Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxxi, 412 Seiten)
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Diagramme
ISBN:
9783030545147
Series Statement:
International Political Economy Ser.
Content:
Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- Overview -- Explaining National Variation -- The Focus of This Volume -- Contribution -- Plan of This Book -- References -- Part I New Challenges and Opportunities in Japan -- 2 Japan's Energy Policy and Community Power Movement After the Fukushima Nuclear Accident -- "The Happy Land" Suddenly Turned to "the Land of Tragedy" -- Japan's Curious Political Stability After the Accident -- Nuclear Energy Debates After Fukushima -- Risk of Nuclear Accident in a Quake-Prone Archipelago -- Financial Risk for Utility Companies and Plant Makers -- Handling Spent Nuclear Fuel and Three Endemic Problems -- Potential Nuclear Deterrence and the Risk of Nuclear Armament -- Reasons to Keep Nuclear Power Plants for Power Companies -- Rush of New Coal-Fired Plants Across the Nation -- The Tough Challenge of Promoting Wind Turbines in Japan -- The Community Power Movement in Japan -- Community Wind Power Cases in Japan -- Citizens' Communal Wind Generator Campaign from Sapporo -- The Fukushima Recovery Projects of Solar PV in Fukushima Prefecture -- Conclusions -- References -- 3 Why Japan Is No-Longer a Front-Runner: Domestic Politics, Renewable Energy, and Climate Change Policy -- Introduction -- National Energy Strategy and Climate Change Policy in Japan -- Japan's Domestic Politics and Diplomacy on Climate Change -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 Japan's Nuclear Safety Regulation Policy -- The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident1 and Its Aftermath -- The NRA -- Nuclear Safety Regulation -- New Safety Standards -- Safety Reviews -- Slow Reactor Restarts and a Shrinking Reactor Fleet -- Critical Public Opinion and Lawsuits Challenging Safety Assessments -- Conclusions -- References.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783030545130
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe New challenges and solutions for renewable energy Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021 ISBN 303054513X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783030545130
Language:
English
Subjects:
Economics
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