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Training and Feedback Workshop of NABARD Staff
This presentation was delivered to an internal orientation workshop with the NABARD staff on the vulnerability and capacity assessment methodology developed as a part of the NABARD-Adapt Asia collaboration overseen by AECOM and funded by USAID. The presentation provides an overview of current available methodologies on vulnerability and capacity...
Presentation
Workshop on Climate Science for Loss and Damage Projection
Data or Tool
UCI Machine Learning Repository
This data set (http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Forest+type+mapping) contains training and testing data from a remote sensing study which mapped different forest types based on their spectral characteristics at visible-to-near infrared wavelengths, using ASTER satellite imagery. The data set be used to evaluate the performance of different...
Annual Report
Presentation
International Input-Output Association Conference 2015
Training or Learning Material
IGES Forest Governance e-learning videos series comprises two videos: 1) Nepal’s Community Forests: A story of good governance 2) A Quality Standard for Forest Governance:Demonstrating a practical and participatory approach to develop a Quality-of-Governance Standard The series examines the importance of good governance for sustainable forest...
Presentation
23rd International Input-Output Conference
The Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development has identified green economy as one of the important tools for achieving sustainable development, which can provide a significant opportunity to the shift to a new global economic paradigm. Mobilising investments at the economy-wide level towards green sectors and to the greening of...
Peer-reviewed Article
In International Journal of Disaster Risk Science
The recently concluded World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR) in Sendai, Japan and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 (SFDRR) have set renewed priorities for disaster risk reduction (DRR) for the next 15 years. Due to Asia’s high exposure to natural hazards, the implications of the new SFDRR have major...
Book Chapter
In Recovery from the Indian Ocean Tsunami A Ten-Year Journey
The Indian Ocean Tsunami in 2004 was a mega-disaster that triggered massive disruption of ecological services across the South & Southeast Asian Coast. Particularly, loss of precious mangroves was some of the most discussed environmental consequence of the event. In many South & Southeast Asian countries, mangrove bio-shielded the coastal...