The transformation of Japan's environmental policy

Takao, Y.

doi:10.1080/09644016.2012.686224

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“…Bernstein and Cashore [11] likewise favor more attention to the issue of domestic influences of environmental regimes and broader international influences. Still, in spite of two decades of continuously evolving and widening international efforts to deal with climate change, attention to such perspectives has been modest [11][12][13][14][15][16].…”

Section: Domestic Politics Governmental Authority Structures and Intmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Second-Image Reversed and Climate Policy: How International Influences Helped Changing Brazil’s Positions on Climate Change

Kasa

2013

Sustainability

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Abstract:International climate policy over the last 7-8 years has been characterized by the increasing involvement of developing countries. While COP-13 at Bali marked a stronger willingness to participate in mitigation efforts in principle, there are now numerous examples of domestic programs for mitigation by this group of countries. Brazil has gone furthest among developing countries, with a substantial voluntary commitment to reduce its emissions proclaimed in 2009. The dynamics behind the change in Brazil's position are discussed, with a particular eye to the effects of international influences. In conjunction with important domestic changes, a set of interacting influences through a variety of pathways both changed preferences among important interest groups in Brazilian society towards favoring some kind of commitments and helped to change the structure of government forums and decision-making rules in a way that empowered reform-minded ministries. It is argued that this perspective, drawn from Peter Gourevitch's idea of the -second image reversed‖, is increasingly relevant for understanding the influence of the broad -regime complex‖ on climate change on politics in developing countries.

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Section: Domestic Politics Governmental Authority Structures and Intmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Second-Image Reversed and Climate Policy: How International Influences Helped Changing Brazil’s Positions on Climate Change

Kasa

2013

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“…Japanese environmental diplomacy has often been analysed as devoid of such a security dimension (Takao 2012;Morishima 2003;Sakaguchi et al 2021). But the rescaling to the Indo-Pacific shows the clear interconnection of these policy fields.…”

Section: Japan In East Asiamentioning

confidence: 99%

Regional powers and the politics of scale

2023

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This article discusses the usefulness of studying regional powers through a ‘politics-of-scale’ lens. We argue that this approach, borrowed from political geography, helps to better understand whether and how actors navigate the complex landscape of ‘scales’ in international politics. The combination of regional powers literature with political geography allows us to grasp the unexplored nuances of how power behaviour transcends regional and global levels and what actors (beyond the state) and processes constitute it. We test the empirical applicability of ‘politics-of-scale’ with the help of two country studies within the field of environmental politics: Japan, whose regional power status has been contested, but has used cooperation in the field of environment to establish itself as a regional leader within different spaces of its neighbourhood and Australia, which has reconstructed its climate regionalism in order support domestic politics and related to important domestic interest groups.

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“…Environmental politics is an arena where decision-makers need to choose how to reconcile domestic constraints and foreign pressures (Takao, 2012). Both Korea and Japan are Asian developmentalism, and differ from Chinese developmentalism.…”

Section: From Japan To Koreamentioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental Security in the Asia-Pacific

2015

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The transformation of Japan's environmental policy

Cited by 8 publications

References 33 publications

The Second-Image Reversed and Climate Policy: How International Influences Helped Changing Brazil’s Positions on Climate Change

The Second-Image Reversed and Climate Policy: How International Influences Helped Changing Brazil’s Positions on Climate Change

Regional powers and the politics of scale

Environmental Security in the Asia-Pacific

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