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The Roots of Japan's Environmental Policies.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Florence :
Routledge,
2018.
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| Colección: | East Asia Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abstract; List of Tables; List of Figures; List of Abbreviations; Preface; Chapter 1: Introduction: The Global Environment and Japan; Objectives of this study; The global environment in international affairs: Japan's interests and goals; The case studies: whaling, deforestation in the tropics and acid deposition in Asia; Whaling; Deforestation in the tropics; Acid deposition in Asia.; Structure of the study; Notes; Chapter 2: Theory and Methodology; Complex interdependence, regimes and two-level games.
- "Complex interdependence"Regimes, issue areas, and national interests; Two-level games theory model; Decision making: the bureaucratic politics model and Japan's foreign policy; The bureaucratic politics model; Decision making and Japan's foreign policy; Methodology; Notes; Chapter 3: The Global Environment in Japanese Politics and the Major Domestic Policy Actors; Evolution of environmental issues in Japanese domestic politics; The Japanese government bureaucracy; Japanese government bureaucracy; Environment Agency o f Japan (JEA); Ministry o f Finance (MoF).
- M inistry o f International Trade an d IndustryMinistry o f Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry; Ministry o f Foreign Affairs; Japanese politicians; Japanese business and industry; Non-governmental organizations; Japanese academia; Think tanks"" or policy studies research institutes; The Japanese mass media; Summary; Notes; Chapter 4: Whaling; Modern whaling: a history and its present-day controversy; The whaling controversy and Japan's whaling policies; The international regime for whaling; ICRW and IWC: purpose and organization; From "whalers' club" to anti-whaling lobby.
- Passing the IWC commercial whaling moratorium and its aftermathHistory of modern Japanese whaling; Early Japanese whaling; The rise and growth of modern Japanese whaling until WorldWar II; Post-World War II Japanese whaling; Japanese research whaling, post-moratorium STCW and the whalemeat trade; U.S. domestic legislation: its impact on the international regime on whaling and Japan's whaling policy in the 1980s; Anti-whaling legislation in the United States; U.S. laws and Japan's whaling policy; Japan's policy on whaling; Objectives and rationale; Policy actors in Japan's whaling policy.
- The governmental actorsThe non-governmental actors; Chapter conclusion; Notes; Chapter 5: Deforestation in the Tropics; Tropical forests: timber source, biodiversity storehouse carbon sink and a home to many; Tropical deforestation and Japan's policy responses; The international regime for the conservation of forests in the tropics; The International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO); Tropical Forestry Action Plan (TFAP); Tropical timber ban in the European Community; Towards a global forest convention; "Non-binding Statement of Forest Principles."; Certification and eco-labeling schemes.