The Political Economy of the Environment - The Case of Japan

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.>

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Shigeto Tsuru

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• Authors: Shigeto Tsuru, Tsuru Shigeto
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.12.2012
• EAN: 9781780939421
• ISBN: 978-1-78093-942-1
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Bloomsbury Academic Collection; Bloomsbury Academic Collection; Bloomsbury Academic Collections: Japan
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Natural science; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Japan, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Environmental Economics, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, Economic history, Environmental Economics, Political Economy, Asian History