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2019年10月

Status of Solid Waste Management in Myanmar: Key Challenges and Opportunities

Sustainable Waste Management Challenges in Developing Countries 所収

Myanmar, the largest country in mainland Southeast Asia, has been facing considerable challenges with the management of solid waste in the recent past because of increasing income and consumption patterns, urban growth, and lack of effective waste management policies, treatment, and disposal methods. Waste management is also a crosscutting issue...

ブックチャプター

2020年1月

Enhancing Capacities for Building Climate and Disaster-Resilient Cities in Asia: Case Study of Cebu, Philippines and Nonthaburi, Thailand

Resilient Policies in Asian Cities: Adaptation to Climate Change and Natural Disasters所収

Enhancing capacity for building resilient cities is a growing concern among policy makers and international communities to minimize the impacts of climate change and natural disasters. The UN Conference on Sustainable Development 2012 and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015–2030) called for urgent need in building resilient...

査読付論文

2019年11月

Challenges and an Implementation Framework for Sustainable Municipal Organic Waste Management Using Biogas Technology in Emerging Asian Countries

sustainability所収

Due to its ability to recover both material and energy from organic waste, biogas technology is considered one of the best technology for treating organic waste. While in many emerging Asian countries more than 50% of municipal waste is organic waste, the amount of organic waste treated with biogas technology remains very limited. This study...

ポリシーレポート

2020年1月

2020年1月

Environmental Changes in Tonle Sap Lake and its Floodplain: Status and Policy Recommendations

Tonle Sap Lake (TSL), the largest lake in South East Asia, is under increasing pressure from pollution, land-use change, climate change, and development activities in the lake, its basin and the Mekong Basin. Recent changes in the lake hydrological system and its floodplains are becoming a great concern for hundreds of communities relying on the...

その他アーティクル

2020年1月

20年の歳月を経て～シャオリュウの中国環境ウォッチNo.74

環境新聞所収

環境新聞にて連載中の「シャオリュウの中国環境ウオッチ」では、地球環境戦略研究機関（IGES）北京事務所長の小柳秀明が、中国の環境の現状と対策を毎月現場から報告しています。

ブリーフィングノート

2019年6月

Briefing Note “Voluntary Local Reviews (VLR) – an innovative, inclusive way to connect the local to the national, regional, and global processes”

The themes of this year’s 6th APFSD – inclusion, equality, and empowerment (aligned with those reviewed at this year’s HLPF) – led to an increasing focus on how to localize the SDGs and enhance inclusivity at a local level, in an evidence-informed manner. Voluntary Local Reviews (VLRs) are local government-led initiatives to review their own...

ポリシーレポート

2020年1月

Strategies to Reduce Marine Plastic Pollution from Land-based Sources in Low and Middle - Income Countries

Accumulation of plastic wastes in the marine eco-system is growing rapidly with the increase of plastic production and consumption patterns, particularly single-use plastics as well as unsustainable plastic waste management practices. Land-based sources are recognised as the main cause (up to 80% of total marine debris) of marine plastic pollution...

査読付論文

2020年1月

Technology foresight for social good: Social implications of technological innovation by 2050 from a Global Expert Survey

Technological Forecasting and Social Change所収

Technology foresight is crucial in shaping the futures of social good that brings intrinsic and instrumental values to engage different stakeholders in the process. Within this context, the impact of technological innovation on the society from a multi-dimensional perspective is understudied. This paper addresses and investigates this gap by...

ブックチャプター

2020年1月

ESG課題解決への林業・木材産業の貢献ポテンシャル

SDGs時代の木材産業所収

林業・木材産業の成長が生み出しうる社会的インパクトを概説し、林業・木材産業が社会の持続可能な発展のための重要な担い手と認識され、ESG投資・融資の主要な対象となるための道筋を考察

査読付論文

2020年2月

Mineral Soil Texture–Land Cover Dependency on Microwave Dielectric Models in an Arid Environment

Land所収

In this study, we measured and characterized the relative dielectric constant of mineral soils over the 0.3–3.0 frequency range, and compared our measurements with values of three dielectric constant simulation models (the Wang, Dobson, and Mironov models). The interrelationship between land cover and soil texture with respect to the dielectric...