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More Plastic Bags than Fish? East Asia’s New Environmental Threat
(S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, 2019-04-08)
Marine plastic pollution is the new environmental threat facing mankind. This is also afflicting East Asia where six countries are major pollutants. While some in the region have started tackling this new menace, more can be done by all.
Fisheries and Climate Change
(Asian Development Bank, 2010-10-01)
This policy brief explains how that the oceanic, coastal, and freshwater fisheries and aquaculture operations of the Pacific will be equally subjected to the direct and indirect effects of climate change.
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Environmental Awareness: Alternative Strategies Beyond Symbolism
(S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, 2019-05-09)Are existing environmental campaigns making an impact? Environmental awareness strategies should incorporate lessons from history and traditions, to bring about more effective outcomes. -
Policy Insights from Comparing Carbon Pricing Modeling Scenarios
(Brookings India, 2019-05-07)Given the complexity of the global energy system and its links to the economy, modeling is one of the best available tools to anticipate possible outcomes of a carbon price and explore tradeoffs between policy design choices. Since all models come with ... -
Trade effects of standards harmonization in the EU: improved access for non-EU partners
(Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2019-04-15)In September 2008, the EU replaced national-level regulation on Maximum Residue Levels (MRLs) in pesticides with harmonized Community-wide regulation. Using data on pesticide MRLs for 53 trading partners over 2005-2014, we examine the effects of this ... -
Gender Equity in Education: Helping the Boys Catch Up
(Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2019-04-15)The article argues that in the Philippines there is a need for a more nuanced view of gender equality. Historically, Filipino males were somewhat more educated than females. Now the males are lagging behind the females and the education gender gap is ... -
Understanding the Educational Mobility of Men and Women and the Schooling Progression of Boys and Girls in the Philippines: A Regional Perspective
(Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2019-04-15)Current global trends show that boys have consistently underperformed in the academic front, an observation that can be noted in the Philippines as well. At the national level, a clear reversal of the gender schooling gap between men and women is ... -
More Plastic Bags than Fish? East Asia’s New Environmental Threat
(S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, 2019-04-08)Marine plastic pollution is the new environmental threat facing mankind. This is also afflicting East Asia where six countries are major pollutants. While some in the region have started tackling this new menace, more can be done by all. -
Environmental Governance and Environmental Performance
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2019-03-30)Along with the continuous development of the global economy, environmental deterioration has been widely recognized as a pressing issue nowadays, bringing environmental governance to the forefront of human survival. Asia, the largest continent in world ... -
Updates from Washington, DC March 2019
(The Asia Foundation, 2019-03-30)In this issue: Advanced Middle-Income Countries, Let’s Read! Initiative, Cambodia, China, 2019 Lotus Leadership Awards Gala, and the Philippines. -
A Comparative study of Fishery and Environment Laws in the South China Sea: Utilising Existing Laws to Promote Cooperation
(S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, 2019-03-30)Though there is general consensus that claimants to the South China Sea should set aside territorial disputes and cooperate to preserve the overexploited natural resources of the sea, no such means of cooperation have yet been established. This policy ... -
Environment
(The Asia Foundation, 2019-03-30)Asia represents 30% of the world’s land area yet is home to 60% of the world’s population. Even with declining growth rates, Asia still adds approximately 40 million people to the region every year—creating higher demand for an ever-shrinking natural ...