Handbook of Japan’s Environmental Law, Policy and Politics

Ohta Hiroshi is Professor at the School of International Liberal Studies (SILS), Waseda University. He received his PhD in International Relations from the Department of Political Science of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Columbia University. He is Earth System Governance Lead Faculty and currently Japan Association of International Relations Councilor. Some recent works include: “The Analysis of Japan’s Energy and Climate Policy from the Aspect of Anticipatory Governance,” Energies (2020); “EU and Japanese climate and energy security” with Katja Biedenkopf, in Emil Kirchner and Han Dorussen eds., EU-Japan Security Cooperation: Trends and Prospects (2019); and Comparative Politics about the Environmental and Energy Policies of Major States: Make a Choice for A Sustainable Society (in Japanese) (2016).

• Introduction, Part 1: The Environment and Development, Environmental Foreign Policy, and Environmental Governance, Part 2 Natural Environmental Policies and Resources Management, Part 3 Atmospheric Environmental Policies, Part 4 Nuclear Safety Policy, Disaster Management, and Industrial Waste Management, Appendix: Chronology of Major Reforms in the Japanese Political Systems since the 1990s, Index