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This paper seeks to measure industrial energy saving activities (ESAs) and identify their major determinant factors by an empirical study of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Taicang city, China. The surveyed SMEs indicate high participation ratios of pre-classified ESAs even with weak regulation and limited support from industrial...

This paper provides an integrative overview of the progress of the GHG emissions trading scheme (ETS) in Japan, China and the Republic of Korea and identifies and analyses the obstacles hindering policy introduction in this region. Japan has practiced experimental and voluntary ETS in recent years, but its intermediate proposal for domestic ETS...

This study seeks to identify major determinant factors for the firms to practice energy saving activities and provides an empirical analysis in Taicang city of China. The identified drivers are partly supported by the econometric analysis. The energy performances of firms in the same sector and internal training significantly determine firm’s...

Using the data collected from 165 companies based in the Yangtze River delta of China, this paper analyzes the driving mechanisms of green supply chain management (GSCM). The valid respondents are classified as laggard practitioners and advanced practitioners by a cluster analysis of the scores presented to the pre-defined twelve GSCM activities...

As the UN Decade for Education for Sustainable Development (DESD) nears its end in 2014, the impact of education in attaining a more sustainable future and the scale of ESD’s implementation is a key issue. The challenge now is to measure the extent to which ESD has been implemented and to identify methods to further mainstream these important...

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This proposal has been developed in response to the call by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) for stakeholders’ input to a compilation document to serve as the basis for preparation of the zero draft of the outcome document of the United Nations Conference for Sustainable Development (UNCSD: Rio+20). The views...

Though a first step, this presentation provides a framework for developing an early warning system (EWS) linking food, water and energy systems. It lists the issues with the standalone EWS, clarifies the importance of representing the linkages between Food-Water-Energy systems, identifies determinants for an effective FWE-EWS, and discusses...

Remarks: Fujikura, R., and Toyota, T (Eds.)

Solid waste management is considered to be one of the most serious environmental issues confronting urban areas in developing countries. In keeping with global trends, many cities have began taking various steps to support effective integrated solid waste management system based on the 3Rs (reduce, reuse and recycle) concept and trying to reduce...