Shinichiro Asayama
Biographic Data
| ID | 290256 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shinichiro Asayama |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shinichiro |
| FAMILY NAME | Asayama |
| SIGNATURE | ASAYAMA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Institute for Environmental Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6817-3862 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
An earth system governance research agenda for carbon removal
Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) – the creation, enhancement, and upscaling of carbon sinks – has become a pillar of national and corporate commitments towards Net Zero emissions, as well as pathways towards realizing the Paris Agreement's ambitious temperature targets. In this perspective, we explore CDR as an emerging issue of Earth System Governance (ESG). We draw on the results of a workshop at the 2022 Earth System Governance conference that map…
Critical hydrologic impacts from climate change
Public attitude toward solar radiation modification
Solar geoengineering or solar radiation modification (SRM) is increasingly looming large as a potential response to human-induced climate change. However, it is deeply mired in controversies surrounding environmental risks and social governance challenges. Given the high stakes and uncertain characteristics of SRM, it is essential to understand public perception. However, previous studies on public perception have not explicitly utilized scenario…
Three institutional pathways to envision the future of the IPCC
Alternative, but expensive, energy transition scenario featuring carbon capture and utilization can preserve existing energy demand technologies
To reach net-zero carbon emissions, most climate change mitigation scenarios model a rapid transition from hydrocarbon-based energy to renewables, wide-scale electrification, and offsets to mitigate residual emissions. This requires phasing out existing hydrocarbon infrastructure and adjustments to electrification. Carbon capture and utilization (CCU) to produce synthetic fuels could be an alternative way to reach net zero while maintaining some …
The North–South Divide on Public Perceptions of Stratospheric Aerosol Geoengineering
Solar radiation management (SRM) is a controversial technological proposal to deliberately cool the Earth for addressing climate change. Because of great concerns over global consequences of SRM deployment, an inclusive and global conversation is considered necessary for the governance of SRM. However, public perception research on SRM to date has been mostly limited to the Global North or Western democracy. Because social acceptability is crucia…
Are we ignoring a black elephant in the Anthropocene? Climate change and global pandemic as the crisis in health and equality
Climate change and coronavirus pandemic are the twin crises in the Anthropocene, the era in which unsustainable growth of human activities has led to a significant change in the global environment. The two crises have also exposed a chronic social illness of our time-a deep, widespread inequality in society. Whilst the circumstances are unfortunate, the pandemic can provide an opportunity for sustainability scientists to focus more on human socie…
Beyond solutionist science for the Anthropocene
The emerging narrative of the Anthropocene has created a new space for changes in global environmental change (GEC) science. On the one hand, there is a mounting call for changing scientific practices towards a solution-oriented transdisciplinary mode that can help achieve global sustainability. On the other hand, the scientists' desire to avoid exceeding planetary boundaries has broken a taboo on researching solar geoengineering, a dangerous ide…
Selling stories of techno-optimism? The role of narratives on discursive construction of carbon capture and storage in the Japanese media
Ambivalent climate of opinions
Transdisciplinary co-design of scientific research agendas
Catastrophism toward 'opening up' or 'closing down'? Going beyond the apocalyptic future and geoengineering
Climate change is socially constructed by the way we imagine the future. Catastrophism and the fear of future climate risk dominate public discourse and constitute how we respond to climate change now. In the debate on climate change, there are two competing catastrophisms: one is emancipatory catastrophism, coined by Ulrich Beck; and the other is what the author of this article calls apocalyptic catastrophism - the dystopian imagination of the f…
Reconstruction of the boundary between climate science and politics
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) plays a significant role in bridging the boundary between climate science and politics. Media coverage is crucial for understanding how climate science is communicated and embedded in society. This study analyzes the discursive construction of the IPCC in three Japanese newspapers from 1988 to 2007 in terms of the science–politics boundary. The results show media discourses engaged in boundary-…
Selling stories of techno-optimism? The role of narratives on discursive construction of carbon capture and storage in the Japanese media
Ambivalent climate of opinions
Transdisciplinary co-design of scientific research agendas
Beyond solutionist science for the Anthropocene
The emerging narrative of the Anthropocene has created a new space for changes in global environmental change (GEC) science. On the one hand, there is a mounting call for changing scientific practices towards a solution-oriented transdisciplinary mode that can help achieve global sustainability. On the other hand, the scientists' desire to avoid exceeding planetary boundaries has broken a taboo on researching solar geoengineering, a dangerous ide…
Catastrophism toward 'opening up' or 'closing down'? Going beyond the apocalyptic future and geoengineering
Climate change is socially constructed by the way we imagine the future. Catastrophism and the fear of future climate risk dominate public discourse and constitute how we respond to climate change now. In the debate on climate change, there are two competing catastrophisms: one is emancipatory catastrophism, coined by Ulrich Beck; and the other is what the author of this article calls apocalyptic catastrophism - the dystopian imagination of the f…
Are we ignoring a black elephant in the Anthropocene? Climate change and global pandemic as the crisis in health and equality
Climate change and coronavirus pandemic are the twin crises in the Anthropocene, the era in which unsustainable growth of human activities has led to a significant change in the global environment. The two crises have also exposed a chronic social illness of our time-a deep, widespread inequality in society. Whilst the circumstances are unfortunate, the pandemic can provide an opportunity for sustainability scientists to focus more on human socie…
Public attitude toward solar radiation modification
Solar geoengineering or solar radiation modification (SRM) is increasingly looming large as a potential response to human-induced climate change. However, it is deeply mired in controversies surrounding environmental risks and social governance challenges. Given the high stakes and uncertain characteristics of SRM, it is essential to understand public perception. However, previous studies on public perception have not explicitly utilized scenario…
An earth system governance research agenda for carbon removal
Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) – the creation, enhancement, and upscaling of carbon sinks – has become a pillar of national and corporate commitments towards Net Zero emissions, as well as pathways towards realizing the Paris Agreement's ambitious temperature targets. In this perspective, we explore CDR as an emerging issue of Earth System Governance (ESG). We draw on the results of a workshop at the 2022 Earth System Governance conference that map…
Critical hydrologic impacts from climate change
Reconstruction of the boundary between climate science and politics
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) plays a significant role in bridging the boundary between climate science and politics. Media coverage is crucial for understanding how climate science is communicated and embedded in society. This study analyzes the discursive construction of the IPCC in three Japanese newspapers from 1988 to 2007 in terms of the science–politics boundary. The results show media discourses engaged in boundary-…
Catastrophism toward 'opening up' or 'closing down'? Going beyond the apocalyptic future and geoengineering
Climate change is socially constructed by the way we imagine the future. Catastrophism and the fear of future climate risk dominate public discourse and constitute how we respond to climate change now. In the debate on climate change, there are two competing catastrophisms: one is emancipatory catastrophism, coined by Ulrich Beck; and the other is what the author of this article calls apocalyptic catastrophism - the dystopian imagination of the f…
Transdisciplinary co-design of scientific research agendas
Selling stories of techno-optimism? The role of narratives on discursive construction of carbon capture and storage in the Japanese media
Ambivalent climate of opinions
Beyond solutionist science for the Anthropocene
The emerging narrative of the Anthropocene has created a new space for changes in global environmental change (GEC) science. On the one hand, there is a mounting call for changing scientific practices towards a solution-oriented transdisciplinary mode that can help achieve global sustainability. On the other hand, the scientists' desire to avoid exceeding planetary boundaries has broken a taboo on researching solar geoengineering, a dangerous ide…
The North–South Divide on Public Perceptions of Stratospheric Aerosol Geoengineering
Solar radiation management (SRM) is a controversial technological proposal to deliberately cool the Earth for addressing climate change. Because of great concerns over global consequences of SRM deployment, an inclusive and global conversation is considered necessary for the governance of SRM. However, public perception research on SRM to date has been mostly limited to the Global North or Western democracy. Because social acceptability is crucia…
Are we ignoring a black elephant in the Anthropocene? Climate change and global pandemic as the crisis in health and equality
Climate change and coronavirus pandemic are the twin crises in the Anthropocene, the era in which unsustainable growth of human activities has led to a significant change in the global environment. The two crises have also exposed a chronic social illness of our time-a deep, widespread inequality in society. Whilst the circumstances are unfortunate, the pandemic can provide an opportunity for sustainability scientists to focus more on human socie…
Three institutional pathways to envision the future of the IPCC
Alternative, but expensive, energy transition scenario featuring carbon capture and utilization can preserve existing energy demand technologies
To reach net-zero carbon emissions, most climate change mitigation scenarios model a rapid transition from hydrocarbon-based energy to renewables, wide-scale electrification, and offsets to mitigate residual emissions. This requires phasing out existing hydrocarbon infrastructure and adjustments to electrification. Carbon capture and utilization (CCU) to produce synthetic fuels could be an alternative way to reach net zero while maintaining some …
An earth system governance research agenda for carbon removal
Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) – the creation, enhancement, and upscaling of carbon sinks – has become a pillar of national and corporate commitments towards Net Zero emissions, as well as pathways towards realizing the Paris Agreement's ambitious temperature targets. In this perspective, we explore CDR as an emerging issue of Earth System Governance (ESG). We draw on the results of a workshop at the 2022 Earth System Governance conference that map…
Critical hydrologic impacts from climate change
Public attitude toward solar radiation modification
Solar geoengineering or solar radiation modification (SRM) is increasingly looming large as a potential response to human-induced climate change. However, it is deeply mired in controversies surrounding environmental risks and social governance challenges. Given the high stakes and uncertain characteristics of SRM, it is essential to understand public perception. However, previous studies on public perception have not explicitly utilized scenario…
Political science (11 works) · Climate change (9 works) · Climate Change and Geoengineering (9 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Engineering (6 works) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (6 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (5 works) · Environmental ethics (5 works) · Geography (5 works)