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Asian countries are building domestic institutions in response to climate change at both the international and domestic levels. Many countries have adopted the inter-agency coordination mechanism (IACM) as a national institutional approach to adjust the functions of various governmental agencies to tackle climate change. This article compares and...

The lecture was divided into three sections. The first section provides an overview of adaptation, basic principles, and the need for adaptation. The second section looks at the means of mainstreaming climate change adaptation concerns in disaster risk reduction by using the concept of redundancy and transforming local level functionaries into...

An online social survey was conducted to reveal household electricity-saving behaviour and its relationship with participation in social group activities, as well as face-to-face and online social interactions, i.e. information sources used and information dissemination through personal networks, in a disaster-affected region of Kanagawa, Japan...

Growing regional inequality and environmental degradation associated with interregional trade in Asia Pacific Area has been considered one of the major barriers in achieving sustainable development. Decomposition of economic structure at the regional level can help analyze these problems. This study applies Block Structural Path Analysis to the...

Growing regional inequality and environmental degradation associated with interregional trade in Asia Pacific Area has been considered one of the major barriers in achieving sustainable development. Decomposition of economic structure at the regional level can help analyze these problems. This study applies Block Structural Path Analysis to the...