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IGES関西研究センターのプロジェクトリーダーである神戸大学教授の國部克彦氏による基調講演では、環境会計が環境マネジメントだけではなく企業経営全般にとって重要であることが明示された。 日本政府による2つの取り組みが、日本企業の行動の変化に大きな影響を与えている。まず、環境省(MOE)の環境会計ガイドラインは、企業が環境報告書を通じて、環境会計情報の第三者への開示を増やすことを意図したものである。環境省による取り組みの一方で、経済産業省(METI)も取り組みを開始している。経済産業省による取り組みの結果として、さまざまな環境管理会計手法が開発された。これらの手法の中で、特にマテリアルフローコスト会計(MFCA)が将来的に有望な手法であると考えられている。...

In his keynote speech K. Kokubu, professor at Kobe University and project leader at IGES Kansai Research Center stated the importance of environmental accounting not only for environmental conscious management itself, but for corporate management in general. Two initiatives of the Japanese government seem to have caused the change of behavior of...

This paper presents the issues and concerns of the water sector in Asia and the Pacific, as well as the actions of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), to address existing problems and ensure the sustainability of water resources in the region. These water issues may be classified into institutional, resources management, and service delivery issues...

Water is vital for the life and health of people and ecosystems and a basic requirement for the development of countries, but many people lack access to adequate and safe water to meet their most basic needs. Water resources and their related ecosystems are now under threat from pollution, unsustainable use, climate change and many other forces...

In developing countries, the major meaning of "sanitation" is the management of human excreta. In developing countries with poor water supply and sanitation systems, life expectancy is far lower than in industrialized countries. The causes of deaths are also quite different; infectious diseases account for more than 40 percent of deaths in...

The budgets of GHGs, urban air pollutants and their future emission scenarios in selected megacities in Asia, Tokyo, Seoul, Beijing, Shanghai, Delhi, Calcutta and Manila was the focus of this project. The need for integrating global environmental concerns into local air pollution is evident in mega-cities to tap synergistic policy measures; present...