TY - BOOK ID - 32062612 TI - Environmental politics in Japan : networks of power and protest PY - 1998 SN - 9780521564243 9780511571060 9780521665742 0521564247 0521665744 0511571062 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - J4419 KW - J4301 KW - J7510 KW - J4010 KW - -Environmentalism KW - -#SBIB:35H434 KW - #SBIB:35H6089 KW - Japan: Economy and industry -- industrial organization and relations -- industry and society and environment KW - Japan: Economy and industry -- policy, legislation, guidelines, codes of behavior KW - Japan: Natural sciences and technology -- biology -- ecology (general) KW - Japan: Social sciences in general -- ideology, socio-political and socio-economic movements KW - -Beleidssectoren: milieubeleid en ruimtelijke ordening KW - Bestuur en beleid: nationale en regionale studies: Japan KW - Environmental policy KW - Environmentalism KW - Human ecology KW - Political aspects KW - #SBIB:003.IO KW - #SBIB:35H434 KW - Ecology KW - Environment, Human KW - Human beings KW - Human environment KW - Ecological engineering KW - Human geography KW - Nature KW - Environmental movement KW - Social movements KW - Anti-environmentalism KW - Sustainable living KW - Beleidssectoren: milieubeleid en ruimtelijke ordening KW - Social aspects KW - Effect of environment on KW - Effect of human beings on KW - Environmental protection KW - Environnement KW - Protection KW - Politique gouvernementale KW - Japan: Science and technology -- biology -- ecology (general) KW - Greenwashing KW - Social Sciences KW - Anthropology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32062612 AB - After World War Two, Japan attained economic growth but suffered environmental disaster. In response to massive protest in the 1960s and 1970s, the Japanese government rapidly reduced the worst air and water pollution. Jeffrey Broadbent's case study of industrial growth and pollution in a rural Japanese prefecture explains this response while testing political, social movement and environmental theory. The state, conservative political party and big business pushed rampant growth until movements posed a political and disruptive challenge. Then, the elites passed some pollution control, but also demobilized local protest, quashed discontent, and prevented the formation of national environmental groups. Without the protest threat, business stymied other government pollution-control plans. The interaction of material, institutional and cultural factors, especially informal institutions, explained the dominance of actors and the pattern of outcomes. Through this syncretic lens in a non-Western setting, this study refines our theories of the state, protest movements, political process, and environmental problems. ER -