Japans Environmental Politics and Governance - From Trading Nation to Econation

List of contents

Introduction
1. The Transformation of Japan’s Environmental Policy
2. The Rigidity of Japan’s Nuclear Energy Policy: State-Centric Gate-Keeping
3. The State of Local Capacity Building: Decentralized Policy Making
4. Tokyo’s Metropolitan Cap-and-Trade: Policy Learning and Diffusion
5. Shiga’s Cooperation with UNEP: Transnational Sectoral Network
6. Kitakyushu’s Environmental Business: Utility-Based Transnationalism within Norms
7. Yokohama’s Normative Commitment: Image and Reputation
8. Expert Citizens’ Role: Civic Science in Environmental Policy
Conclusion

About the author

Yasuo Takao is Senior Lecturer of Political Science in the Department of Social Sciences and Security Studies of Curtin University, Western Australia.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Yasuo Takao, Yasuo (Curtin University Takao, Takao Yasuo
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781138339552
• ISBN: 978-1-138-33955-2
• No. of pages: 338
• Series: Routledge Studies in Asia and the Environment
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Japan, Ethnic Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General, Politics & government, environmental science, engineering & technology, Social and cultural history, Politics and government, Central / national / federal government policies, Environmental policy & protocols, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Environmental policy and protocols, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General