A comparative environmental sociological research on environmental risks and environmental justice in Japan and in Asian-Pacific region

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23330168
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Sociology
• Research Institution: Meiji University
• Principal Investigator: TERADA Ryoichi 明治大学, 文学部, 教授 (00163923)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): FUNABASHI Harutoshi 法政大学, 社会学部, 教授 (20111445) ; HOTTA Kyoko 立正大学, 文学部, 准教授 (20325674) ; HARAGUCHI Yayoi 茨城大学, 人文学部, 教授 (20375356) ; HORIHATA Manami 桜美林大学, 総合科学系, 准教授 (40348488) ; FUJIKAWA Ken 明治学院大学, 社会学部, 教授 (80308072) ; YUASA Yoichi 関東学院大学, 文学部, 教授 (80382571) ; UDA Kazuko 福岡工業大学, 社会環境学部, 助教 (90733551)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 環境社会学 / 環境リスク / 環境的公正

Outline of Final Research Achievements

As environmental problems not only occur as tangible health damage and environmental destruction but rather as potential environmental risks, this research attempted to analyze environmental risk perception focusing on its disproportionate distribution based on socio-economic inequality and the ways in which environmental risk issues are constructed as rhetoric of environmental movements or principles of environmental policies. Our researches have been conducted as a quantitative opinion survey, qualitative case studies on environmental movements and environmental policies in Asian-Pacific societies with different social background.

Free Research Field

社会学