The Asia-Pacific region generates over half of global economic activity (54.2%) and about 43.7% of global trade, and is the most dynamic region in the global economy. At the core of this is an increasingly dynamic, vibrant and entrepreneurial small-medium sized enterprise sector. Advances in information and communications technology, market liberalisation and moves towards closer regional econo...

This paper reveals a study on air pollution process over North China, applying remote sensing technology, using satellite observation and in situ measurements during the twenty-first Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting, which was held in Beijing between 6 and 12 November when the clear weather was called “APEC-Blue”. In the meantime, pollutants concentrations including PM2.5 and PM...

Wann-Nian Tzeng, Chou-En Wu and Yu-Tzu Wang (1998) Age of Pacific tarpon, Megalops cyprinoides, at estuarine arrival and growth during metamorphosis. Zoological Studies 37(3): 177-183. The age of Pacific tarpon, Megalops cyprinoides (Broussonet), at estuarine arrival was estimated by counting otolith growth increments from specimens collected in the Gongshytyan Brook estuary of northern Taiwan ...

We used a gravity model to investigate determinants of China’s pulp and paper products trade from 1995 to 2005. The results show that an importing country’s economy size, forest endowment, distance to China, exchange rate, and membership in Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), plus China’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its forest products policy change implemented in ...

Large woody debris (LWD: > 10 cm diameter and > 1 m in length) in stream channels of forested regions in North America is an essential ecosystem component. This article summarizes information from the literature on the spatial and temporal variability of LWD abundance, distribution and age; the processes of LWD delivery and elimination; and the influence of LWD on material retention, habitat fo...

Coastal droughts that simultaneously affect California, Oregon, and Washington are rare, but they have extensive and severe impacts (e.g., wildfire and agriculture). To better understand these events, historical observations are used to investigate 1) drought variability along the Pacific coast of the contiguous United States and 2) years when extreme drought affects the entire coast. The leadi...

We can hold as self-evident at least one truth about globalization, past or present. People everywhere meet what comes to them over the horizon with neither passive acceptance nor heroic resistance. This unhappy and limited choice—like the unmediated opposition between ‘‘the local/ indigenous’’ and ‘‘the global/foreign’’—is a consequence of bipolar theory rather than ethnographic and historical...

Recent developments T HE YEAR 2001 WAS SHAPING UP AS A DIFficult year for East Asia and Pacific (EAP) even before the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States. The unexpectedly sharp cyclical downturn in the world economy during the year had centered on a recession in the global high-technology (high-tech) sector, resulting in a plunge in the exports of the many East Asian economies ...

1 Regional Nutrition Advisor, Hellen Keller international (HKI), Asia Pacific Regional officer 2 Regional Director, HKI Asia Pacific & Country Director, HKI, Indonesia Regional officer 3 Director, Field Operation & Data Management, HKI Indonesia 4 Field Director, SUMMIT Program, HKI Indonesia 5 Deputy Director, HKI Indonesia 6 National Institute for Health Research & Development, Jakarta, Indon...