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The standing and competitiveness of a country is largely determined by how the development and growth of its cities are managed. This paper examines the existing environmental situation in Indian cities with the objective of focusing on the emerging urban environmental crisis, which is receiving far less attention than issues such as global warming...

The timber trade from Russia to China is steadily increasing, and many scholars are convinced that this trend will continue. China's national statistics do not clearly illustrate timber flows, being limited to national trade figures. In this paper, the authors analyze recent trends in the Russia-China timber trade, based on official data sources...

Many of the environmental problems we face today are increasingly complex in nature and widespread in extent, and cut across national boundaries or are of global scale in their effects. But they are rarely truly global in their causes or sources. Even the so-called global environmental problems are rooted in human activities taking place at local...

はじめに 1 概観：2000 年アジア太平洋地域の環境に関する動向と課題 153KB 8 ［アジア太平洋地域］ 市村雅一(環境政策専門官、環境天然資源開発部、国連アジア太平洋経済社会委員会（UN/ESCAP ）） 12 1. アジア太平洋の環境と開発に関する大臣会議 (MCED 2000)の開催 2. アジア太平洋環境白書2000 の発行 3. アジア太平洋における環境上健全かつ持続可能な開発のための地域行動計画(RAP) 2001‐ 2005 の採択 4. クリーンな環境のための北九州イニシアチブの採択 5. 北東アジアにおける環境協力の推進 ［アジア太平洋地域］ S.タヒール・カドリ(アジア開発銀行（ADB ）） 18 1. 東南アジア諸国連合（ASEAN...