Includes index.

List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Introduction / Kota Asano and Mitsuo Takada -- Theory and methodology -- On the sustainability of a common property resource : an implication from dynamic game theory / Ken-Ichi Akao and Gerhard Sorger -- Non-point source pollution and the second best taxation on pesticide / Ayumi Onuma and Hideyuki Akaishi -- The investment in social capital through rural development policy in Japan / Kyohei Matsushita -- Effects of local waste taxation and trade restrictions on industrial waste flow in Japan / Toshiaki Sasao -- Cross-national individual differences in environmental attitudes with special reference to risk and time preferences / Atsushi Maruyama -- Economic valuation for the sustainable use of ecosystem services / Kentaro Yoshida -- Case studies/rural sustainability -- Challenges to rural sustainability in the management of recovered beaver populations / Yukichika Kawata and JÄünis OzolinÃÅí -- Land management issues in depopulated areas of Japan / Yoshiaki Iiguni -- Necessity of multilevel governance for marine protected areas (MPAs) : an analysis from its functions and the "cost of commons" / Teruyuki Shinbo, Raul G. Bradecina and Yoshinori Morooka -- Japanese coastal fishery resource management and fishery rights system / Xiaobo Lou -- Case studies/urban sustainability -- Sustainability in housing complex revitalization : "machi-zukuri" utilizing a scenario-based approach / Mitsuo Takada -- Landscape planning and local governance to deliver sustainable development / Hisako Koura -- Environmental governance of dwellings of a small-scale community along a historical alley in Kyoto city / Sachiko Morishige -- Effects of mobility management on promoting the use of community buses managed by civic collaboration / Nobuhiko Matsumura -- Public transport provided by local dwellers for maintaining their daily life in a rural area / Hiroto Inoi -- Towards sustainable regeneration? an integrated social, economic and environmental way of greening former industrial areas -- The case of St Helens, UK / Tomoko Miyagawa -- Ownership and uses of communal space in courtyard style settlements of Patan city, Nepal / Lata Shakya -- Roles of microfinance in critical environmental transition by natural disaster : case study of resettlement after the Indian ocean tsunami in 2004 / Masahiro Maeda -- Index -- Figures.