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Peer-reviewed Article

June 2013

Awareness and acceptability of Chinese companies on market-based instruments for energy saving: A survey analysis by sectors

In Energy for Sustainable Development

This paper measures the company's awareness and acceptability of market-based instruments (MBIs) for energy saving, and identifies their relationships with pre-classified determinants. The data were collected from 170 respondents mainly from iron & steel, cement and chemical sectors in China. The surveyed companies indicate moderate awareness but...

Conference Paper

February 2014

The Pricing of Carbon Emissions from the Business Perspective in Northeast Asia

The 4th Congress of the East Asian Association of Environmental and Resource Economics (EAAERE 2014 )

Book Chapter

October 2013

CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION IN WATER SECTOR

In Climate Change and Water Resources

Keeping in view the various pressures operating on water resources, this chapter elicits various tools for prioritizing adaptation actions within water sector, evaluates different adaptation options including structural and non-structural adaptation and identify barriers that could undermine the rapid expansion of these adaptation options. Managing...

Conference Proceeding

April 2013

4th High Level Seminar on Environmentally Sustainable Cities

Book Chapter

March 2014

National Strategic Plan for Food Waste management in Malaysia (Draft)

Conference Paper

June 2008

Environmental impacts of economic integration on Asian Agriculture: Policy options, challenges and opportunities for organic agriculture

The 16th IFOAM Organic World Congress, Government Support Policy Module, 19 June 2008, Modena, Italy

Despite the fact that organic agriculture has been recognized and advocated, its expected benefits are yet to be realized at a large scale today. Conceptually, the key problems in organic agriculture in the region are due to high transaction costs and poor credibility of organic products. The former is particularly serious in the supply side due to...

Commissioned Report

April 2013

Mid-term Review of Japan Biodiversity Fund Activities. Draft report based on desk review

PR, Newsletter or Other

March 2011

2010 Top News on the Environment in Asia

With the goal of reporting environmental issues and actions on the formation of sustainable societies in the Asia-Pacific region, since 1998 the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) has gathered and compiled news on environmental issues and policies and released them annually as the top environmental news in the Asia-Pacific. This...

Policy Brief

March 2014

Quality Education for Sustainable Development: A priority in achieving sustainability and well-being for all

Enhancing quality should now be the foremost priority for educational development, and this policy brief presents an Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) Learning Performance Framework (LPF) to address both learning processes and educational contents. The LPF provides a roadmap for how stronger ESD can promote greater educational quality...

Policy Report

March 2014