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PR, Newsletter or Other
With the goal of reporting environmental issues and actions on the formation of sustainable societies in the Asia-Pacific region, since 1998 the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) has gathered and compiled news on environmental issues and policies and released them annually as the top environmental news in the Asia-Pacific. This...
PR, Newsletter or Other
The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) has been releasing a collection of the top news items on the environment in the Asia-Pacific region every year since 1998. This has been with the aim of collecting and organising information about environmental issues and policy trends in the region, and to report on how the region addresses...
Conference Proceeding
Recently global environmental issues, in particular climate change, have been gaining so much attention worldwide that they have become the main issues at the G8 summit conferences. In the light of economic development and population growth, greenhouse gas emissions look set to increase in the region headed by China and India. Overcoming serious...
Peer-reviewed Article
In IRES Vol.7 No.1
Author:
Tolentino Jr., Amado S.
Local people contribute much to wetland conservation, and the Pacific island countries offer invaluable information demonstrating the cultural value of wetlands vis-à-vis sustainable livelihoods. Drawing primarily on examples from Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Fiji, but generalizing for many of the Pacific countries, this paper argues...
Book
IGES published its first white paper entitled, "Sustainable Asia 2005 and Beyond - In the pursuit of innovative policies," which consolidates the primary outcomes of its policy research for sustainable development in Asia and the Pacific region since its establishment in 1998. Driven by buoyant economic development and continuous population growth...