Purpose Short-sea shipping (SSS) plays an important role in regional transportation networks by supporting trade and improving inter-modality. In particular, countries north-east Asia, such as China, South Korea Japan have been served well local SSS services. While markets Northeast Asia (NEA) developed bilateral routes with sub-markets, the market structure of each sub-markets varies depending...

East Asia (including Southeast and Northeast Asia) has witnessed the most spectacular pacification in the world during the past 30 years. Certain dimensions related to human security have been perceived as weak points in the long peace of East Asia. Despite progress, authoritarian violence is still a reality in East Asia. At the same time, certain other dimensions of human security—most distinc...

This Special Issue consists of selected papers from the annual international Sustainable Asia Conference (SAC) 2016, held on Jeju Island, South Korea, from 28 June to 2 July 2016. SAC 2016 is one of the leading international conferences for presenting novel and fundamental advances in sustainable development issues for Asia. In this special issue, most of the papers emphasize the importance of ...

From an environmental perspective, electricity grid interconnections in Northeast Asia make sense. Cities in Northeast China, Mongolia, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), and the Republic of Korea (ROK) suffer from poor air quality due to the extensive use of coal-fired power generation. Rural communities suffer from a deficit of electricity, forcing reliance on coal and biofuels...

Asia is experiencing rapid economic and population growth. It is estimated that by the year 2010 over 4 billion people will be living in eastern Asia and the Indian sub-continent. Additionally, these countries are experiencing phenomenal economic expansion. For example, China has experienced 9.5% growth in its GDP between 1980 and 1990 (Hoffman, 1994). This rapid growth in the many Asia economi...

The systematic observation of food habits and health amongst the elderly, both cross-sectionally and longitudinally, in the Asia Pacific region is increasing as reflected in the recent collective report of a number of intake and health variables in Taiwanese communities. Most studies are of Chinese and Japanese-speaking populations, with some from elsewhere in Northeast Asia (notably Korea) and...

Abstract Precipitation is crucial for life and the ecological environment in Asian drylands. This study investigated precipitation trends drylands previous four decades simulated its possible linkage with snow cover reduction over Tibetan Plateau. The results show that has been increasing contributing to wetter conditions can be attributed deepened quasi-stationary wave trough around Lake Balkh...