International Development and the Environment

- Development and the Environment: Society, Business and Social consensus.- Sustainable Development Goals and International Governance: Indicators as a Key Mechanism for Success.- Social Development and the Environment - A View from Solid Waste Management.- Engaging Business: UN Sustainable Development Goals and Climate Change.- FSC as a Social Standard for Conservation and the Sustainable Use of Forests: FSC Legitimation Strategy in Competition.- China's Climate and Development Policy: the interplay between political sentiments and external commitments.- Global Environmental Treaty Regimes as Balancer between Environmental Conservation and Economic Growth: Facilitating Effective Implementations of Global Environmental Treaty Regimes.- Stabilizing International Environmental Agreements. 

Shiro HORI is a professor at the Central Research Institute of Fukuoka University, Japan. He has worked closely with business, governments and international organizations, including the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the International Energy Agency (IEA). He was Vice Chair of the IEA's Energy Technology Committee, and a member of government delegations to the UNFCCC. He has also worked with the Japanese government and Japan International Cooperation Agency, engaging in environmental and economic development, especially in Asian countries. His research interests include: the role of social norms in strengthening international environmental regimes and the business community, climate change mitigation and international consensus, global energy policy, and social consensus on nuclear energy. He has published several books in the fields of energy and global environment.

Yukari TAKAMURA is a professor at the Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science (IR3S), The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study (UTIAS), Japan. She studied at the Graduate School of the University of Paris II (Panthéon-Assas), France (1993-1995) and was a visiting researcher at the University of London, UK (2000-2001). Her main research interest is in public international law, especially international law of the environment. She is the author or co-author of many books and articles, including "Climate Change and Small Island Claims in the Pacific" in Climate Change: International Law and Global Governance, Volume I: Legal Responses and Global Responsibility (Nomos, 2013).

Toshiyuki Fujita is a professor at the Faculty of Economics, Kyushu University, Japan. He has conducted extensive research concerning mathematical model analyses of international cooperation on environmental issues. His research interests include: efficiency of clean development mechanisms, self-enforcing international environmental agreements, and the