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2018年中国行政機関改革が気候変動政策にもたらす影響について紹介。 Introduces the impact of Chinese government reform on climate change policy in 2018.

Parties to the Paris Agreement agreed to ensure avoidance of double counting of emissions reductions from the use of international market mechanisms. Although useful data may be available, Parties have limited experience and guidance from the UNFCCC on what data to report in the transparency framework pre-Paris Agreement. If the current reporting...

アジア･太平洋地域におけるSDGｓの進捗状況と展望

The assessment of mitigation targets is particularly important to provide mitigation opportunities for all stakeholders within a country. This paper assessed the mitigation ambition of Japan’s 2030 emission reduction target determined by nationally determined contribution (NDC) for the Paris Agreement based on the comparison of main drivers for CO2...

A new method for classifying land cover features in high resolution satellite imagery was developed. The method involves (1) performing image segmentation to delineate homogeneous ground objects in the image, and (2) using a convolutional neural network classifier to extract the land cover of the segments (i.e. whether they represent buildings...

巻頭言「水資源分野で求められる超学際的研究」

Today, 54% of the world’s population live in urban areas, a proportion that is expected to increase to 66% by 2050. Major cities and municipalities in the region rely either fully or partially on groundwater. Four highly relevant Asian cities (Bangkok, Bandung, Ho Chi Minh and Lahore) were selected which bear groundwater dependency in the range of...

Due to its significance for bringing the considerably benefit to the transportation network performance, the several initiatives has been proposed for evaluating and improving the pedestrian facilities. However, such efforts are generally conducted within the framework of walkability, which typically put the attention to the walker perspectives...

Biofuels and Sustainability: Holistic Perspective for Policy-making