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Remarks: Including RISPO I Background Paper "Facilitating Protected Area Management Using Community-based Tourism" as a reprint (http://www.iges.or.jp/APEIS/RISPO/spo/pdf/overall/3.4.1_cbt.pdf)

Since the end of the 1990s, the Sino-Russian border regions have witnessed a dramatic, unprecedented increase in cross-border timber trade that has made Russia the largest log supplier for China's expanding wood industry sector. Driving factors include: severe constraints in China's domestic wood supplies, the availability of rich forest resources...

This policy brief includes a comparative analysis between Japan's public timber procurement policy and those of several European countries. In addition to identifying a set of elements that public timber procurement policies must include to favour legal and sustainable timber, it provides recommendations for further strengthening Japan's policy on...

This article argues that waste management and recycling have become regional or international issues; they can no longer be considered only in a national context. The regionalization or internationalization of waste and recycling issues is caused in large part by the steady advance of economic integration, especially increasing trade and investment...

This report outlines the implementation of "Project on Promoting the Kitakyushu Initiative for a Clean Environment in Fiscal Year of 2007" contracted by the Ministry of the Environment of Japan in fiscal year of 2007. The report consists of the chapters on "Fourth Meeting of the Kitakyushu Initiative" and "Dissemmination of Information and...

The report reviews the economic and environmental consequences of resource inefficiency in Asia and the Pacific and examines a range of technical, policy, and institutional responses for more resource-efficient development pattern, with particular attention to the vital role governments. This analysis is a contribution to the global G8 3R...

Mr. Taka Hiraishi, on the Board of Directors and a Senior Consultant at IGES, currently serves as the Co-chair on the IPCC Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories. In this interview, he gave his account of the award ceremony of 2007 Nobel Peace Prize which he had attended as a representative of the IPCC experts, and expressed his thoughts...

This report summarises the findings from the third round of the Asia-Pacific multi-stakeholder consultations on climate regime beyond 2012 (held in New Delhi and Beijing) where four specific themes of importance to the region and the future climate regime (sectoral approaches, technology development and transfer, adaptation financing and...