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Researcher Name

ASAYAMA Shinichiro

Div (Section) name/title

Social Systems Division(Environmental Policy Section)/Senior Researcher

Research Subject

• Fiscal Year: 2025
  • 27194 : Social Systems Domain
  • 27198 : Decarbonized and Sustainable Society Research Program
  • 27222 : Proposal and evaluation of environmentally efficient technologies and systems in collaboration with local communities
  • 27236 : Simultaneous achievement of global decarbonization and sustainability
  • 27239 : Establishing a Regime Inclusive of Future Generations in a Sustainable Society
  • 27246 : Social systems domain: Foresight and advanced basic research
  • 27251 : Social systems domain: Policy-oriented research
  • 27252 : Social systems domain: Intellectual research infrastructure development
  • 27334 : Development of scenarios focusing on carbon dioxide removal under 1.5 degree climate change mitigation
  • 27433 : Ethical and policy legitimacy of national net-zero targets: An assessment from multiple equity perspectives
  • 27434 : Capacity for environmental innovation policy: Cases of emerging climate change options
  • 27551 : Development of New Approaches to Environmental Economics and Evaluation
• Fiscal Year: 2024
  • 26811 : Decarbonized and Sustainable Society Research Program
  • 26837 : Proposal and evaluation of environmentally efficient technologies and systems in collaboration with local communities
  • 26852 : Simultaneous achievement of global decarbonization and sustainability
  • 26855 : Establishing a Regime Inclusive of Future Generations in a Sustainable Society
  • 26862 : Social systems domain: Foresight and advanced basic research
  • 26870 : Social systems domain: Policy-oriented research
  • 26872 : Social systems domain: Intellectual research infrastructure development
  • 26902 : Development of scenarios focusing on carbon dioxide removal under 1.5 degree climate change mitigation
  • 26933 : Ethical and policy legitimacy of national net-zero targets: An assessment from multiple equity perspectives
  • 27045 : Development of New Approaches to Environmental Economics and Evaluation
• Fiscal Year: 2023
  • 26406 : Decarbonized and Sustainable Society Research Program
  • 26426 : Proposal and evaluation of environmentally efficient technologies and systems in collaboration with local communities
  • 26438 : Simultaneous achievement of global decarbonization and sustainability
  • 26440 : Establishing a Regime Inclusive of Future Generations in a Sustainable Society
  • 26452 : Social systems domain: Foresight and advanced basic research
  • 26457 : Social systems domain: Policy-oriented research
  • 26458 : Social systems domain: Intellectual research infrastructure development
  • 26472 : Global analyses of technological, economic, and social feasibility of the pathway towards a zero-carbon society
  • 26563 : Development of New Approaches to Environmental Economics and Evaluation
  • 26744 : Establishing ELSI for strategies of developing and promoting decarbonization technologies in Japan
• Fiscal Year: 2022
  • 25984 : Decarbonized and Sustainable Society Research Program
  • 25985 : Simultaneous achievement of global decarbonization and sustainability
  • 25987 : Establishing a Regime Inclusive of Future Generations in a Sustainable Society
  • 25990 : Proposal and evaluation of environmentally efficient technologies and systems in collaboration with local communities
  • 26016 : Social systems domain: Foresight and advanced basic research
  • 26017 : Social systems domain: Policy-oriented research
  • 26018 : Social systems domain: Intellectual research infrastructure development
  • 26060 : Global analyses of climate mitigation for achieving net-zero emissions and sustainable development
  • 26096 : Development of New Approaches to Environmental Economics and Evaluation
  • 26140 : The science and politics of adapting climate change: The case of climate engineering and climate migration
  • 26141 : Global analyses of technological, economic, and social feasibility of the pathway towards a zero-carbon society
  • 26189 : Establishing ELSI for strategies of developing and promoting decarbonization technologies in Japan
• Fiscal Year: 2021
  • 25504 : Decarbonized and Sustainable Society Research Program
  • 25523 : Proposal and evaluation of environmentally efficient technologies and systems in collaboration with local communities
  • 25532 : Simultaneous achievement of global decarbonization and sustainability
  • 25534 : Establishing a Regime Inclusive of Future Generations in a Sustainable Society
  • 25616 : Global analyses of climate mitigation for achieving net-zero emissions and sustainable development
  • 25684 : The science and politics of adapting climate change: The case of climate engineering and climate migration
  • 25685 : Global analyses of technological, economic, and social feasibility of the pathway towards a zero-carbon society
  • 25708 : Social systems domain: Foresight and advanced basic research
  • 25709 : Social systems domain: Policy-oriented research
  • 25710 : Social systems domain: Intellectual research infrastructure development
  • 25834 : Development of New Approaches to Environmental Economics and Evaluation
  • 25878 : Establishing ELSI for strategies of developing and promoting decarbonization technologies in Japan
• Fiscal Year: 2020
  • 25149 : Studies on Development of Global and Asian Sustainability Scenarios
  • 25186 : Global analyses of climate mitigation for achieving net-zero emissions and sustainable development
  • 25202 : Development of new Approaches to Environmental Economics and Evaluation
  • 25404 : The science and politics of adapting climate change: The case of climate engineering and climate migration

Research Result (Publication)

• all
• Original Paper
• Book
• Other Publications

• Original Paper
  Conflicted public perceptions of different net-zero mitigation pathways between feasibility and desirability

  Presenter : Asayama S., Fujimori S., Oshiro K., Hasegawa T., Shiraki H., Sugiyama M.
  Title : , Communications Sustainability, 1(22): (2026)
• Original Paper
  International financial support to achieve the net-zero emissions goal could help resolve equity trade-off between developing and developed countries

  Presenter : Fujimori S., Fan L., Zhao S., Asayama S., Hasegawa T., Nishiura O., Shiraki H., Takahashi K.
  Title : , Communications Earth & Environment, 7(118): (2026)
• Original Paper
  An earth system governance research agenda for carbon removal

  Presenter : Low S., Boettcher M., Asayama S., Baum C., Borth A., Brown C., Clingerman F., Dauvergne P., Pryck K.D., Gupta A., Honegger M., Lenzi D., Reitsma R., Schenuit F., Scott-Buechler C., Valenzuela J.M.
  Title : , Earth System Governance, 19(100204): (2024)
• Original Paper
  Public attitude toward solar radiation modification: results of a two-scenario online survey on perception in four Asia-Pacific countries

  Presenter : Sugiyama M., Asayama S., Kosugi T., Ishii A., Watanabe S.
  Title : , Sustainability Science (2024)
• Original Paper
  The history and future of IPCC special reports: A dual role of politicisation and normalisation

  Presenter : Asayama S.
  Title : , Climatic Change, 177(137): (2024)
• Other Publications
  Carbon dioxide removal: perspectives from the social sciences and humanities

  Presenter : Hansson A., Asayama S., Bottcher M., Fridahl M.
  Title : , Frontiers in Climate, 6:1509331 (2024)
• Original Paper
  Normalized injustices in the national energy discourse: A critical analysis of the energy policy framework in Japan through the three tenets of energy justice

  Presenter : HARTWIG M., Emori S., Asayama S.
  Title : , Energy Policy, 174: (2023)
• Original Paper
  Alternative, but expensive, energy transition scenario featuring carbon capture and utilization can preserve existing energy demand technologies

  Presenter : Oshiro K., Fujimori S., Hasegawa T., Asayama S., Shiraki H., Takahashi K.
  Title : , One Earth, 6(7):872-883 (2023)
• Other Publications
  Three institutional pathways to envision the future of the IPCC

  Presenter : Asayama S., De Pryck K., Beck S., Cointe B., Edwards P., Guillemot H., Gustafsson K., Hartz F., Hughes H., Lahn B., Leclerc O., Lidskog R., Livingston J., Lorenzoni I., MacDonald J., Mahony M., Miguel J., Monteiro M., O’Reilly J., Pearce W., Petersen A., Siebenhuner B., Skodvin T., Standring A., Sundqvist G., Taddei R., van Bavel B., Vardy M., Yamineva Y., Hulme M.
  Title : , Nature Climate Change, 13:877-880 (2023)
• Other Publications
  Reconsidering the lower end of long-term climate scenarios

  Presenter : Fujimori S., Nishiura O., Oshiro K., Hasegawa T., Shiraki H., Shiogama H., Takahashi K., Takakura J., Tsuchiya K., Sugiyama M., Asayama S.
  Title : , PLOS CLIMATE, (16):1-5 (2023)
• Book
  Controversies

  Presenter : Asayama S., De Pryck K., Hulme M.
  Title : , A Critical Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2022)
• Original Paper
  The oxymoron of carbon dioxide removal: Escaping carbon lock-in and yet perpetuating the fossil status quo?

  Presenter : Asayama S.
  Title : , Frontiers in Climate, 3:673515 (2021)
• Original Paper
  Balancing a budget or running a deficit? The offset regime of carbon removal and solar geoengineering under a carbon budget

  Presenter : Asayama S., Hulme M., Markusson N.
  Title : , Climatic Change, 167:25 (2021)
• Original Paper
  Threshold, budget and deadline: beyond the discourse of climate scarcity and control

  Presenter : Asayama S.
  Title : , Climatic Change, 167:33 (2021)
• Original Paper
  Are we ignoring a black elephant in the Anthropocene? Climate change and global pandemic as the crisis in health and equality

  Presenter : Asayama S., Emori S., Sugiyama M., Kasuga F., Watanabe C.
  Title : , Sustainability Science (2020)

• Conflicted public perceptions of different net-zero mitigation pathways between feasibility and desirability

  Presenter : Asayama S., Fujimori S., Oshiro K., Hasegawa T., Shiraki H., Sugiyama M.
  Title : , Communications Sustainability, 1(22): (2026)
• International financial support to achieve the net-zero emissions goal could help resolve equity trade-off between developing and developed countries

  Presenter : Fujimori S., Fan L., Zhao S., Asayama S., Hasegawa T., Nishiura O., Shiraki H., Takahashi K.
  Title : , Communications Earth & Environment, 7(118): (2026)
• An earth system governance research agenda for carbon removal

  Presenter : Low S., Boettcher M., Asayama S., Baum C., Borth A., Brown C., Clingerman F., Dauvergne P., Pryck K.D., Gupta A., Honegger M., Lenzi D., Reitsma R., Schenuit F., Scott-Buechler C., Valenzuela J.M.
  Title : , Earth System Governance, 19(100204): (2024)
• Public attitude toward solar radiation modification: results of a two-scenario online survey on perception in four Asia-Pacific countries

  Presenter : Sugiyama M., Asayama S., Kosugi T., Ishii A., Watanabe S.
  Title : , Sustainability Science (2024)
• The history and future of IPCC special reports: A dual role of politicisation and normalisation

  Presenter : Asayama S.
  Title : , Climatic Change, 177(137): (2024)
• Normalized injustices in the national energy discourse: A critical analysis of the energy policy framework in Japan through the three tenets of energy justice

  Presenter : HARTWIG M., Emori S., Asayama S.
  Title : , Energy Policy, 174: (2023)
• Alternative, but expensive, energy transition scenario featuring carbon capture and utilization can preserve existing energy demand technologies

  Presenter : Oshiro K., Fujimori S., Hasegawa T., Asayama S., Shiraki H., Takahashi K.
  Title : , One Earth, 6(7):872-883 (2023)
• The oxymoron of carbon dioxide removal: Escaping carbon lock-in and yet perpetuating the fossil status quo?

  Presenter : Asayama S.
  Title : , Frontiers in Climate, 3:673515 (2021)
• Balancing a budget or running a deficit? The offset regime of carbon removal and solar geoengineering under a carbon budget

  Presenter : Asayama S., Hulme M., Markusson N.
  Title : , Climatic Change, 167:25 (2021)
• Threshold, budget and deadline: beyond the discourse of climate scarcity and control

  Presenter : Asayama S.
  Title : , Climatic Change, 167:33 (2021)
• Are we ignoring a black elephant in the Anthropocene? Climate change and global pandemic as the crisis in health and equality

  Presenter : Asayama S., Emori S., Sugiyama M., Kasuga F., Watanabe C.
  Title : , Sustainability Science (2020)

• Controversies

  Presenter : Asayama S., De Pryck K., Hulme M.
  Title : , A Critical Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2022)

• Carbon dioxide removal: perspectives from the social sciences and humanities

  Presenter : Hansson A., Asayama S., Bottcher M., Fridahl M.
  Title : , Frontiers in Climate, 6:1509331 (2024)
• Three institutional pathways to envision the future of the IPCC

  Presenter : Asayama S., De Pryck K., Beck S., Cointe B., Edwards P., Guillemot H., Gustafsson K., Hartz F., Hughes H., Lahn B., Leclerc O., Lidskog R., Livingston J., Lorenzoni I., MacDonald J., Mahony M., Miguel J., Monteiro M., O’Reilly J., Pearce W., Petersen A., Siebenhuner B., Skodvin T., Standring A., Sundqvist G., Taddei R., van Bavel B., Vardy M., Yamineva Y., Hulme M.
  Title : , Nature Climate Change, 13:877-880 (2023)
• Reconsidering the lower end of long-term climate scenarios

  Presenter : Fujimori S., Nishiura O., Oshiro K., Hasegawa T., Shiraki H., Shiogama H., Takahashi K., Takakura J., Tsuchiya K., Sugiyama M., Asayama S.
  Title : , PLOS CLIMATE, (16):1-5 (2023)

Research Result (Presentation)

• all
• Research Presentation

• Research Presentation
  Eating less meat or capturing carbon from the atmosphere? Conflicted public feelings in making sense of different net-zero GHG pathways

  Presenter : Asayama S., Fujimori S., Oshiro K., Hasegawa T., Shiraki H., Sugiyama M.
  Name of Society : International Conference on Negative CO2 Emissions 2024 (2024)
  Name of Proceedings : -
• Research Presentation
  Swinging between feasible and desirable futures: Exploring public perception of the narratives of net-zero energy scenarios in Japan

  Presenter : Asayama S.
  Name of Society : The RGS-IBG Annual International Conference (2023)
  Name of Proceedings : -
• Research Presentation
  Reconsidering the lower end of long-term climate scenarios

  Presenter : Fujimori S., Nishiura O., Oshiro K., Hasegawa T., Shiraki H., Shiogama H., Takahashi K., Takakura J., Tsuchiya K., Sugiyama M., Asayama S.
  Name of Society : Sixteenth IAMC Annual Meeting 2023 (2023)
  Name of Proceedings : -
• Research Presentation
  Straddle the gap between feasibility and desirability: public perception of net-zero energy scenarios with and without large-scale CDR

  Presenter : Asayama S.
  Name of Society : 2023 Radboud Conference on Earth System Governance (2023)
  Name of Proceedings : -
• Research Presentation
  Can carbon removal technologies be compatible with the managed decline of fossil fuels?

  Presenter : Asayama S.
  Name of Society : The International Conference on Fossil Fuel Supply and Climate Policy (2022)
  Name of Proceedings : -
• Research Presentation
  Seeing like a carbon budget manager: The promise and peril of using carbon removal as budgeting tools

  Presenter : Asayama S.
  Name of Society : 2nd International Conference on Negative CO2 Emissions (2022)
  Name of Proceedings : -
• Research Presentation
  The politics of crafting and assessing feasible scenarios: Muddled between 'plausibility' and 'desirability' of projected futures

  Presenter : Asayama S.
  Name of Society : Scenarios Forum 2022 (2022)
  Name of Proceedings : -
• Research Presentation
  The failure of Japan’s energy policy to integrate social justice and equity

  Presenter : HARTWIG M., Emori S., Asayama S.
  Name of Society : 3rd International Conference on Energy Research and Social Science (2022)
  Name of Proceedings : -
• Research Presentation
  Normalized injustice in national energy discourse in Japan -A critical analysis of ethical dimensions of low-carbon energy policy changes

  Presenter : HARTWIG M., Emori S., Asayama S.
  Name of Society : 環境経済・政策学会2022年大会 (2022)
  Name of Proceedings : -

• Eating less meat or capturing carbon from the atmosphere? Conflicted public feelings in making sense of different net-zero GHG pathways

  Presenter : Asayama S., Fujimori S., Oshiro K., Hasegawa T., Shiraki H., Sugiyama M.
  Name of Society : International Conference on Negative CO2 Emissions 2024 (2024)
  Name of Proceedings : -
• Swinging between feasible and desirable futures: Exploring public perception of the narratives of net-zero energy scenarios in Japan

  Presenter : Asayama S.
  Name of Society : The RGS-IBG Annual International Conference (2023)
  Name of Proceedings : -
• Reconsidering the lower end of long-term climate scenarios

  Presenter : Fujimori S., Nishiura O., Oshiro K., Hasegawa T., Shiraki H., Shiogama H., Takahashi K., Takakura J., Tsuchiya K., Sugiyama M., Asayama S.
  Name of Society : Sixteenth IAMC Annual Meeting 2023 (2023)
  Name of Proceedings : -
• Straddle the gap between feasibility and desirability: public perception of net-zero energy scenarios with and without large-scale CDR

  Presenter : Asayama S.
  Name of Society : 2023 Radboud Conference on Earth System Governance (2023)
  Name of Proceedings : -
• Can carbon removal technologies be compatible with the managed decline of fossil fuels?

  Presenter : Asayama S.
  Name of Society : The International Conference on Fossil Fuel Supply and Climate Policy (2022)
  Name of Proceedings : -
• The politics of crafting and assessing feasible scenarios: Muddled between 'plausibility' and 'desirability' of projected futures

  Presenter : Asayama S.
  Name of Society : Scenarios Forum 2022 (2022)
  Name of Proceedings : -
• Normalized injustice in national energy discourse in Japan -A critical analysis of ethical dimensions of low-carbon energy policy changes

  Presenter : HARTWIG M., Emori S., Asayama S.
  Name of Society : 環境経済・政策学会2022年大会 (2022)
  Name of Proceedings : -
• Seeing like a carbon budget manager: The promise and peril of using carbon removal as budgeting tools

  Presenter : Asayama S.
  Name of Society : 2nd International Conference on Negative CO2 Emissions (2022)
  Name of Proceedings : -
• The failure of Japan’s energy policy to integrate social justice and equity

  Presenter : HARTWIG M., Emori S., Asayama S.
  Name of Society : 3rd International Conference on Energy Research and Social Science (2022)
  Name of Proceedings : -

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