Environmental politics in Japan, Germany, and the United States / Miranda A. Schreurs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schreurs, Miranda A. (Miranda Alice), 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental policy--Japan--Case studies.

Environmental policy.

Environmental policy--Germany--Case studies.

Environmental policy--United States--Case studies.

United States.

Germany.

Japan.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 291 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Summary:

A decade of climate change negotiations almost ended in failure because of the different policy approaches of the industrialized states. Japan, Germany, and the United States exemplify the deep divisions that exist among states in their approaches to environmental protection. Germany is following what could be called the green social welfare state approach to environmental protection, which is increasingly guided by what is known as the precautionary principle. In contrast, the USA is increasingly leaning away from the use of environmental regulations, towards the use of market-based mechanisms to control pollution and cost-benefit analysis to determine when environmental protection should take precedence over economic activities. Internal political divisions mean that Japan sits uneasily between these two approaches. Miranda A. Schreurs uses a variety of case studies to explore why these different policy approaches emerged and what their implications are, examining the differing ideas, actors, and institutions in each state.

Contents:

2 The birth of environmental movements and programs 32

3 The institutionalization of environmental movements 60

4 Acid rain: signs of policy divergence 92

5 Stratospheric ozone depletion 116

6 Global climate change: the road to UNCED 144

7 Global climate change: the battle over Kyoto 176

8 Global environmental politics and environmental policy communities 210

9 Domestic politics and the global environment: Japan, Germany, and the US compared 241.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-282) and index.

ISBN:

0521819121

0521525373

OCLC:

49611115

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