Publications

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...

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)

The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) has been releasing a collection of the top news items on the environment in the Asia-Pacific region every year since 1998. This has been with the aim of collecting and organising information about environmental issues and policy trends in the region, and to report on how the region addresses...

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...

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...

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...

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...

-IGES Side Events at COP13 and COP/MOP3 -Japan Low Carbon Society Scenarios Toward 2050: International Symposium -International Workshop on Business and the Environment -Forum on Water Environment Management in China -WEPA Organises an Open Event at the 1st Asia-Pacific Water Summit -Researchers Viewpoint -Examining REDD: Valuing the Viewpoint of...