Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC), 1, 87, 110, 129,
153
guidelines, 10
scenarios, 57
structure of, 11
Third Assessment Report, 12
International Benchmark Sites
Network for Agrotechnology
Transfer (IBSNAT), 110
International Civil Aviation
Organisation (ICAO), 8
International Council of Scientific
Unions (ICSU), 1
International Geosphere Biosphere
Programme (IGBP), 11
International Institute for Applied
Systems Analysis (IIASA), 110,
113
International Organization for
Standardization (ISO), 169
Inundation, 94, 97, 106
Itai-itai disease, 147
Jack mackrel, Trachurus symmetricus,
72
Jakarta, 30, 147
Japan, 49, 50—51, 116, 147
Toyama, 147
Japanese sardine, 77
Jordan, 154
Kathmandu Valley, 30, 34, 53
Key uncertainties, 16
Keystone species, 156
Kittiwake, 77
Korea, 49—51
Kuala Lumpur Accord on
Environment and
Development, 49
Kuroshio—Oyashio Current, 75
Kyoto Protocol, (1997), 5, 10, 52, 88,
142, 157
Lake Victoria, 149
Lake Windemere, 67
Large Combustion Plant Directive, 47
Latin America, 37, 40, 129, 144
Lead
in petrol, 29
poisoning, 147
Leishmaniasis, 151
Lesotho, 154
Less-developed countries, 25
Lichen, 145
Local air pollution, 27
London smog, 28
Long-Range Transboundary Air
Pollution (LRTAP), 145
in Northeast Asia, 50
LRTAP Convention, 46—47
Lyme disease, 151
Mackerel, 78
Malaria, 149, 151—152
Maldives, 94
Male´ Declaration on Control and
Prevention of Air Pollution,
49
Malnutrition, 152
Management, business and
environmental performance
variables in firms, 178
Manilla, 30, 37
Marine
biological resources, 60
birds, 67
ecosystem, 57, 63—64, 78
structure and functioning of, 64,
80, 81
fish stocks, 78
food webs, 62
harvest, 143
Mauritania, 154
Measuring Environmental
Performance of Industry
(MEPI), 176—177
Media, 8, 18, 46
vicious attacks in the, 9
Medicinal drugs, 149
Mediterranean, 85
Megacities, 40, 52, 55
Mekong, 154
MEPI Study, 175, 177—178, 180,
Subject Index
192