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This case study on ESD and natural resource utilisation offers a good example of multi-stakeholder social learning for regional sustainable development based on partnerships between environmentalists and farmers. A citizen's movement to conserve a wetland evolved into a participatory programme for engaging with the community for the preservation of...

This paper seeks to measure industrial energy saving activities (ESAs) and identify their major determinant factors by an empirical study of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Taicang city, China. The surveyed SMEs indicate high participation ratios of pre-classified ESAs even with weak regulation and limited support from industrial...

This paper provides an integrative overview of the progress of the GHG emissions trading scheme (ETS) in Japan, China and the Republic of Korea and identifies and analyses the obstacles hindering policy introduction in this region. Japan has practiced experimental and voluntary ETS in recent years, but its intermediate proposal for domestic ETS...

In January 2011, European Commission has positioned improving resource efficiency as one of its strategic priorities by publishing A resource-efficient Europe – Flagship initiative of the Europe 2020 Strategy. In September 2011, EC has released Roadmap for Resource Efficient Europe. To respond to these EC’s Initiative, the European Parliament...