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Sunday, April 1, 2007

REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COOPERATION WITHOUT TEARS AND FEARS: THE CASE OF THE ASEAN REGIONAL HAZE ACTION PLAN



Before obtaining my PhD degree from the International Christian University, I was able to write and deliver a lecture taken from my then draft dissertation. The title of my dissertation is, "Regional Environmental Governance: A Study on the ASEAN Regional Haze Action Plan," (indexed at Japan's National Diet Library, and at the Fuji Xerox Foundation Library). I culled information from it to write the conference paper which I read in an international conference on International Environmental Governance in Paris, France in March 2004. The conference was attended by environmental officials of many European countries, environmental NGO representatives, and academicians. It was sponsored by IDDRI (see logo above). I was lucky to meet Dr. Edith Brown Weiss, Professor of Environmental Law of the Faculty of Law of Georgetown University, who chaired my panel. I was so happy to meet her because I used her book and theoretical framework for my dissertation.

Unfortunately, I don't know yet how to upload its PDF files, hence, may I just direct you to a website where you can find a copy:

http://www.iddri.org/iddri/html/themes/archi/ieg.htm

Look for the entries written below. If you cannot find it, write me at efloranoy@yahoo.com. I can send you a PDF copy via e-mail.

Ebinezer R. Florano (biography), International Christian University (Japon). Regional Environmental Cooperation without Fear and Tears: The Case of the ASEAN Regional Haze Action Plan.

By the way, my IDDRI conference paper is cited by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in its document, “Joint Working Party on Trade and Agreement: Regional Trade Agreements and Environment” released on 12 March 2007. The URL address is (breathe first): www.olis.oecd.org/olis/2006doc.nsf/
8d00615172fd2a63c125685d005300b5/
5ef81f590a3358f3c125729c005c2a2e/$FILE/JT03223481.DOC




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