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Peer-reviewed Article

July 2017

Simulation Analysis of Policy for Waste Treatment toward a Sound Material-cycle Society in Tokyo' Journal of Sustainable Development

In Journal of Sustainable Development

Enhancing resource productivity is effective to improve trade-off between the environment and economy. For minimizing consumption of natural resources required for economic activities, it is necessary to strengthen both material recycling and energy utilization, which reduce final disposal amount and return waste to economic activities as resource...

Peer-reviewed Article

April 2017

Comparative Study of Linkage between Environmental Policy Instruments and Technological Innovation: Case Study on End-of-Life Vehicles Technologies in Japan and EU

In Waste Management

A growing population and urbanization is a challenge for finite natural resources. Without strict regulation to recycle, recover and reuse resources, waste is discarded with no value. Every year throughout the world, more than twenty-five million vehicles turn into end-of-life vehicles (ELV) and most of their valuable resources end up in landfill...

Peer-reviewed Article

September 2017

Growing up: 10 years of publishing sustainability science research

In Sustainability Science

Growing up: 10 years of publishing sustainability science research

Peer-reviewed Article

September 2017

Academic landscape of 10 years of sustainability science

In Sustainability Science

Academic landscape of 10 years of sustainability science

Peer-reviewed Article

September 2017

Sustainability science and implementing the sustainable development goals

In Sustainability Science

Sustainability science and implementing the sustainable development goals Remarks: DOI 10.1007/s11625-017-0486-5

Peer-reviewed Article

September 2017

September 2017

Assessment of Policy Integration of Sustainable Consumption and Production into National Policies

In Resources

Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) was adopted as a stand-alone goal and reflected as one of the cross-cutting objectives of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with a central role to address global resource consumption and its associated environmental impacts, as well as numerous social and economic issues. With this broad...

Presentation

June 2017

Repackaging Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) Policies into Sufficiency Approach: Identifying Missing “Prescription” Towards Sustainability Transition

The 9th biennial conference of the International Society for Industrial Ecology (ISIE) and the 25th annual conference of the International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology (ISSST)

Policy intervention towards sustainable consumption is thus important in shifting the demand side/civil sector towards a sustainable socio-techno regime. i.e. altering provision systems and infrastructure. This is a shift from a technically oriented efficiency approach to a sufficiency approach. This shift in thinking is highlighted in the...

Presentation

June 2017

Assessing national governments' policies to fulfil international mandates of Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP)

The 9th biennial conference of the International Society for Industrial Ecology (ISIE) and the 25th annual conference of the International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology (ISSST)

Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) has gained increasing importance to sustainability policy, featuring prominently in global policy frameworks, including the United Nations’ 10-year framework of programmes for SCP (10YFP) and as both Goal 12 and a cross-cuttting objective of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The question remains...

Peer-reviewed Article

September 2017

A global reference database of crowdsourced cropland data collected using the Geo-Wiki platform

In Scientific Data

The paper provides details on a global reference data set on cropland locations, collected through a crowdsourcing campaign using the Geo-Wiki crowdsourcing tool.

Peer-reviewed Article

July 2017

Participatory land-use approach for integrating climate change adaptation and mitigation into basin-scale local planning

In Sustainable Cities and Society

Literature suggests a significant potential for synergies among climate change adaptation and mitigation (CCA & M) policies, especially in urban areas. However, the understanding of how best to integrate CCA &M is limited despite the fact that there is an increasing interest, particularly in Southeast Asian countries, in achieving the integration...