Acid rain science and politics in Japan : a history of knowledge and action toward sustainability
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Kenneth E Wilkening
- ناشر : Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2004
- شابک / ISBN : 9780262232357
Description
Series Foreword ix Acknowledgments xi Notes on Style xiii Abbreviations and Acronyms xv 1 Sustainable Rain? 1 2 Sustainable Science, Politics, and Environment 11 Packages of Science 13 The Role of Science in Environmental Policy 22 3 Nature, Culture, and the Acid Deposition Problem in Japan 33 The Acid Deposition Problem 33 Nature and Culture in Japan 38 Science in Japan 48 Japan’s Acid Deposition History 54 4 Period 1 (1868–1920): Copper Mines and Early Precipitation Chemistry 61 First Environmental Era (1868–1945): Prewar Industrialization 61 Copper Mines 62 Early Precipitation Chemistry 76 Analysis of Period 1 78 5 Period 2 (1920–1945): Flowering of Precipitation Chemistry 95 Early Urban Air Pollution 95 Precipitation Chemistry Comes of Age 97 Analysis of Period 2 112 6 Period 3 (1945–1974): Air Pollution Reigns 121 Second Environmental Era (1945–1967): Postwar Reconstruction 121 Third Environmental Era (1967–1973): Domestic Environmental Revolution 126 Quiet Acid Deposition Research 133 Analysis of Period 3 141 7 Period 4 (1974–1983): Moist Air Pollution 149 Fourth Environmental Era (1973–1990): Transition 149 Moist Air Pollution 152 After Moist Air Pollution 158 Analysis of Period 4 163 8 Period 5 (1983–1990): Ecological Acid Deposition Research 173 Acid Rain Surveys 173 Analysis of Period 5 182 9 Period 6 (1990–present): East Asian Transboundary Air Pollution 193 Fifth Environmental Era (1990–present): Global Environment 194 Internationalization of Acid Deposition 197 Regime Formation and Regional Sustainability 222 10 Sustainable Rain: Knowledge and Action 225 Appendix: Japan’s Present-Day Acid Deposition Science 237 Major Scientific Research Programs 238 LRT Problem-Framework 242 Notes 265 References 289 Index 315
