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Community Development for Reconstruction in Higashimatsushima City

27 June 2017
Presentation of Morio Furuyama on the Higashimatsushima experience

Higashimatsushima Organization for Progress and Economy, Education, Energy (HOPE)

27 June 2017
Presentation of Michiaki Omura on the Higashimatsushima experience

Infrastructure and Inclusive Sustainable Development in Chile

16 June 2017
Sustainable infrastructure development in Chile is in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and involves the participation of public, private, and civil society actors. While social evaluation of projects should be complemented by disaster risk assessment, the creation of…

Application of Satellite Remote Sensing to Natural Disaster Management and the role of Center for Research and Application of Satellite Remote Sensing (CRASS)

1 June 2017
Satellite remote sensing technologies have been instrumental in disaster risk management. This presentation by Prof. Fusanori Miura of Yamaguchi University (YU) shares details of the Center for Research and Application of Satellite Remote Sensing that facilitates researches and practical uses of…

K-water Integrated Water Operation Center

15 May 2017
Take a virtual tour of the K-water Integrated Water Operation Center, South Korea's centralized smart water management hub. Using the K-water Hydro Intelligent Toolkit (K-Hit), the Integrated Water Operation Center operates 33 dams, 16 weirs, 25 hydropower plants (78 generators: 1,333 MW), 350…

BAN: Comparative Analysis of Bangladesh’s Legal Framework and ADB Safeguard Policy Statement: Indigenous Peoples

31 January 2017
The term Indigenous Peoples is used in a generic sense to refer to a distinct, vulnerable, social and cultural group possessing the following characteristics in varying degrees: (i) self-identification as members of a distinct indigenous cultural group and recognition of this identity by others; (…

CAM: Comparative Analysis of Cambodia’s Legal Framework and ADB Safeguard Policy Statement: Indigenous Peoples

31 January 2017
The term Indigenous Peoples is used in a generic sense to refer to a distinct, vulnerable, social and cultural group possessing the following characteristics in varying degrees: (i) self-identification as members of a distinct indigenous cultural group and recognition of this identity by others; (…

Transitioning to Green and Circular Economy for Industrial Sustainability

24 November 2016
Creating sustainable value chains and networks is important as highlighted in this presentation. It also stresses the need for formulating systemic solutions and pursuing extensive collaboration with different stakeholders.

BHU: Comparative Analysis of Bhutan’s Legal Framework and ADB Safeguard Policy Statement: Indigenous Peoples

31 October 2016
The term Indigenous Peoples is used in a generic sense to refer to a distinct, vulnerable, social and cultural group possessing the following characteristics in varying degrees: (i) self-identification as members of a distinct indigenous cultural group and recognition of this identity by others; (…

Adaptation and Migration in Asia's Drowning River Deltas

26 October 2016
The world's threatened deltas are concentrated in South and East Asia. Among the identified accelerators of relative sea-level rise in river deltas are climate change, urbanization, and aquaculture expansion. Asian Development Bank's intern Alex Chapman shares the current state of river deltas in…