Prof. Satomi Kohyama | Natural Resources | Strategic Achievement Award
Professor | University of Toyama | Japan
Prof. Satomi Kohyama is a Japanese legal scholar currently serving as Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at University of Toyama she was promoted to full professor on 1 January 2023, after having served as associate professor at the same university since 2014. Her research spans environmental law (especially natural environment law), administrative law, intellectual property law, and the interfaces between environment and business — including issues such as biodiversity law, renewable energy law, land-use policy, and the regulation of industrial and nature-conservation trade-offs. Prof. Kohyama is actively involved in research on how legal systems can reconcile environmental conservation with social and economic development; for instance, she investigates how natural-environment law should develop in the face of land-use change, renewable energy promotion, and biodiversity protection. Among her many projects, she currently leads research on domestic legal and comparative-law aspects of biodiversity conventions, wildlife protection, and sustainable resource management. Although publicly available sources do not list major “international prizes” or widely-known awards under Prof. Kohyama’s name, her appointment as full professor (in 2023), her role as Principal Investigator on multiple national research grants, and her publication record (with many peer-reviewed articles, books, chapters) testify to her academic stature and recognition within Japanese legal and environmental scholarship.
Featured Publications :
Kohyama, S. (2015). Norm Localization in Domestic Practices: An Analysis on Implementing Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Japan. Frontiers of North Asian Studies, Citations: 14
Kohyama, S. (2017). The Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity in Japan and China: A Comparative Analysis. Frontiers of North East Asian Studies,. Citations: 16
Kohyama, S. (2022). State of the Art Review on Land-Use Policy: Changes in Forests, Agricultural Lands and Renewable Energy of Japan. Land, 11(5), 624. Citations: 12
Kohyama, S. & Kohsaka, R. (2023). Contested renewable energy sites due to landscape and socio-ecological barriers: Comparison of wind and solar power installation cases in Japan. Energy & Environment, 34(7), 2619–2641. Citations: 16
Kohyama, S. (2023). Taking/Compensations or Regulations? Balancing Landscape Conservation and the Development of Renewable Energy Facilities in Japan. Land, 12(1), 51. Citations: 1
Kohyama, S. & Kohsaka, R.0 (2024). Wind farms in contested landscapes: Procedural and scale gaps of wind power facility constructions in Japan. Energy & Environment, 35(3), 1396–1415. Citations: 2