Global Risk Governance: Concept and Practice Using the Irgc Framework

by Katherine D. Walker and Ortwin Renn

Japanese government planners set out in the 1960s to build a barrage on the Nagara River, one of the last major free?owing rivers in Japan. Conceived during a period of rapid growth in the Japanese economy, the barrage was part of a national effort to ensure adequate water supplies for future economic development as well as to reduce ?oodingrisks to downstream communities. A string of lawsuits brought by groups concerned about the impact of the dam...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9048177308
• ISBN13: 9789048177301
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"