Monitoring environmental sustainability in Japan
An Esgap assessment
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 12950185 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Masahiro Sato (0000-0001-9679-5212, Tohoku University, autor de correspondencia), Arkaitz Usubiaga‐Liaño (0000-0002-2352-5489, Basque Centre for Climate Change), Alison Fairbrass (0000-0002-4907-9683, Centre for Sustainable Energy), Paul Ekins (0000-0003-1975-434X, Centre for Sustainable Energy), Jusen Asuka (0000-0003-4092-7743, Tohoku University) |
| Año | 2024 |
| Volumen | 19 |
| Número | 2 |
| Páginas | 539-553 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2024-01-10 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Sustainability Science (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 1862-4057 • E-ISSN: 1862-4065 |
| Editorial | Springer Science+Business Media (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s11625-023-01441-x |
| OpenAlex | W4390697513 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 1 |
| Referencias citadas | 23 |
This paper assesses the environmental sustainability of Japan by applying the environmental sustainability gap (ESGAP) framework, which builds on the concepts of strong sustainability, critical natural capital, environmental functions, and science-based reference values. The assessment is carried out using two indices of environmental sustainability (Strong Environmental Sustainability Index (SESI) and Strong Environmental Sustainability Progress Index (SESPI)) that provide a snapshot and a trend perspective on environmental sustainability performance and on progress toward it. The results reveal that Japan has not experienced significant changes in terms of aggregate environmental sustainability throughout the 2011–2017 period, but this is primarily a consequence of the mutually offsetting movements of different indicators. The country performs best for the human health and other welfare indicators, but worst for the sink function indicators such as the per-capita CO 2 emissions and the eutrophication of fresh water. The indices also expose the main policy areas that Japan needs to strengthen to improve its environmental performance. They include issues such as tropospheric ozone pollution, which has long been discussed in scientific literature but never been a primal policy focus of the government until very recently
Economics · Environmental degradation · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Environmental Sustainability Index · Natural resource economics · Sustainability · Sustainability organizations · Sustainability science · Sustainable development · Environmental Education and Sustainability · Environmental Science · Sustainable Building Design and Assessment · Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy · Ecology
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