Environments articles from December 2001

Environments archives from December 2001

Editorial.
December 1, 2001... This theme issue addresses some of the conflicting views relating to Japanese owned automakers in North America. Some authors have portrayed Japanese automobile firms with their advanced technology and ongoing improvements as saviors of the...

Japanese automakers and the NAFTA environment: global context.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2001... Abstract Japanese automakers have become an integral part of the North American economy, with total investment approaching $20 billion, direct employment exceeding 40,000 and 3 million vehicles being built annually. The investment and...

Global, local or hybrid? Evidence of adaptation among Japanese automobile plants in Japan, the United States and Canada.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2001... Abstract Research on the global automobile industry has both influenced, and been influenced by, the debate on the impact of globalization on the nation state and national institutions. Rather than assume that globalization operates in a...

Trade policy, open regionalism and NAFTA: the socio-economic context for Japanese automobile investments in North America.
December 1, 2001... Abstract This paper examines the investment strategies of Japanese automakers in the context of evolving U.S. and Canadian trade policy. The trade imbalance and trade disputes between the United States and Japan set the policy context. In...

Strategic options for Japanese automakers operating in NAFTA.
December 1, 2001... Abstract Japanese automakers are in the position of having a strong manufacturing and sales presence worldwide, yet find themselves struggling at home due to the prolonged downturn in local economic conditions. The strength of the North...

Mutual adaptation: Japanese automobile transplants in North America and the restructuring of buyer-supplier relations.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2001... Abstract This paper examines how the arrival and expansion of Japanese automotive assemblers in North America during the 1980s and 1990s, has been characterized by a complex process of mutual adaptation by both the transplant assemblers...

Environmental initiatives among Japanese automakers: new technology, EMS, recycling and lifecycle approaches.(electronic manufacturing solutions)(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2001... Abstract: Japanese automakers are a source of new technologies and processes to meet the environmental needs of society. The Japanese production system has been widely studied with automobile manufacturers identified as models of flexible...

Climate for Change: non-state actors and the global politics of the greenhouse.
December 1, 2001... Peter Newell. 2000. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 0-521-63250-1 (hc) $107.95 (Cdn.). Global climate change continues to be one of the international community's most important and visible environmental challenges -- indeed,...

Tourism and National Parks: Issues and Implications.
December 1, 2001... Richard W. Butler & Stephen W. Boyd, eds. 2000. John Wiley and Sons, Chichester. ISBN 0-471-98894-4 (hc) $142.50 (Cdn.). 342 pp. Although it is an edited volume, Tourism and National Parks is a consistently strong, wide-ranging yet...

An Introduction to Sustainable Development, 2nd ed.
December 1, 2001... Jennifer Elliott. 1999. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-19150-5 (cloth); 0-415-19151-3 (paper) $31.99 (Cdn.). 215 pp. This book is part of Routledge's "Introduction to Development Series" and is intended to be used by first and second-year...