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Since its establishment in 1998, the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) has taken various opportunities to put forward its strategic research outcomes to a number of international policy dialogues on development and the environment. Among such efforts, IGES put forward policy recommendations at the Ministerial Conference on...

This essay addresses issues raised by the UK Landfill Tax introduced by the Finance Act 1996. It begins by considering the motivation for the introduction of the Landfill Tax in the UK through an examination of traditional UK waste management and its regulatory system, which was mainly composed of "command and control" legislation. Next, the essay...

The Japanese experience with environmental management shows that a holistic strategy integrating three managerial dimensions-social, economic and environmental-is required. Four strategic implications can be learned from Japanese successes and failures in environmental management: how to build cooperative approaches among actors in environmental...

The international community is increasingly recognizing the importance of environmental education (EE) by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in achieving sustainable societies, as well as the importance of transboundary support for NGOs involved in EE. NGO EE networks can play an important role in the promotion of, and transboundary support for...

The research activity of the Climate Change Project in the first phase of IGES research was carried out focusing on the policy proposals responding to the process of UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol. Emphasis was put on the system design of the Kyoto Mechanisms such as emissions trading or the clean development...

Since the mid 1990s, governments have attached increasing importance to urban environmental infrastructure (UEI) development in East Asian developing countries. There are two critical strategic issues for improving urban environmental infrastructure in East Asia: the enhancement of governmental capacities in financing UEI, and the mobilization of...

The objective of this paper is to introduce a two-step methodology for determining baselines to evaluate project-based flexible instruments under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, such as the Clean Development Mechanism and Joint Implementation. The methodology includes the application of an optimising energy and material flow model...

Remarks: The special session in the Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies (SEEPS) Annual Meeting 2001

Book Review: "Earth Summit 2002: A New Deal (Revised Edition)" Felix Dodds with Toby Middleton (ed.) Project Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd. 2001, 364 pp. ISBN: 1-85383-867-5 Reviewer: Lisa Hiwasaki Earth Summit 2002: A New Deal (Revised Edition) is a comprehensive book that gives its readers an overview of the progress made and the new...

Climate Change-Science, Strategies, and Solutions Editor: Eileen Claussen, President, Pew Center on Global Climate Change Publisher information: Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2001, 400 pp ISBN: 90-04-12276 Negotiating the Kyoto Protocol Author: Heike Schroder, University of Erfurt, Germany Publisher information: Munster: Lit-Verlag, 2001, 193...