Environmental Policy in Japan

Edited by Hidefumi Imura, Professor, Department of Urban Environment, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Japan and Miranda A. Schreurs, Lehrstuhl für Environmental and Climate Policy, Hochschule für Politik München an der Technischen Universität München, Germany

• Contents: Preface 1. Learning from Japanese Environmental Management Experiences 2. Japan’s Environmental Policy: Past and Future 3. Japan’s Environmental Policy: Institutions and the Interplay of Actors 4. Economic Implications of Pollution Control Policy in Japan 5. Japan’s Environmental Politics: Recognition and Response Processes 6. Japan’s Environmental Policy: International Cooperation 7. Environmental Policy Instruments 8. Case Studies of Environmental Politics in Japan 9. Local Government, Industry and Pollution Control 10. Japan’s Environmental Policy: Financial Mechanisms 11. Environmental Industries and Technologies in Japan 12. Japan’s Environmental Management Experiences: Strategic Implications for Asia’s Developing Countries 13. Environmental Policy Making in the Advanced Industrialized Countries: Japan, the European Union and the United States of America Compared 14. Evaluating Japan’s Environmental Policy Performance References Index

'This book is a must; it is best reading for all interested in or working on environmental policy formulation and implementation, be it in a polluted industrial country or in a polluting developing country.'