitions and agricultural abandonment in a mountainous agricultural landscape: Case of Ifugao rice terraces, Philippines. Landscape and Urban Planning, 222, 104394. DOI:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2022.104394
• Pin, L.A., Pennink, B.J.W., Balsters, H., Sianipar, C.P.M. (2021). Technological appropriateness of biomass production in rural settings: Addressing water hyacinths (E. crassipes) problem in Lake Tondano, Indonesia. Technology in Society, 66, 101658. DOI:10.1016/j.techsoc.2021.101658
• Chiang, H.H., Basu, M., Sianipar, C.P.M., Onitsuka, K., Hoshino, S. (2021). Capital and symbolic power in water quality governance: stakeholder dynamics in managing nonpoint sources pollution. Journal of Environmental Management, 290, 112587. DOI:10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.112587

• Sianipar, C.P.M., Yudoko, G., Dowaki, K., Adhiutama, A. (2013). Design methodology for Appropriate Technology: Engineering as if people mattered. Sustainability, 5(8), 3382–3425. DOI:10.3390/su5083382. NOTE: Featured by Engineering for Change (E4C).
• Sianipar, C.P.M., Yudoko, G., Dowaki, K. (2014). Physiological concept: Visible modeling for feasible design. Applied Mechanics and Materials, 493, 432–437. DOI:10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.493.432
• Sianipar, C.P.M., Taufiq., H., Estiningtyas, H.R., Dowaki, K., Adhiutama, A., Yudoko, G. (2013). Materials selection in Appropriate Technology: Four focuses in design thinking. Advanced Materials Research, 789, 379–382. DOI:10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.789.379

• Sianipar, C.P.M., Dowaki, K., Yudoko, G., Adhiutama, A. (2013). Seven pillars of survivability: Appropriate Technology with a human face. European Journal of Sustainable Development, 2(4), 1–18. DOI:10.14207/ejsd.2013.v2n4p1
• Sianipar, C.P.M., Yudoko, G., Dowaki, K., Adhiutama, A. (2014). Design and technological appropriateness: The quest for community survivability. Journal of Sustainability Science and Management, 9(1), 1–17. DOI:10.46754/jssm.2014.06.001
• Sianipar, C.P.M., Yudoko, G., Dowaki, K. (2014). Materials research in Appropriate Technology: In the midst of science, engineering, and technology. Key Engineering Materials, 594-595, 334–338. DOI:10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.594-595.334
• Sianipar, C.P.M., Dowaki, K., Yudoko, G. (2014). Interdependency of cleaner production and cleaner application: Towards an integrated assessment on Appropriate Technology. Applied Mechanics and Materials, 606, 281–285. DOI:10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.606.281
• Sianipar, C.P.M., Dowaki, K., Yudoko, G. (2014). Technological solution for vulnerable communities: How does its approach matter? IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 58, 012022. DOI:10.1088/1755-1315/23/1/012008
• Sianipar, C.P.M., Yudoko, G., Adhiutama, A., Dowaki, K. (2013). Community empowerment through Appropriate Technology: Sustaining the sustainable development. Procedia Environmental Sciences, 17, 1007–1016. DOI:10.1016/j.proenv.2013.02.120

The list of selected articles is available on his personal homepage.

• Sarker, M.N.I., Raihan, M.L., Chumky, T., Rahman, M.H., Alam, G.M.M., Sianipar, C.P.M. (2023). Adaptation strategies for Asian farmers against climate change. In W.L. Filho et al. (eds), Implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals – Regional Perspectives: SDGs in the Asia and Pacific Region, ch. 1, pp. 1–30. Cham, CH: Springer. DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-91262-8_122-1
• Raihan, M.L., Sianipar, C.P.M., Basu, M., Onitsuka, K., Chumky, T., Sarker, M.N.I., Hoshino, S. (2021). Hailstorms in Northern Bangladesh: Investigating Hazard Prioritization by and Perceived Risks for Farmers. In G.M.M. Alam et al. (eds), Climate Change Management, ch. 23, pp. 443–463. Cham, CH: Springer. DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-77259-8_23
• Sianipar, C.P.M., Yudoko, G., Dowaki, K. (2014). Environmental forensics on Appropriate-Technology-enhanced supply chain of rural commodities. In A.Z. Aris et al. (eds), From Sources to Solutions, ch. 11, pp. 55–60. Singapore: Springer. DOI:10.1007/978-981-4560-70-2_11

The list of selected books & chapters is available on his homepage.