Publications

The Environmental Education Project of the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) is pleased to bring forth the publication titled "Making sense of Climate Change" prepared by Visiting Researcher, Ms. Ranjana Saikia from the Tata Energy Research Institute (TERI) of India. Ms Saikia worked in IGES for a period of three months from 16th...

The primary purpose of this paper is to outline how the idea of environmental education has come into use, how it has developed over the last few decades, and what efforts are under way in the Asia-Pacific region in the educational field to reduce environmental deterioration and actually improve the condition of the environment. Internationally...

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...

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)...

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...

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...

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...

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...