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Civil Society and Clean Shared Growth in Asia: Towards a Stakeholder Model of Environmental Governance
Lyuba Zarsky CoDirector Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development DRAFT presented at The Outlook for Environmentally Sound Development Policies Workshop Organized by the U.S.-Asia Environmental Partnership (US-AEP) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Manila, Philippines August 2-3, 1999 1. Introduction The financial and economic crises which swept East Asia in the late 1990s signaled the […]
Go to the articleAPEC, Globalization and the “Sustainable Development Agenda”
Introduction In the early 1990s, popular concern about mounting ecological degradation swept the world. The historical moment was crystallized in the 1992 UN World Conference on Environment and Development, known popularly as the Rio Summit. Attended by over 100 heads of state, the Summit coalesced around the concept of “sustainable development,” the idea that environmental […]
Go to the articleCommunities, Markets and City Government: Innovative Roles for Coastal Cities to Reduce Marine Pollution in the Asia-Pacific
Jason Hunter and Lyuba Zarsky Program Officer and CoDirector Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development Prepared for APEC Workshop on Regional Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-Based Activities April 14-16, 1998 Townsville, Australia Abstract As large agglomerations of both people and industry, coastal cities […]
Go to the articleTumen River Area Development Program and Transboundary Water Pollution
Jason Hunter Program Officer Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development Based on a talk given at: The Woodrow Wilson Center Environmental Change and Security Project Working Group on Environment in US-China Relations January 7, 1998 I. Northeast Asia: a Region of Regions In the late 1990s, the Tumen River Area Development Program (TRADP) has emerged […]
Go to the articleInternational Regulation of Nuclear Fuel Cycles: Issues for East Asia November 1997
1. Introduction The international nuclear non-proliferation regime includes formal and informal elements. Formal measures include unilateral declarations, and bilateral, multilateral and regional agreements. Informal elements include the many political assumptions and relationships which underpin the regime. Together this evolving regime of measures has encouraged the development of peaceful uses of energy, while restraining the […]
Go to the articleCitizen’s Conference on Trade and the Environment: Towards the APEC Osaka Meetings
The establishment of the WTO in January this year will further accelerate the global trend towards greater liberalization of trade and investment. Within the Asia-Pacific region, a commitment to economic liberalization is demonstrated by the Bogor Declaration which was adopted at the APEC summit meeting in Indonesia last November. The Declaration reads “trade and investment […]
Go to the articleASIA-PACIFIC ECONOMIC COOPERATION (APEC) IN YEAR SEVEN OSAKA SUMMIT
ASIA-PACIFIC ECONOMIC COOPERATION (APEC) IN YEAR SEVEN OSAKA SUMMIT: A TIME OF RECKONING Robert A. Manning and Paula Stern APEC’s credibility will be tested when topleaders gather in Osaka, Japan in mid-Novemberfor its annual meetings. After six years ofworking advisory groups, visions, blueprints,agendas, and action plans, APEC has had nomeasurable impact on the trade, investment, […]
Go to the articleASIA-PACIFIC ECONOMIC COOPERATION (APEC) IN YEAR SEVEN OSAKA SUMMIT: A TIME OF RECKONING
APEC’s credibility will be tested when topleaders gather in Osaka, Japan in mid-Novemberfor its annual meetings. After six years ofworking advisory groups, visions, blueprints,agendas, and action plans, APEC has had nomeasurable impact on the trade, investment, oreconomic growth of its 18-member economies.1Yet APEC has laid the groundwork for makingvaluable trade-enhancing progress, whileproviding a consultative forum […]
Go to the articleThe Gender Dimension in Environment and Development Policy: The Southeast Asian Experience
Engender Centre for Environment, Gender and Development Pte Ltd 14C Trengganu Street, Singapore 058468 Tel: (65) 227 1439 Fax: (65) 227 7897 E-mail: engender@technet.sg The environmental crisis and the feminisation of poverty This paper sets out to show how the environmental crisis and the feminisation of poverty are actually one inter- related crisis.1 Both situations […]
Go to the articleFixing What’s Broke with APEC: First Steps Toward a Sustainable Development Plan That Can Be Adopted at the November 1995 Osaka Minister’s Meeting
A National Wildlife Federation Trade and Environment Report June 23, 1995 Stewart Hudson, Senior Legislative Representative Rodrigo Prudencio, Trade and Environment Specialist Richard Forrest, East Asia Representative Working for the Nature of Tomorrow NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION PREFACE Fixing What’s Broke With APEC is the first in a series of new reports on global commerce and […]
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