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Key messages - Inherent complexity in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is a barrier to their application to land management. A better conceptual understanding can guide governments and other actors in the Asia-Pacific region to develop a coherent view of how the SDGs apply to land. - Reorganisation of the SDGs and their targets related to...

Key messages -If current processes impacting land continue, the region risks transgressing the boundaries of a “safe operating space”. -A vision of sustainable landscapes can guide policymaking and administration from regional to local levels towards more effective cross-boundary management of interdependent ecosystems. -Priorities for sustainable...

The Asia-Pacific region faces a fundamental dilemma. Over recent decades the region has achieved tremendous economic growth that has lifted millions of its people out of poverty and raised living standards, but in many places the way land is being used to generate this growth is unsustainable. Land has been exploited – growing economies regardless...

- The APFSD has grown into a useful multi-stakeholder platform for sharing experiences and networking around sustainable development. - It is important to examine whether stakeholder engagement provides meaningful space for the stakeholders and whether it is built on the “minimum requirement” of protecting and respecting human rights. - Subregional...

This factsheet was developed as a follow-up of the Toyama Framework on Material Cycles and the 5-year Bologna Roadmap produced by the G7 Alliance on Resource Efficiency under the initiative of Ministry of the Environment, Japan. The results were compiled by the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES). Full report on “Our Actions for a...

The Anap Muput Forest Management Unit (AMFMU) located in Bintulu, Sarawak, Malaysia is a production forest. It have undergone at least one or two cycle of selective logging where valuable timber species are depleting. Therefore the structure, composition and productivity of the re growth forests are quite different from the virgin stands. Measuring...

本解説では、持続可能な消費と生産（SCP）が、持続可能な開発目標（SDGs）時代の国際政策動向の中でどのように位置づけることができるかを論じる。特に、SDGs時代の政策目標は、環境汚染対策や製品・サービスレベルでの効率性の改善に限定されるものではなく、科学技術イノベーションと新たな社会モデル・ビジネスモデルの連携を目指すものであり、経済政策や社会政策の中に取り入れられてはじめて実現可能である。持続可能な消費と生産に代表されるSDGs時代に必要とされる政策アプローチは、社会技術システムの改革を目指すものである。そのため、脱炭素化、循環経済、地球1個分の暮らしといった中長期目標を前提にした自律分散協調型ガバナンスが重要となることを論じる。 This paper shows how...

日 時：平成 31 年 4 月 23 日（火）16 時 15 分～18 時 20 分 場 所：横浜市立大学金沢八景キャンパス（横浜市金沢区瀬戸 22-2） シーガルセンター3 階シーガルホール 対 象 者：一般市民、学生（400 名） ○後 援：環境省、横浜市文化観光局、川崎市 海洋プラスチックごみ問題に関する日欧研究者による政策対話が開催され、SCP領域の堀田リーダーは、循環経済と社会の観点から見た海洋プラスチックごみ問題として、国際的な政策潮流について紹介をした。

Faced with a lack of fine grain data availability, in rapidly emerging urban centers of developing nations, the study explored a mapping methodology to create thematic map of public urban green space (UGS). Using GIS, a thematic map of Nagpur city, India was prepared. The objective was to prepare spatial data that are relevant for planners and...

This chapter aims to enable its readers to: i) Appreciate the need for a clear and comprehensive macroeconomic framework for research and policy analysis to support an inclusive green economy; ii) Understand the concept of multiple capital stocks – including human, physical, natural, social, institutional – and their utility in advancing the...