Some were launched specifically to address environmental concerns, while others turned greener as the environmental crisis deepened. The article attempts to classify them and set them in the context of wider institutional and regulatory developments. It concludes by examining the future prospects of the...
The paper discusses how corporate social responsibility in Japan has grown from environmental concerns to encompass broader social responsibilities. Special consideration is given to how CSR has emerged, been accepted and imple- mented in large corporations in today's Japan. Based on the example of ...
The Japan RoHS Law, concerns itself with the reduction, reuse and recyclability of a broad range of Product, including electrical and electronic. A Scope of Products has emerged that the Law is concerned with. Vicor does not currently produce any products which would be included in the scope ...
Japan’s primary security concerns. As to the diplomatic means for sustaining economic prosperity, postwar political arrangements continue to set its parameters. The no-war clause of the Constitution has prohibited Japan from taking any militarily aggressive foreign policy; it has abided by the ...
a) The linear pattern implies a strictly positive effect of positive and a negative effect of negative anomalies, suggesting that cold episodes – unlike heat episodes – reduce concerns and Green vote. b) The v-shaped pattern suggests a positive effect of both positive and negative anomalies. ...
At the 13th G20 summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina last year, all parties reached consensus on tackling climate change which will continue to be a major issue at the Osaka summit. However, Japan, as the host of the summit, has raised concerns by taking into account the U.S. position on...
Severe industrial pollution in Japan in the 1960s also fueled growing concerns about human unsustainable activities (Kapur, 2015). The “Big Four” industrial pollution-related diseases in Japan were “Minamata Disease” and “Niigata Disease,” both caused by mercury poisoning, “Itai–Itai ...
2020). Recent reports of unsafe disposal of medical waste in landfills or water bodies’ further raise concerns on the contamination of soil, water and marine ecosystems (Saadat et al. 2020). Initially, during the first stage of pandemic progression and lockdown being imposed in many countries,...
The displacement of people is an important consequence of climate change, as people may choose or be forced to migrate in response to adverse climate conditions or sudden-onset extreme climate events. Existing studies show that there is a consistently hi
services. These transaction costs include the operation of the bureaucracy (including the taxation mechanisms required to fund the intervention). Furthermore, there are concerns regarding the incentive of governments (politicians and bureaucrats) to achieve the environmental protection goals of the ...