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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...

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...

With the advent of high-spatial resolution (HSR) satellite imagery, urban land use/land cover (LULC) mapping has become one of the most popular applications in remote sensing. Due to the importance of context information (e.g., size/shape/texture) for classifying urban LULC features, Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis (GEOBIA) techniques are...

Groundwater can provide irrigation for rural communities where surface water is absent or unreliable. Technical, institutional and capacity limits have prevented rural communities from using groundwater for irrigation, and researchers have not demonstrated how to extract and use groundwater effectively for agriculture. A recent Australian-funded...

　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...

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。

Owing to a high prevalence of rural poverty in Lao PDR, improving the livelihoods of smallholder farmers by increasing their productivity is a high priority for the Government. Smallholder farming relies primarily on rainfall, which is prone to shortfalls and occasional droughts during the crop planting season. Reliable irrigation supplies would...

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In a poorly developed, water-rich country such as Lao PDR, most attention has historically been given to surface water development issues with limited consideration to groundwater. However, even with such relative abundance, spatial or temporal shortfalls and occasional droughts are faced, and groundwater is being increasingly relied upon to...

Agricultural groundwater use in the Lower Mekong is gradually gaining attention due to increasing uncertainty over water availability. Although this region is blessed with abundant rainfall and a network of rivers, climate change, commercial agriculture, and competition for hydropower, ecosystem and urbanization are shifting demand-supply pattern...