Yasuo Takao (Australia Curtin University)

Japan's Environmental Politics and Governance

From Trading Nation to Econation

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Studies in Asia and the Environment
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 164mm x 244mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 638g
• ISBN-13: 9781138855908
• ISBN-10: 1138855901
• Artikelnr.: 43677151

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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