The Asia Europe Journal Vol 6 No 2 (July issue 2008 ) is focusing on “International Co-operation on Environmental Issues: Asian and European Perspectives”. Articles explore developments in the field of general environmental policies in Europe and Asia. They address specific issues like environmental agreements and trade, environment and industry, as well as other relevant topics in sustainable development (e.g. water management and marine life, ecological agriculture, sustainable forestry and habitat protection, sustainable energy and transportation etc) on one or both continents.
Essay
- Governing for Sustainibility
by Laszlo Solyom
Original Paper
- Cities and Sustainibility: Southeast Asian and European Perspectives
by Giok-Ling Ooi - EU-Japan “Structured Cooperation” and Energy Efficiency for Asia
by Joern Keck - The Potentials and Limits of China-EU Co-operation on Climate Change and Energy Security
by Constantin Holzer and Haibin Zhang - Environmental Aspect in Free-trade Agreements in the Asia-Pacific region
by Astrid Fritz Carrapatoso - The Evolution and Transformation of European Environmental Policy and Law
by Fu Cong - EU and Asian Coutries Policies and Programmes for the Diffusion of Sustainable Energy Technologies
by A. Flamos, W. van der Gaast, H. Doukas and G. Deng - Operational oceanography in Indonesia
by Alberto Ribotti - Development of Environmental Management Mechanism in Myanmar
by Myo Nyunt - Integrated Land-use Planning for Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resources Management in the Vietnames Mekong Delta
by N.T. Son - Southeast Asia Water Conflicts – from a Political Geography Perspective
by Yvonne Kloepper - Assessment of Non-Timber Forest Products in Phnom Kok Community Forest, Cambodia
by Sophanarith Kim, Nophea Sasaki and Masao Koike - Chinese Medicine in an Occidental Perspective
by Merit Korbe - Waste to Wealth
by S. Kathiravale and M.N.Muhd Yunus
Book Review
- Malte C. Boecker (ed.): Asia . Changing the World
by Albrecht Rothacher - Peter Anderson and Georg Wiessala (eds.): The European Union and Asia
by Fraser Cameron - Kishore Mahbubani, The new Asian hemisphere: the irresistible shift of global power to the east
by Asad-ul Iqbal Latif
Further information is available on the Asia Europe Journal Website.