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Evidence for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation Effectiveness of Insurance: Challenges and Opportunities
The presentation provides an overview on three questions that the APN funded project tries to address the poor penetration of risk insurance in the Asia Pacific region: Issue I: What are disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) benefits (and costs) and how to assess insurance approaches for these benefits? Issue II: Despite...
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Evidence for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation Effectiveness of Insurance: Challenges and Opportunities
The presentation talks about the current state of crop insurance in Japan and presents the preliminary findings from the community consultations carried out to assess the barriers in implementing crop insurance in Japan. The presentation concludes the following: Farmers have reported the net benefit from crop insurance in questionnaire surveys...
Conference Paper
Improving Quality Education/Learning for Sustainability using the ESD Learning Performance Framework
XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology. (Pacifico-Yokohama), Yokohama, Japan July 13-19, 2014.
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Improving Quality Education/Learning for Sustainability using the ESD Learning Performance Framework
XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology. (Pacifico-Yokohama), Yokohama, Japan July 13-19, 2014.
Peer-reviewed Article
In International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
In this study we tested the impacts of three fast pansharpening methods – Intensity-Hue-Saturation (IHS), Brovey Transform (BT), and Additive Wavelet Transform (AWT) – on the classification of sugarcane in a Landsat 8 image (bands 1-7), and proposed an ensemble pansharpening approach that combines the pixel-level information from the IHS and BT...
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