Sustainability and the Automobile Industry in Asia: Policy and Governance (Routledge Studies in Sustainability) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032336838 ISBN 13: 9781032336831

Publisher: Routledge, 2022

Synopsis

This book provides a wealth of information and a critically required framework for sustainable automobile policy development in major Asian countries.

It also gives wide-ranging policy options, ranging from technological to institutional solutions to automobile emission problems, based on empirical case studies and comparative policy and regulatory analysis. It is a useful reference with valuable insights on how rapidly changing economies are adopting their policy and regulatory structures to cope with the progressively severe environmental impacts of automobile increase.

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About the Author

Aki Suwa is a professor at the Faculty of Contemporary Society, Kyoto Women’s University, Japan. Her research focuses on how environmental understanding facilitates policy formulation, and how this subsequently influences the degree of policy implementation on the ground.

Masahiko Iguchi is an associate professor at the Faculty of International Relations, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan. His main research interests are within the fields of global sustainability governance and international politics, with a particular focus on private regulation and governance, and on the climate and transport sectors.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032336838
• ISBN 13: 9781032336831
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 180
• Editor: Suwa Aki, Iguchi Masahiko