Publications

Lack of economic opportunity has been identified as one of the important bottlenecks for achieving development and empowerment as a result of which several financial inclusion projects and programs have been introduced globally in the past several decades. These financial inclusion instruments range between providing cash at hand to invest in...

We estimate the time-series environmental impact of material use which will be utilised to estimate eco-efficiency (GDP/environmental impact of material use) in Japan for identified 120 materials in four categories (fossil resources, non-metallic minerals, metals and biomass) by estimating the per unit of environmental impacts in resources...

This presentation was presented at a seminar titled “Low Carbon Technologies: bridging Japan and Europe” held on 11-12 October 2016, in Szentendre, Hungary. It introduced key Japanese initiatives to promote low carbon technology transfer, while mainly focusing on considering the stakeholders 'matchmaking as innovative business model to promote low...

Food waste remains a critical issue in Japan, especially in light of the country's low food self-sufficiency rate and shortage of available landfill sites for waste disposal. In order to evaluate options for further preventing and mitigating food waste in Japan, we analyzed food waste trends by estimating the disparity between calorie/protein...

Each year, more than 25 million vehicles reach their end-of-life (ELV) throughout the world and this number is rising rapidly with time. Most of the developed countries like Japan and EU nations have strict policies to manage the ELV in efficient way. In this research we aim to clarify the impact of end-of life-vehicles (ELV) regulation on...

Supply of non-timber Forest Products (NTFPs) is an important provisioning ecosystem service. It is often argued that forest conservation contributes to poverty alleviation through provisioning of NTFPs to the poor. However, implicit assumptions of the argument that NTFPs are more intensively utilized by poor who lack alternative sub-sistence...

Effective national level education legislative/policy mandates with sound financial backing and human resource capacity, etc. will go a long way in the education/EE implementation process.This presentation is a 'research update' on an attempt to evaluate the existing national EE Acts in the world aimed to serve as a baseline for improvement and...

The literature on sustainability transitions is goal oriented, aiming at changing the future, unlike traditional social science which focuses mainly on explaining the past and the present. In order to develop strategies for changing the future, this literature has developed various theories of change, based on some analysis of the past, but mostly...

This study estimates the effect of carbon pricing for CO2 mitigation in China’s cement industry considering a total of 16 low carbon technologies. The statistics and prediction indicate that cement production of China has been increased dramatically in the past, and would experience a plateau period in the next few years. Through the continuous...

This paper presents the results of two national-level studies of REDD+ governance values in Nepal and Papua New Guinea (PNG), using a hierarchical framework of principles, criteria, and indicators (PC&I), with evaluation at the indicator level. The research was conducted by means of an online survey to determine general perspectives on the...