Publications

Since its establishment in 1998, the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) has taken various opportunities to put forward its strategic research outcomes to a number of international policy dialogues on development and the environment. Among such efforts, IGES put forward policy recommendations at the Ministerial Conference on...

Environment in the 21st Century and New Development Patterns Editor: Kazuo Matsushita, Acting Vice-President, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) / Project Leader, Long-Term Perspective and Policy Integration Project, IGES Publisher Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 2001 ISBN: 0-7923-6721-9 This book represents an effort to...

Connect With Nature Editor: Koji Tanaka, Professor, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Japan Publisher Information: Syowado Co. 2000 (in Japanese) ISBN: 4-8122-9913-6 In this book, the authors examine the environment from the viewpoint of local "agriculture", which, as used in the book, includes small-scale forestry activities...

The Russian Far East (RFE) has long been regarded by the central government in Moscow as a timber resource base. As a result, forest resources have been exploited for timber, especially the most accessible locations with valuable resources (Newell & Wilson, 1996; Kakizawa, 1998a). After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the exploitation of timber...

IGES Annual Report FY1999

This workshop was organized jointly by NUOL (Department of Forestry, National University of Laos) and IGES. The main objectives were: 1) for the IGES forest conservation project to share its research results on Lao P.D.R. and Vietnam respectively; 2) for the participating experts and stakeholders to comment on and discuss the research results; and...

This inaugural issue contains special contributions from international members of the Editorial Board of IRES and papers based on IGES research outcomes covering a broad range of topics including Japanese approaches to environmental management, comparative study of urban environment in East Asia and local forest management in Indonesia. Remarks...

Baseline setting is a key step in the process to identify certified emission reductions for　CDM. This paper clarifies some confusing concepts regarding baseline setting, such as time-dependence (static/dynamic/revision) and standardization (benchmarking/projectspecific). There are many technical aspects for the development of CDM scheme from...

Economic growth after World War II was made possible through dramatic increases in the use of material resources and energy. It is apparent that current development patterns followed by industrialized countries are causing serious environmental problems and that they are neither ecologically nor socially sustainable. In recent years, many Asian...