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The article focuses on the governance of forest carbon emissions projects and policies. It explores how the development of standards through multi-stage, multi-level and multi-stakeholder processes can contribute to ensuring good governance. It argues that a governance standard, which is developed through a multi-stakeholder process at different...

In this study we tested the impacts of three fast pansharpening methods – Intensity-Hue-Saturation (IHS), Brovey Transform (BT), and Additive Wavelet Transform (AWT) – on the classification of sugarcane in a Landsat 8 image (bands 1-7), and proposed an ensemble pansharpening approach that combines the pixel-level information from the IHS and BT...

This guidebook assists Japanese private firms to expand their low-carbon business in India

The guidebook aims to provide private sector to enhance their low-carbon businesses in India.

This report introduces factsheets on 11 different indicators for monitoring 3R and waste management policy implementation. The report is based on a research project of the Asia Resource Circulation Policy Research Group, coordinated by Institute for Global Environmental Strategies and funded by the FY 2012 and FY 2013 Asia Resource Circulation...

Serious attempts have been made to manage the highly populated Indian coast during the last 25 years in terms of regulating the activities and managing disasters. This has lead to formulation of various policies to maintain environmental quality and sustainably manage the coastal resources. Basically, the coastal zone needs to address the demands...

本報告書はアジア・太平洋地域の4カ国、中国、インド、インドネシア、韓国の環境産業に焦点を当てたものである。これら諸国はそれぞれ異なった環境産業の発展段階にあり、調査対象国として選択した。報告書はこれら4カ国の環境破壊の現状、環境産業の現状、政府の主な環境産業育成策、2国間および国際機関による援助、多国籍企業の活動がもたらした環境産業発展への貢献、等を概観、評価する。 報告書は3章から構成される。第1章は、プロジェクトの目的と紹介、主要な研究成果と提言である。第2章は、中国、インド、インドネシア、韓国の環境産業、調査対象4カ国の環境産業に対する2国間援助（日本を除く）、国際機関、多国籍企業の貢献、中小企業の環境産業発展への貢献等によって構成される。第 3章は...

This report is a compilation of the policy trends in Nepal, Bhutan, Pakistan, Cambodia, Thailand and Mongolia. It aims to disseminate information on aspects of our research activities to all interested parties, as well as to provide a basis for discussion on the further development of guidelines and recommendations to promote the participation of...

Trade and investment liberalisation is evolving rapidly in East Asia. Quantitative impact assessment studies tend to focus on trade liberalisation but the importance of additional analysis on the impacts of investment barriers has been pointed out by several trade liberalisation studies. We develop a global CGE model with endogenous investment...