Energy Transitions in Japan and China Mine Closures, Rail Developments, and Energy Narratives /

• Main Author: Lim, Tai Wei (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Economic policy.; Asia > Economic conditions.; Economics.; Economic Policy.; Natural Resource and Energy Economics.; Asian Economics.

This volume focuses on the topic of energy transitions in the coal mining industries of China and Japan by adopting a Sino-Japanese comparative approach in area studies to examine the experiences between the two major East Asian economies. In China, rapid industrialization led to dramatic growth in...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Coal Energy in Japan and China
• 2. Connecting macro-regions in the 1930s to the 1960s
• 3. A survey of modern and contemporary China's coal railway development
• 4. The Historical Development of Shanxi's Coal Industry as a case study
• 5. Coal use and transportation in contemporary China
• 6. Coal Delivery in Japan
• 7. The Final Closures of Coal Mines in Japan
• 8. Historical background of the Japanese coal industry decline
• 9. Natural gas or clean coal in the post-311 scenario? A narrative analysis, historical overview and selected public policy commentary with Japan and other comparative case studies
• 10. Epilogue.