Environmental Politics in Japan : Networks of Power and Protest (Paperback)

List of figures and tables; Preface; 1. Growth versus the environment in Japan; 2. Visions and realities of growth; 3. Protest and policy change; 4. Movement startups; 5. Protest against landfill No. 8; 6. Under the machine; 7. The Governor gives in; 8. Contested consensus; 9. Pyrrhic victories; 10. Power, protest, and political change; Appendix 1: Meso-networks and macro-structures; Appendix 2: Oita Prefecture and Japan National Growth and environmental key events: 1955?1980; Appendix 3: Pollution legislation at prefectural and national levels: 1964?1985; References; Index.