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While being broadly framed as 17 separate and diverse elements, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and associated targets inherently interlink with one another making up indivisible parts of sustainability from a systemic perspective. Actions or measures taken for achieving one goal may be mutually reinforcing or contradictory with achieving...

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 study uses a spatially-explicit land-use/land-cover (LULC) modeling approach to model and map the future (2016–2030) LULC of the area surrounding the Laguna de Bay of Philippines under three different scenarios: ‘business-as-usual’, ‘compact development’, and ‘high sprawl’ scenarios. The Laguna de Bay is the largest lake in the Philippines and...

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)...

An analysis was carried out on local and national political factors that corroborated the adoption and diffusion of environmental practices at city level via Asian intercity networks as a part of a series of studies on international intercity network programmes for the environment in Asia. This paper focuses on how participating cities in...

About 30,000 tons of waste is generated daily in the Philippines, and this amount is likely to increase by 40% in the next decade if no interventions are provided (Aguinaldo, 2009). Varying approaches to manage waste include efforts to perform cleaner production, eco-efficiency or green productivity, and even sustainable consumption and production...

今後もアジアでの資源消費と廃棄物発生量の増大が予想される。３Ｒ（廃棄物の削減、再利用、リサイクル）を通じた廃棄物管理と資源管理戦略の統合は、アジアでの持続可能な消費と生産を達成するための重要なアプローチとなり得る。しかし、アジア発展途上国の多くでは、廃棄物管理・リサイクル関連法制度の構築に後れをとっており、国際協力への期待は大きい。本報告では、３Ｒ国家戦略の策定支援の経験に基づいて、廃棄物リサイクルのための制度構築支援の課題について論じる。

The Climate Policy and Market Mechanism Status Report aims at providing updated information on the status of national climate policy and market mechanisms in the selected countries. A particular focus is set on mechanisms such as the CDM, national ETS and the JCM. Countries covered: Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Korea, Lao PDR, Mongolia...

The fact sheets aim at providing updated information on the status of national climate policy and market mechanisms including the CDM, GHG emissions and NAMAs for Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Korea, Laos PDR, Mongolia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam. In Japanese. 各国の気候変動政策及び市場メカニズム（CDM、温室効果ガス排出量及び国内における適切な緩和行動（NAMAs）...

This dataset contains supplementary material for the journal paper by Johnson et al. (2017). In the paper, OpenStreetMap crowdsourced data was used in combination with different types of satellite imagery to identify and map land cover changes in the Laguna de Bay area of the Philippines. The dataset provides the training data (derived from the...