Publications

Since the prosperity and dynamism of Asia heavily depend on an open and liberal trade regime, trade liberalization and its impacts on poverty and environment are very important issues for the region. While poverty has decreased in newly industrialized countries (NIEs), in Southeast Asian countries and China, which have experienced export-led...

Book Review "Dams and Development-A New Framework for Decision-Making by the World Commission on Dams" Publisher Information: London: Earthscan Publications Ltd., 2000. ISBN: 1-85383-798-9, 404 pp., £12.95, U.S.$19.95 (pbk); 1-85383-798-0, £55.00 (hbk). Reviewer: Yutaka Takahasi, Senior Programme Adviser (Environment and Sustainable Development)...

The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, being one of the biodiversity hotspots of the world, shares a major responsibility of nature conservation. The Royal Government of Bhutan has already taken initiatives and framed policies to address this situation, but to equate economic development with conservation the nation has opted for a sustainable...

Mongolia has been paying attention to renewable sources of energy in order to put them to practical use, especially in the pastoral livestock sector. In this paper it is shown that renewable sources of energy, especially photovoltaics (PV), may play a key role in the sustainable development of Mongolia, simultaneously solving such problems as...

The budgets of GHGs, urban air pollutants and their future emission scenarios in selected megacities in Asia, Tokyo, Seoul, Beijing, Shanghai, Delhi, Calcutta and Manila was the focus of this project. The need for integrating global environmental concerns into local air pollution is evident in mega-cities to tap synergistic policy measures; present...

Strategy: Development of environmentally sustainable transport systems in urban areas Environmental areas: Climate change, air pollution, urban environment Critical instruments: Economic instruments, organisational arrangements, partnerships, technologies Country: Japan Location: Fukuoka Participants: West Japan Ecology Network (NGO), Kyushu...