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Baba Lab
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The lab studies how environmental and energy policies are decided and how people respond to them.
AboutAbout the lab
Studying how decisions themselves are made.
The Baba Lab studies environmental, energy, and climate change policy in cities and regions.
Drawing on environmental policy studies, policy process theory, consensus building, and behavioral science, the lab investigates how policies are decided and how people act.
Its specific subjects include discussions over facility siting, surveys in which citizens participate, and how environmentally friendly behavior spreads.
In the graduate school, the lab is in charge of Environmental and Energy Governance Research and accepts students in the master's and doctoral programs.
Key terms
- Consensus building
- The process in which people with different positions and interests talk together and arrive at a conclusion that everyone can accept
- Citizen science
- A research approach in which not only researchers but also citizens take part in observation and surveys and collect data together
- Deliberation
- Discussing an issue at length on the basis of sufficient information and refining opinions through that discussion
- Policy process
- The path by which a policy takes shape, from when an issue is taken up until it is decided as an institution
NewsLab news
A paper by Professor Baba and colleagues was published in Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Series G (Environmental Research)
A paper by Professor Baba and colleagues was published in Frontiers in Climate
ResearchResearch themes
Using frameworks such as environmental policy studies, policy process theory, consensus building, and behavioral science, the lab studies environmental, energy, and climate change policy in cities and regions.
*Illustrative imageSiting of Renewable Energy Facilities and Consensus Building
The lab studies how residents, businesses, and government reach consensus over where to place renewable energy facilities.
*Illustrative imageCitizen Science on Climate Change Impacts
The lab studies ways for citizens to take part in observation and surveys when investigating the impacts of climate change.
*Illustrative imagePro-Environmental Behavior and Attitude Change
Using a behavioral science framework, the lab investigates how environmentally friendly behavior arises and how people's attitudes and behavior change.
*Illustrative imageDeveloping and Implementing Deliberative Methods
The lab develops deliberative methods, in which participants discuss at length and refine their opinions over time, and implements them in real settings.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorKenshi Baba
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Up and down” Roberto Picco from Sacile (PN), Italy / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Siting of Renewable Energy Facilities and Consensus Building: “Wind turbines on the hillside ( )” muffinn from Worcester, UK / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Citizen Science on Climate Change Impacts: “Stevenson screen” Metfm / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Pro-Environmental Behavior and Attitude Change: “Desire path ( )” Metro Centric / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Developing and Implementing Deliberative Methods: “Tea room, its Nijiri-guchi and window in Shōkin-tei” 佐藤辰三 / Public domain (cropped)
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