POLES APART: INDUSTRIAL WASTE MANAGEMENT REGULATION AND ENFORCEMENT IN THE UNITED STATES AND JAPAN

AOKI, KAZUMASU;CIOFFI, JOHN W.

LAW AND POLICY, n.º 3/1999, pág. 213

1. Introduction. 2. The company. 3. Generalenvironmental issues in the United States: the salience oflegal costs. 4. General environmental issues in Japan: theinternational political economy of environmental management.5. Waste management regulation in the United States:adversarialism by prescription. 6. Waste managementregulation in Japan. 7. Attitudes, institutions, andenvironmental regulation in Japan and the United States. 8.Adversarial and cooperative regulatory regimes compared. 9.Conclusion.