This report summarizes the activities and findings of the New Development Patterns Project (NDP) during the first phase of IGES research. The aim of the NDP Project is to explore new patterns of development in order to arrive at societies with sound material cycles, focusing particularly on Asia and the Pacific. This project was carried out in line...
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The workshop was held on 17 January 2001, preceded by intensive discussions between IGES staff and local Japanese collaborators on the preceding day. The workshop was divided into three sessions. First, the morning session was to discuss the results of the first phase of research with invited participants from overseas and Japan. Second, in the...
Remarks: Inaugural Project of IGES Kansai Research Center. 26 Sep. 2001 at Shin Kobe Oriental Hotel, Kobe, Japan
The number of Japanese corporations which publish environmental reports has been increasing very rapidly. According to the ''A Survey of Environmentally Corporate Behavior'' [Ministry of the Environment (2001a)], the proportion of listed corporations surveyed which disclosed environmental information showed a rising trend from 35.7 per cent (1998)...
The Russian Far East (RFE) has long been regarded by the central government in Moscow as a timber resource base. As a result, forest resources have been exploited for timber, especially the most accessible locations with valuable resources (Newell & Wilson, 1996; Kakizawa, 1998a). After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the exploitation of timber...
This workshop was organized jointly by NUOL (Department of Forestry, National University of Laos) and IGES. The main objectives were: 1) for the IGES forest conservation project to share its research results on Lao P.D.R. and Vietnam respectively; 2) for the participating experts and stakeholders to comment on and discuss the research results; and...
This inaugural issue contains special contributions from international members of the Editorial Board of IRES and papers based on IGES research outcomes covering a broad range of topics including Japanese approaches to environmental management, comparative study of urban environment in East Asia and local forest management in Indonesia. Remarks...
Baseline setting is a key step in the process to identify certified emission reductions for CDM. This paper clarifies some confusing concepts regarding baseline setting, such as time-dependence (static/dynamic/revision) and standardization (benchmarking/projectspecific). There are many technical aspects for the development of CDM scheme from...