Overcoming Environmental Risks to Achieve Sustainable Development Goals

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&nbsp;intoxication&nbsp;in Toroku&nbsp;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&nbsp;&nbsp; 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.<p></p>