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list price: $97.00
edition:Hardcover
category: Business & Economics
published: Feb 2000
ISBN:9780774807630
publisher:
UBC Press
Description
This authoritative study of Japan’s environmental problems is by the country’s leading environmental economist, Shigeto Tsuru. The author places environmental issues within a socio-economic context. In providing an historical account of environmental disruption in Japan, Professor Tsuru cites a number of key cases of industrial pollution in the pre-war and post-war periods and illustrates the effectiveness of such a strategy not only for Japan but any developed country. Finally, the author proposes a set of countermeasures against environmental problems, applicable to all developed countries today, aimed at achieving a new "quality of life."
Contributor Notes
Shigeto Tsuru is Professor Emeritus and former President of Hitotsubashi University. He has been deeply concerned with environmental questions since 1970 and convened a conference in Tokyo which focused on environmental problems and sparked a massive environmental cleanup. His previous publications include The Economic Development of Modern Japan (1995), Economic Theory and Capitalist Society (1994), Institutional Economics Revisited (1993) and Japan’s Capitalism: Creative Defeat and Beyond (1992).
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