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Covers the period, 1992-2003

The central message of the book is that stakeholder participation in the governance of fisheries is beneficial, but confers responsibilities as well as rights: all stakeholders have a public duty to act as stewards of the marine environment. With chapters by leading scholars and participants in fisheries governance, this book recounts contemporary techniques of public participation, and develops a new concept of environmental stewardship as a form of fisheries governance.

The impact of the economic downturn and the increase in financial scandals emerging from major corporations has generated a growing interest in governance issues and has emphasized the need for companies to be transparent in their dealings with shareholders and the markets. Although the issues in Asia are fundamentally similar to those in the rest of the world, there are some crucial differences in the way in which Asian corporations acknowledge and confront these issues and in the political and legal frameworks under which they operate. Using examples of good and bad governance, Roche analyzes if the Asian approach to governance issues is unique. Business and finance students, as well as executives with an interest in Asian business or corporate governance will find this an authoritative and insightful guide to this complex and important topic.

Contested Governance in Japan extends the analysis of governance in contemporary Japan by exploring both the sites and issues of governance above and below the state as well as within it. This volume discusses the contested nature of governance in Japan and the ways in which a range of actors are involved in different sites and issues of governance at home, in the region and the globe. It includes chapters on global governance, local policy-making, democracy, environmental governance, the Japanese financial system, corruption, the family and corporate governance.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Assessing Multiculturalism Theoretically: E Pluribus Unum, Sic et Non -- 2 Strangers and Compatriots: The Political Theory of Cultural Diversity -- 3 Multiculturalism and Political Integration in the Modern Nation-State -- 4 The Sociology of Multiculturalism: Is Culture the Name of the Game? -- 5 Multiculturalism in Contemporary Britain: Community Cohesion, Urban Riots and the 'Leicester Model' -- 6 Multiculturalism in France -- 7 Multiculturalism in Germany: The Local Management of Immigrants' Social Inclusion -- 8 Boundary Change and Ethnic Separation in South-Eastern Europe, 1919-1999: The Role of the Great Powers -- 9 Ethnic Conflict in the Former Soviet Union: The Problem of Governance -- 10 Pluralism and Multiculturalism in Colonial and Post-Colonial Society -- 11 Malaysia and Capitalist Modernization: Plural and Multicultural Models -- 12 Is Multiculturalism a Workable Policy in South Africa? -- 13 Multiculturalism in Contemporary India -- 14 Pluralism and Democracy in Pakistan -- 15 Sikhs in Multicultural Societies -- 16 Multiculturalism in Japan: Citizenship Policy for Immigrants -- 17 From Multiculturalism to Hybridity: The Chinese in Canada -- Afterword -- Index