Publications

Once every two years, IGES releases a white paper focusing on key policy agendas in the Asia-Pacific region. The Fourth IGES White Paper, entitled "Greening Governance in Asia-Pacific" examines innovative approaches to governance and institutions that have emerged from the region and recommends governance arrangements and policy solutions to...

The twin themes of Rio+20, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, are extensively addressed in this White Paper, as IGES views 2012 as a turning point in the future path towards sustainable development. At the International Forum for a Sustainable Asia-Pacific (ISAP) organized by IGES in Yokohama in July 2011, more than 800...

This chapter argues that Japan’s strategy for sustainability and environmental management can be characterized as an approach to overcome environmental challenges by harmonizing environmental conservation and economic competitiveness. This can be characterized as Ecological Modernization that emphasizes improving efficiency and expansion of...

In 2005, the Chinese government set compulsory targets for energy-saving. The national target is a reduction of 20 percent energy consumption per unit of GDP by 2010 based on the level in 2005. The national target is disaggregated into provincial targets which range from 12 - 30 percent of reduction. This policy will have great influences on not...

Growing regional inequality and environmental degradation associated with interregional trade in Asia Pacific Area has been considered one of the major barriers in achieving sustainable development. Decomposition of economic structure at the regional level can help analyze these problems. This study applies Block Structural Path Analysis to the...