Publications

During FY2013, PMO Knowledge Management undertook a study and pilot work to consider options for creating a visual map of where IGES is conducting its research activities which could serve as both an interactive outreach mechanism and an internal knowledge tool. This idea was also discussed with the Network and Outreach team who felt that this...

During FY2013, the PMO Knowledge Management team conducted a quick study to provide a needs assessment and opportunity analysis of the external databases that are under IGES management. This review aimed to identify urgent needs for improvement in relation to the different databases as well as exploring opportunities to increase the level of...

This was an internal report assessing the status of IGES business intelligence.

The presentation described the research on the monitoring and evaluation of adaptation in the Indo-Gangetic Basin. This involved consultation meetings with stakeholders at national and regional levels. These were used to develop a questionnaire that was implemented with local communities. Once indicators had been identified, a local adaptation...

Forty years have passed since the first real conference on the environment and humans took place and it has now been twenty years since the concept of sustainable development (SD) entered the lexicon of the international development and policy arenas. During that period, several significant international agreements have laid out grand projects and...

Adaptation effectiveness indicators could vary by location, hazard under question, practices and stakeholders engaged. However, it is possible to identify a broad range of indicators that could be relevant to a range of conditions. A simplified AHP could be useful for prioritizing adaptation interventions at community level that could effectively...

The overall objective of the REDUCTIONS* project is to identify the potential for absolute resource and energy use reduction in production-consumption systems at all levels and to explore ways to realise this potential. The project has the ambition to generate knowledge-for-action and aims to propose science-based policies and strategies with a...

This study evaluated the effects of image pansharpening on Vegetation Indices (VIs) in an agricultural area of Thailand, and found that pansharpening was able to downscale single-date and multi-temporal VI data without introducing significant distortions. The downscaled (15m resolution) VI values can be used for estimating above-ground biomass...

SDPlanNet in Asia-Pacific aims to contribute to the post-2015 Development Agenda process, particularly in terms of translating global agreements on the SDGs into meaningful policies and practices at regional, national and sub-national levels. This Regional Practices Paper is prepared as spadework for the attainment of this objective. Specifically...

Based on IGES original research surveying the policy preferences of companies in energy-intensive industries in Japan, China and Korea, this policy brief discusses the feasibility of implementing carbon pricing measures in these three countries. A rise in carbon prices accelerates the application of energy saving technology and a modest price is...