Three Paradigms behind River Governance in Japan
Modern Technicism, Nature Conservationism and Life Environmentalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19180683 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yukiko Kada (University of Shiga Prefecture, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 40-54 |
| Publication date | 2006-10-04 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Japanese Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0918-7545 • E-ISSN: 1475-6781 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1475-6781.2006.00084.x |
| OpenAlex | W2012074233 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
In this paper I examine river governance or river policy in Japan through the process of modernization over one century and analyze three hidden paradigms, “modern technicism”, “nature conservationism” and “life environmentalism”, with the theory of environmental value. Japanese rivers were governed traditionally by local people (life environmentalism) but the river management was put under the control of administration and the specialist (modern technicism) in the tide of modernization, and in order to confront this situation a new paradigm of “nature conservationism” was born. In the analysis of the stages of river policy development, the development of economic and political power will be traced according to an environmental sociology point of view. This means analyzing people's initiatives resulting from their recognition and value in the political and economical arena. Structuring of river governance through the interactive process of “government and self‐government” is also analyzed by putting an emphasis on local residents as a political body and second, I will describe the theoretical direction of environmental sociology. Lake Biwa and The Yodo River Basin system, which have historical importance in Japanese river policy, will be taken as an example. From the position of environmental sociology, river governance as an interactive process of “government and self‐governance” based on independence of people, is one practical model that can give us important keys for the new river governance, transcending difference of social conditions. Consider learning the spirit of traditional communal structure as a process of practice for building a new communalism, life environmentalism model, which fits today's society
Corporate governance · Ecological modernization · Economics · Environmental ethics · Environmental governance · Environmental sociology · Environmentalism · Government (linguistics) · Management · Modernization theory · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Value (mathematics) · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Public Administration
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| Citations per year | 0.38 |
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| Citation span | 2013 - 2025 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |