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Supply of non-timber Forest Products (NTFPs) is an important provisioning ecosystem service. It is often argued that forest conservation contributes to poverty alleviation through provisioning of NTFPs to the poor. However, implicit assumptions of the argument that NTFPs are more intensively utilized by poor who lack alternative sub-sistence...

Effective national level education legislative/policy mandates with sound financial backing and human resource capacity, etc. will go a long way in the education/EE implementation process.This presentation is a 'research update' on an attempt to evaluate the existing national EE Acts in the world aimed to serve as a baseline for improvement and...

本稿では、欧州を中心とした国際的な資源効率・循環経済の政策動向について、特にEUにおいて持続可能な資源管理・資源効率・循環経済の政策発展が進む中で、経済と環境の政策統合、物質資源効率と低炭素政策の調和がはかられてきた経緯を示し、その内容を分析しつつ、わが国の資源効率政策の今後の方向性について議論している。The paper discusses that environment and social economic policy have been integrated especially in Europe. Integration or harmonization of climate change policy or economic policy with resource...

The workshop to launch S-16 project in Asia was organised in October 20-21, 2016. Ryu Koide made a presentation on the mapping of the past and on-going research projects related to Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) in other regions with a case study of EU projects.

Food waste remains a critical issue in Japan, especially in light of the country's low food self-sufficiency rate and shortage of available landfill sites for waste disposal. In order to evaluate options for further preventing and mitigating food waste in Japan, we analyzed food waste trends by estimating the disparity between calorie/protein...

The workshop to launch S-16 project in Asia was organized in October 20-21, 2016. Yasuhiko Hotta made a presentation on how to reconsider conventional SCP typologies during the workshop.

This presentation was presented at a seminar titled “Low Carbon Technologies: bridging Japan and Europe” held on 11-12 October 2016, in Szentendre, Hungary. It introduced key Japanese initiatives to promote low carbon technology transfer, while mainly focusing on considering the stakeholders 'matchmaking as innovative business model to promote low...

This presentation was presented at the International Carbon & Eco Labelling Seminar which was held in Seoul R. Korea on Oct. 20th 2016. Its key message is to consider the stakeholders’ matching as innovative business model to promote Low Carbon Technology Deployment and Transfer. It builds upon IGES's research activities and findings regarding the...

This presentation explains the strategies and policies of Japan for the development and investments of low carbon technology, especially those implemented by the Ministry of Environment of Japan (MOEJ), the latest progress in the joint crediting mechanism (JCM) and the L2-tech Initiative. It helps the understanding of the participants from the...

The presentation provides an understanding of the idiosyncratic and covariate risks associated with agriculture, provides an overview of the risk management approaches to address the risks in agriculture production and evaluates the risk insurance as an effective risk management approach for the most vulnerable in agriculture. Asia pacific region...