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Many policymakers are responding to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by integrating multiple economic, social and environmental concerns into their development plans. Much of the recent research on SDGs has sought to help policymakers with this cross-sectoral integration by developing evidence-based models and analytical frameworks that can...

Governance for Integrated Solutions to Sustainable Development and Climate Change From Linking Issues to Aligning Interests

2018年中国行政機関改革が気候変動政策にもたらす影響について紹介。 Introduces the impact of Chinese government reform on climate change policy in 2018.

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Today, 54% of the world’s population live in urban areas, a proportion that is expected to increase to 66% by 2050. Major cities and municipalities in the region rely either fully or partially on groundwater. Four highly relevant Asian cities (Bangkok, Bandung, Ho Chi Minh and Lahore) were selected which bear groundwater dependency in the range of...

A new method for classifying land cover features in high resolution satellite imagery was developed. The method involves (1) performing image segmentation to delineate homogeneous ground objects in the image, and (2) using a convolutional neural network classifier to extract the land cover of the segments (i.e. whether they represent buildings...

Parties to the Paris Agreement agreed to ensure avoidance of double counting of emissions reductions from the use of international market mechanisms. Although useful data may be available, Parties have limited experience and guidance from the UNFCCC on what data to report in the transparency framework pre-Paris Agreement. If the current reporting...

Due to its significance for bringing the considerably benefit to the transportation network performance, the several initiatives has been proposed for evaluating and improving the pedestrian facilities. However, such efforts are generally conducted within the framework of walkability, which typically put the attention to the walker perspectives...

Southeast Asia energy demand, which increased by 60% in the past fifteen years, is expected to further rise by two-thirds over the next twenty years, thus accounting for one-tenth of global energy demand by 2040.The investments needed to meet a growing energy demand in the ASEAN region will call for the mobilisation of both the public and the...