Natural Resources Problems In Japan

Author : Shigeto Tsuru
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1780939442
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Political Economy of the Environment written by Shigeto Tsuru and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Hubert Gregory Schenck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Natural Resources Problems in Japan written by Hubert Gregory Schenck and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward A. Olsen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429726120
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Japan: Economic Growth, Resource Scarcity, And Environmental Constraints written by Edward A. Olsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study evaluates, from a neo-Malthusian perspective, Japan's current status and its prognosis in the context of the country's economic vulnerabilities. Drawing on the theoretical contributions of Malthus, N. Georgescu-Roegen, H. and M. Sprout, and assorted environmental-ecological doomsayers, the author reaches pessimistic conclusions about Japan's very long term prospects, but holds out some slim hope for Japan if international cooperation of nearly Utopian dimensions can be achieved.

Author : Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers. Natural Resources Section
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Natural Resources of Japan written by Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers. Natural Resources Section and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Stolz
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822376504
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Bad Water written by Robert Stolz and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-12 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bad Water is a sophisticated theoretical analysis of Japanese thinkers and activists' efforts to reintegrate the natural environment into Japan's social and political thought in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth. The need to incorporate nature into politics was revealed by a series of large-scale industrial disasters in the 1890s. The Ashio Copper Mine unleashed massive amounts of copper, arsenic, mercury, and other pollutants into surrounding watersheds. Robert Stolz argues that by forcefully demonstrating the mutual penetration of humans and nature, industrial pollution biologically and politically compromised the autonomous liberal subject underlying the political philosophy of the modernizing Meiji state. In the following decades, socialism, anarchism, fascism, and Confucian benevolence and moral economy were marshaled in the search for new theories of a modern political subject and a social organization adequate to the environmental crisis. With detailed considerations of several key environmental activists, including Tanaka Shōzō, Bad Water is a nuanced account of Japan's environmental turn, a historical moment when, for the first time, Japanese thinkers and activists experienced nature as alienated from themselves and were forced to rebuild the connections.

Author : Ian Jared Miller
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824836924
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Japan at Nature's Edge written by Ian Jared Miller and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan at Nature’s Edge is a timely collection of essays that explores the relationship between Japan’s history, culture, and physical environment. It greatly expands the focus of previous work on Japanese modernization by examining Japan’s role in global environmental transformation and how Japanese ideas have shaped bodies and landscapes over the centuries. The immediacy of Earth’s environmental crisis, a predicament highlighted by Japan’s March 2011 disaster, brings a sense of urgency to the study of Japan and its global connections. The work is an environmental history in the broadest sense of the term because it contains writing by environmental anthropologists, a legendary Japanese economist, and scholars of Japanese literature and culture. The editors have brought together an unparalleled assemblage of some of the finest scholars in the field who, rather than treat it in isolation or as a unique cultural community, seek to connect Japan to global environmental currents such as whaling, world fisheries, mountaineering and science, mining and industrial pollution, and relations with nonhuman animals. The contributors assert the importance of the environment in understanding Japan’s history and propose a new balance between nature and culture, one weighted much more heavily on the side of natural legacies. This approach does not discount culture. Instead, it suggests that the Japanese experience of nature, like that of all human beings, is a complex and intimate negotiation between the physical and cultural worlds. Contributors: Daniel P. Aldrich, Jakobina Arch, Andrew Bernstein, Philip C. Brown, Timothy S. George, Jeffrey E. Hanes, David L. Howell, Federico Marcon, Christine L. Marran, Ian Jared Miller, Micah Muscolino, Ken’ichi Miyamoto, Sara B. Pritchard, Julia Adeney Thomas, Karen Thornber, William M. Tsutsui, Brett L. Walker, Takehiro Watanabe.

Author : United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Annual Report written by United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author :
Publisher : インプレスR&D
ISBN 13 : 4295600652
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Toward a Sustainable Japanese Economy written by and published by インプレスR&D. This book was released on 2021-12-17 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book includes an analysis of Japan's challenges in moving toward an environmentally sustainable society. "Part I: Postwar Japan Pollution and the Fukushima Nuclear Accident" focuses on the history of Japanese pollution after World War II and the situation of the Fukushima nuclear accident. "Part II: Toward Sustainable Development of Natural Resource-based Economies" focuses on the agricultural sector. It introduces the current status of environment-friendly production. There is very little information in English that comprehensively introduces the situation in Japan in this field, and the content meets the needs of readers seeking information. 【目次】 Introduction Part I: Postwar Japan Pollution and the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Chapter 1:History and Lessons of Pollution in Postwar Japan Chapter 2:Political Economy of Damage and Reconstruction after the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Chapter 3:Current Status of and Challenges in the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Compensation Scheme Chapter 4:TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident and Japan’s Nuclear Power Policy Chapter 5:Who Will Pay the Costs of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident? Chapter 6:Locally Initiated Energy Transition Transcends Market, Government, and Institutional Failures Part II: Toward Sustainable Development of Natural Resource-based Economies Chapter 7:Japanese Agricultural Problems and the Multifunctional Roles of Agriculture Chapter 8:Agri-environmental Public Goods and Agri-environmental Payments Based on a UK case study Chapter 9:Management Problems of Inland Water Fishery Resources in Japan Chapter 10:Greening Water Resource Development in Modern Japan Chapter 11:Forest Underuse in Present-Day Japan and Access to Nature Regardless of Ownership (ANRO) Chapter 12:Japanese Policy of Biodiversity and Species Conservation

Author : W. Puck Brecher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book An Investigation of Japan's Relationship to Nature and Environment written by W. Puck Brecher and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference introduces the significance of the natural environment in Japan's ancient culture, in its modern society, and in its future political agendas. It covers nature as a formative phenomenon in Japanese history, religion, philosophy and art; the modern history of Japan's enviromental problems and its successes and failures with dealing with them; the state of Japan's natural enviroment today, how it has been transformed and how this transformation reflects the cultural nexus; the country's grassroots enviromental movements and their sociopolitical significance; and Japan's political culture and the forces which are currently poised to revolutionise the country's official position on the enviroment. It includes personal interviews with specialists from goverment, industry, NGO's and academia.

Author : Conrad Totman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178672152X
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Japan written by Conrad Totman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the outset, society in Japan has been shaped by its environmental context. The lush green mountainous archipelago of today, with its highly productive lowlands, supports a population of more than 127 million people and one of the most advanced economies in the world. How has this come about and at what environmental cost? Conrad Totman, one of the world's foremost scholars on Japanese, here provides a comprehensive and detailed account of the country's environmental history, from its beginnings to the present day. Professor Totman traces the country's development through successive historical phases, as early agricultural society based on non-intensive forms of cultivation gave way to more intensified forms. With each stage came greater utilisation of natural resources but a steady reduction in the richness of the indigenous biosystem. By the late seventeenth century the country was well on the way to ecological disaster. Yet Japan's isolation in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries led to an unusually enlightened set of environmental policies, and the system of regenerative forestry brought in during the Tokugawa period prevented certain devastation of the country's forests. At the end of the nineteenth century, however, the country began to go to the opposite extreme, as industrialisation brought with it a period of unprecedented change. Growth and diversification led to a surge in environmental pollution as it became necessary to look beyond the country's domestic natural resources to meet the demand for foodstuffs, fossil fuels and the raw materials necessary to an advanced industrial economy. The population was particularly badly affected, and some of the problems that emerged, especially from the 1960s onwards, provided important test cases not just for Japan but worldwide. What makes the Japanese story particularly instructive is that the country's boundaries are uncommonly clear and the nature, timing, and extent of external influences on its history are unusually identifiable. The Japanese experience, therefore, not only yields important insights into the processes of environmental history, it offers important lessons for the wider environmental history of the planet and for our understanding of current global ecological problems. A work of immense erudition and reflecting a lifetime of scholarship, Japan: an Environmental History will be welcomed by all with an interest in environmental history and the historical development of Japan.