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PR, Newsletter or Other
Peer-reviewed Article
In Journal of Environmental Hazards
This paper reviews climate change impacts and existing disaster risk management system in Japan and offers results of a structured questionnaire survey of the community leaders and disaster risk management personnel of Saijo city of Japan that assesses their perceptions about dealing with the extreme disasters by the existing disaster risk...
Presentation
European Parliament Workshop on Resource Efficiency: Challenges and Best Practices
In January 2011, European Commission has positioned improving resource efficiency as one of its strategic priorities by publishing A resource-efficient Europe – Flagship initiative of the Europe 2020 Strategy. In September 2011, EC has released Roadmap for Resource Efficient Europe. To respond to these EC’s Initiative, the European Parliament...
Non Peer-reviewed Article
Book Chapter
In ESD Practices in Addressing Biodiversity
This case study on ESD and natural resource utilisation offers a good example of multi-stakeholder social learning for regional sustainable development based on partnerships between environmentalists and farmers. A citizen's movement to conserve a wetland evolved into a participatory programme for engaging with the community for the preservation of...
PR, Newsletter or Other
Research Report
Research Report to the Asia Pacific Network for Global Change Research
The project entitled “Scientific Capacity Development of the Trainers and Policy Makers for Climate Change Adaptation Planning in Asia and the Pacific”, funded by the Asia Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN) under the ‘CAPaBLE’ programme, was implemented as a part of Asia Pacific Adaptation Network (APAN) activities that aimed at...
Presentation
Roundtable on “Learning from emerging energy innovations in Asia with a focus on energy access and clean energy: Contributing to the discourse on an institutional framework for sustainable development”
Peer-reviewed Article
In Energy Policy
The conventional pricing mechanism used for electricity systematically hides huge investment risks which are embedded in the overall cost of production. Although consumers are often unaware of these risks, they present a large financial burden on the economy. This study applies the portfolio optimization concepts from the field of finance to...
Research Report
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Asia’s rapid motorisation not only risks a climate crisis but threatens to undermine development itself. This multi-author volume draws upon the research of IGES experts and international collaborators to demonstrate that integrating co-benefits into transport strategies can mitigate the risks of a climate crisis by making development more...