Acid rain science and politics in Japan : a history of knowledge and action toward sustainability /

Acid Rain Science and Politics in Japan is a pioneering work in environmental and Asian history as well as an in-depth analysis of the influence of science on domestic and international environmental politics. Kenneth Wilkening's study also illuminates the global struggle to create sustainable...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wilkening, Kenneth E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2004.
Colección:Politics, science, and the environment.
Temas:
Acid rain > Government policy > Japan > History.
Environmental management > Japan > History.
Pluies acides > Politique gouvernementale > Japon > Histoire.
Environnement > Gestion > Japon > Histoire.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Environmental > Pollution Control.
Acid rain > Government policy
Environmental management
Earth & Environmental Sciences.
Meteorology & Climatology.
Japan
ENVIRONMENT/Environmental Politics & Policy
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Sustainable rain?
  • 2. Sustainable science, politics, and environment
  • 3. Nature, culture, and the acid deposition problem in Japan
  • 4. Period 1 (1868-1920) : copper mines and early precipitation chemistry
  • 5. Period 2 (1920-1945) : flowering of precipitation chemistry
  • 6. Period 3 (1945-1974) : air pollution reigns
  • 7. Period 4 (1974-1983) : moist air pollution
  • 8. Period 5 (1983-1990) : ecological acid deposition research
  • 9. Period 6 (1990-present) : East Asian transboundary air pollution
  • 10. Sustainable rain : knowledge and action.

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