OECD Environmental Performance Reviews
Subtitle: Japan 2002
By: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Series: OECD environmental performance reviews; OECD Environmental Performance Reviews
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9789264175334
Subjects: Ecology; Euthenics; Nature and nurture; Adaptation (Biology)
Description: This review of Japan's environmental conditions and policies evaluates progress in reducing the pollution burden, improving natural resource management, integrating environmental and economic policies, and strengthening international co-operation. The analyses presented are supported by a broad range of economic and environmental data.
Table of contents: title: Conclusions and Recommendations; title: PART I. ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; title: 1. Implementing Environmental Policies; title: -1. Evaluation of Performance; title: 2. Focus on Selected Topics; title: Development of Environmental Institutions; title: Environmental Legislation in the 1990s; title: 2. Air Management; title: 1. Evaluation of Performance; title: Evolution of Air Emissions; title: Improvements in Urban Air Quality; title: Key Trends in the Transport Sector; title: Automobile NOx Law; title: 3. Water Management; title: Reducing Nitrogen and Phosphorus Loads; title: Water Supply Development; title: River Control and Floodplain Management; title: Towards a Basin and Ecosystem Approach; title: 4. Waste Management; title: Evolution of Waste Management Legislation; title: Constraint on Waste Management Policy: Limited Landfill Capacity; title: Towards Extended Producer Responsibility; title: Dumping on Teshima Island; title: 5. Nature and Biodiversity; title: National Surveys; title: Wetlands and Ramsar Sites; title: PART II. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; title: 6. Integration of Environmental Concerns in Economic Decisions; title: Economic Context; title: The Pollution-Related Health Damage Compensation and Prevention System; title: 7. Enviornmental-Social Interface; title: Social Context; title: Local Agenda 21 and River Basin Partnerships; title: 8. Sectoral Integration: Chemicals; title: Reducing the Presence of POPs: Major Progress in the 1990s; title: Environmental Monitoring of Chemicals; title: Regulation of the Production, Import, and Use of Chemicals; title: Towards Preventive Chemical Management: PRTR; title: PART III. INTERNATIONAL COMMITMENTS; title: 9. Climate Change; title: CO2 Emissions from Energy Production and Use; title: Key Energy Trends in the 1990s; title: Top-Runner Energy Efficiency Standards; title: 10. International Cooperation; title: Marine Pollution; title: Management of Living Marine Resources; title: Environmental Development Aid; title: Other Bilateral and Regional Cooperation; title: Transboundary Air Pollution; title: Additional Global issues; title: Oil Spill Response Capabilities: Progress in the 1990s; title: Whales Captured by Japan; title: Annex IA. Selected Environmental Data; title: Annex IB. Selected Economic Data; title: Annex IC. Selected Social Data; title: Annex IIA. Selected Multilateral Agreements (Worldwide); title: Annex IIB. Selected Multialteral Agreements (Regional); title: Annex III. Selected Environmental Events; title: Annex IV. Physical Context