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This report is the output of the two-day Rikkyo International Symposium on Globalism and Education for Sustainable Development in the Asia-Pacific Region held from 31 July to 1 August 2003 at Rikkyo University, Japan. The symposium was jointly organised by the Asian Studies Frontier Project (ASEP), the Rikkyo East Asia Environmental Institute (R...

[Table of Contents] - Preface - Trends in China's forest-related policies - from the perspective of the growing timber trade / Masanobu YAMANE and Wenming LU - Trends in Malaysian Forest Policy / Weng-Chuen WOON and Haron NORINI - Trends in Forest Policy of the Philippines / Juan M. PULHIN - Farm Tree Planting and the Wood Industry in Indonesia : a...

Remarks: This report is the executive summary of the policy proposal report of IGES climate policy project released in July 2002. The full report (170 pages) is only available in Japanese. http://pub.iges.or.jp/modules/envirolib/view.php?docid=2489

Wetlands occur everywhere on the Earth. A good wetland signifies a balanced ecosystem because it is the interface of land, water and air. Wetlands provide food and habitat for terrestrial, aquatic, amphibian and avian animals. So wetlands are an important place. But they are being lost due to natural as well as human actions. The loss of wetlands...

Wetlands are found in the area where a hydrological regime occurs. Its ecological character depends on spatial and temporal variation of water depth, flow patterns, water quality as well as the frequency and duration of inundation. Some wetlands like the coastal wetland and the marine wetland are often highly dependant on inputs of freshwater. The...

The goal of the Forest Conservation Project is to develop strategies for desirable forest conservation and sustainable forest management. Although many approaches should be taken into consideration to achieve this goal, the project has set a precise objective for its second phase of research (April 2001 to March 2004): to propose concrete measures...

The aim of this interim country report is to disseminate the results of the activities from the second fiscal year of the second phase, on the Russian Far East, and to provide the basis for discussions on developing guidelines and recommendations for participatory forest management. Under the former USSR, local people were separated from forest...

A two-day "Seminar on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in Nepal" is the series of advocacy efforts initiated by IGES in cooperation with partners to raise the profile of ESD in the region. The main concern is not on sustainable development as such but on the role of education as a process to contribute meaningfully to achieve the goal of...