A Vessel Traffic System Analysis for the Korea/Tsushima Strait Linda PAUL Director Ocean Law & Policy Institute presented at the ESENA Workshop: Energy-Related Marine Issues in the Regional Seas of Northeast Asia Berkeley, CA December 8-10, 1997 1. Introduction The Korea/Tsushima Strait separates the southeastern coast of the Republic of Korea (ROK) from […]
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Energy and the Environment in Asia Pacific: Regional Cooperation and Market Governance
November 1997 Table of Contents Abstract Introduction I. One Hundred Years of Smoke and Smog? II. Regional Environmental Governance of Energy Markets III. Regional Energy Initiatives Notes Energy and the Environment in Asia Pacific: Regional Cooperation and Market Governance Lyuba Zarsky CoDirector Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development Symposium on the United […]
Northeast Nuclear Free Zone
November 28, 1997 The following is a report of the meeting of the Expanded Senior Panel of the Limited Nuclear Weapons-Free Zone for Northeast Asia, held in Moscow October 1-3, 1997. The meeting was sponsored by the Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy of the Ivan Allen College of Georgia Tech University. The report […]
Energy and the Environment in Asia Pacific: Regional Cooperation and Market Governance
Lyuba Zarsky CoDirector Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development Symposium on the United Nations System in the 21st Century United Nations University November 14-15,1997 New York, New York DRAFT Abstract: Energy demand in Asia-Pacific is projected to mushroom over the next decade and, indeed, over the whole of the next century. If […]
Energy and the Environment in Asia Pacific: Regional Cooperation and Market Governance
Abstract Energy demand in Asia-Pacific is projected to mushroom over the next decade and, indeed, over the whole of the next century. If the future looks like the past, the explosion in energy use will greatly compromise human health; severely, perhaps irreversibly, degrade regional and global eco-systems; and potentially inflame regional and even global tensions. […]
Energy and the Environment in Asia Pacific: Regional Cooperation and Market Governance
Energy and the Environment in Asia Pacific: Regional Cooperation and Market Governance Lyuba Zarsky CoDirector Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development Symposium on the United Nations System in the 21st Century United Nations University November 14-15,1997 New York, New York DRAFT Abstract Energy demand in Asia-Pacific is projected to mushroom over the next decade […]
Stuck In the Mud? Nation-States, Globalization and the Environment
Lyuba Zarsky Co-Director Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development Globalisation and Environment Study OECD Economics Division The Hague, The Netherlands May, 1997 Abstract:Environmental and resource management is largely the preserve of nation-states. Economic globalization, however, constrains the unilateral management capacities of nation- states and creates new imperatives on states to cooperate internationally—not only to […]
Stuck In the Mud? Nation-States, Globalization and the Environment May 1997
Abstract Environmental and resource management is largely the preserve of nation-states. Economic globalization, however, constrains the unilateral management capacities of nation- states and creates new imperatives on states to cooperate internationally—not only to manage global resources but also to coordinate domestic environmental policies. This paper presents the hypothesis that–in the absence of effective multilateralism–economic globalization […]
Lessons of NAFTA for APEC
Lessons of NAFTA for APEC #32 Mark J. Spalding, J.D., M.P.I.A.(1) The Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development * DRAFT Please Do Not Quote or Cite Without Permission *ABSTRACT At the beginning of this decade, environmentalists truly began to discover trade issues. The debate between environmentalists and trade liberation proponents has usually been framed […]
Technological Alternatives to Reduce Acid Gas and Related Emissions from Energy-Sector Activities in Northeast Asia November, 1996
1.Introduction and Background Of the many environmental concerns currently facing the nations of Northeast Asia, the problem of “acid rain” or “acid precipitation” presents perhaps the most potent combination of immediate and ongoing impact and regional scope. “Acid rain” , (as described in more detail in other papers in this series) is a general, though […]