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During its first phase of research the IGES Forest Conservation Project attempted to identify principles and measures for sustainable forest management (SFM) based on experiences in the Asia-Pacific region. Extensive studies were carried out within a framework of four interrelated sub-teams by in-house research staff, visiting researchers and many...

This edition of IRES presents expert reviews on a diverse range of environmental topics including the role of the UN, the economics of climate protection, policy related research in sustainable development, environmental education and urban environment. EDITOR'S NOTE http://enviroscope.iges.or.jp/modules/envirolib/view.php?docid=2431 SPECIAL...

This report summarizes the activities and findings of the Environmental Education Project for the past three years. Divided into four parts, the report describes twin objectives of the Project as formulating a comprehensive strategy of environmental education in the region and developing a mechanism to implement it. Its major activities include (1)...

The workshop was held on 17 January 2001, preceded by intensive discussions between IGES staff and local Japanese collaborators on the preceding day. The workshop was divided into three sessions. First, the morning session was to discuss the results of the first phase of research with invited participants from overseas and Japan. Second, in the...

"Reconciling Environment and Trade" Edith Brown Weiss and John H. Jackson (eds.) Publisher Information: Transnational Publishers, Inc. 2001 ISBN: 1-57105-141-4 Reviewer: Glen Paoletto Reconciling Environment and Trade is clearly a superior work in the field of environment and trade, and one of the more interesting recent works in international law...

Environment in the 21st Century and New Development Patterns Editor: Kazuo Matsushita, Acting Vice-President, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) / Project Leader, Long-Term Perspective and Policy Integration Project, IGES Publisher Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 2001 ISBN: 0-7923-6721-9 This book represents an effort to...

Connect With Nature Editor: Koji Tanaka, Professor, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Japan Publisher Information: Syowado Co. 2000 (in Japanese) ISBN: 4-8122-9913-6 In this book, the authors examine the environment from the viewpoint of local "agriculture", which, as used in the book, includes small-scale forestry activities...

The paper assessed the rationality of the "official" reasons why the Bush Administration opposes the Kyoto Protocol and judges the Kyoto Protocol to be "fatally flawed". Most of the reasons why the Bush Administration made this judgment-lack of long-term goals, exclusion of developing countries and lack of linkages between the scientific base and...

This report summarizes the activities and findings of the New Development Patterns Project (NDP) during the first phase of IGES research. The aim of the NDP Project is to explore new patterns of development in order to arrive at societies with sound material cycles, focusing particularly on Asia and the Pacific. This project was carried out in line...