The Ecological Modernization Capacity of Japan and Germany - Comparing Nuclear Energy, Renewables, Automobility and Rare Earth Policy

Cognitive-strategic capabilities of a country are decisive for overcoming the strong path dependence in climate-related policies and to achieve ecological and economic modernization. This is the result of a unique comparison approach focusing on four highly intertwined policy areas (Automobiles, Nuclear Energy, Renewables and Rare Earth) in Japan and Germany. Both countries have in principle sufficient economic, technological and institutional capacities for an ecological transformation, but they are lacking an integrated policy strategy to mobilize and organize the existing capacities in favor of structural changes. The focused four policy areas are analyzed in depth and compared by experts from political science. 

List of contents

Ecological Modernization.- Environmental Capacity Building.- Path Dependence.- Nuclear Energy.- Renewables.- Rare Earth.- Automobile Policy.- Environmental Policy in Japan and Germany. 

About the author

PD Dr. Lutz Mez is Associate Professor at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Dr. Lila Okamura is Associate Professor at the Department of Foreign Languages, Dokkyo University, Japan

PD Dr. Helmut Weidner is Associate Professor at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Summary

Cognitive-strategic capabilities of a country are decisive for overcoming the strong path dependence in climate-related policies and to achieve ecological and economic modernization. This is the result of a unique comparison approach focusing on four highly intertwined policy areas (Automobiles, Nuclear Energy, Renewables and Rare Earth) in Japan and Germany. Both countries have in principle sufficient economic, technological and institutional capacities for an ecological transformation, but they are lacking an integrated policy strategy to mobilize and organize the existing capacities in favor of structural changes. The focused four policy areas are analyzed in depth and compared by experts from political science. 

Product details

• Assisted by: Lutz Mez (Editor), Lil Okamura (Editor), Lila Okamura (Editor), Helmut Weidner (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9783658274047
• ISBN: 978-3-658-27404-7
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 15 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 291 g
• Illustrations: XII, 208 p. 17 illus.
• Series: Energiepolitik und Klimaschutz. Energy Policy and Climate Protection; Energiepolitik und Klimaschutz; Energiepolitik und Klimaschutz. Energy Policy and Climate Protection
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; Japan, B, Politik der National- Zentral- oder Bundesregierung, Environmental Policy, Germany, Political Science and International Studies, Comparative Politics, Climate Policy, renewables, Nuclear Energy, Environmental policy & protocols, Environmental Politics, Environmental Management Capacity, Automobility, Comparing Nuclear Energy, Rare Earth, Ecological Modernization Capacity, Renewables, Automobility and Rare Earth Policy, Cognitive-Strategic Capacity