Governance for a Sustainable Future

Yukio Adachi, Professor Emeritus at Kyoto University, is one of the founding fathers of the Public Policy Studies Association, Japan (PPSAJ), which was given birth to in June 1996. He started his academic career as a student of political philosophy, having shifted his research interest into modes of thinking required of policy professionals, via intensive study of the theories and practices of deliberations and debates. His ‘intellectual’ mentors are John Passmore, Stephen Toulmin, and Yehezkel Dror. He has published extensively over a wide range of theoretical and ethics-related issues facing policy professionals, among which are, to mention just a few, how to deal with complexities, uncertainties, and ideological conflicts among key policy actors, how it is possible to make responsibility to future generations and ecosystem a ‘living ethics’ to be substantiated by public policies, and how to improve their capacity for context-specific policy design. Makoto Usami is Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy at Kyoto University, Vice-Dean of the Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, and Councilor of the university. His areas of specialty are the philosophy of law and moral and political philosophy. He has published extensively on distributive justice, climate justice, global justice, intergenerational justice, and transitional justice. He is the author of four books and more than seventy journal articles and book chapters written in English or Japanese, while also coauthoring two textbooks and editing seven anthologies as well as one special issue of international journal.

• Preface.- Chapter 1  Introduction.- Part I  Principles for Sustainability.- Chapter 2  Role of Legislators in Creating and Sustaining Governance for a Sustainable Future.- Chapter 3  Another Boundary Problem: Democracy, Future Generations, and the All-affected Principle.- Chapter 4  Another Reason for Caring about Future Generations.- Chapter 5  Responding to Existential Risks: Grounds, Targets, and Strategies.- Chapter 6  Trade-off between Repugnant and Sadistic Conclusions under the Separability of People’s Lives.- Chapter 7  Dealing with “Wickedness” in Long-term Problem-solving.- Chapter 8  Governing Long-term Structural Changes in Socio-technological Systems and Their Difficulties: What do Sustainability Transition Studies Have to Address?.- Chapter 9  The Politics of Eco-nomics: A Critical Investigation of ‘the Governance for a Sustainable Future’ from the Perspective of Heterodox Economics.- Part II  Strategies for Futurity.- Chapter 10  Tokyo’s Linked CO2 Cap-and-Trade Program: A Blueprint for Cooperative Market-based Megacity Climate Policy?.- Chapter 11  Multidimensional Policy Analysis of the Energy System Transition in Japan: Case Studies of Local Energy Systems and Lessons to Improve Sustainability.- Chapter 12  Climate Change Adaptation for Futurity: Public-Private Partnerships in the Japanese Insurance Sector.- Chapter 13  Keeping Your Fossil-fuel Cake While Eating It? Comparing the Decarbonization Approach of BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell.- Chapter 14  Decarbonization and Critical Raw Materials.- Chapter 15  The Politics of Evidence in Japan: Struggling between Efficiency and Effectiveness and Beyond.- Chapter 16  Governance under Uncertainties for the COVID-19 Pandemic: Policy Lessons Learned in Japan from Resilience Perspectives.- Chapter 17  The Challenges for Health Systems and Policies: Growing Medicalization and Global Risks.