Overcoming Environmental Risks to Achieve Sustainable Development Goals

Lessons from the Japanese Experience

Tamie Nakajima, Keiko Nakamura, Keiko Nohara, Akihiko Kondoh (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

176 Seiten

2022 | 1st ed. 2022
Springer Verlag, Singapore
978-981-16-6251-5 (ISBN)

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This thought-provoking book examines how the accumulated knowledge on past and present environmental issues and risks within Japan can be applied in order to help deliver the transformation to a sustainable and well-being society. The book opens with a series of case analyses on environmental pollution events and pollution-related diseases within the country over the past half century or more. Lessons learned regarding the harm to society are highlighted. Diverse current environmental issues are then explored in detail, ranging from the management of hazardous chemical and asbestos exposure to marine plastic pollution and nuclear disasters. This discussion forms the basis for the final part of the book, which focuses on how progress can be made towards the Sustainable Development Goals set out in the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Important insights are also provided into future directions in human ecology and ecotoxicology. The book will be a valuable resource for both new and established researchers as well as for those seeking comprehensive information on environmental/occupational health and health promotion.

Tamie NakajimaCollege of Life and Health Sciences, Chubu UniversityKasugai, Aichi, Japan Keiko NakamuraDepartment of Global Health Entrepreneurship, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan Keiko NoharaHealth and Environmental Risk Division, National Institute for Environmental StudiesTsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan Akihiko KondohCenter for Environmental Remote Sensing, Chiba UniversityChiba, Japan

1 Purpose of This e-Book.- Part 1 Learning from Case Analysis of Past Environmental Risks.- 2 Minamata Disease.- 3 Itai-Itai Disease: Health issues caused by environmental exposure to cadmium and residents’ fight to rebuild the environment in the Jinzu River Basin in Toyama.- 4 Arsenic intoxication in Toroku district of Japan.- 5 Yokkaichi asthma: Health effects of air pollutants in Japan.- 6 Environmental Policy and International Environmental Cooperation Learned from the YOKKAICHI Air Pollution.- 7 What We Have Learned from the Pollution that Occurred in Japan a Half Century Ago.- Part 2 Environmental Issues That the World Is Watching Now.- 8 Current Status and Problems Concerning the Management of Persistent Or-ganic Chemicals Used in Products and those of Unintentional Products in Japan.- 9 Health risk assessment and management of asbestos exposure to the public in Japan.- 10 Marine plastic pollution: chemical aspects and possible solutions.- 11 Solution and Agreement in the Nuclear Disaster: Toward an Inclusive Society Respecting Relationship from Sacrificial System.- 12 Current environmental risks and their management in Japan.- Part 3 Towards the Realization of a Sustainable and Well-Being Society.- 13 The Future of Washing.- 14 Initiatives On Responsible Consumption—Oguni Town.- 15 From Court Decisions on Pollution to Targets of Future Actions.- 16 An Initiative of an Environmental Model City: Featuring Sustainable and Healthy Cities.- 17 Divorcing from plastics for a sustainable future society.- 18 Issues of environmental risks in the Anthropocene.- 19 Spectrum of Environmental Risk -Assessment, Management and Communication.

Erscheinungsdatum	19.12.2022
Reihe/Serie	Current Topics in Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine
Zusatzinfo	27 Illustrations, color; 16 Illustrations, black and white; X, 176 p. 43 illus., 27 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Singapore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Arbeits- / Sozial- / Umweltmedizin
	Studium ► 2. Studienabschnitt (Klinik) ► Pharmakologie / Toxikologie
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Klinische Umweltmedizin
Schlagworte	Environmental Pollution • risk assessment • Risk communication • Risk Management • SDGs
ISBN-10	981-16-6251-7 / 9811662517
ISBN-13	978-981-16-6251-5 / 9789811662515
Zustand	Neuware