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 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...