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Author Lesbirel, S. Hayden

Title NIMBY Politics in Japan : Energy Siting and the Management of Environmental Conflict
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (207 pages)
Contents Cover; NIMBY POLITICS IN JAPAN; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Maps; Tables; Preface; 1. Conflict, Bargaining, and Compensation; 2. Project Siting and Compensation; 3. Structure of the Bargaining Environment; 4. Gaining Access to Political Power; 5. Carving Up Opposition Alliances; 6. Capitalizing on External Shocks; 7. Dealing with Changing Project Costs; 8. NIMBY Politics in Japan; Notes; References; Index
Summary Negative reaction to undesirable facilities in one's neighborhood-"not in my back yard"--Isn't limited to the United States. Japanese communities have also resisted siting decisions for power plants, and have often delayed or killed projects for which a legitimate social need exists. NIMBY Politics in Japan is the first detailed account in English of energy siting disputes in postwar Japan. Based on an investigation of a hundred conventional and nuclear plants, the book draws on a wide range of local and corporate sources, as well as interviews with participants, to reveal the bargaining processes involved in social choices and their public policy outcomes. S. Hayden Lesbirel examines why some siting decisions have taken an extraordinarily long time to complete while others have proceeded rapidly. He focuses on the intensity of conflict, relative strengths among participants, and the role of compensation, and he shows how innovative uses of compensation often enable negotiated compromises to be reached. Stressing the importance of dynamic bargaining and creative responses to social and political problems, Lesbirel shows the value of negotiated compromises in Japanese consensual politics
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Subject NIMBY syndrome -- Japan
Electric power-plants -- Location -- Japan
Energy facilities -- Location -- Environmental aspects -- Japan
Energy facilities -- Location -- Social aspects -- Japan
HISTORY -- Asia -- Japan.
Electric power-plants -- Location
Energy facilities -- Location -- Environmental aspects
Energy facilities -- Location -- Social aspects
NIMBY syndrome
Energietechnische Anlage
Konfliktregelung
Standortplanung
Umweltschutz
Energiebedrijven.
Locatie.
NIMBY.
Japan
Japan
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781501745256
1501745255