Issue 9. March 2004

In this issue:

Editorial Comment: Dr. Zafar Adeel, Assistant Director, UNU INWEH, comments on the evolution of capacity needs for POPs Monitoring

Open Invitation: We invite subscribes to the East Asia Monitor to provide comments on this issue’s editorial. These will be collated and included in the next quarterly issue.

Project News: Mr. Takaaki Miyaguchi joins the UNU Project (see below)

Fourth UNU-ORI Joint International Workshop on Marine Environment - Ecosystem Conservation in Coastal Areas
This event was held in Otsuchi, Japan from 11-17 February, 2004. It was organized jointly by UNU, Ocean Research Institute of the University of Tokyo and the Iwate Prefectural Government. This was the fourth in a series of workshops that was initiated in 1999 involving young scholars and researchers from Asia and the Asia-Pacific island nations.
announcement


Fourth UNU-INWEH - UNESCO International Course on Biodiversity in Mangrove Ecosystems, Annamalai University, India, 31 May - 14 June 2004
A multidisciplinary team of lecturers focused on assessing, monitoring and conserving biodiversity in mangrove ecosystems.
background and syllabus

UNU International Symposium on Impacts of POPs from Urban Areas
China-Japan Friendship Center for Environmental Protection will host the 2004 UNU International Symposium on 24-25th May, 2004 in Beijing, China. The symposium is the fifth in a series under a UNU programme focusing on Environmental Pollution and Governance in the East Asian Hydrosphere. Speakers from the region and invited experts from other parts of the world will discuss the role of various land-based emission sources in POPs pollution in the coastal areas, particularly highlighting the effects of pollution from urban areas.
announcement
previous symposia


“Drug Development in Malaysia - Relevance of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs)” 17-18 May 2004
This meeting, organized by the Malaysian Society of Pharmacology and Physiology (MSPP), will bring together researchers to discuss new knowledge in endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs).
More information: www.sucxes.org/natpro

Mr. Takaaki Miyaguchi joins the UNU Project
Mr. Miyaguchi joins as a Project Assistant and he will be based at the UNU Centre in Tokyo. He holds a Master’s degree from the Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago and a Bachelor of Science degree from the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan. He has previous worked at the UNDP office in New York and the Japan Research Institute in Tokyo.


www.EnvironmentalHealthNews.org
Environmental Health Sciences, a not-for-profit organization founded to help increase public understanding of emerging scientific links between environmental exposures and human health has established an environmental news service.

East Asian Experience in Environmental Governance
This new book, edited by Dr. Zafar Adeel, provides an overview of the governance regime that deals with environmental challenges in this region. Copies are available from UNU Press: sales@hq.unu.edu
details

Free publications from UNU
Deny Hidayati, Coastal Management in ASEAN Countries: The Struggle to Achieve Sustainable Coastal Development, UNU, Tokyo, 2000
To receive a copy, please send an email with your full postal address to king@hq.unu.edu

Adeel and King, Eds, Conserving Our Coastal Environment: A summary of UNU's research on sustainable management of the coastal hydrosphere in the Asia Pacific region, UNU, Tokyo, 2002
Available online at http://landbase.hq.unu.edu/Publications/New.htm or send email to above address


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