Suchergebnisse

Preface -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Part I Principles for Sustainability -- Chapter 2 Role of Legislators in Creating and Sustaining Governance for a Sustainable Future -- Chapter 3 Another Boundary Problem: Democracy, Future Generations, and the All-affected Principle -- Chapter 4 Another Reason for Caring about Future Generations -- Chapter 5 Responding to Existential Risks: Grounds, Targets, and Strategies -- Chapter 6 Trade-off between Repugnant and Sadistic Conclusions under the Separability of People's Lives -- Chapter 7 Dealing with "Wickedness" in Long-term Problem-solving -- Chapter 8 Governing Long-term Structural Changes in Socio-technological Systems and Their Difficulties: What do Sustainability Transition Studies Have to Address? -- Chapter 9 The Politics of Eco-nomics: A Critical Investigation of 'the Governance for a Sustainable Future' from the Perspective of Heterodox Economics -- Part II Strategies for Futurity -- Chapter 10 Tokyo's Linked CO2 Cap-and-Trade Program: A Blueprint for Cooperative Market-based Megacity Climate Policy? -- Chapter 11 Multidimensional Policy Analysis of the Energy System Transition in Japan: Case Studies of Local Energy Systems and Lessons to Improve Sustainability -- Chapter 12 Climate Change Adaptation for Futurity: Public-Private Partnerships in the Japanese Insurance Sector -- Chapter 13 Keeping Your Fossil-fuel Cake While Eating It? Comparing the Decarbonization Approach of BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell -- Chapter 14 Decarbonization and Critical Raw Materials -- Chapter 15 The Politics of Evidence in Japan: Struggling between Efficiency and Effectiveness and Beyond -- Chapter 16 Governance under Uncertainties for the COVID-19 Pandemic: Policy Lessons Learned in Japan from Resilience Perspectives -- Chapter 17 The Challenges for Health Systems and Policies: Growing Medicalization and Global Risks.

The idea of sustainable development is often referred to in the public forum, however this does not necessarily mean that it is also widely accepted as a living philosophy, nor that it has come to be embodied in public policy. Consequently, there is a need to precisely examine the problems brought about by the economic mechanisms standing in the way of this goal—in particular globalization—and to draw up plans to counteract these influences. In the meantime, sustainability transitions do require a series of system innovations and transitions, and it is important to foster robust environmental governance for sustainable development. This book aims firstly to examine the implications of the idea of sustainable development for institutional and policy designs. Secondly, it aims to clarify the political, social and economic conditions for successful sustainability transitions, by means of the detailed empirical analysis of a host of challenging social experiments for sustainable development. Finally, it searches for, and formulates, a viable theory of transition management for sustainable development.

In this new installment in Policy Press's successful International Library of Policy Analysis series, Japanese scholars offer for the first time a detailed examination of the theory and practice of policy analysis systems in Japan. Together they make expert assessments of the extent to which the Japanese government has provided key policy actors with evidence-informed policy options and, thereby, improved the likelihood of better policies being adopted and implemented. Policy Analysis in Japan also assesses Japan's future policy directions, allowing policy researchers and practitioners to draw a number of lessons from the Japanese experience. Featuring empirical case studies to aid teaching and further research, this collection will be a valuable resource for students, academics, and policy makers. --Provided by publisher.