Current and future trends in Japan's environmental policy: Balance between technological and nontechnological approaches
Conference
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· World Resource Review; (United States)
OSTI ID:7159766
- Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States). Inst. of Environmental Studies
The main objective of this paper is to assess the balance between the intensity of scientific technological actions and the maturity of socio-environmental endeavors in Japan. Both are similarly significant and form a basis for international contribution for environmental protection. It was once argued by Skolnikoff that science and technology alone are not the causes of change. Rather it is the interaction in myriads of ways of the scientific and technological enterprises with social, economic and political aspects of human affairs that brings change''. The statement implies that it is noteworthy to discuss the impact of Japan's tendency to balance the technological efforts and the reform of non-technological structures, which governs Japan's actions on international affairs. The structure of this paper has three main bodies: (1) review and assessment of current environmental technology development in Japan, (2) assessment of the current discrepancies in Japan's environmental politics and the balance of Japan's policy implementation, and (3) review and assessment of the societal situation of Japan in regards to the environmental concerns, the potential impacts on the international arena and some recommendations.
- OSTI ID:
- 7159766
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-930415--
- Conference Information:
- Journal Name: World Resource Review; (United States) Journal Volume: 5:4
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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