Dr.

Naoko MATSUMOTO

Issue paper and the presentation material for the discussion session of the Manila Policy Dialogue on Environment and Transport in the Asian Region (16-17 January, 2004, Manila, Philippines: Session5). Public transport is an essential component of environmental sustainability, because by reducing the use of automobiles it contributes to reducing...

Book Review World in Transition 2: New Structures for Global Environmental Policy by the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU). Publisher information: London: Earthscan, 2001. ISBN: 1-85383-852-7, 242 pp., £50.00 (hbk). International institutions play a crucial role in the movement to cope with global environmental problems, and the...

Strategy: Development of environmentally sustainable transport systems in urban areas Environmental areas: Climate change, air pollution, urban environment Critical instruments: Economic instruments, organisational arrangements, partnerships, technologies Country: Japan Location: Fukuoka Participants: West Japan Ecology Network (NGO), Kyushu...

Book Review "World in Transition 2: New Structures for Global Environmental Policy" by the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU). Publisher information: London: Earthscan, 2001. ISBN: 1-85383-852-7, 242 pp., £50.00 (hbk). (Reviewer: Naoko Matsumoto, Research Associate, Long-Term Perspective and Policy Integration Project, IGES)...

Strategy: Development of environmentally sustainable transport systems in urban areas Environmental areas: Climate change, Air pollution, Urban environment Critical instruments: Design, planning and management, Economic instruments, Organisational arrangements, Technologies Participants: city government; research and urban planning institute (IPPUC...