2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
RESEARCH ON ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS AND MOVEMENTS IN HIGH-INDUSTRIAL GERMANY : A CASE STUDY ON THE RUHR BASIN
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16530229
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Economic history
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| Research Institution | KYUSHU UNIVERSITY |
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Principal Investigator |
TAKITA Hiromichi KYUSHU UNIVERSITY, Faculty of Economics, Prof., 大学院・経済学研究院, 教授 (50117149)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2004 – 2005
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| Keywords | Environmental Histoy / Industrialization / Environmental Pollution / Environmental Policy / Environmental Movement / The Ruhr Basin |
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| Research Abstract |
The aim of this project is to study theoretically and empirically the environmental problems and environmental movements in the Ruhr Basin, the leading region of the high-industrialization in Germany, from a viewpoint of comparison with those of the early industrial Germany
(1)As to research survey, we try to demonstrate a new trend in the field of environmental history in Germany and can confirm following three points.
1.The original character of environmental history as one of main-streams of historical sciences becomes clearer than ever before. According to Siemann/Freytag 2003, environment consists nowadays one of four fundamental categories together with economy, politics and culture.
2.Some historians pay attention to "sustainability" as a key concept, which can substitute the older ones like "economic growth" or "technological progress" (Bruggemeier 2003)
3."Actor constellation" approach, which takes in it origin from modern environmental policy and the author adopts to historical a
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nalysis in the earlier article, is now accepted by leading historians (Mieck, Siemann, Bruggemeier)
(2)As to empirical study, we pursue a historical development of environmental legislation in Prussia during the 19^<th> century, so in the era of the high industrialization. We establish a hypothesis that the author has presented in the earlier article.
1.A strong influence on environmental policy exerted by citizen basing on so-called "neighborhood right" has been gradually encroached since the enactment of "trade concession act" in 1845
2.The right to object against the factory project, which reserves to citizen for the announcement period, functions as a brake on the industrialization at the cost of citizen, as the remnant of the "neighborhood right".
3.However citizen is forced to be satisfied with a claim for damages against him since ca.1870. As late as the World War I., a scheme known as an industrial regulation by the government, rooted in the environmental policy
4.It is the chemical industry as a symbol of the modern scientific and technological progress that paves the way for crumbling the stubborn opposition from citizen.
5.In this sense, the second half of the 19^<th> and the early 20^<th> century occupies a speciaql phase of the environmental history in Germany. Less
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