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Solid waste management is a common, as well as a primary, environmental concern for many cities in developing countries. Despite the fact, Surabaya City, the second largest city in Indonesia with a population of three million, has successfully reduced its waste generation by more than 20% over a short period of time. The city has intensively...

国際資源パネル（IRP）「Assessing Biofuels Towards Sustainable Production and Use of Resources (Summary for Policy Makers)」の日本語翻訳版（暫定非公式訳）。本報告書は、持続可能な資源管理に関する国際パネルのバイオ燃料作業グループによって作成された。本報告書は、バイオ燃料の持続可能な生産と利用に向けた主要な問題と展望に関する概観を提示している。また、最新の重要な論評を考慮しつつ、広範な文献調査に基づいている。いわゆる第一世代のバイオ燃料に焦点を置いているが、今後の開発分野についても検討している。資源生産性の向上という全体的な背景において...

The chapter considers the current disasters as consequences of imperfect information. The chapter analyzes the current models of information generation and dissemination and propose an alternative that considers people at risk as both source and sink of information that helps in designing better solutions. The chapter heavily derives experiences...

This chapter was aimed at development professionals and disaster risk reduction professionals who wish to integrate climate change considerations in their local level planning and practices. The chapter explores the linkages between development and disaster risks and discusses how climate change has brought additional risks to developing countries...

In Asia, as elsewhere in the world, countries rushed to promote biofuels during the dramatic oil price increases of 2007-2008 as way to enhance energy security, without waiting for the settlement of controversial debates about the environmental effects of biofuels, especially their effects on greenhouse gas emissions, deforestation, and...

This paper presents a case study of drought risk assessment and management in Svay Rieng province of Cambodia. Drought is a creeping disaster and has debilitating impacts on rural livelihoods and socio-economic conditions. Interviews with local communities, government administration, and non-governmental agencies indicated the lack of livelihood...

The presentation aims at improving the understanding of drought and its management using a case study of India. The presentation starts with historical background of drought and its impacts in India and dwells into drought response strategies adapted over the years, problems with those strategies and tries to identify a way forward. Drought...

The presentation was aimed at improving the understanding of post-graduate and doctoral students, enrolled in Nagoya University Global Environmental Leaders Program, on climate change mitigation and adaptation circumstances of developing countries with specific focus on Asia and Pacific region. Though developing countries (represented as G77+China)...

-持続可能なアジア太平洋に向けて―新たな国際フォーラム「ISAP」が始動 -アジアの主要排出途上国と将来枠組みの選択肢について対話 -持続可能な消費のための教育（ESC）―日中韓地域ワークショップで意見交換 -日中環境協力の進展に向けて―CDM分野の協力実施に関する覚書を締結 -低炭素社会国際研究ネットワーク（LCS-RNet）第一回年次会合―活発化する低炭素社会研究 -研究者の視点（森林減少・劣化からの温室効果ガス排出削減（REDD)―REDDの可能性と懸念） -「アジア太平洋気候変動適応ネットワーク」の設立 -IGESがアジア太平洋水フォーラム「水知識ハブ」の地下水担当機関に就任 -IGESとICIMODが戦略的研究協力協定を締結 -高校生と「地球環境問題と持続可能な開発」を考える...

-IGES Launches "ISAP", a New Forum to Create Synergy for Sustainability in the Asia-Pacific -Policy Dialogues on the Post-2012 Climate Regime in China and India -Regional Workshop on Education for Sustainable Consumption (ESC) -MoU for Sino-Japanese Cooperative Activities on CDM -Inaugural Meeting of the International Research Network for Low...