Industrial pollution in Japan

Author(s)

• 宇井, 純 ウイ, ジュン

Bibliographic Information

Industrial pollution in Japan

edited by Jun Ui

（Technology transfer, transformation, and development : the Japanese experience）

United Nations University Press, c1992

• : pbk

Note

"Published with the support of the University of Okinawa"

Includes bibliographical references and index

"United Nations sales no. E.91.III.A.10"--T.p. verso

"HSDB-24/UNUP-548"--T.p. verso

pbk: "HSDB-48/UNUP-816"

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This publication describes and analyses the negative side effects of Japan's rapid technological and industrial development since the Meiji period. It examines the socio-economic and technological causes of ecological damage through case studies of several examples of industrial pollution in the process of Japan's modernization, including the Ashio copper mine case, the Morinaga milk arsenic poisoning incident, Minamata Disease and the Miike coal mine explosion.

by "Nielsen BookData"

Details

• NCID: BA1987742X
• ISBN:
  • 9280805487
  • 9280808168
• Country Code: ja
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Tokyo
• Pages/Volumes: ix, 188 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Pollution -- Japan
  • LCSH : Factory and trade waster -- Japan
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA04196837