The Economics of Waste and Pollution Management in Japan

1. Front Matter

   Pages II-VII

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2. Introduction: What Is Waste?

   • Fumikazu Yoshida

   Pages 1-8

3. Environmental Cleanup and Cost Bearing: The Methodological Problems

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   Pages 9-17

4. Environment Politics in Japan

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   Pages 19-30

5. Economic Analysis of Waste Management in Japan

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   Pages 31-54

6. High-Tech Pollution—A Historical Survey of Problems Generated by the High-Tech Industries

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   Pages 55-110

7. The Current State of High-Tech Pollution

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   Pages 111-130

8. Geo-Pollution and a Cleanup System

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   Pages 131-149

9. Itai-Itai Disease and Countermeasures Against Cadmium Pollution by the Kamioka Mine

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   Pages 151-161

10. Accumulated Pollution and the PPP—Mainly Heavy Metal Pollution

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    Pages 163-181

11. Back Matter

    Pages 183-187

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On the threshold of the twenty-first century, the ordinary Japanese citizen has become acutely aware that various environmental hazards pose a serious threat to daily life; such hazards include the problems of waste disposal, dioxin and other substances that disturb humans' endocrine balance. Who, a mere decade ago when these problems were first brought to our attention, would have anticipated that these environmental problems would so quickly become so common and so serious? At the same time, environmental problems on a global scale, such as ozone depreciation by chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), global warming and climate change, have become topics of everyday conversation. The main objective of this book is to take in these environmental problems, focus­ ing on the two locally important and interrelated issues of waste and pollution. This will enable us to investigate the whole range of problems, from regionally based pol­ lution caused by waste disposal and dioxin to the transboundary warming brought about by CO and CFCs. We shall thus be able to analyze comprehensively the whole 2 extent of "waste and pollution" problems, ranging from those caused by real garbage and domestic waste to the many kinds of technologically generated waste that result from the production, circulation, and consumption of industrial goods and services.

• Contemporary Japan
• Waste
• global warming
• political economy
• pollution
• production

• Graduate School of Economics, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

  Fumikazu Yoshida

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