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Conference Paper
Education for Sustainable Development: Towards the Sustainable University. Conference on Education for Sustainability in Higher Education: Achievements and Prospects. Plymouth University, UK, 2015
Drawing on education for sustainable development (ESD) research findings, existing literature and current discourse on the future of education (especially at conferences and education policy processes, the paper discusses aspects of quality education and ESD and proposes that the two should be merged into quality education for sustainable...
Presentation
Integrating Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Management in Plans and Investments Toward Inclusive and Sustainable Agricultural and Rural Development
This presentation was prepared as a part of the online courseware for the course on "Integrating Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Management in Plans and Investments Toward Inclusive and Sustainable Agricultural and Rural Development' organized by the Faculty of Management and development studies of University of the Philippines Open...
PR, Newsletter or Other
This booklet aims to provide relevant information on Japanese low carbon technologies and services and the various mechanisms, schemes and initiatives for enhancing the transfer and diffusion of low carbon technologies in developing countries in the Asian region. The booklet was commissioned by the Ministry of the Environment, Japan (MOEJ), as part...
Policy Report
This report introduces national city awards programmes as a tool for national government ministries and partners to promote the realisation of sustainable urban and city development. It discusses the challenges of designing and implementing national city awards programmes, drawing from a review of city awards initiatives in four ASEAN member states...
Peer-reviewed Article
In Earth System Governance Tokyo Conference
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It has been widely regarded that policies that are adaptive in nature are better able to deal with dynamic and uncertain issues such as environmental degradation and climate change adaptation. However, verifying the veracity of this hypothesis is difficult in the field of climate change often due to absence of long experience of policy making for...
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...