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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...

The primary goal of this research activity is to record and document exemplary cases of environmental education in the region. These have been called pioneering examples, to mean first and better ideas in the field of environmental education. These examples are not the best at all but are definitely better among the good ones.

Wetlands are one of the most productive environments in the world. They are the “supermarket” of biological diversity. While wetlands have been dwindled world-wide due to overuse, pollution, conversion into residential use and dumping sites there are also concrete evidences of intensive campaigns under way to conserve and use them wisely. By this...

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...

This report represents the culmination of the two phases of ECO ASIA Long-term Perspective Project (LTPP). The first phase of the project was initiated in 1993 and presented its report in 1997. The second phase commenced in 1998. Both projects were launched under the framework of ECO ASIA to provide policy makers with scientific policy analysis on...

The ECO ASIA Long-term Perspective Project (LTPP) was proposed by the Environment Agency (now Ministry of the Environment), Government of Japan, at the second meeting of ECO ASIA (1993). LTPP aims to provide decision makers in Asia-Pacific with a scientific basis for policy formulation to achieve sustainable development. International workshops...