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NIMBY politics in Japan : energy siting and the management of environmental conflict /

Negative reaction to undesirable facilities in one's neighborhood - "not in my back yard"--Isn't limited to the United States. Japanese communities have also resisted siting decisions for power plants and have often delayed or killed projects for which a legitimate social need ex...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lesbirel, S. Hayden (Sidney Hayden), 1957-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1998.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Negative reaction to undesirable facilities in one's neighborhood - "not in my back yard"--Isn't limited to the United States. Japanese communities have also resisted siting decisions for power plants and have often delayed or killed projects for which a legitimate social need exists. NIMBY Politics in Japan is the first detailed account in English of energy-siting disputes in postwar Japan. Based on an investigation of a hundred conventional and nuclear plants, the book draws on a wide range of local and corporate sources, as well as interviews with participants, to reveal the bargaining processes involved in social choices and their public policy outcomes
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xvi, 187 pages) : maps
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-181) and index.
ISBN:9781501745256
1501745255