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Author: John C Pierce Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000308626 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 184
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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: John C Pierce Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000308626 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 184
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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: Kenneth E. Wilkening Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 9780262265096 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 348
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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 ISBN: 1139434926 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 309
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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: Yasuo Takao Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1317517784 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 355
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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: Hidefumi Imura Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing ISBN: 9781781008249 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 432
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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: United States Congress House Committe Publisher: Palala Press ISBN: 9781341673832 Category : Languages : en Pages : 46
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Author: S. Hayden Lesbirel Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 1501745255 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 207
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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: Jonas Betz Publisher: ISBN: 9781796273045 Category : Languages : en Pages : 103
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Are current worldwide efforts and intented programs enough to truly mitigate climate change effects?This paper seeks to find answers in the case of Japan, one of the world's leading industrialized countries. It can help students and all that are interested to find an easy to understand outline of the Paris Agreement as well as Japan's environmental policy in this regard. The information, arguments and data in this paper are correct however, it should not be mistaken with a environmental policy professionals work, yet more seen as a information paper that wishes to answer the following questions:Does Japan apply (all) PA principles in its climate policy? How diversified are its efforts, and do they truly reflect a wholehearted key actors' approach towards a sustainable society and sufficient public-awareness policy? Furthermore, how far did Japan push the PA implementation process in the light of its individual circumstances and will it be able to continue its largely offset based strategy while fulfilling Paris?The Paris Agreement and Japan's Environmental PolicyThe Paris Agreement outlined:- scientific backround- science policy Interface- legal and policy Framework- negotiation history- structure of the Agreement- key MessagesAfter the basics of the Paris Agreements backround, history and key messages are outlined, the first part will end with the requirements for Japan to fullfill the Agreement.The second part outlines:- current Japanese climate policy- Japan's policy System- various actors and stakeholders in the environmental sector- environmmental finance in the Fukushima context- Japans GHG inventory from latest Inventory Plan 2018 for FY 2016- The state of Japans's Paris Agreement implementation and deficitesThe paper gives an correct (at time) overview of the Paris Agreement and Japans Environmental Sector and Policy that can be helpfull for readers that do not have the time to read the stated bibliography yet seek an outline of the Paris Agreement and or Japan's Climate Policy in this matter.Bibliography:Over 75 References, quotations and links that provide a wide range of information on many Stakeholders, multiple problems and possible future changes.Overview of many interesting aspects of Japans diverse approaches with a future outlook.Please note:Author has no control of non-permanent link availability. If links do not work, please use citations and the key words of the link and research manually, though links are updated regularly.To deceive people by not stating that this paper is for students and interested individuals, would be a defamation of politics professionals, with or without years of experience. Their work and effort in published papers and books has a systematic approach that can only be attempted by the author here. True professionals and their work (like the professor that guided me in writing this paper and his works) deserve this recognition and respect (Kudos!).To give a better understanding and chance to compare defamation, stupidity and tude, an internationally valid 1-10, decadic loragithm scale, meassured in [Wiegbelz] short [Wiz] is hereby introduced. This way haughtiness can be put in a understandable context. Trying to deceive people is a noticeable act which results in 4-5 [Wiegbelz], it happens very often and you are shaken by it.
Author: John C Pierce
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