この報告書は、1998-2000年度に実施されたIGES環境ガバナンスプロジェクトが行ったアジア各国の環境ガバナンス・システムの事例研究に関連した３年間の主要な成果を総合的、かつ簡潔に紹介するためにとりまとめたものである。各章とも和訳あり（一部要旨のみ）。

This Book has been compiled in order to provide a comprehensive yet succinct picture of all the major inputs and outputs of the IGES Environmental Governance (EG) Project (April 1998 - March 2001) as far as they are...

Many of the environmental problems we face today are increasingly complex in nature and widespread in extent, and cut across national boundaries or are of global scale in their effects. But they are rarely truly global in their causes or sources. Even the so-called global environmental problems are rooted in human activities taking place at local...