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Biofuels have been promoted in many Indian states as part of their rural development strategies, long before the recent finalisation of India’s national policy on biofuels, in order to generate employment and produce fuel locally using existing wastelands. To promote employment, some states have promoted biofuels using nationally sponsored...

This paper introduces the REPA model, which stands for Regional Environmental Policy Assessment model. The REPA model is a multiregional computable general equilibrium model developed based on the GTAP-E model. The main objective of the REPA model is to assess potential impacts of implementing a set of environmental policy instruments (policy...

インドでは最近、バイオ燃料に関する国家政策が最終決定されたが、多くの州では以前から、雇用創出や荒地を利用した燃料生産を目的とする農村開発政策の一環としてバイオ燃料が推進されてきた。雇用の促進に関しては、一部の州で全国農村雇用保障制度等の政府支援プログラムを活用したバイオ燃料の推進が図られており、同制度は、小規模農家や土地を持たない労働者に対して年間最低100日間の雇用保障を目標としている。また、州政府には、現地のニーズに応じた独自の開発プロジェクトを策定する柔軟性が与えられており、バイオ燃料作物の開発に焦点を当てたプロジェクトが実施されているところもある。 最も注目されているバイオ燃料作物はジャトロファであるが、他にクロヨナ等の作物を用いた取り組みも進められている...

This paper analyses the impact of the future regional economic integration and development on internationalisation of waste and recycling-related issues in East Asia. The analysis focuses upon production and consumption of electronics and electric products and automobiles which are strategically important products in developing Asia in the future...

This paper is part of a project called “Linkages among Emissions Trading Schemes and with offset projects” which is carried out under the international research network Climate Strategies, with headquarter in Cambridge, UK. Within this project, several reputed international research institutes including IGES collaborate to explore possible linkage...

Burning is the most simple and cheap method for small-scale farmers to manage plant residue. This practice does provide immediate benefits to farmers, but the wider immediate and long-term negative impacts are much larger. The objective of this study is to elaborate an alternative model for environmental and economically sound plant residue...