Kameyama Climate Change Policy in Japan

Three decades of history and beyond
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-55942-9
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 218 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Asia and the Environment

Amidst growing environmental concerns worldwide, Japan is seen as particularly vulnerable to the effects of a changing climate, with a large coastal population and frequent extreme weather events. This book analyses Japan’s response to the climate change problem from the late 1980s up to the present day, assessing how the Japanese government’s policy making process has developed over time. From the early days of climate change policy in Japan, through the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change conferences and Kyoto protocol, right up to the 2015 negotiations, the book analyses the environmental, economic and political factors that have shaped policy. As the 2015 Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change projects forward beyond 2020, the book concludes by analysing how Japan has placed itself in the global climate change debate and how the country might and should respond to the problem in the future, based on the findings from accumulated history. This is the first book to explore Japan’s climate change policy over three decades and will be of interest to students and scholars of Japanese Studies, comparative politics and climate change policy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kameyama, Yasuko

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. How has Japan Responded to Climate Change? Part 1: History of Climate Change in Japan 2. Emergence of the climate change problem and The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 3. Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC 3 and the Kyoto Protocol 4. Struggling for the "Post-Kyoto" Regime 5. The March 11 Earthquake and Reconsideration of Energy Policy 6. The 2015 Agreement for "Post-2020" Part 2: Into the Future 7. Japan’s Decision Making on Climate Change Policy 8. Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

Yasuko Kameyama is Head of the Sustainable Social Systems Section at the Center for Social and Environmental Systems Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Japan