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This paper reviews climate change impacts and existing disaster risk management system in Japan and offers results of a structured questionnaire survey of the community leaders and disaster risk management personnel of Saijo city of Japan that assesses their perceptions about dealing with the extreme disasters by the existing disaster risk...

This paper seeks to measure industrial energy saving activities (ESAs) and identify their major determinant factors by an empirical study of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Taicang city, China. The surveyed SMEs indicate high participation ratios of pre-classified ESAs even with weak regulation and limited support from industrial...

This paper provides an integrative overview of the progress of the GHG emissions trading scheme (ETS) in Japan, China and the Republic of Korea and identifies and analyses the obstacles hindering policy introduction in this region. Japan has practiced experimental and voluntary ETS in recent years, but its intermediate proposal for domestic ETS...

東日本大震災による原子力発電所の事故の影響により、関西でも大幅な節電対策が求められています。また、冬場は暖房需要がピークを迎え、電力が逼迫する可能性が大きくなります。 シンポジウムでは、冬場の関西での電力需要と供給、家庭での節電方法についての最新情報の紹介、家庭での省エネルギーを目的としてIGESが開発した「うちエコ診断」と兵庫県での事業展開、及び具体的な節電方法を紹介し、冬場の家庭での節電・省エネルギー及び今後の省エネルギー対策について議論しました。

This manual is about building knowledge and capacity for respecting people’s right to Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC). It can be described as the establishment of conditions under which people exercise their fundamental right to negotiate the terms of externally imposed policies and programs that directly affect their livelihoods or...

In the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), a growing demand for biofuels could help support the agriculture sector and provide an alternative source of energy. However, if deployed unsustainably, biofuels development can be associated with numerous risks that have negative ramifications for human development. This paper reviews existing literature and...

The project entitled “Scientific Capacity Development of the Trainers and Policy Makers for Climate Change Adaptation Planning in Asia and the Pacific”, funded by the Asia Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN) under the ‘CAPaBLE’ programme, was implemented as a part of Asia Pacific Adaptation Network (APAN) activities that aimed at...