Land, Waste and Pollution: Challenging History in Creating a Sustainable Tokyo Metropolis

The first section of this chapter describes the author’s experiences with environmental problems in Tokyo from the 1950s to the 1980s. An outline of modern industrial/environment pollution in Japan is presented and two case studies are reviewed. The first case study is the “Koto Garbage War” of the early 1970s and the second case study is that of a citizens’ recycling movement in Tokyo’s suburban city of Machida that has been active since the mid-1970s. These two case studies offered valuable lessons for aiding in the efforts to make Tokyo society more sustainable. In both cases, it was found that land ownership and land use were at the root of Tokyo’s pollution and environmental problems and so the author looks back to the Edo period (1603-1868) and the Meiji (1868-1912) to see how land ownership patterns were first established in Tokyo and how the situation has changed in the post-ware period. The final section of the chapter some solutions towards create a sustainable future for Tokyo are proposed.

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  United Nations University Press

  United Nations University, 53-70 Jingumae, 5-chome Shibuya-ku
  Tokyo,   Japan  150-8925
• Authors:
  • Shibata, Tokue
• Publication Date: 2006

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 96-124
• Monograph Title: Sustainable Cities: Japanese Perspectives on Physical and Social Structures

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air pollution; Air quality management; City planning; Environmental impacts; Land use; Land use planning; Metropolitan areas; Pollution; Recycled materials; Spills (Pollution); Sustainable development; Wastes
• Geographic Terms: Tokyo (Japan)
• Subject Areas: Energy; Environment; Highways; Public Transportation; I15: Environment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01041595
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 928081124X
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 30 2007 1:31PM