Overview
- Explores current environmental issues of global significance
- Identifies policy implications for other countries
- Promotes achievement of UN Sustainable Development Goals
Part of the book series: Current Topics in Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine (CTEHPM)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Learning from Case Analysis of Past Environmental Risks
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Environmental Issues That the World Is Watching Now
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Towards the Realization of a Sustainable and Well-Being Society
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About this book
This thought-provoking book examines how the accumulated knowledge on past and present environmental issues and risks within Japan can be applied in order to help deliver the transformation to a sustainable and well-being society. The book opens with a series of case analyses on environmental pollution events and pollution-related diseases within the country over the past half century or more. Lessons learned regarding the harm to society are highlighted. Diverse current environmental issues are then explored in detail, ranging from the management of hazardous chemical and asbestos exposure to marine plastic pollution and nuclear disasters. This discussion forms the basis for the final part of the book, which focuses on how progress can be made towards the Sustainable Development Goals set out in the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Important insights are also provided into future directions in human ecology and ecotoxicology. The book will be a valuable resource for both new and established researchers as well as for those seeking comprehensive information on environmental/occupational health and health promotion.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Kasugai, Aichi, Japan
Keiko Nakamura
Department of Global Health Entrepreneurship, Tokyo Medical and Dental University,
Tokyo, Japan
Keiko Nohara
Health and Environmental Risk Division, National Institute for Environmental Studies
Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
Akihiko Kondoh
Center for Environmental Remote Sensing, Chiba University
Chiba, Japan
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Overcoming Environmental Risks to Achieve Sustainable Development Goals
Book Subtitle: Lessons from the Japanese Experience
Editors: Tamie Nakajima, Keiko Nakamura, Keiko Nohara, Akihiko Kondoh
Series Title: Current Topics in Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6249-2
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-6248-5Published: 19 November 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-6251-5Published: 20 November 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-6249-2Published: 18 November 2021
Series ISSN: 2364-8333
Series E-ISSN: 2364-8341
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 176
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 27 illustrations in colour
Topics: Medicine/Public Health, general, Environmental Health, Biomedicine, general