Hidefumi Imura, Miranda A. Schreurs (Eds.), Environmental Policy in Japan

摘要

This is, I'm sure, the most comprehensive and the best book ever on Japan's environmental policy. It contains 14 chapters, written by 11 authors, the two editors particularly involved, with Imura writing 5 and contributing to 3 chapters, and Schreurs to 2 chapters. It is a book on the environmental past, present, and future, a book on suffering and relief, the costs of economic growth, and the benefits of environment-friendly technology. It is a book about blindness to environmental damage and about compensation for damage, damage to people, and damage to nature. It is, especially, a book on actors; the destroyers and the defenders; economists and environmentalists; about government, industry, and civil society; the legislative, the executive, and the judicial branch of government; about hardliners and softies; pretenders and doers; learners and deniers; and about those who first denied and then learned.