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Pleasant weather and beautiful scenery refresh us, polluted air and water cause us concern about ecosystems and human health, and global environmental disasters threaten us on a larger scale. Yet it seems difficult for people in industrialized countries to realize how much they owe to the environment, while people in developing countries are often...

This, the second Issue of IRES, offers papers from a diverse group of authors who contributed their insights on a broad range of topics. The issue begins with an essay by Dean James Gustave Speth, Dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, on the role of the United States in an increasingly globalized world. Prof. Dr. Peter...

This paper presents a case study of drought risk assessment and management in Svay Rieng province of Cambodia. Drought is a creeping disaster and has debilitating impacts on rural livelihoods and socio-economic conditions. Interviews with local communities, government administration, and non-governmental agencies indicated the lack of livelihood...

This is a series of briefing notes summarising results from multi-stakeholder consultations on the post-2012 climate regime held in 2008. The brief note series present recommendations for the future climate regime on issuing considered important to the Asian Pacific Region, including sectoral approaches, adaptation, financial mechanisms, biofuels...

Environmental education is one of the most effective strategies for increasing general levels of public environmental awareness, developing skills for solving environmental problems, and maintaining and improving quality of life and the environment. The word “Environmental Education” originates from the founding meeting of IUCN (International Union...

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The increasing volume of CO2 embodiment in international trade adds a layer of complexity to environmental policies and has raised arguments on the traditional production based responsibility for CO2 emissions. In order to help understand the quantity of CO2 embodiment in trade and its policy implications, this paper gives observations to recently...

In order to help understand the environmental disclosure mechanism from the corporate perspective, this paper identifies the determinant factors affecting the disclosure level of corporate environmental information on the basis of stakeholder theory, and gives an empirical observation on Chinese listed companies. The corporate environmental...

インドでは最近、バイオ燃料に関する国家政策が最終決定されたが、多くの州では以前から、雇用創出や荒地を利用した燃料生産を目的とする農村開発政策の一環としてバイオ燃料が推進されてきた。雇用の促進に関しては、一部の州で全国農村雇用保障制度等の政府支援プログラムを活用したバイオ燃料の推進が図られており、同制度は、小規模農家や土地を持たない労働者に対して年間最低100日間の雇用保障を目標としている。また、州政府には、現地のニーズに応じた独自の開発プロジェクトを策定する柔軟性が与えられており、バイオ燃料作物の開発に焦点を当てたプロジェクトが実施されているところもある。 最も注目されているバイオ燃料作物はジャトロファであるが、他にクロヨナ等の作物を用いた取り組みも進められている...