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1. Introduction Air pollution is now high on the policy agenda in East Asia. For example, the governments of China, Japan, and South Korea recently agreed to strengthen cooperation on air pollution at the Tripartite Environment Ministers Meeting (TEMM) among the three countries in May 2013 after recent severe air pollution episodes in China...

Current status and future potential of the multi-pollutant approach to air pollution control in Japan, China, and South Korea

Biodiversity is largely regarded as an economic externality, and development activities consider it only marginally. However, by providing a renewable natural capital, biodiversity forms the basis of social development. As a step towards realizing sustainable development which harmonizes human activities and ecosystem services (ES), we are...

Remarks: Regional Training for Asia, the Pacific and Eastern Europe 3 September 2013, Manila

The paper provides an insight into the chronological extinction of the Indo-Malayan mangroves along the South and Southeast Asian coast and categorizes several area-specific anthropogenic and climatic factors that triggered the annihilation of 1.9 million ha of diverse mangroves. On a regional scale, coastal agricultural land development and shrimp...

Presentation given during India-Japan Energy Forum2013, India