Shinichiro Asayama

Profile Information

Affiliation: Senior Researcher, Social Systems Division, National Institute for Environmental Studies

Degree: Ph.D(Mar, 2013, Tohoku University)

Researcher number: 50726908
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6817-3862
J-GLOBAL ID: 201301027980751216
Researcher ID: W-3910-2017
researchmap Member ID: B000229136

Shinichiro Asayama is a Senior Researcher at Social Systems Division, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan. As an environmental social scientist, he is interested in understanding how people construct 'climate change' as a narrative for social change (or non-change). His research broadly focuses on the politics of scientific knowledge and technological imaginaries in the science-policy interface of climate change. In particular, from the interpretive and critical social scientific perspectives, he studies the role of discourses, framings and narratives in shaping the public debate around carbon removal and solar geoengineering technologies.

Research Interests

Research Areas

Research History

Apr, 2021 - Present

Senior Researcher, Social Systems Division, National Institute for Environmental Studies
Apr, 2020 - Mar, 2021

Senior Researcher, Center for Social and Environmental Systems Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies
Apr, 2017 - Mar, 2020

JSPS Research Fellow, Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University
Feb, 2018 - Jan, 2020

Visiting Scholar, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge
Apr, 2014 - Mar, 2017

Research Associate, Center for Social and Environmental Systems Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies
Apr, 2012 - Mar, 2014

JSPS Research Fellow, Center for Northeast Asian Studies, Tohoku University
Aug, 2011 - Sep, 2011

Research Assistant, Climate Change Group, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies
Apr, 2009 - Mar, 2010

Reporter, Business News Desk, Jiji Press

Education

Apr, 2010 - Mar, 2013

PhD, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Tohoku University
Apr, 2007 - Mar, 2009

MA, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Tohoku University
Apr, 2002 - Mar, 2007

BSc, School of Engineering, Department of Metallurgy, Materials Science and Materials Processing, Tohoku University
Aug, 2004 - Jul, 2005

Guest Student, Technical University of Denmark

Major Papers

Controversies

Shinichiro Asayama, Kari De Pryck, Mike Hulme

A Critical Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 148-156, Dec 31, 2022 Peer-reviewedInvitedLead author
Threshold, budget and deadline: beyond the discourse of climate scarcity and control

Shinichiro Asayama

Climatic Change, 167(3-4) 33, Aug, 2021 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
Balancing a budget or running a deficit? The offset regime of carbon removal and solar geoengineering under a carbon budget

Shinichiro Asayama, Mike Hulme, Nils Markusson

Climatic Change, 167(1-2) 25, Jul, 2021 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
The oxymoron of carbon dioxide removal: Escaping carbon lock-in and yet perpetuating the fossil status quo?

Shinichiro Asayama

Frontiers in Climate, 3 673515, Jul, 2021 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
Are we ignoring a black elephant in the Anthropocene? Climate change and global pandemic as the crisis in health and equality

Shinichiro Asayama, Seita Emori, Masahiro Sugiyama, Fumiko Kasuga, Chiho Watanabe

Sustainability Science, 16 695-701, Mar, 2021 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
The North–South divide on public perceptions of stratospheric aerosol geoengineering?: A survey in six Asia-Pacific countries

Masahiro Sugiyama, Shinichiro Asayama, Takanobu Kosugi

Environmental Communication, 14(5) 641-656, Jan, 2020 Peer-reviewed
Why setting a climate deadline is dangerous

Shinichiro Asayama, Rob Bellamy, Oliver Geden, Warren Pearce, Mike Hulme

Nature Climate Change, 9(8) 570-572, Aug, 2019 Lead author
Engineering climate debt: Temperature overshoot and peak-shaving as risky subprime mortgage lending

Shinichiro Asayama, Mike Hulme

Climate Policy, 19(8) 937-946, Jun, 2019 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
Beyond solutionist science for the Anthropocene: To navigate the contentious atmosphere of solar geoengineering

Shinichiro Asayama, Masahiro Sugiyama, Atsushi Ishii, Takanobu Kosugi

The Anthropocene Review, 6(1-2) 19-37, Apr, 2019 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
Making sense of climate engineering: a focus group study of lay publics in four countries

Victoria Wibeck, Anders Hansson, Jonas Anshelm, Shinichiro Asayama, Lisa Dilling, Pamela M. Feetham, Rachel Hauser, Atsushi Ishii, Masahiro Sugiyama

CLIMATIC CHANGE, 145(1-2) 1-14, Nov, 2017 Peer-reviewed
Selling stories of techno-optimism? The role of narratives on discursive construction of carbon capture and storage in the Japanese media

Shinichiro Asayama, Atsushi Ishii

ENERGY RESEARCH & SOCIAL SCIENCE, 31 50-59, Sep, 2017 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
The Asia-Pacific's role in the emerging solar geoengineering debate

Masahiro Sugiyama, Shinichiro Asayama, Atsushi Ishii, Takanobu Kosugi, John C. Moore, Jolene Lin, Penehuro F. Lefale, Wil Burns, Masatomo Fujiwara, Arunabha Ghosh, Joshua Horton, Atsushi Kurosawa, Andy Parker, Michael Thompson, Pak-Hang Wong, Lili Xia

CLIMATIC CHANGE, 143(1-2) 1-12, Jul, 2017 Peer-reviewed
Ambivalent climate of opinions: Tensions and dilemmas in understanding geoengineering experimentation

Shinichiro Asayama, Masahiro Sugiyama, Atsushi Ishii

GEOFORUM, 80 82-92, Mar, 2017 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
Transdisciplinary co-design of scientific research agendas: 40 research questions for socially relevant climate engineering research

Masahiro Sugiyama, Shinichiro Asayama, Takanobu Kosugi, Atsushi Ishii, Seita Emori, Jiro Adachi, Keigo Akimoto, Masatomo Fujiwara, Tomoko Hasegawa, Yasushi Hibi, Kimiko Hirata, Toru Ishii, Takeshi Kaburagi, Yuki Kita, Shigeki Kobayashi, Atsushi Kurosawa, Manabu Kuwata, Kooiti Masuda, Makoto Mitsui, Taku Miyata, Hiroshi Mizutani, Sumie Nakayama, Kazuyo Oyamada, Takaaki Sashida, Miho Sekiguchi, Kiyoshi Takahashi, Yukari Takamura, Junichi Taki, Taketoshi Taniguchi, Hiroyuki Tezuka, Takahiro Ueno, Shingo Watanabe, Rie Watanabe, Naoyuki Yamagishi, Go Yoshizawa

SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE, 12(1) 31-44, Jan, 2017 Peer-reviewedCorresponding author
Catastrophism toward 'opening up' or 'closing down'? Going beyond the apocalyptic future and geoengineering

Shinichiro Asayama

CURRENT SOCIOLOGY, 63(1) 89-93, Jan, 2015 Peer-reviewedInvitedLead authorCorresponding author
Reconstruction of the boundary between climate science and politics: The IPCC in the Japanese mass media, 1988-2007

Shinichiro Asayama, Atsushi Ishii

PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF SCIENCE, 23(2) 189-203, Feb, 2014 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author

Books and Other Publications

環境経済・政策学事典

朝山慎一郎 (Role: Contributor, メディアとフレーミング)

丸善出版, May, 2018 (ISBN: 9784621302927)
メディアは環境問題をどう伝えてきたのか：公害・地球温暖化・生物多様性

朝山慎一郎 (Role: Contributor, 気候変動におけるメディアと政策のはざま：ガバナンスの視座から再考するメディア言説の政治性)

ミネルヴァ書房, Apr, 2015 (ISBN: 9784623073634)

Misc.

A better understanding of non-Western views is needed for inclusive SRM governance

Sugiyama M, Asayama S, Kosugi T

C2G Blog, Feb, 2020
Temperature 'overshoot and peak-shaving' strategy as risky as subprime mortgages

Asayama S, Hulme M

Climate Strategies and Climate Policy Blog, Aug, 2019
Betting on speculative geoengineering may risk an escalating ‘climate debt crisis’

Asayama S, Hulme M

The Conversation, Jul, 2019
2D21 気候工学:研究の国際動向とステークホルダーとの協働によるわが国の研究アジェンダ創出の試み(科学と社会(1),一般講演)

杉山昌広, 石井敦, 小杉隆信, 朝山慎一郎, 江守正多

年次学術大会講演要旨集, 30 590-593, Oct 10, 2015
Climate Engineering Conference 2014 (International conference on geoengineering

SUGIYAMA Masahiro, ASAYAMA Shinichiro, IWASAKI Suginori, KOSUGI Takanobu, HARAGUCHI Masahiko, MORIYAMA Ryo

62(1) 33-41, 2015
Misunderstandings in "Failure in communicating an environmental issue regarding melting ice in the polar regions and change of sea level"

Jusen Asuka, Seiichiro Yamamoto, Shinichiro Asayama

Nippon Kinzoku Gakkaishi/Journal of the Japan Institute of Metals, 74(1) 61-63, Jan, 2010 Peer-reviewed

Research Projects

気候変動の適応をめぐる科学と政治の交錯ー気候工学と気候移住を事例に

科学研究費助成事業若手研究, 日本学術振興会, Apr, 2020 - Mar, 2023

朝山慎一郎
気候科学の知識生産とメディア報道の政治作用：ＩＰＣＣを事例とした日英比較研究

科学研究費助成事業特別研究員奨励費, 日本学術振興会, Apr, 2017 - Mar, 2020

朝山慎一郎
一般市民の科学技術リテラシーと環境政策に関する合意形成のあり方に関する調査研究

環境研究総合推進費, 環境省, Apr, 2014 - Mar, 2017

青柳みどり
気候工学（ジオエンジニアリング）のガバナンス構築に向けた総合研究の可能性調査

フューチャー・アース構想の推進事業・フューチャー・アース：課題解決に向けたトランスディシプリナリー研究の可能性調査, 科学技術振興機構社会技術開発センター, Jan, 2015 - Mar, 2016

杉山昌広
炭素隔離技術のデモンストレーションプロジェクト：マスメディアと意思決定要因分析

科学研究費助成事業基盤研究(C), 日本学術振興会, Apr, 2013 - Mar, 2016

石井敦, 朝山慎一郎
日本の気候変動政策の意思決定過程におけるマスメディアの役割とその影響に関する研究

科学研究費助成事業特別研究員奨励費, 日本学術振興会, Apr, 2012 - Mar, 2013

朝山慎一郎

Committee Memberships

2019 - 2021

Steering Committee, Climate Engineering in Context 2021 (CEC21)
2014 - 2015

委員, 環境省コミュニケーション・マーケティングWG
2010 - 2014

オブザーバー, 環境省コミュニケーション・マーケティングWG

Professional Memberships

Awards

Jul, 2018

The 2017 Best Paper Awards, Outstanding Article, Sustainability Science (Academic Journal)

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