Transnational Japan In The Global Environmental Movement

ISBN: 9780824867133 出版年：2017 页码：333 Avenell University of Hawai'i Press

What motivates people to become involved in issues and struggles beyond their own borders? how are activists changed and movements transformed when they reach out to others a world away? this adept study addresses these questions by tying together local, national, regional, and global historical narratives surrounding the contemporary japanese environmental movement. Spanning the era of japanese industrial pollution in the 1960s and the more recent rise of movements addressing global environmental problems, it shows how japanese activists influenced approaches to environmentalism and industrial pollution in the asia-pacific region, north america, and europe, as well as landmark united nations conferences in 1972 and 1992. Japan's experiences with diseases caused by industrial pollution produced a potent "environmental injustice paradigm" that fueled domestic protest and became the motivation for japanese groups' activism abroad. From the late 1960s onward japanese activists organized transnational movements addressing mercury contamination in europe and north america, industrial pollution throughout east asia, radioactive waste disposal in the pacific, and global climate change.