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The development of rocky desertification, the main form of land desertification in the karst mountain areas of southwest China, is accelerating and has become one of the most serious environmental, social, and economic problems facing the province of Guizhou, especially. The problem is mainly the result of interactions between human activities...

The countries of Northeast Asia-China, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), Japan, Mongolia, the Republic of Korea (South Korea), and the Russian Federation-have complex histories, diverse cultures, and a wide range of political, demographic, and economic conditions. Today these countries are striving for greater dialogue and...

The primary purpose of this paper is to outline how the idea of environmental education has come into use, how it has developed over the last few decades, and what efforts are under way in the Asia-Pacific region in the educational field to reduce environmental deterioration and actually improve the condition of the environment. Internationally...

The United States' new Global Climate Change initiatives, proposed by the Bush Administration on 14 February 2002, reveal the attitude of the U.S. toward future efforts to address climate change. In this paper, the author clarifies this "attitude" by analyzing the content of these new initiatives, and discusses the inititiatives' theoretical...

Book Review "Globalization and Environmental Reform: The Ecological Modernization of the Global Economy" by Arthur P. J. Mol, Professor, Environmental Sociology and Policy at Wageningen University, The Netherlands. Publisher information: Massachusetts: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001. ISBN: 0-262-13395-4, 273 pp., U.S.$ 37.95 (hbk)...

Book Review "Global Environmental Risk" edited by Jeanne X. Kasperson, Research Associate Professor and Research Librarian, George Perkins Marsh Institute, Clark University, USA, and a Visiting Scholar, Stockholm Environment Institute; and Roger E. Kasperson, Executive Director, Stockholm Environment Institute. Publisher information: Tokyo: United...

Book Review "Human Ecology: Basic Concepts for Sustainable Development" by Gerald G. Marten, Professor, School of Policy Studies, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan. Publisher information: London: Earthscan Publications Ltd., 2001. ISBN: 1-85383-714-8, 256 pp., 14.95 GBP (pbk). Reviewer: Hisato Okamoto, Director, Frontier of Socio-Science Studies...

Book Review "Local Control of Land and Forests: Cultural Dimensions of Resource Management in Northern Thailand" by Anan Ganjanapan, Faculty of Social Science, Chiang Mai University, Thailand Publisher information: Chiang Mai: Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development (RCSD), 2000. ISBN: 974-657-355-1, 235 pp. (pbk). Reviewer...

Book Review "Environmental Laws of Mongolia" edited by the Ministry for the Environment, Mongolia. Publisher information: "Orbis" Co., Ltd., 1997 (in Mongolian), 2,600 copies. Reviewers: Batjargal Zamba, Embassy of Mongolia, Japan and Nachin Dashnyam, Visiting Researcher, Economic Research Institute for Northeast Asia, Japan An unfettered market...

The timber trade from Russia to China is steadily increasing, and many scholars are convinced that this trend will continue. China's national statistics do not clearly illustrate timber flows, being limited to national trade figures. In this paper, the authors analyze recent trends in the Russia-China timber trade, based on official data sources...