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Book Review: "Earth Summit 2002: A New Deal (Revised Edition)" Felix Dodds with Toby Middleton (ed.) Project Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd. 2001, 364 pp. ISBN: 1-85383-867-5 Reviewer: Lisa Hiwasaki Earth Summit 2002: A New Deal (Revised Edition) is a comprehensive book that gives its readers an overview of the progress made and the new...

Book Review: "Environment, Education and Society in the Asia-Pacific: Local Traditions and Global Discourses" David Yencken, John Fien, and Helen Sykes (ed.) Publisher information: London: Routledge, 2001, 360 pp ISBN: 0-415-20581-6 Reviewer: Bishnu B. Bhandari This book is the result of a comprehensive report of an empirical study on the knowledge...

The workshop was held on 17 January 2001, preceded by intensive discussions between IGES staff and local Japanese collaborators on the preceding day. The workshop was divided into three sessions. First, the morning session was to discuss the results of the first phase of research with invited participants from overseas and Japan. Second, in the...

Business and industry, or the corporate sector, have been practicing corporate citizenship towards achieving corporate environmental excellence. This paper shows how business and industry has incorporated the idea of corporate citizenship into corporate management, especially through the adoption of environmentally-sound practices and environmental...

Since the mid 1990s, governments have attached increasing importance to urban environmental infrastructure (UEI) development in East Asian developing countries. There are two critical strategic issues for improving urban environmental infrastructure in East Asia: the enhancement of governmental capacities in financing UEI, and the mobilization of...

The international community is increasingly recognizing the importance of environmental education (EE) by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in achieving sustainable societies, as well as the importance of transboundary support for NGOs involved in EE. NGO EE networks can play an important role in the promotion of, and transboundary support for...

"Reconciling Environment and Trade" Edith Brown Weiss and John H. Jackson (eds.) Publisher Information: Transnational Publishers, Inc. 2001 ISBN: 1-57105-141-4 Reviewer: Glen Paoletto Reconciling Environment and Trade is clearly a superior work in the field of environment and trade, and one of the more interesting recent works in international law...

Developing countries are under increasing pressure to deal with a variety of environmental problems, such as industrial pollution, urban environmental issues, the deterioration of ecosystems, and global warming, while they are expected to simultaneously achieve high economic growth. In this context, they urgently need to leapfrog over environmental...

Analysis of the impacts of climate change on agriculture in India is an important exercise, as it deals with the food security of more than one billion people. This study uses an integrated modeling framework to assess the socio-economic impacts of climate change on Indian agriculture. A crop simulation model is used to estimate the yield changes...

The standing and competitiveness of a country is largely determined by how the development and growth of its cities are managed. This paper examines the existing environmental situation in Indian cities with the objective of focusing on the emerging urban environmental crisis, which is receiving far less attention than issues such as global warming...