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  • Dec 2024

Comprehensive Evaluation of Environmental Management Policies and Technologies

Editors:

  1. Yoshiro Higano

    1. Graduate School of Life Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba Dept. Sustainable Environmental Stu, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

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  • Incorporates the three balances—value, material and energy—in an evaluation method providing informative analysis for decision makers in environmental policy
  • Furnishes a comprehensive analysis of the status quo policies of China, a key player in international cooperation
  • Is informative for critical decision making at several stages of R&D and offers suggestions for implementation of R&D policy

Part of the book series: New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives (NFRSASIPER, volume 3)

About this book

This book integrates value balance, material balance and energy balance into the interaction model of socioeconomic activities and the environment, providing a comprehensive environmental policy and technology evaluation method accessible for planners and decision makers who must determine the most effective environmental remediation technologies and policies. It provides the intellectual groundwork indispensable for understanding the importance of taking the three balances into account when the optimal set of technologies and policies is decided. It offers, as well, an ecological institutional framework for sustainable development and construction of a low-carbon society. The topics addressed in this book include, inter alia, social versus private value balances and the necessity of environmental policies in motion; the need for evaluation of environmental impacts on all environmental media based on material balance; the necessity of differentiation between fossil versus non-fossil energy sources based on energy balance and improvement of the trade-off between economic development and conservation of the environment with adoption of advanced environmental remediation technologies and policies. These topics are illustrated by applying a comprehensive evaluation method to urgent environmental issues such as sustainable development compatible with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) scenario in developing countries, the ecological institutional framework after COP3, an inclusive watershed management focusing on sustainable development, wide-ranging waste management and construction of a circular-oriented society. The book is highly recommended to readers who seek a comprehensive policy evaluation method for environmental remediation technologies adaptable to complex issues.
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Keywords

  • Circular-Oriented Society
  • Comprehensive Evaluation
  • Integrated Watershed Management
  • Remediation Technology
  • Three Balances
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Graduate School of Life Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba Dept. Sustainable Environmental Stu, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

    Yoshiro Higano

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Comprehensive Evaluation of Environmental Management Policies and Technologies

  • Editors: Yoshiro Higano

  • Series Title: New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives

  • Publisher: Springer Tokyo

  • eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Japan KK, part of Springer Nature 2024

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-4-431-54821-8Due: 12 January 2025

  • eBook ISBN: 978-4-431-54822-5Due: 12 January 2025

  • Series ISSN: 2199-5974

  • Series E-ISSN: 2199-5982

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 250

  • Number of Illustrations: 65 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour

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