Environmental Politics In Japan

Author : Yasuo Takao
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317517788

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Japan’s Environmental Politics and Governance by Yasuo Takao Pdf

Environmental issues stretch across scales of geographic space and require action at multiple levels of jurisdiction, including the individual level, community level, national level, and global level. Much of the scholarly work surrounding new approaches to environmental governance tends to overlook the role of sub-national governments, but this study examines the potential of sub-national participation to make policy choices which are congruent with global strategies and national mandates. This book investigates the emerging actors and new channels of Japan’s environmental governance which has been taking shape within an increasingly globalized international system. By analysing this important new phenomenon, it sheds light on the changing nature of Japan’s environmental policy and politics, and shows how the links between global strategies, national mandates and local action serve as an influential factor in Japan’s changing structures of environmental governance. Further, it demonstrates that decision-making competencies are shared between actors operating at different levels and in new spheres of authority, resulting from collaboration between state and non-state actors. It highlights a number of the problems, challenges, and critiques of the actors in environmental governance, as well as raising new empirical and theoretical puzzles for the future study of governance over environmental and global issues. Finally, it concludes that changes in the tiers and new spheres of authority are leading the nation towards an environmentally stable future positioned within socio-economic and political constraints. Demonstrating that bridging policy gaps between local action, national policy and global strategies is potentially a way of reinventing environmental policy, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Environmental Studies, Environmental Politics and Japanese Politics.

Author : Jeffrey Broadbent
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1999-07-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521665744

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Environmental Politics in Japan by Jeffrey Broadbent Pdf

Discusses the growth/environment dilemma in contemporary Japan. -- Preface.

Author : John C Pierce,Nicholas P Lovrich,Taketsugu Tsurutani,Takematsu Abe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000308624

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Public Knowledge And Environmental Politics In Japan And The United States by John C Pierce,Nicholas P Lovrich,Taketsugu Tsurutani,Takematsu Abe Pdf

This book grows out of the authors' conviction that as public policy issues become suffused with scientific and technical content, they become difficult for the democratic citizens to understand. It attempts to determine mass public capacity and their motivation to respond to the challenges.

Author : Margaret A. McKean
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520041151

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Environmental Protest and Citizen Politics in Japan by Margaret A. McKean Pdf

Author : Shigeto Tsuru
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781780939445

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The Political Economy of the Environment by Shigeto Tsuru Pdf

The first authoritative study of Japan's environmental problems by the acclaimed environmental economist, placing environmental issues within a socioeconomic context. In providing an historical account of environmental disruption in Japan, the author takes a number of key cases of industrial pollution in the pre-war and post-war periods and illustrates the effectiveness of taking into account socioeconomic affairs. Finally, he proposes a set of concrete countermeasures against environmental problems, applicable to all developed countries today, aimed at achieving a new 'quality of life'. First published in 2000, this title is part of the Bloomsbury Academic Collections series.

Author : Hidefumi Imura,Miranda Alice Schreurs
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1781008248

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Environmental Policy in Japan by Hidefumi Imura,Miranda Alice Schreurs Pdf

This book is a must; it is best reading for all interested in or working on environmental policy formulation and implementation, be it in a polluted industrial country or in a polluting developing country. Environmentalist . . . a well-conceptualized analysis of the evolution of Japan s environmental policies and programmes. . . The quality of integration from chapter to chapter is much superior to that of most multiple-author texts. International Sociology Review of Books The eleven contributors to this book provide profound retrospective view son the fearsome damage inflicted on the environment of Japan and on its people during the rapid economic growth period from late 1950s to the early 1970s. The book also presents a clear vision of how developing countries might draw lessons from Japan s experiences in overcoming some of its pollution problems. Hiroshi Ohta, Pacific Affairs This is, I m sure, the most comprehensive and the best book ever on Japan s environmental policy. This book is a must; it is best reading for all interested in or working on environmental policy formulation and implementation, be it in a polluted industrial country or in a polluting developing country. Udo E. Simonis, Internationales Asienforum The volume is a great source to explain what factors have made Japanese pollution control policy so successful. . . Imura and Schreurs have unveiled the intricacies of Japanese pollution control policy in this volume. The book can be used at the undergraduate and graduate level, particularly as a stepping stone in projects focused on minimization of contaminant emissions and on Japanese environmental policy and politics. Raul Pacheco-Vega, Global Environmental Politics A gold mine of information, this book gives a balanced, comprehensive, and authoritative analysis of Japan s environmental policy and candidly covers both its considerable achievements and persistent limitations. Although this volume focuses on issues of policy implementation, it impressively addresses most aspects of environmental issues in Japan. . . This is indeed a superb book that provides encyclopedia-like information about environmental issues in Japan and is unmatched, especially in its emphasis on policy implementation. Lam Peng Er, Journal of Japanese Studies Japanese environmental management style is in many ways distinct from that found in Europe or the USA. There is less emphasis on litigation, more emphasis on administrative guidance and considerable use of voluntary mechanisms for policy implementation. This volume considers what factors may have contributed to Japan s relatively successful efforts at dealing with severe industrial pollution and problems associated with rapid urbanization. The book introduces Japan s environmental history, its key environmental regulations and the forces that have driven Japan to introduce these environmental regulations and programs. It also examines the various formal and informal institutional mechanisms and policy instruments that have been introduced over the past several decades to implement pollution control and energy conservation. The authors conclude by putting Japan s environmental policy experiences in comparative perspective and considering what useful lessons can be drawn from the Japanese experience for developing nations. Providing a detailed analysis of environmental policies and policy instruments in Japan by leading experts in the field, this book will be of great interest to students of environmental policy and politics and policymakers concerned with environmental protection in Asia.

Author : Kenneth E. Wilkening
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004-05-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0262265095

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Acid Rain Science and Politics in Japan by Kenneth E. Wilkening Pdf

Acid Rain Science and Politics in Japan is a pioneering work in environmental and Asian history as well as an in-depth analysis of the influence of science on domestic and international environmental politics. Kenneth Wilkening's study also illuminates the global struggle to create sustainable societies. The Meiji Restoration of 1868 ended Japan's era of isolation- created self-sufficiency and sustainability. The opening of the country to Western ideas and technology not only brought pollution problems associated with industrialization (including acid rain) but also scientific techniques for understanding and combating them. Wilkening identifies three pollution-related "sustainability crises" in modern Japanese history: copper mining in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which spurred Japan's first acid rain research and policy initiatives; horrendous post-World War II domestic industrial pollution, which resulted in a "hidden" acid rain problem; and the present-day global problem of transboundary pollution, in which Japan is a victim of imported acid rain. He traces the country's scientific and policy responses to these crises through six distinct periods related to acid rain problems and argues that Japan's leadership role in East Asian acid rain science and policy today can be explained in large part by the "historical scientific momentum" generated by efforts to confront the issue since 1868, reinforced by Japan's cultural affinity with rain (its "culture of rain"). Wilkening provides an overview of nature, culture, and the acid rain problem in Japan to complement the general set of concepts he develops to analyze the interface of science and politics in environmental policymaking. He concludes with a discussion of lessons from Japan's experience that can be applied to the creation of sustainable societies worldwide.

Author : Miranda A. Schreurs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003-03-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139434928

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Environmental Politics in Japan, Germany, and the United States by Miranda A. Schreurs Pdf

A decade of climate change negotiations almost ended in failure because of the different policy approaches of the industrialized states. Japan, Germany, and the United States exemplify the deep divisions that exist among states in their approaches to environmental protection. Germany is following what could be called the green social welfare state approach to environmental protection, which is increasingly guided by what is known as the precautionary principle. In contrast, the US is increasingly leaning away from the use of environmental regulations, towards the use of market-based mechanisms to control pollution and cost-benefit analysis to determine when environmental protection should take precedence over economic activities. Internal political divisions mean that Japan sits uneasily between these two approaches. Miranda A. Schreurs uses a variety of case studies to explore why these different policy approaches emerged and what their implications are, examining the differing ideas, actors, and institutions in each state.

Author : Lam Peng-Er
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005-06-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134637669

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Green Politics in Japan by Lam Peng-Er Pdf

An important comparative study of Japanese politics that reveals that green issues have yet to displace the traditional urban politics of post-industrial Japan. This is unlike the rise of green parties and politics in Europe. Unlike Europe, it seems that political values in Japan are still informed by the conservative values of hierarchy and deference.

Author : Robert Stolz
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822376507

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Bad Water by Robert Stolz Pdf

Bad Water is a sophisticated theoretical analysis of Japanese thinkers and activists' efforts to reintegrate the natural environment into Japan's social and political thought in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth. The need to incorporate nature into politics was revealed by a series of large-scale industrial disasters in the 1890s. The Ashio Copper Mine unleashed massive amounts of copper, arsenic, mercury, and other pollutants into surrounding watersheds. Robert Stolz argues that by forcefully demonstrating the mutual penetration of humans and nature, industrial pollution biologically and politically compromised the autonomous liberal subject underlying the political philosophy of the modernizing Meiji state. In the following decades, socialism, anarchism, fascism, and Confucian benevolence and moral economy were marshaled in the search for new theories of a modern political subject and a social organization adequate to the environmental crisis. With detailed considerations of several key environmental activists, including Tanaka Shōzō, Bad Water is a nuanced account of Japan's environmental turn, a historical moment when, for the first time, Japanese thinkers and activists experienced nature as alienated from themselves and were forced to rebuild the connections.

Author : Anny Wong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317734055

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The Roots of Japan's Environmental Policies by Anny Wong Pdf

First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Sidney Hayden Lesbirel
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0801435374

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NIMBY Politics in Japan by Sidney Hayden Lesbirel Pdf

Negative reaction to undesirable facilities in one's neighborhood "not in my back yard" isn't limited to the United States. Japanese communities have also resisted siting decisions for power plants, and have often delayed or killed projects for which a legitimate social need exists.NIMBY Politics in Japan is the first detailed account in English of energy siting disputes in postwar Japan. Based on an investigation of a hundred conventional and nuclear plants, the book draws on a wide range of local and corporate sources, as well as interviews with participants, to reveal the bargaining processes involved in social choices and their public policy outcomes.S. Hayden Lesbirel examines why some siting decisions have taken an extraordinarily long time to complete while others have proceeded rapidly. He focuses on the intensity of conflict, relative strengths among participants, and the role of compensation, and he shows how innovative uses of compensation often enable negotiated compromises to be reached. Stressing the importance of dynamic bargaining and creative responses to social and political problems, Lesbirel shows the value of negotiated compromises in Japanese consensual politics."

Author : Carin Holroyd
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781487502225

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Green Japan by Carin Holroyd Pdf

Green Japan critically examines the Japanese effort to combine economic growth with commitments to environmental sustainability.

Author : Brendan F.D. Barrett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134265121

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Ecological Modernisation and Japan by Brendan F.D. Barrett Pdf

In the 1990s, Japan gradually began to turn green and started to experiment with more participatory forms of environmental governance. Ecological Modernisation and Japan explores this transformation and looks at Japan as a case for ecological modernisation while contextualising the discussion within its unique history and recent discussions about globalisation and sustainability. It makes a significant contribution to the ecological modernisation debate by unpacking the Japanese environmental experience.

Author : 長谷川公一
Publisher : ISBS
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1876843675

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Constructing Civil Society in Japan by 長谷川公一 Pdf

Based on four epoch-making case studies, this book offers an overview of contemporary Japan's changing attitudes and policies regarding environmental issues. Beginning in the 1970s, the author traces the way the rapid growth of environmental politics and actions contributed to the development of a vibrant civil society. It is argued that recent environmental movements in Japan have created a new, more active public sphere, one that provides a guideline for a sustainable society. This book represents an important contribution to the growing field of environmental sociology.