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Daisaku (Dai) Yamamoto

Professor of Geography and Asian Studies

Department/Office Information

Geography, Asian Studies
309 Ho Science Center

Contact

(315) 228-6165

As a geographer I am interested in how human communities respond to and creatively generate different livelihood opportunities and environmental changes. My long-run research interest has been understanding the nature of uneven development, which is one of the central questions of economic geography. My recent research has been focusing on nuclear energy facilities and how local host communities deal with various changes and problems associated with the facilities, including accidents, decommissioning, and nuclear wastes. I am also interested in learning how human-environment relationships are studied in non-Euro-American regional contexts, especially in Japan. I like synthesizing fieldwork-based research (such as conducting interviews in local communities) and quantitative analysis, using geographic information systems and other spatial statistical tools. I love working with students in collaborative research; many of my recent publications are co-authored with ±«Óãtv students.

AE, Nagaoka College of Engineering
BA, University of Colorado Boulder
MA, Simon Fraser University
PhD, University of Minnesota

  • Geographical political economy
  • Community development, resilience, and sustainability
  • GIS, spatial statistical, and econometric applications in geography 
  • ASIA/GEOG270 Deep Asia
  • CORE167C Japan
  • GEOG107 Is the Planet Doomed?
  • GEOG211 Geographies of Nature, Economy and Society
  • GEOG245 Geographic Information Systems
  • GEOG313 Geographical Political Economy: Asia in Globalization
  • GEOG315 Sustainable Livelihoods in Asia

Edited Books
Everyday Life-Environmentalism: Community Sustainabilities and Resilience in Asia (edited with Hiroyuki Torigoe). (London: Routledge, 2023).

Rebuilding Fukushima (edited with Mitsuo Yamakawa). (London: Routledge, 2017). 

Unravelling the Fukushima Disaster (edited with Mitsuo Yamakawa). (London: Routledge, 2016). 

Peer Reviewed Articles (*denotes ±«Óãtv student at the time of research)

If It¡¯s in Our Backyard: The Roles of Local Knowledge in the Formation of a Nuclear Oversight Organisation (with Yumiko Yamamoto). Local Environment, September, 1¨C15 (2024). .

Unpacking Conflict-Ridden Everyday Life: Perspectives from Life-Environmentalism. (with Takehito Noda). Progress in Environmental Geography, September, 27539687241276538 (2024). .

A Spatiotemporal Analysis of the Social Determinants of Health for COVID-19 (with Claire Bonzani* and Peter Scull). Geospatial Health. 18(1) (2023).

Cursed Forever? Exploring Socio-Economic Effects of Nuclear Power Plant Closures Across Nine Communities in the United States (with Angelica Greco*). Energy Research & Social Sciences 92 (2022).

Nuclear-to-Nature Land Conversion (with Julia Feikens* and Melissa Haller*). Geographical Review 111(3) (2020), 415-436.

Geographical Political Economy of Nuclear Power Plant Closures (with Angelica Greco*). Geoforum 106 (2019), 234¨C43.

Economic Resilience of Japanese Nuclear Host Communities: A Quasi-Experimental Modeling Approach (with Paul Plummer). Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space. 5 (2019), 1586-1608.

Resisting Globalization Through Services? A View from the Diverse Economies Literature. Annals of the Japan