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This pamphlet introduces the latest activities of Kitakyushu Urban Centre.

北九州アーバンセンターの活動を紹介する2026年発行のパンフレットです。

Tourism is a key driver of economic growth in Thailand, but it also generates significant environmental and socio-economic pressures, particularly in coastal destinations such as Krabi. Increasing plastic pollution, resource stress, and socio-economic inequalities highlight the limitations of conventional tourism models and the need for more...

Typhoon impacts in the Philippines exhibit strong neighbourhood-scale heterogeneity driven by interactions among hazard intensity, exposure, and vulnerability, yet most operational assessments remain hazard-centric. This study presents a grid-based machine-learning framework for neighbourhood-scale typhoon risk mapping integrating geophysical...

東南アジア地域における急速な都市化と消費拡大に伴い、プラスチック廃棄物の発生量が急増し、プラスチック汚染が特に深刻な課題となっている。ASEAN諸国では、使い捨てプラスチックの禁止、拡大生産者責任（EPR）制度、普及啓発キャンペーンなど、さまざまな対策が進められている。しかし、これらの対策だけでは、根強く定着した消費行動を変えるのは難しい。 利用制限や普及啓発だけで十分な効果が得られないような課題に対し、行動科学は有効な補完的アプローチとなる。Behaviour-Centred （行動に関する理解に基づく、行動に焦点を当てた）アプローチを取り入れることで、単なる情報提供や経済的インセンティブに頼るのではなく、「意図と行動のギャップ」を埋め、持続可能な行動変容を促すことができる。...

Agriculture in semi-arid regions is increasingly vulnerable to climate variability and land degradation, threatening rural livelihoods and food security. At the same time, the global transition toward clean energy, particularly solar power, offers synergistic opportunities to mitigate climate change while supporting sustainable rural development...

Excerpt from Preface: Climate action has long been the main focus of global sustainability efforts. From a biodiversity point of view, frameworks to manage greenhouse gases need to do more than track emissions. They should, at least, avoid harming biodiversity and at best be proactive tools for sustaining the complex ecosystems that help us...

Sustainable use of biodiversity in the Sundarbans- the world’s largest mangrove forest shared between Bangladesh and India has become increasingly complex due to rising climatic and livelihood pressures. There has been a general agreement that traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) is key to supporting ecosystem services (ES) and community...

The term “transformative change” has evolved into a one-stop-shop concept in sustainability circles. In peer-reviewed journals in the fields of environmental science, agricultural and biological sciences, and earth and planetary sciences, it appeared only 75 times prior to 2010, but 1,012 times from 2010 to 2019, and 3,534 times in just the first...

Plastic pollution is a growing challenge in Southeast Asia, where rapid urbanisation and rising consumption are driving sharp increases in plastic waste. While traditional regulations such as plastic bans and information campaigns are important, they often fail to shift deeply ingrained consumption and waste management habits on their own. This new...