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When the author was conducting field work on environmental politics in Japan (1978–1981), he and his family (wife, son 1, daughter 3) lived in a small mountain farming village in Oita Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan. In this area, terraces of rice paddies held up by hand-built stone walls stepped down the mountainsides. Hundreds of years ago, the residents had hand-chipped a tunnel through a kilometer of mountain rock to bring water from the river on the other side over to water their mountain rice paddies. The water still flows through this tunnel, and then down through channels (mizo) along the sides of rice paddies with little gates to let it in when permitted. The residents carefully shared this precious resource, with a village committee deciding when each farmer could periodically get enough water to plant the rice seedlings in the spring, and to keep them growing in the summer. In this way, the village had survived for hundreds of years (Broadbent 1998).
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Notes
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This term for the unit of analysis or case avoids thorny debates about the case of Taiwan. However, as the term cross-national comparisonis very well know, the project will sometimes use the term nation for summary reference.
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The concept of frame refers to how a person or organization places moral and normative meaning upon a given phenomenon, be it economic downturn, racial segregation, or change in the climate (Snow et al. 1986).
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For an explanation of network analysis concepts see (Wasserman and Faust 1994).
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This chapter was made possible by generous support from the United States National Science Foundation “HSD: Collaborative Research: Social Networks as Agents of Change in Climate Change Policy Making” (BCS-0827006); the Abe Fellowship (Japan Foundation and Social Science Research Council); and the University of Minnesota Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment and the Life Sciences. The chapter contents represent the fruits of 2 years of discussions among the members of the Compon teams, advisors and staff, including (in alphabetical order) Anna-Liisa Aunio, Iosef Botetzagias, Moses Boudourides, Marcus Carson, Mario Diani, Christofer Edling, Dana Fisher, Tim Forsythe, Giouzepas “George” Georgios, Monica Di Gregorio, Koichi Hasegawa, Jasmine Harris, Klaus Jacob, Jun Jin, Richard Klein, Dowan Ku, Myanna Lahsen, Ho-Ching Lee, Philip Leifeld, Tze-Luen Alan Lin, Stephan Price, Joerg Raab, Ewald Rametsteiner, Leonardas Rinkevicius, Clare Saunders, Irina Shmeleva, Volker Schneider, David Tindall, Philip Vaughter, Yoshiki Yamagata, and Sun-Jin Yun.
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Broadbent, J. (2010). Science and Climate Change Policy Making: A Comparative Network Perspective. In: Sumi, A., Fukushi, K., Hiramatsu, A. (eds) Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies for Climate Change. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-99798-6_13
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