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Since the 1990s, the Philippines has established numerous protected areas aimed at preserving re-gions with distinct biological and ecological characteristics. However, transitioning towards a more comprehensive approach to managing these protected areas, one that effectively conserves biodiversity while also supporting the welfare of local...

National monitoring of forests is essential for tracking progress towards various global environmental goals, including those of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and the Paris Agreement. Inconsistent national definitions of “forest”, however, can complicate the tracking of global progress towards achieving these goals. The FAO’s...

Droughts and floods are some of the major climatic hazards in the semi-arid areas of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Climate change affects the periodicity and severity of such hazards, and eventually the well-being of many rural communities in the region, including semi-arid Ghana. Enhancing the resilience of local communities to droughts and floods...

Although it is widely acknowledged that forests provide critical ecosystem services for human survival and well-being, in the Asia-Pacific region forests are being converted to other land uses and degraded at alarming rates. One underlying factor for this destruction of forests is market failure. Forests are cleared for other land uses or degraded...

Operational monitoring of vegetation and its response to climate change involves the use of vegetation indices (VIs) in relation to relevant climatic data. This study analyses the temporal variations of vegetation indices in response to climatic data (temperature and precipitation) to better understand the phenological changes in the Wa -West and...

To classify Very-High-Resolution (VHR) imagery, Geographic Object Based Image Analysis (GEOBIA) is the most popular method used to produce high quality Land-Use/Land-Cover maps. A crucial step in GEOBIA is the appropriate parametrization of the segmentation algorithm prior to the classification. However, little effort has been made to automatically...

Literature suggests a significant potential for synergies among climate change adaptation and mitigation (CCA & M) policies, especially in urban areas. However, the understanding of how best to integrate CCA &M is limited despite the fact that there is an increasing interest, particularly in Southeast Asian countries, in achieving the integration...

This dataset contains maps of forests and other land with tree cover in the Philippines as of the year 2020. The data can be downloaded directly here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1dPdRbmPjTRJKtOuOa5s2lMXvIEcfhw-… The dataset contains three georeferenced maps: (1) A map of lands identified as "Open forest", "Closed forest", or...

Land cover change (LCC) can have a significant impact on human and environmental well-being. LCC maps derived from historical remote sensing (RS) images are often used to evaluate the impacts of past LC changes and to construct models to predict future LC changes. Free moderate spatial resolution (~30 m) optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR)...

東京大学未来ビジョン研究センター･グローバルコモンズセンターにおける食料バリュ ーチェーンにおける環境負荷等の見える化プロジェクト活動を推進するために、本業務では、ベトナムにおけるコーヒー及びガーナにおけるカカオを対象とし、以下の調査・研究業務を実施した： バリューチェーンの構造調査･分析、同バリューチェーンにおける環境･社会･経済面の課題調査･ 分析、並びに同課題の改善･解決策の検討 バリューチェーンにおける環境･社会･経済面の課題に対する改善･解決策の定量･定性的な効果 検証 環境負荷等の見える化に向けたサステナビリティ評価モデル策定支援 本報告書は、以上の業務の成果を取りまとめたものである。