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Developing countries are under increasing pressure to deal with a variety of environmental problems, such as industrial pollution, urban environmental issues, the deterioration of ecosystems, and global warming, while they are expected to simultaneously achieve high economic growth. In this context, they urgently need to leapfrog over environmental...

Analysis of the impacts of climate change on agriculture in India is an important exercise, as it deals with the food security of more than one billion people. This study uses an integrated modeling framework to assess the socio-economic impacts of climate change on Indian agriculture. A crop simulation model is used to estimate the yield changes...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Remarks: English Version: http://pub.iges.or.jp/modules/envirolib/view.php?docid=1815

Remarks: Japanese version: http://pub.iges.or.jp/modules/envirolib/view.php?docid=1814

（財）地球環境戦略研究機関（IGES）は、人口増加や経済成長の著しいアジア太平洋地域における持続可能な開発の実現を目指し、実践的かつ革新的な政策研究を行う国際的研究機関として、1998年に日本政府のイニシアティブによって設立されました。 IGESは、これまで培ってきた各国の政府、地方自治体、NGO、企業、市民団体、専門家などの多様な主体との協力関係をさらに拡充することにより、アジア太平洋の視点から戦略的な政策研究を遂行するとともに、その成果を世界に向けて広く発信し、持続可能な社会の実現に貢献していきたいと考えています。 IGESは、3年毎に研究計画を立て、実践的な成果を目指した研究活動を行っています。第4期統合的戦略研究（2007年4月～2010年3月）では...