Publications

This publication aims to share the preliminary key findings of ADB study entitled Towards Resource Efficient Economies in Asia and the Pacific. It provides an overview of resource inefficiency and its consequences in the Asia and Pacific region, describes challenges and key actions taken in the region, and identifies new business opportunities and...

-IGES Open Forum: Global Environmental Strategies for Asia-Pacific-Views and Findings of IGES -The 4th Meeting of the Kitakyushu Initiative Network -IGES Holds Multi-Stakeholder Consultations on Climate Regime beyond 2012 -The 2007 Ryutaro Hashimoto APFED Awards-Winners Announcement/ -Sino-Japan CDM Cooperation Programme Open Forum -Researchers...

Asian cities have faced problems caused by rapid urbanization for decades. While urbanization can bring economic development to the cities, it also produces decrease of natural resources or environmental deterioration. From the perspective of fresh water related issues, Asian cities are suffering from scarcity of water resources and water...

Dr. Ancha's presentation at the international conference and Symposium titled "What Japanese Civil Society can do? Towards 2008 G8 Summit in Japan" on 14th October 2007 in Tokyo, organised by 2008 Japan G8 Summit NGO Forum. Movie of his presentation is available online (in Japanese): http://202.90.10.24/janeye/shiminkisha/0710314901/03/0710314901...

This book documents the environmental, technological and policy aspects for establishing industrial clusters in the urban-rural fringe areas of India, Japan, Thailand and Vietnam as a strategic approach for integrated economic and environmental planning.

To ensure accountability of each research project, and to provide a mechanism of transparency to its stakeholders, IGES conducts Project Peer Review every three years, inviting a Peer Review Panel composed of externally based experts. The review results are reflected in the 4th Phase strategic research of IGES (FY2007-2009). Climate Policy Project...

Partly due to the worldwide upsurge in industrial demand for timber, the number of planted forests has increased ten-fold in the last 20 years. These planted forests currently comprise only about 5% of the world’s forest area, but supply 35% of industrial logs and have critical roles to play in releasing pressure on natural forests, mitigating...