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Mongolia has been paying attention to renewable sources of energy in order to put them to practical use, especially in the pastoral livestock sector. In this paper it is shown that renewable sources of energy, especially photovoltaics (PV), may play a key role in the sustainable development of Mongolia, simultaneously solving such problems as...

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The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, being one of the biodiversity hotspots of the world, shares a major responsibility of nature conservation. The Royal Government of Bhutan has already taken initiatives and framed policies to address this situation, but to equate economic development with conservation the nation has opted for a sustainable...

Book Review World Water Vision-Making Water Everybody's Business by William J. Cosgrove and Frank R. Rijsberman. Publisher Information: London: Earthscan Publications Ltd., 2000. ISBN: 1-85383-730X, 108 pp., £12.95, U.S.$19.95 (pbk). Reviewer: Yutaka Takahasi, Senior Programme Adviser (Environment and Sustainable Development), United Nations...

Book Review "Dams and Development-A New Framework for Decision-Making by the World Commission on Dams" Publisher Information: London: Earthscan Publications Ltd., 2000. ISBN: 1-85383-798-9, 404 pp., £12.95, U.S.$19.95 (pbk); 1-85383-798-0, £55.00 (hbk). Reviewer: Yutaka Takahasi, Senior Programme Adviser (Environment and Sustainable Development)...

Book Review "Environmental Policy in the European Union-Actors, Institutions and Processes" edited by Andrew Jordan, Lecturer and Programme Manager of the Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment. Publisher information: London, Sterling (VA): Earthscan Publications Limited, 2002. ISBN: 185-383-795-4, 354 pp., _18.95 (pbk)...

Book Review World in Transition 2: New Structures for Global Environmental Policy by the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU). Publisher information: London: Earthscan, 2001. ISBN: 1-85383-852-7, 242 pp., £50.00 (hbk). International institutions play a crucial role in the movement to cope with global environmental problems, and the...