The Roots of Japan's Environmental Policies

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ISBN: 9780815339502 | 081533950X
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 3/14/2001

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The study focuses on Japan's policies toward international environmental issues and includes case studies on whaling, deforestation in the tropics, and acid deposition in Asia.

Acknowledgements

vii

Abstract

List of Tables

List of Figures

xiii

List of Abbreviations

Preface

xix

Introduction: The Global Environment and Japan

(24)

Objectives of this study

(4)

The global environment in international affairs: Japan's interests and goals

(8)

The case studies: whaling, deforestation in the tropics and acid deposition in Asia

(5)

Structure of the study

(7)

Theory and Methodology

(20)

Complex interdependence, regimes and two-level games

(8)

Decision making: the bureaucratic politics model and Japan's foreign policy

(3)

Methodology

(9)

The Global Environment in Japanese Politics and the Major Domestic Policy Actors

(44)

Evolution of Environmental issues in Japanese domestic politics

(4)

The Japanese government bureaucracy

(12)

Japanese politicians

(3)

Japanese business and industry

(4)

Non-governmental organizations

(5)

Japanese academia

(1)

``Think tanks'' or policy studies research institutes

(2)

The Japanese mass media

(2)

Summary

(10)

Whaling

(56)

Modern Whaling: a history and its present-day controversy

(2)

The whaling controversy and Japan's whaling policies

(1)

The international regime for whaling

(8)

History of modern Japanese whaling

100

(7)

U.S. domestic legislation: its impact on the international regime on whaling and Japan's whaling policy in the 1980s

107

(4)

Japan's policy on whaling

111

(3)

Policy actors in Japan's whaling policy

114

(12)

Chapter conclusion

126

(19)

Deforestation in the Tropics

145

(56)

Tropical forests: timber source, biodiversity storehouse, carbon sink and a home to many

145

(2)

Tropical deforestation and Japan's policy responses

147

(3)

The international regime for the conservation of forests in the tropics

150

(12)

Japan and forest destruction in Southeast Asia

162

(11)

Japan's policy responses to deforestation in the tropics

173

(4)

Policy actors in Japan's policy on deforestation in the tropics

177

(10)

Chapter conclusion

187

(14)

Acid Deposition in Asia

201

(56)

Acid rain: definition, dangers and characteristics

202

(1)

Acid rain in Asia and Japan's policy responses

203

(4)

Acid rain control in Europe and North America

207

(10)

China: number one pollution source in Northeast Asia

217

(11)

Japan's policy on acid rain control in Asia

228

(3)

Policy actors in Japan's acid rain policy

231

(8)

Chapter conclusion

239

(18)

Conclusion

257

(10)

Policy making in Japan and the international environment

258

(9)

Appendix: List of Interviewes

267

(8)

Bibliography

275

(46)

Index

321

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The Roots of Japan's Environmental Policies

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