1st Edition
Japan’s Environmental Politics and Governance From Trading Nation to EcoNation
Introduction
1. The Transformation of Japan’s Environmental Policy
2. The Rigidity of Japan’s Nuclear Energy Policy: State-Centric Gate-Keeping
3. The State of Local Capacity Building: Decentralized Policy Making
4. Tokyo’s Metropolitan Cap-and-Trade: Policy Learning and Diffusion
5. Shiga’s Cooperation with UNEP: Transnational Sectoral Network
6. Kitakyushu’s Environmental Business: Utility-Based Transnationalism within Norms
7. Yokohama’s Normative Commitment: Image and Reputation
8. Expert Citizens’ Role: Civic Science in Environmental Policy
Conclusion
Biography
Yasuo Takao is Senior Lecturer of Political Science in the Department of Social Sciences and Security Studies of Curtin University, Western Australia.
