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Examines whether Japan's role in international activity towards a sustainable future has changed in the decade since the Rio Earth Summit in 1992. Japan since Rio; Change at the domestic level; Observation that Japan was playing a more active role on environmental matters at both the regional and global levels; Japan's concern with the climate-change debate; Japan's capacity for environmental leadership.

Focuses on the impact on the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) after 10 years. Urban challenge; Socio-environmental burdens and deprivations; Observation that brown agendas are still incipient, and concern that citizens are at risk has grown only recently; Potential of local Agenda 21 initiatives; Challenges to effectiveness; Action through education and empowerment.

Points out that the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June 1992, and the resulting Rio Declaration on Environment and Development document was a vital but not yet decisive victory in the ongoing battle over the meaning of scientific findings in environmental policy. Quantitative risk assessment; Precautionary principle; Definitional controversies; Lack of scientific certainty regarding cause and effect; Environmental implications of each and every planned activity.

Evaluates the impact of the last 10 years on the Rio North-South Bargain from the perspective of the South. 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Sustainable development; Additionality principle; Common-but-differentiated-responsibility principle; Polluter-pays principle; State of malaise of global environmental politics.

Examines the impact of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 10 years after. Observation that the momentum for interstate environmental diplomacy has ebbed dramatically; Deficiencies in Agenda 21, the action plan on issues ranging from desertification and soil erosion to water quality and urban settlements; Failure of the UNCED framework to come to grips with the socioeconomically transnationalized character of environmental problems.

Examines that the effect of the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 after 10 years of globalization. Organizer Maurice Strong; Institutional and conceptual roots in the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment; Substantial transformation of the international institutional system leading to the diminishment of the United Nations and the interstate system.