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Green Japan: Environmental Technologies, Innovation Policy, and the Pursuit of Green Growth 绿色日本:环境技术、创新政策和对绿色增长的追求

IF 1.1 4区社会学

Social Science Japan Journal Pub Date : 2021-03-18 DOI: 10.1093/SSJJ/JYAA047

G. Noble

引用次数: 2

Vertical and Horizontal Networks Revisited: Exploring Their Effects on Attitudes and Advocacy Toward Nuclear Energy 纵横网络重访:探索其对核能态度和倡导的影响

IF 1.1 4区社会学

Social Science Japan Journal Pub Date : 2021-03-18 DOI: 10.1093/SSJJ/JYAA050

K. Satoh, Tobias Weiss

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引用次数: 3

Breaking Iron Triangles: Beliefs and Interests in Japanese Renewable Energy Policy 打破铁三角:日本可再生能源政策的信念与利益

IF 1.1 4区社会学

Social Science Japan Journal Pub Date : 2021-03-18 DOI: 10.1093/SSJJ/JYAA048

Rie Watanabe

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引用次数: 3

Climate Change Policy: Can New Actors Affect Japan’s Policy-Making in the Paris Agreement Era? 气候变化政策:新角色能否影响巴黎协定时代日本的政策制定?

IF 1.1 4区社会学

Social Science Japan Journal Pub Date : 2021-03-18 DOI: 10.1093/SSJJ/JYAA051

Yasuko Kameyama

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引用次数: 6

Corporate Transfers for Dual-Career Couples: From Gendered Tenkin to Gender-Equal Negotiations? 双职工夫妇的企业转移:从性别契约到性别平等谈判?

IF 1.1 4区社会学

Social Science Japan Journal Pub Date : 2021-03-18 DOI: 10.1093/ssjj/jyaa042

N. Fujita

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引用次数: 1

Introduction: Japan’s Energy Transition 10 Years after the Fukushima Nuclear Accident 导读:福岛核事故10年后的日本能源转型

IF 1.1 4区社会学

Social Science Japan Journal Pub Date : 2021-03-18 DOI: 10.1093/SSJJ/JYAA052

Florentine Koppenborg

引用次数: 3

Japan’s Security Renaissance: New Policies and Politics for the Twenty-First Century 日本的安全复兴:21世纪的新政策和政治

IF 1.1 4区社会学

Social Science Japan Journal Pub Date : 2021-03-09 DOI: 10.1093/SSJJ/JYAB002

P. Midford

引用次数: 1

Biomedicalization and the Practice of Culture: Globalization and Type 2 Diabetes in the United States and Japan 生物医学化与文化实践:全球化与美国和日本的2型糖尿病