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Conference Paper
IAIA 13 Impact Assessment: The Next Generation
Stakeholder involvement activities include regional dialogues on general issues, consensus-building on siting of potential facilities for radioactive wastes, and consensus-building on decontamination of each house. While those activities are still insufficient, some municipality officials realize the importance of the participatory process, and...
Non Peer-reviewed Article
In Miyagi University of Education Research Bulletin, Environmental Education Center
This commentary discusses education for sustainable development (ESD) in relation to the state of the planet and a number of immediate challenges that are confronting its successful implementation during the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development slated to come to an end in 2014. They are the current economic crisis and its effect on...
Discussion Paper
Working Paper
Presentation
How to Make Asia into Low Carbon Society: the role of measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) and opportunity for partnership
Policy Report
Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) for low carbon development: Learning from experience in Asia (Kazuhisa Koakutsu, Kenta Usui, Aya Watarai, Yusuke Takagi (edt.))
Key Messages • The wastewater sector—particularly wastewater-biogas-energy (WBE) system—presents an opportunity to reduce GHG emissions and tap into renewable energy. In Thailand, several WBE projects have been introduced through the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) as well as by “unilateral” investments from the private sector in order to treat...
Research Report
Measuring the effectiveness of adaptation to climate change has assumed significance for the reasons that huge amount of resources are being made available for climate change adaptation and it is important for various stakeholders to identify and prioritize adaptation actions before they are implemented on the ground so as to achieve adaptation...
Presentation
International Symposium "How to Make the Asia into Low Carbon Society: the role of measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) and opportunity for partnership"
Policy Report
MRV – Measurement/Monitoring, Reporting and Verification - is commonly understood as a series of processes to quantify GHG emission and their change over time. It is a key instrument to understand the level of emissions and the impact of actions aimed at changing emission levels. For this reason, MRV became a keyword as many developed and...