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This study delves into the patterns of urban expansion in Kabul, using Landsat and Sentinel satellite imagery as primary tools for analysis. We classified land use and land cover (LULC) into five distinct categories: water bodies, vegetation, barren land, barren rocky terrain, and buildings. The necessary data processing and analysis was conducted...

Commons were traditionally associated with rural societies, but socioeconomic changes have triggered new forms of commons linked with urban areas. Despite an emerging literature on these new commons and their connection to landscape management, more knowledge is needed. This study focuses on various forms of commons and their contribution to...

Our lifestyles, through the impacts of our day-to-day activities such as eating, moving and commuting, heating and cooling our homes, caring, working, and so on, have become major threats to the sustainability of the environment. While continued economic growth and urbanisation in many countries are expected, it is imperative to consider how we...

Using “the sharing paradigm” as a guiding concept, this book demonstrates that “sharing” has much greater potential to make rural society resilient, sustainable and inclusive through enriching all four sharing dimensions: informal, mediated, communal and commercial sharing. The chapters are divided into two parts, one that focuses on case studies...

　2020年来、政治リーダーらによる気候変動対策への取り組みが国内外で急速に活発化しているが、温室効果ガス削減にむけた「緩和」の取組に重きを置いた議論が目立っている。現状に目を向けると、気候変動に起因する気象災害はすでに国内外で激甚化しており、我々が気候変動による様々な影響に適応しなければならないことは明白である。こうした「適応」への取り組みを加速させるべく、第8代国連事務総長の潘基文氏らを筆頭に、2018年オランダで設立されたのが、適応グローバル委員会(GCA: Global Commission on Adaptation)である。GCAは2021年1月25から26日、設立以来初めてとなる大規模な会合、気候適応サミット(CAS2021: Climate Adaptation Summit...

Japan is a member of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), known for its contributions to the computational modelling of acid rain and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). In line with the Ministry of the Environment's contribution to IIASA from 2011, IGES has assumed the secretariat of the national...

本記事では、新型コロナウイルス（COVID-19）からの「グリーン・リカバリー（緑の復興）」について、欧州連合の取り組み（欧州グリーンディール）を紹介し、日本での緑の復興の可能性や課題について述べている。 本記事は、聖教新聞に2020年9月30日に掲載された。

This is the final report of the city-to-city collaboration between EU cities (including one from the UK) and Japanese cities under the International Urban and Regional Cooperation (IURC) Asia and Australasia. During 2021-2023, thirteen EU cities (including one UK city) from ten countries and ten Japanese cities participated in the project and...

Home to roughly 1.8 billion people, South Asia generates approximately 334 million tonnes of waste per year of which 174 million tonnes (57%) is organic in content. In addition to the increase in municipal solid waste, managing complex and emerging waste streams, including e-waste, food waste, construction and demolition waste, disaster waste...