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Book Review "Environmental Laws of Mongolia" edited by the Ministry for the Environment, Mongolia. Publisher information: "Orbis" Co., Ltd., 1997 (in Mongolian), 2,600 copies. Reviewers: Batjargal Zamba, Embassy of Mongolia, Japan and Nachin Dashnyam, Visiting Researcher, Economic Research Institute for Northeast Asia, Japan An unfettered market...

The United States' new Global Climate Change initiatives, proposed by the Bush Administration on 14 February 2002, reveal the attitude of the U.S. toward future efforts to address climate change. In this paper, the author clarifies this "attitude" by analyzing the content of these new initiatives, and discusses the inititiatives' theoretical...

The primary purpose of this paper is to outline how the idea of environmental education has come into use, how it has developed over the last few decades, and what efforts are under way in the Asia-Pacific region in the educational field to reduce environmental deterioration and actually improve the condition of the environment. Internationally...

The countries of Northeast Asia-China, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), Japan, Mongolia, the Republic of Korea (South Korea), and the Russian Federation-have complex histories, diverse cultures, and a wide range of political, demographic, and economic conditions. Today these countries are striving for greater dialogue and...

The development of rocky desertification, the main form of land desertification in the karst mountain areas of southwest China, is accelerating and has become one of the most serious environmental, social, and economic problems facing the province of Guizhou, especially. The problem is mainly the result of interactions between human activities...

The coastal areas of Bangladesh are vulnerable to natural disasters, especially from cyclones and tidal surges. Since 1958 most of the coast has been protected by the construction of embankments and sluice gates. No impact study was conducted before doing this construction. Today, however, ecological, social, economic, and cultural impacts can be...

This paper examines the political feasibility of an ecological tax reform (ETR). To this end, a positive taxation approach is developed from which the politico-economic determinants of a successfully implemented, ecologically-oriented tax policy may be derived. Public acceptance of the ETR introduced in Germany is then evaluated on the basis of...

On 10 April 2002, the International Review for Environmental Strategies (IRES) had the opportunity to hold a dialogue with Lester R. Brown in Tokyo and to gain some insights into his views on sustainable development. Brown reinforced the importance of a paradigm shift from the fossil fuel-based economy to the solar-hydrogen-based economy-the eco...

As the World Summit on Sustainable Development approaches, it is timely to assess our actions on behalf of a more ecologically viable world and the barriers that remain to our realization of this goal. Globalization and sustainable development have emerged as key discourses to evaluate our social and environmental prospects. On the critical issue...

本研究は日本企業の環境報告書の現状を整理し、その課題を明らかにするべく、東証１部上場企業で2000 年、2001年に発行された環境報告書の記載内容を詳細に分析したものである。まず環境省「環境報告書ガイドライン（2000年度版）」で記載が必要とされている18項目について、各社の環境報告書が記載しているかどうかの観点からデータベース化し、そのうえで複数の観点から分析を行った。分析結果を簡単に要約すると以下のとおりである。 環境報告書の発行状況としては、約20％の企業が環境報告書を発行しており、その数は今後も増加が予想される。業種との関連でいえば、最終消費者との関連度が高い業種が、記載項目の多さという意味での開示度が比較的に高い。項目別にみると、「報告に当たっての基本的要件」...