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This presentation shares the experience and lessons learned in developing an environmental education programme in Mandalay City aiming to achieve a sustainable Mandalay City through city-to-city partnership between Kitakyushu City

Eric Zusman presented at the International Symposium: IIASA and Japan - Future prospects for closer collaboration centering around “The World in 2050 (TWI2050)” project - on 31 Jan. 2017 as a panelist.

This presentation shares the successful experience of Surabaya City in improving its waste management system with the technical assistance of Kitakyushu City under the city-to-city cooperation

The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) is an international research institute headquartered in Hayama, Japan that conducts strategic policy research on sustainable development in Asia and the Pacific. Since its establishment in 1997, IGES has been an active player in environmental policy research in Indonesia. This paper describes...

This dataset contains supplementary material for the journal paper by Johnson et al. (2017). In the paper, OpenStreetMap crowdsourced data was used in combination with different types of satellite imagery to identify and map land cover changes in the Laguna de Bay area of the Philippines. The dataset provides the training data (derived from the...

This study conducted a comparative assessment and a meta-analysis of 48 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction scenarios based on bottom-up energy system analyses for 2030 reported in seven studies published between 2011 and 2015 to obtain insights into the ambition level of Japan's official mitigation target for 2030. First, the scenarios were...

The Karen indigenous people have lived on a mixed agroecosystem centered on traditional rotational farming (RF) for over 300 years in mountainous northern Thailand. Over generations they have accumulated local knowledge on species and ecosystems that has enabled them to provide for their livelihood needs while managing the land and natural...

In Thailand, many people blame the rotational farming (RF) system of the Karen people to be responsible for extensive forest loss. Even the Government has the ideas to limit the area of RF, and set up policies to encourage the conversion of land under RF to commercial crop production particularly maize production. The Institute for Global...

Land cover change (LCC) can have a significant impact on human and environmental well-being. LCC maps derived from historical remote sensing (RS) images are often used to evaluate the impacts of past LC changes and to construct models to predict future LC changes. Free moderate spatial resolution (~30 m) optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR)...

JBF Capacity Building Project held the South and West Asia sub-regional dialogue workshop in Dhulikhel (Kathmandu), Nepal from 29 November to 2 December, 2016, organised by IGES and funded by Japan. ILK holders/experts and experts on ILK from India, Iran, Nepal, and Pakistan attended. The presentation by ILK holders/experts and the discussion...