Environmental Policy Development This study compared environmental p

This study compared environmental policy development and application in Japan, Korea, and the United States. Environmental policy, in the context of this study, concerns both health and ecological aspects. Environmental health policy concerns pollution that either directly affects the health of humans, or affects human health through the effects of environmental pollution on the food chain. Environmental pollution policy affects those actions that lead or have the potential to lead to ecological degradation.

Although environmental policy development and application in Japan, Korea, and the United States are compared in this study, the first chapter of the study is not countryspecific, as Chapter 1 provides an historical overview of world environmental awareness. The second chapter of the study is both general and countryspecific, as Chapter 2 considers, in the first part of the chapter, the general process and framework within which national environmental protection policy is established, while reviewing, in the second part of the chapter, the specifics of environmental protection policy in Japan, Korea, and the United States. Chapters 3 through 5 of the study are countryspecific analyses, in which comparisons are made between different aspects of environmental protection policies and their application in Japan, Korea, and the United States. Chapter 3 focuses on the methods of implementation and control in relation to environmental protection policy

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