環境問題の解決策をめぐる規範理論―基地騒音問題から考える環境正義―

Abstract

This paper considers solutions of environmental problems from normative theories and takes up problems of the aircraft noise around US military base in Japan. This paper includes distributive environmental justice theories in a various types of normative theories which is argue in sociology and environmental sociology. I will try to present three principles of solutions from the point of view environmental justice, and apply them to the Japanese government policies related to the problems of aircraft noise around US military base, and to the alternative policies of civil movements and the local self-governing bodies around bases. In terms of normative theories, the policies of Japanese government have a serious matter because the policies lead to concentrate aircraft noise on a small number of people in the country. It is necessary that Japanese government accepts the principles of solutions from the point of view environmental justice and changes its policies.