An important comparative study of Japanese politics that reveals that green issues have yet to displace the traditional urban politics of post-industrial Japan.

Environmental issues stretch across scales of geographic space and require action at multiple levels of jurisdiction, including the individual level, community

The first authoritative study of Japan's environmental problems by the acclaimed environmental economist, placing environmental issues within a socioeconomic co

Discusses the growth/environment dilemma in contemporary Japan. -- Preface.

This book grows out of the authors' conviction that as public policy issues become suffused with scientific and technical content, they become difficult for the