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Transnational Japan in the Global Environmental Movement
9780824867164

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Simon Avenell

Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction. Japan and the Global Environmental Movement
CHAPTER 1. Japanese Industrial Pollution and Environmental Injustice
CHAPTER 2. The Therapy of Translocal Community
CHAPTER 3. The Human Limits to Growth Japanese Activists at UNCHE
CHAPTER 4. Pollution Export and Victimhood
CHAPTER 5. Pacific Solidarity and Atomic Aggression
CHAPTER 6. Globality through Local Eyes
CONCLUSION. Transnational Activism, the Local, and Japanese Civil Society
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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