Contents:
Executive Summary:
Key issues, Regulatory Trends, Market structure, Technology Trends, Major
business opportunities
Part 1:
Market estimates,
factors shaping technical change, environmental policy,
state of the environment, main environmental problems,
market size in international comparison,
factors influencing the market, waste disposal,
the municipal waste crisis,
domestic versus industrial waste crisis (incl. Statistics and budgets),
enterprises in the waste processing sector,
hazardous chemicals (soil pollution, water)
Part 2:
pollution control and reduction,
waste water treatment,
solid and hazardous waste processing,
environmental remediation, monitoring and assessment,
environmental equipment market (size, statistics, selected producers with
statistics and data),
waste incinerator market,
environmental R&D, dioxin, recycling,
Part 3:
Japanese industry and the environment
life cycle assessment,
exmples from specific industries (steel, electro, automobile),
status of ISO 14001 and environmental management systems,
life cycle assessment,
the Keidanren action plan with examples for different industries,
NEC and Canon as examples,
Steel industry,
automotive industry,
environmental R&D in industry and in government,
Part 4:
Government support for environmental technologies.
Environmental technology policy,
government budgets, research objectives, evaluation,
detailed tables of government spending on selected specific projects and in
different sectors,
description of some government R&D programs and their objectives,
Part 5:
Selected topics
waste disposal and the dioxin issue,
recycling of electrical appliances,
waste water treatment, waste avoidance,
radiation protection in Japan,
how does Japan rank in environmental technologies,
analysis of patents in the environmental area,
overview of Japan's environmental laws,
and the environmental fundamental law,
report on the WADEX waste management trade show,
some introductory remarks about how to do business in Japan.
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