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| Gen Inoue | |
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| Center for Global Environmental Research | |
| National Institute for Environmental Studies | |
| Environment Agency | |
| 16-2 Onogawa, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0053, Japan | |
| Tel: +81-298-50-2402, Fax: +81-298-58-2645 | |
| E-mail: inouegen@nies.go.jp |
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The integration and systematization of researches, i.e. reviewing and evaluating the current state of global environment researches and discussing and clarifying the direction of future researches to make the "Prospect on Global Environment Research", has conducted on the fields of "Global Warming (Countermeasures)" and "Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Problems".
(1) Prospect on the Research of "Global Warming (Countermeasures)"
Global climate change has become one of the most important environmental issues. At COP3, Kyoto, the developed country parties to the Protocol committed to reduce their overall greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by at least 5% lower than 1990 level in the period 2008-2012. Although the Protocol is an important step for stabilizing GHG, a number of studies are left to realize the stabilization. The following important future studies are summarized to find ways to tackle global warming:
1) Studies on countermeasure technologies.
2) Studies on land-use change.
3) Studies on international cooperation.
4) Studies on social and economic systems.
5) Studies on comprehensive assessment in developing countries.
6) Studies on adaptation.
New research activities will help to promote policies for stabilizing global climate.
(2) Prospect on the Research of "Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Problems"
It is recognized so important to understand the impacts of human activities on global environment and the feedback of global environment change to human society, and to analyze the role of human being in global environment and the interaction between global environ-ment and socio-economic system. In order to facilitate the effective response strategies, the researches of HDP have been progressed. The following were reviewed and
1) Trend of HDP Research in World.
2) Trend of HDP Research in Japan.
3) View of HDP Research.
For promoting the future HDP researches to solve global environmental problems, it should be necessary with the viewpoints of an Asian area and technology, to participate in the international research plan such as IHDP, to conduct the original HDP researches of Japan, and to have interdisciplinary cooperation between social science, natural science and engineering.
Countermeasures for Global Warming, Global Environment Research, Human Dimension Programme (HDP), Integration and Systematization, Review and Prospect