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The paper assessed the rationality of the "official" reasons why the Bush Administration opposes the Kyoto Protocol and judges the Kyoto Protocol to be "fatally flawed". Most of the reasons why the Bush Administration made this judgment-lack of long-term goals, exclusion of developing countries and lack of linkages between the scientific base and...

Connect With Nature Editor: Koji Tanaka, Professor, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Japan Publisher Information: Syowado Co. 2000 (in Japanese) ISBN: 4-8122-9913-6 In this book, the authors examine the environment from the viewpoint of local "agriculture", which, as used in the book, includes small-scale forestry activities...

Environment in the 21st Century and New Development Patterns Editor: Kazuo Matsushita, Acting Vice-President, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) / Project Leader, Long-Term Perspective and Policy Integration Project, IGES Publisher Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 2001 ISBN: 0-7923-6721-9 This book represents an effort to...

This edition of IRES presents expert reviews on a diverse range of environmental topics including the role of the UN, the economics of climate protection, policy related research in sustainable development, environmental education and urban environment. EDITOR'S NOTE http://enviroscope.iges.or.jp/modules/envirolib/view.php?docid=2431 SPECIAL...

The World Summit on Sustainable Development (the WSSD, also referred to as Earth Summit 2002) presents humanity with the first major opportunity of this century, and possibly the last significant opportunity ever, to make steps toward assuring a sustainable future for present and future generations. This edition of IRES invited influential experts...

The strategic research of the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) for the First Phase started in April 1998 and will end in March 2001. The research projects for the First Phase were prepared by the Preparatory Organization to Establish IGES, which was set up in April 1997. The Preparatory Organization sent research missions to...

The research activity of the Climate Change Project in the first phase of IGES research was carried out focusing on the policy proposals responding to the process of UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol. Emphasis was put on the system design of the Kyoto Mechanisms such as emissions trading or the clean development...

During its first phase of research the IGES Forest Conservation Project attempted to identify principles and measures for sustainable forest management (SFM) based on experiences in the Asia-Pacific region. Extensive studies were carried out within a framework of four interrelated sub-teams by in-house research staff, visiting researchers and many...

Phase 1 of the IGES Project on Urban Environmental Management was conducted during the three-year period from April 1998 to March 2001. Extensive studies were carried out in-house in addition to contributions made by numerous outside collaborators. Studies were conducted by various methods including literature surveys, statistical data collection...