Publications

Urban land use observably induces and generates traffic particularly where segregation among categories of land uses are distinct. Zoning in land use that distinguishes residential and commercial zones would create the needs of motorized transport due to journey to works and other purposes, provided that the proximity between residential and...

Shanghai is one of the largest prosperous cities in China with the population over 17million. From the 1940’s the major urban planning strategy is trying to de-centralize the overcrowded population in the central part of the city, where the density was even as high as 70000 people/sq.km, now decreased to 40000 people/sq.km. The still very high...

The Kyoto Protocol, adopted in 1997, committed industrialised countries to accept legally-binding targets to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions collectively by an average of 5% below 1990 levels in the first commitment period from 2008 to 2012. According to the latest report by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)...

The 12th session of the Conference of Parties (COP12) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the second session of the Conference of Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (COP/MOP2) were held in Nairobi, Kenya from 6 to 17 November, 2006. The Nairobi conference primarily focused on...

Remarks: Presentation fiven at the JICA Mexico 3R Preparatory Study Group on "JICA Project of Development of Waste Management Policy based on 3Rs in Mexico", November 2006, Mexico City, Mexico

From 20 to 22 September 2006, the international workshop "Integrated Development and Climate policies: how to realise benefits at national and international level?" was held in Paris, France. IGES is the one of the co-organizers. Over one hundred policy makers, researchers and representatives of the private sector and NGOs came together to discuss...

Remarks: Asian Aspirations on Climate Regime Beyond 2012 http://pub.iges.or.jp/modules/envirolib/view.php?docid=535

Remarks: Asian Aspirations on Climate Regime Beyond 2012 http://pub.iges.or.jp/modules/envirolib/view.php?docid=535

Remarks: Asian Aspirations on Climate Regime Beyond 2012 http://pub.iges.or.jp/modules/envirolib/view.php?docid=535