Ready For The Dry Years Building Resilience To Drought In South East Asia

Author : United Nations
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789210040389

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Ready for the Dry Years -- Building Resilience to Drought in South-East Asia by United Nations Pdf

South-East Asia is regularly hit by droughts. Though starting slowly, droughts can have devastating cumulative impacts – striking hardest at the poor and heightening inequality, as well as degrading land and increasing the prospects of violent conflict. There will be many more dry years ahead, and the area affected by drought is likely to shift and expand. Ready for the Dry Years offers a clear analysis of this subject, assessing prospects for the decades ahead and highlighting the principal risks. Building resilience will be fundamental for the continued development of ASEAN countries. issued jointly by the ESCAP and ASEAN secretariats, the Report identifies the priorities for increasing resilience to drought and helping countries adapt. The primary audience of this report are policymakers in South-East Asia who are responsible for disaster risk reduction and development issues.

Author : United Nations Publications
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9211207878

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Ready for the Dry Years: Building Resilience to Drought in South-East Asia by United Nations Publications Pdf

South-East Asia is regularly hit by droughts. Though starting slowly, droughts can have devastating cumulative impacts - striking hardest at the poor and heightening inequality, as well as degrading land and increasing the prospects of violent conflict. There will be many more dry years ahead, and the area affected by drought is likely to shift and expand. Ready for the Dry Years offers a clear analysis of this subject, assessing prospects for the decades ahead and highlighting the principal risks. Building resilience will be fundamental for the continued development of ASEAN countries. issued jointly by the ESCAP and ASEAN secretariats, the Report identifies the priorities for increasing resilience to drought and helping countries adapt. The primary audience of this report are policymakers in South-East Asia who are responsible for disaster risk reduction and development issues.

Author : Quentin Verspieren,Maximilien Berthet,Giulio Coral,Shinichi Nakasuka,Hideaki Shiroyama
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789811673269

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ASEAN Space Programs by Quentin Verspieren,Maximilien Berthet,Giulio Coral,Shinichi Nakasuka,Hideaki Shiroyama Pdf

This book presents the first-ever comprehensive analysis of ASEAN space development programs. Written by prominent actors in the region, it goes beyond a mere exposé of the history, current status and future plans of ASEAN space technology development and utilization programs, by analyzing the conditions in which a space program can be initiated in the region. It does so in two ways: on the one hand, it questions the relevance of and motivations behind the inception of space development programs in developing countries, and on the other hand, it focuses on the very specific context of ASEAN (a highly disaster-prone area shaped by unique political alliances with a distinctive geopolitical ecosystem and enormous economic potential, etc.). Last but not least, after having analyzed established and emerging space programs in the region, it provides concrete recommendations for any regional or extra-regional developing nation eager to gain a foothold in space. As such, this book offers a valuable resource for researchers and engineers in the field of space technology, as well as for space agencies and government policymakers.

Author : Han Phoumin,Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary,Fukunari Kimura,Jun Arima
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811620003

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Energy Sustainability and Climate Change in ASEAN by Han Phoumin,Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary,Fukunari Kimura,Jun Arima Pdf

This book provides several up-to-date empirical policy-oriented studies on assessing the impacts of climate change on various economic sectors and the role of renewable energy resources in mitigating pollution and climate change. It suggests various policy recommendations on how to increase the share of renewable energy resources in the energy baskets of the members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the rest of the world to ensure energy sustainability. As of 2020, most of the world’s energy investment still went to carbon-emitting sources, namely, fossil fuels. On the other hand, the Covid-19 pandemic and the economic Project Overview 20 March 2021 08:39 Page 6 of 9 downturns shrank the global energy demand, including fossil fuels, resulting in a sharp drop in their prices. Low fossil fuel prices are harmful to developing renewable energy projects, making solar, wind, and other renewable energy resources less competitive as sources of electricity. This is endangering the Paris agreement and the “Climate Action” goal of the United Nations. Given the high share of fossil fuels in the energy mix of the members of ASEAN, tremendous challenges must be faced for their energy transition in the post-Covid-19 world. The authors call for sound policy and applicable technologies to ensure sustainable energy availability, accessibility, and affordability to reach emission reduction targets.

Author : UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789231005862

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Asia-Pacific Regional Synthesis by UNESCO Pdf

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264428522

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Economic Outlook for Southeast Asia, China and India 2024 Developing amid Disaster Risks by OECD Pdf

The Economic Outlook for Southeast Asia, China and India is a regular publication on regional economic growth and development in Emerging Asia – Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Viet Nam, as well as China and India. It comprises three parts: a regional economic monitor, a thematic chapter addressing a major issue facing the region, and a series of country notes.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264787384

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Development Centre Studies Towards Greener and More Inclusive Societies in Southeast Asia by OECD Pdf

Understanding the effects of both climate change and green growth policies on jobs and people is thus essential for making the transition in Southeast Asia an inclusive one. The study explores these issues, with emphasis on the potential effects on labour of an energy transition in Indonesia, and of a transition in the region’s agricultural sector, illustrated by a simulated conversion from conventional to organic rice farming.

Author : Sushila Shekhawat,Rayson K. Alex,Swarnalatha Rangarajan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000937336

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Desertscapes in the Global South and Beyond by Sushila Shekhawat,Rayson K. Alex,Swarnalatha Rangarajan Pdf

Embracing a rich diversity of voices, this volume seeks to explore the different facets of Anthropocene naturecultures in the desert biomes of the Global South and beyond. Essays in this collection will articulate issues of desertification, indigeneity and re-inhabitation in narratives that thread together Tibet, China, Australia, India, South Mexico, South Africa and Brazil in all their richness and complexity. Re-imaging the desert figure’s rich biodiversity, this book presents new ways to envision the human relationships to natural ecology and mindful accountability, tracing complex narrative connections and challenging hegemonic norms of its role in the co-construction of identity, affect, and gender. Essays also aim to engage in an intertextual conversation with colonial genres that influence the popular conception of these spaces, moving beyond the usual tropes to forge a topographically informed desert identity and posit a ‘natureculture’ ecosystem based on the interpenetration of landscape, culture, and history. This volume includes literary exploration of environmental injustices, analyzing motifs of deforestation, land degradation, falling crop production, toxic man-made chemicals, and extractivist practices linked to various social and economic stressors and gradients in economic and political power. This diverse volume will provide a significant contribution to desert humanities from the Global South, responding to the pressing problems of the Anthropocene and employing place-based ecocritical frameworks that help us imagine a sustainable way of life.

Author : Piya Srinivasan
Publisher : Yoda Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9789382579908

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Living with the Weather by Piya Srinivasan Pdf

How does climate change intensify social cleavages in new configurations of knowledge and power? How does development respond to its own contradictions in such scenarios? How do extreme weather events inform population movement and challenge existing definitions of borders and citizenship? Who pays the heaviest price? Living with the Weather addresses these pressing questions by highlighting and exploring the social, economic, political, and spatial dimensions of climate disaster in South Asia. Through empirical research, reporting and documentation of the climate crisis in the countries of South Asia, along with a deep dive into the Indian Sundarbans, the book calls attention to the intermeshed predicaments the people of the subcontinent face while bearing the brunt of climate change In doing so, it seeks to enrich our understanding of how climate change transforms everyday life. It makes visible the effects of natural events, the outcomes of political decisions, how disaster and rehabilitation are interpreted by states, how resistances are staged in the form of mobility, and how dispossession and despair are embodied and articulated.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264123533

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OECD Studies on Water Managing Weather-Related Disasters in Southeast Asian Agriculture by OECD Pdf

Southeast Asia’s exposure to increasingly frequent and intense weather-related disasters is a growing concern for agricultural producers of the region. This study reviews policy approaches to droughts, floods and typhoons in Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam in an effort to ...

Author : Indrajit Pal,Mihir Bhatt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9353883881

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Drought Risk Management in South and South-East Asia by Indrajit Pal,Mihir Bhatt Pdf

The geo-climatic conditions of South and South-East Asian countries are diverse and vulnerable to multiple natural hazards such as drought. Drought evolves over months or even years, affects a large spatial extent and causes enormous damages. Drought Risk Management in South and South-East Asia is a comprehensive reference on overall perspectives and scenarios on drought risk mitigation and management, based on researches and case studies from South and South-East Asian countries. Drought management is a complex area of work that requires active and continuous participation of the national, provincial and local governments, multiple ministries, and divisions. This book demonstrates the best practices of socio-economic and technological interventions to enhance drought risk management, which will help to develop plans and policies, and their implementation to reduce the impact of droughts. It also offers views of field practitioners on impacts of the interventions practised at the national, sub-national and local levels.

Author : Lorraine Elliott,Mely Caballero-Anthony
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136263231

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Human Security and Climate Change in Southeast Asia by Lorraine Elliott,Mely Caballero-Anthony Pdf

This book makes an important and timely contribution to debates about the relationship between climate change and security in Southeast Asia. It does so through a human security lens, drawing on local and regional expertise to discuss the threats that climate change poses to human security in Southeast Asia and to show how a human security approach draws attention to the importance of adaptation and strategies for social resilience. In doing so, it exposes the consequences of climate change, the impact on community rights and access, the special problem of border areas, before going on to investigate local and regional strategies for addressing the human security challenges of climate change.

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789251367629

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Consumption-based water management by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

This document on consumption-based water management (CBWM) distils and expands on the findings of an expert consultation hosted by FAO and the China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research (IWHR). The meeting brought together Chinese and international experts to discuss the technical, governance and broader dimensions of managing consumptive water use, and to understand the implications of more than ten years’ pilot experience in China and its potential for application in a broader range of climatic, political administrative and socioeconomic contexts. The document provides contextual information on CBWM, introduces technical basis for CBWM, takes a closer look at law, policy, and governance and their the relevance in implementing CBWM, and step-by-step detail on implementation of CBWM. Finally, the document argues that the implementation of CBWM requires preliminary steps in developing water accounts, water rights, water allocation processes and associated institutional arrangements, all of which are very relevant and immediately necessary in most countries in Asia.

Author : OECD
Publisher : Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 9264123520

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Managing Weather-related Disasters in Southeast Asian Agriculture by OECD Pdf

- Foreword - Acronyms - Executive summary - Overview and policy recommendations - Droughts, floods, tropical storms and Southeast Asian agriculture: Building the case for improved disaster risk management - High exposure to weather-related risks in ASEAN countries - Review of disaster risk management policies for agriculture in selected ASEAN countries

Author : Alexandre Meybeck
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : MINN:31951D036912636

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Building Resilience for Adaptation to Climate Change in the Agriculture Sector by Alexandre Meybeck Pdf

"The joint workshop on Building resilience for adaptation to climate change in the agriculture sector was organized by FAO and OECD, and was held from 23 to 24 April 2012, at FAO headquarters in Rome."--P. 5.