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Conference Paper
IAIA 13 Impact Assessment: The Next Generation
Author:
Murayama Takehiko
Hiroyasu Shioya
Stakeholder involvement activities include regional dialogues on general issues, consensus-building on siting of potential facilities for radioactive wastes, and consensus-building on decontamination of each house. While those activities are still insufficient, some municipality officials realize the importance of the participatory process, and...
Working Paper
The 1st IWWG-ARB Symposium, 18-21 March 2013, Hokkaido University, Japan
Author:
Aloysius Mariae L. Canete
Masaya Nagaishi
Solid Waste Management (SWM) is considered to be one of the most serious environmental issues in the Philippines. The annual waste generation was estimated at 10 million tons in 2010 and this is expected to rise by 40% in 2020. The Republic Act (RA) 9003, otherwise known as the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000, provides the necessary...
Commissioned Report
Japan has ambitious GHG reduction targets, aiming to reduce emission against the 1990 baseline by 25% by 2020 and 80% by 2050, an aim which is heavily supported through a variety of legislation during the last two decades. As a heavily urbanized country there is a strong focus on low carbon city development, the most notable programmes deriving...