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"Reconciling Environment and Trade" Edith Brown Weiss and John H. Jackson (eds.) Publisher Information: Transnational Publishers, Inc. 2001 ISBN: 1-57105-141-4 Reviewer: Glen Paoletto Reconciling Environment and Trade is clearly a superior work in the field of environment and trade, and one of the more interesting recent works in international law...

Developing countries are under increasing pressure to deal with a variety of environmental problems, such as industrial pollution, urban environmental issues, the deterioration of ecosystems, and global warming, while they are expected to simultaneously achieve high economic growth. In this context, they urgently need to leapfrog over environmental...

Analysis of the impacts of climate change on agriculture in India is an important exercise, as it deals with the food security of more than one billion people. This study uses an integrated modeling framework to assess the socio-economic impacts of climate change on Indian agriculture. A crop simulation model is used to estimate the yield changes...

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...

The paper assessed the rationality of the "official" reasons why the Bush Administration opposes the Kyoto Protocol and judges the Kyoto Protocol to be "fatally flawed". Most of the reasons why the Bush Administration made this judgment-lack of long-term goals, exclusion of developing countries and lack of linkages between the scientific base and...

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...

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...

Remarks: Japanese version: http://pub.iges.or.jp/modules/envirolib/view.php?docid=1814

Business and industry, or the corporate sector, have been practicing corporate citizenship towards achieving corporate environmental excellence. This paper shows how business and industry has incorporated the idea of corporate citizenship into corporate management, especially through the adoption of environmentally-sound practices and environmental...