Special Reports

APEC, Globalization and the “Sustainable Development Agenda” Lyuba Zarsky CoDirector Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development Draft text for Asian Perspectives Fall 1998 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 […]

GLOCOM FRAMEWORK PAPER: Towards International Cooperation on the Northeast Asian Ocean Environment Yasuhide YAMANOUCHI Center for Global Communications (GLOCOM)   presented at the ESENA Workshop: Energy-Related Marine Issues in the Sea of Japan Tokyo, Japan 11-12 July 1998     1. Introduction Participants from Japan, the U.S., and other Northeast Asian countries in the Energy, […]

1. Introduction Participants from Japan, the U.S., and other Northeast Asian countries in the Energy, Security, Environment in Northeast Asia (ESENA) Project on marine issues in the regional seas of Northeast Asia collaborated to conduct studies and engage in dialogue on ocean environmental problems in Northeast Asia. We examined changes to the ocean and coastal […]

Promoting a Plan for a Marine Environment Monitoring Network in the North Pacific Tomohiro SHISHIME Assistant Director Water Quality Bureau Environment Agency of Japan presented at the ESENA Workshop: Energy-Related Marine Issues in the Sea of Japan Tokyo, Japan 11-12 July 1998 Introduction This paper is based on a report entitled On the Plan for […]

Communities, 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 […]

Stuck In the Mud? Nation-States, Globalization and the Environment Lyuba Zarsky Co-Director Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable DevelopmentN2 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 […]

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 as Northeast Asia’s predominant intergovernmental economic cooperation effort. The […]

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 […]

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 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 […]