Research Director
Research Topics & Areas of Expertise
- Water and sanitation in developing countries
- Decentralised domestic wastewater and septage management
- Circular economy perspectives for plastic (including macro- and microplastics) and municipal solid waste
- Sustainable consumption and production (SCP)
- Environmental systems analysis
- Climate change adaptation and mitigation technologies
- Integrated and high-integrity carbon markets in ASEAN
- Water–food–energy nexus for resource efficiency
Education
1. Institution: The University of Tokyo
Date: 2006-2009
Degree: Doctoral Degree (Ph.D)– Department of Urban Engineering
Graduate School of Engineering – The University of Tokyo, Japan.
Date of graduation: September 2009
2. Institution Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand;
Date: 2004 – 2006
Degree: M.Eng. - Environmental Engineering and Management
3. Institution Hanoi University of Civil Engineering, Hanoi, Vietnam;
Date: 1998 – 2003
Degree: B. Sc. - Water Supply, Sewerage and Environmental Sanitation
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Presentation
THE 2ND INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT OF TROPICAL LAKES
The Tonle Sap Lake located in Cambodia is the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia and is the seventh largest lake in the world in terms of size in the wet season. It provides habitats for hundreds different kind of fish, reptile, bird and mammal species. Moreover, it supports one of the most productive freshwater fisheries in the world, with...
Commissioned Report
This report informs the findings from application of the Mitigation Action Assessment Protocol (MAAP) to the JCM Projects in Vietnam and Mongolia.
Policy Brief
Water scarcity is worsening to the point that it has become a limiting factor to the growth of major economies in South Asia, and agriculture is by far the largest water-using sector. Overuse of water for crop production is one of the main causes of water scarcity. This overuse results from low irrigation water use efficiency (WUE) associated with...
Policy Brief
Promoting the Landscape Approach in Asia-Pacific Developing Countries: Key Concepts and Ways Forward
This policy brief advocates the landscape approach in areas where competing demands on land and natural resources in the Asia-Pacific region can be observed. The landscape approach enables development while protecting and enhancing ecosystems and their services. Definitions, a set of normative principles and recommendations, including building on...
Peer-reviewed Article
In Environment and Natural Resources Research
This paper analyses roles of integrated approach to establish a regional mechanism for sustainable hydropower development in the Mekong River Basin. Based on a critical review of the current trend of hydropower development, it argued that existing approach of uncoordinated Mekong mainstream hydropower development cannot ensure sustainable...
Commissioned Report
WEPA Action Programme in Vietnam
With a total population of more than 90 million, Vietnam is sustained by an economy that has grown at remarkable average 7.5 percent annually for 1992 - 2007 and 5.8 percent annually in 2008 - 2014. The agriculture sector accounts for 25 percent of GDP (2014), where livestock sub-sector's contribution to agriculture sector output is expected to...
Conference Paper
Workshop on the "Mitigation Action Assessment Protocol (MAAP)"
IGES researchers explained about the World Bank's Networked Carbon Market Initiative, the concept and current status of the MAAP tool, as well as its application at pilot scale in some countries. In addition, on behalf of IGES and Department of Metrology, Hydrology and Climate Change (DMHCC) under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment...
Presentation
Workshop on Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM) and Opportunities for Low-Carbon Technology Transfer to Enterprises
The author first introduced about the concept of Joint Crediting Mechanism proposed by the Government of Japan to all audiences, who are Japanese and Vietnamese enterprises located Vietnam. Then, he explained about the JCM Financing Programmes funded by MOEJ. He also gave a detailed explanation on (i) the overall process of JCM project development...
Commissioned Report
Indonesia has a total estimated population of more than 250 million people, of which 52% live in urban areas. Overall access to improved sanitation in Indonesia has increased remarkably over the past 25 years. Indonesia has a commitment in the MDG declaration to meet the achievement of 62.41% to improve sanitation by 2015, but the actual improved...
Presentation
Workshop on “Harnessing of Water-Energy-Food Nexus for Making Path of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to Country Actions”
In the first part, the author provided a background on the newly adopted 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development by the United Nation General Assembly on 25th September 2015, along with a set of 17 ambitious Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon referred as a universal, integrated and...
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Project
Updated: August 2024
PoDIWM-2: Strengthening Capacity Development for Local Governments in ASEAN to Tackle Microplastics and Water Pollution through Decentralised Wastewater Management Approach
PoDIWM is shorthand for a 2-year ASEAN Cooperation Project titled “Policy Dialogue and Network Building of Multi-stakeholders on Integrated Decentralized Domestic Wastewater Management in ASEAN Countries,” (PoDIWM) funded by the Japan-ASEAN Integrati