Overcoming Environmental Risks to Achieve Sustainable Development Goals

​Tamie NakajimaCollege of Life and Health Sciences, Chubu UniversityKasugai, Aichi, Japan Keiko NakamuraDepartment of Global Health Entrepreneurship, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan Keiko NoharaHealth and Environmental Risk Division, National Institute for Environmental StudiesTsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan Akihiko KondohCenter for Environmental Remote Sensing, Chiba UniversityChiba, Japan

1 Purpose of This e-Book.- Part 1 Learning from Case Analysis of Past Environmental Risks.- 2 Minamata Disease.- 3 Itai-Itai Disease: Health issues caused by environmental exposure to cadmium and residents’ fight to rebuild the environment in the Jinzu River Basin in Toyama.- 4 Arsenic intoxication in Toroku district of Japan.- 5 Yokkaichi asthma: Health effects of air pollutants in Japan.- 6 Environmental Policy and International Environmental Cooperation Learned from the YOKKAICHI Air Pollution.- 7 What We Have Learned from the Pollution that Occurred in Japan a Half Century Ago.- Part 2 Environmental Issues That the World Is Watching Now.- 8 Current Status and Problems Concerning the Management of Persistent Or-ganic Chemicals Used in Products and those of Unintentional Products in Japan.- 9 Health risk assessment and management of asbestos exposure to the public in Japan.- 10 Marine plastic pollution: chemical aspects and possible solutions.- 11 Solution and Agreement in the Nuclear Disaster: Toward an Inclusive Society Respecting Relationship from Sacrificial System.- 12 Current environmental risks and their management in Japan.- Part 3   Towards the Realization of a Sustainable and Well-Being Society.- 13 The Future of Washing.- 14 Initiatives On Responsible Consumption—Oguni Town.- 15 From Court Decisions on Pollution to Targets of Future Actions.- 16 An Initiative of an Environmental Model City: Featuring Sustainable and Healthy Cities.- 17 Divorcing from plastics for a sustainable future society.- 18 Issues of environmental risks in the Anthropocene.- 19 Spectrum of Environmental Risk -Assessment, Management and Communication.