The Political Economy of the Environment
Subtitle: The Case of Japan
Publisher: Univ of British Columbia Pr
Published: January 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780774807630
Subjects: Economic systems; NATURAL HISTORY, COUNTRY LIFE & PETS; Economic Conditions; Political Science; Environmental management; Environmental policy; History; Industrial management; Japan; Nature/Ecology
Description: "This authoritative study of Japan's environmental problems is by the country's leading environmental economist, Shigeto Tsuru. The author places environmental issues within a socio-economic context. In providing an historical account of environmental disruption in Japan, Professor Tsuru cites a number of key cases of industrial pollution in the pre-war and post-war periods and illustrates the effectiveness of such a strategy not only for Japan but any developed country.

Finally the author proposes a set of countermeasures against environmental problems, applicable to all developed countries today, aimed at achieving a new quality of life."--BOOK JACKET.