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The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, being one of the biodiversity hotspots of the world, shares a major responsibility of nature conservation. The Royal Government of Bhutan has already taken initiatives and framed policies to address this situation, but to equate economic development with conservation the nation has opted for a sustainable...

Book Review World Water Vision-Making Water Everybody's Business by William J. Cosgrove and Frank R. Rijsberman. Publisher Information: London: Earthscan Publications Ltd., 2000. ISBN: 1-85383-730X, 108 pp., £12.95, U.S.$19.95 (pbk). Reviewer: Yutaka Takahasi, Senior Programme Adviser (Environment and Sustainable Development), United Nations...

Book Review "Dams and Development-A New Framework for Decision-Making by the World Commission on Dams" Publisher Information: London: Earthscan Publications Ltd., 2000. ISBN: 1-85383-798-9, 404 pp., £12.95, U.S.$19.95 (pbk); 1-85383-798-0, £55.00 (hbk). Reviewer: Yutaka Takahasi, Senior Programme Adviser (Environment and Sustainable Development)...

The roots of the concept of strategic environmental assessment (SEA) go back to the U.S. National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969, while the actual term was coined in the U.K. in 1989 in an effort to find a clear distinction between project-based environmental impact assessment and the assessment of policies above the project level. The...

Book Review "Environmental Policy in the European Union-Actors, Institutions and Processes" edited by Andrew Jordan, Lecturer and Programme Manager of the Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment. Publisher information: London, Sterling (VA): Earthscan Publications Limited, 2002. ISBN: 185-383-795-4, 354 pp., _18.95 (pbk)...

Book Review World in Transition 2: New Structures for Global Environmental Policy by the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU). Publisher information: London: Earthscan, 2001. ISBN: 1-85383-852-7, 242 pp., £50.00 (hbk). International institutions play a crucial role in the movement to cope with global environmental problems, and the...

Book Review: "Climate Change: From a Fossil to a Solar Culture" by Carl Amery and Hermann Scheer. Publisher information: MÙnchen: Kunstmann, 2001 (in German). a ISBN: 3-88897-266-3, 143 pp., ó10 (pbk). Reviewer: Axel Michaelowa, b Head of Programme "International Climate Policy," Hamburg Institute of International Economics, Germany. Foreign...

Basin countries of the lower Mekong River established the Mekong River Commission in 1995, replacing the former Mekong Committee created in 1957. At a glance, the role of the former resembles the latter, while the political and societal situation nowadays has provided quite a different set of mandates. In this paper, the changes observed and the...

The Yellow River basin in China is harshly confronted by frequent water shortages and serious water pollution, along with the associated problems of intensifying floods and the deterioration of the ecology and environment. Water-related problems have become significant obstacles to sustainable development in the region, which points to the...

Natural climate variability has a direct and fundamental bearing on water resources and their management, which are also likely to be strongly impacted by long-term climate change. This paper provides an overview of the relationship between climate variability and change and the management of freshwater resources, including the impacts of climate...