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Conference Paper
"Looking at the World History of Planning" The 18th International Planning History Society Conference - Yokohama, July 2018
The rapid housing development that accompanied the high economic growth starting in 1960s Japan forced local governments to incur significant expenses for investment in public infrastructure. Therefore, many local governments established guidance on impact fees in relation to housing developments, which significantly relieved some of the financial...
Briefing Note
Payments for ecosystem services (PES) is a market-based mechanism aimed at sustaining the flow of such services. Through a PES scheme, beneficiaries or users of the ecosystem service(s) compensate the provider or manager of those services, directly or indirectly. The provider and beneficiaries agree on the terms and conditions of the PES and...
Conference Paper
Stockholm World Water Week 2018 Session on "Groundwater-based natural infrastructure solutions: The missing link to resilience?"
Kumamoto is a rare case of fully functional PES for over 13 years; Willingness between buyers and sellers is one of the basic conditions for establishing PES. However, willingness are always not sufficient condition for groundwater recharge, which are difficult to quantify and verify; Role of intermediary institutions such as local agriculture...
Report Chapter
In An Integrated Approach to Sustainable Development through SDG Interlinkages
Main Messages - The availability of good indicators and the selection of indicators with quality data critically affect the results and associated policy implications of quantitative assessments in general and the SDG interlinkages analysis in particular. - For the existing IGES SDG interlinkages analysis, many proxy indicators were used due to the...
Conference Proceeding
International Forum for Sustainable Asia and the Pacific (ISAP2018)
ISAP is an annual forum aiming to promote diverse discussions on sustainable development in Asia and the Pacific, with the participation of front-line experts and stakeholders from governments, international organisations, business and NGOs. The tenth ISAP was organised by IGES celebrating its 20th anniversary, jointly with UNU-IAS. Three years on...
Conference Proceeding
The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Japan, and The Energy and Resource Institute (TERI), India, organized an awareness workshop about disseminating Japanese low carbon technologies (LCTs) in India on 30th August 2018 at Ankleshwar Industries Association premises in Ankleshwar, as part of the activities under Japan-India...
Presentation
GEF-Satoyama Project Consolidation Workshop
The presentation briefed the results of a synthesis of case studies on the ten GEF-Satoyama Projects, focusing on the values, traditional knowledge and governance of socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes (SEPLS)
Conference Proceeding
2018 CIRCULAR ECONOMY FOR AGRI-FOOD RESOURCE MANAGEMENT sponsored by the OECD Co-operative Research Programme
We have discussed International policy trends of Resource Efficiency/ Circular Economy with focus on policy development in Agri-food context as well as Japanese policies and practices in this area.
Presentation
AIC2018
Ministry of Natural Resource and Environment Conservation (MONREC), Myanmar introduced EIA procedure (EIAP) in December 2015. The Ministry of Environment Japan (MOEJ) was considering to support Myanmar which stands at the initial stage of effective implementation of EIA. As a starting point, MOEJ, Institute of Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)...
Book Chapter
In Biofuels and Sustainability: Holistic Perspectives for Policy-making
This chapter discusses the social and economic impacts of biofuels in East Asia by analyzing four country case studies. Three case study countries are large Asian rapidly developing countries which were expected to be large consumers and producers of biofuels at the beginning of the biofuel boom in the late 2000s: Indonesia, India, and China. All...