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Obtaining Health Security amidst the Pandemic and Climate Change

28 June 2022
This gives an overview of global health security and ways on how this can be addressed using science-based tools and approaches.

Environmental and Climate Impact of the Pandemic: How the Vaccination Fares

28 June 2022
This presentation gives an overview of the cause and cost of the COVID-19 pandemic amidst climate change.

Vaccine Hesitancy and Climate Change Denial, A Case to Improve Health Communication

28 June 2022
This presentation gives an overview of how damaging the planet can also lead to damage to human health and the possible cost of preventing the next pandemic.

Climate Crisis as Health Crisis and Vaccination as Climate Adaptation Measure

28 June 2022
This gives an overview of the impact of COVID-19 and climate change on healthcare facilities.

SERD Policy Talk (SPOT): Strengthening the Agri-food System

10 June 2022
In the 10th SPOT webinar, Omer Zafar, Takashi Yamano, and Noorullah from the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Dil Rahut from the ADB Institute, and Jennifer Rosenzweig from Indonesia’s World Food Programme shared their views on factors that threaten the agriculture food system in Southeast Asia. They…

HUSK: Building Soil, Sinking Carbon, Improving Lives

7 June 2022
Heloise Buckland, CEO and Co-Founder of HUSK, discussed the challenges faced by Asia’s smallholder farmers and presented a circular economy solution that promotes soil regeneration and climate resilience through the benefits of biochar products derived from rice husks.

Entrepreneurial Resilience in the Face of Covid-19: How Entrepreneurs Contribute to Economic Resilience

6 May 2022
This presentation gives an overview of the Entrepreneurial Resilience Framework.

Design – India: NH-37 East West Highway, Kaziranga NP, Assam

27 April 2022
India is host to a rich wildlife with an estimated 2,413 rhinoceros in Kaziranga alone. Faced with increasing loss of wildlife due to habitat loss and fragmentation and roadside accidents, the government of Assam is currently working on a wildlife-friendly development project specifically on…

Cumulative Impact Assessments and Case Studies

27 April 2022
Infrastructure development including upgraded highway systems act as trigger for induced development and land use change. Impacts are not just immediate or within a single lifetime but accumulate both in temporal and spatial scopes. Therefore, it is critical that infrastructure development always…

Monitoring and Performance Evaluation: Case Study on the Bhutan Road Network Project-II

27 April 2022
Improvements and innovation in design of linear infrastructure such as roads and bridges are observed to be beneficial to wildlife crossings. This is among the findings of a 2-phased monitoring study in Bhutan particularly in a 183-kilometer highway and feeder road constructed under RNP II with the…