Ways to Achieve Green Asia
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the environment and climate change in Asia. It first gives an overview of the environmental challenges facing the region and summarizes the economic impacts
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Reducing vulnerability of school children to earthquakes
This publication not only summarizes the good practices and lessons learned from the project countries but also highlights the task ahead to up-scale from model projects to countrywide activities on school safety.
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Reducing vulnerability of school children to earthquakes
This publication not only summarizes the good practices and lessons learned from the project countries but also highlights the task ahead to up-scale from model projects to countrywide activities on school safety.
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ITTO/IUCN guidelines for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in tropical timber production forests
The conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in tropical production forests is not just a technical task for forest managers. It requires that biodiversity concerns be addressed in national level planning and policymaking, at the stage of allocating forests to conservation, production and conversion, and during management planning and field implementation.
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City profile: climate and disaster resilience
This study makes a comparative analysis of 15 cities in the Asian region, including some megacities, medium sized cities, and smaller cities, in their capacity to absorb stress, to manage it and recover from it.
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Infrastructures role in lowering Asia's trade costs: building for trade
Infrastructure is shown to be a cost-effective means of lowering trade costs and thereby promoting regional growth and integration. This report combines thematic and country studies, while breaking new ground in quantifying infrastructure's impact on Asia's trade costs.
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2008 top news on the environment in Asia
This is a compilation of important environmental news topics selected by experts from the Asia-Pacific region. The 2008 edition brings 114 articles from three international organisations and 21 countries. A number of news reports were contributed regarding global warming as the most urgent issue facing the world today.
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Study on local actions in Asia contributing to climate change mitigation and alternative financial mechanism
To increase communities involvement in mitigating climate change, support from local governments is very crucial not only as facilitator but also as finance providers. Local Government in developing countries can create umbrella program for communities througout the country to implement small scale mitigation project activities, such as Programmatic CDM.
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Asian trade and global linkages
In the run-up to the 2008 global financial crisis, there was frequent discussion of Asia having decoupled from economic shock transmission originating in Europe or North America. Much of the basis for these arguments was related to the rapid expansion of intraregional trade in Asia.
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Does organic agriculture lead to better health among poor farmers?
Poverty and health are inextricably linked as the poor are always the first to suffer from degraded soil, water, and environment. For poor farmers in developing countries, inappropriate use of pesticides is known to be a serious problem.
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CDM country fact sheet : India
Current Status of CDM in India is presented here. Since the establishment of the Indian DNA (Designated National Authority) in 2003, it has approved a significant number of projects. 360 projects have been registered by the CDM executive board and the number of registered projects is the largest (around 1/3) in the world (as of 5 November 2008).