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Currently economic integration in East Asia is accelerating along with a political movement towards the creating of an East Asia Community. Regional economic integration could promote sustainability through generating higher incomes and facilitating clean technology transfer on one hand, but equally it could cause natural resource degradation and...

Remarks: Presented at the 3rd Annual Conference Japanese Association for Human Security Studies, Keio University at Shonan-Fujisawa Campus, September 21 and September 22, 2013

To ensure accountability of each researsch project, and to provide a mechanism of transparency to its stakeholders, IGES conducts Project Peer Review every three years, inviting a Peer Review Panel composed of externally based experts. Business and the Environment Project Climate Policy Project Waste Management and Resources Efficiency Project...

The key challenges in waste management facing rapidly developing economies are the consideration of increasing resource consumption and waste generation, as well as the establishment of a ‘‘sound material cycle society’’. The latter refers to the concept of promoting a social change in which the consumption of natural resources is minimised and the...

Remarks: Presented at the 18th Annual Meeting of the Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, 21-22 September 2013, Kobe, Japan