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Peer-reviewed Article
In International Review for Environmental Strategies (IRES) Volume 3 Number 1(Summer 2002)
The United States' new Global Climate Change initiatives, proposed by the Bush Administration on 14 February 2002, reveal the attitude of the U.S. toward future efforts to address climate change. In this paper, the author clarifies this "attitude" by analyzing the content of these new initiatives, and discusses the inititiatives' theoretical...
Peer-reviewed Article
In International Review for Environmental Strategies (IRES) Volume 3 Number 1(Summer 2002)
Book Review "Globalization and Environmental Reform: The Ecological Modernization of the Global Economy" by Arthur P. J. Mol, Professor, Environmental Sociology and Policy at Wageningen University, The Netherlands. Publisher information: Massachusetts: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001. ISBN: 0-262-13395-4, 273 pp., U.S.$ 37.95 (hbk)...
Discussion Paper
For several years now, the number of Japanese companies which publish environmental reports has been increasing. In compiling environmental reports, most people refer to the Environmental Reporting Guidelines (Ministry of the Environment, 2001a, 2001b) issued by the Ministry of the Environment. As indicated in the Guidelines, as basic principles of...
Discussion Paper
The purpose of this research is to indicate what is needed to make corporate environmental disclosure more meaningful by revealing the reality of ER published in Japan. We believe that our research has a unique meaning in the following points: It carefully examines the relevance of information disclosed in Japanese ER with the MOE Environmental...
Discussion Paper
Along with the growing influence of the environmental factor on business management, there has been an increase in the number of companies which compile environmental reports. According to the Survey on Environmentally-friendly Corporate Behavior carried out annually by the Ministry of the Environment, there has been a rapid rise in the number of...
Peer-reviewed Article
In International Review for Environmental Strategies (IRES) Volume 3 Number 1(Summer 2002)
Book Review "Global Environmental Risk" edited by Jeanne X. Kasperson, Research Associate Professor and Research Librarian, George Perkins Marsh Institute, Clark University, USA, and a Visiting Scholar, Stockholm Environment Institute; and Roger E. Kasperson, Executive Director, Stockholm Environment Institute. Publisher information: Tokyo: United...
Peer-reviewed Article
In International Review for Environmental Strategies (IRES) Volume 3 Number 1(Summer 2002)
This section aims to introduce research developments in Asia. These well-written papers, published in languages other than English and therefore difficult for researchers from other countries to access, are selected and summarized by qualified experts. This issue introduces papers from Korea and Japan. - Research developments in Korea KIM, Bong-Koo...
Peer-reviewed Article
In International Review for Environmental Strategies (IRES) Volume 3 Number 1(Summer 2002)
Book Review "Local Control of Land and Forests: Cultural Dimensions of Resource Management in Northern Thailand" by Anan Ganjanapan, Faculty of Social Science, Chiang Mai University, Thailand Publisher information: Chiang Mai: Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development (RCSD), 2000. ISBN: 974-657-355-1, 235 pp. (pbk). Reviewer...