Daisaku (Dai) Yamamoto

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Daisaku (Dai) Yamamoto

Professor of Geography and Asian Studies

Department/Office Information

Geography, Asian Studies

309 Ho Science Center

Contact

dyamamoto@colgate.edu (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 51郭肱利 students.

AE, Nagaoka College of Engineering
BA, University of Colorado at 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 51郭肱利 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 Association of Economic Geographers. 63 (2017), 60-76. (in Japanese)

Recasting the Agglomeration Benefits for Innovation in a Hits-Based Cultural Industry: Evidence from the Japanese Console Videogame Industry (with Seiji Hanzawa). Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography. 59 (2017), 59-78.

World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms (WWOOF) in the United States: Locations and Motivations of Volunteer Tourism Host Farms (with A. Katrina Engelsted*). Journal of Sustainable Tourism. 22 (2014), 964-982.

Community Resilience to a Developmental Shock: A Case Study of a Rural Village in Nagano, Japan (with Yumiko Yamamoto). Resilience: International Policies, Practices and Discourses. 1 (2013), 99-115.

Repositioning Regional Inequality Research from the Geographical Political Economy Perspective. Annals of the Japan Association of Economic Geographers. 58(3) (2012), 228-237 (in Japanese).

Regional Resilience: Prospects for Regional Development Research. Geography Compass. 5 (2011), 723-736.

Trends of Sustainable Tourism Research. Journal of Environmental Sociology. 15 (2009), 139-152 (in Japanese).

Scales of Regional Income Disparities in the United States, 1955-2003. Journal of Economic Geography. 8 (2008), 79-103.

Production Linkages in and between Places: The Recent Development of the Bicycle Industry Agglomeration in Osaka. Annals of the Japan Association of Economic Geographers. 50 (2004), 1-23.

Gauging Metropolitan 'High-Tech' and 'I-Tech' Activity (with Karen Chapple, Ann Markusen, Greg Schrock, and Pingkang Yu). Economic Development Quarterly. 18 (2004), 10-29.

Issues of Globalization and Reflexivity in the Japanese Tourism Production System: The Case of Whistler, British Columbia (with Alison M. Gill). Professional Geographer. 54 (2002), 83-93. 2002.

Book Chapters and Other Articles

Empirically Speaking: Life-Environmentalism, Environmental Justice, and Feminist Political Ecology (with Sophia Ferrero* and Keegan Kessler*) In Everyday Life-Environmentalism (2023), edited by Daisaku Yamamoto and Hiroyuki Torigoe, 1st ed., 1:207�C23. Routledge.

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Life Environmentalism. Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, Second Edition. (2019).

致忽における圻徨薦�k�と羨仇仇囃�`�俗蕉中を哭えて. �s雰と仇尖 713 (2018/4), 58-67.

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Social Science Research Council, Abe Fellowship 2014
51郭肱利 Research Council, Picker Fellowship 2011-12