Download or read book The Economics of Climate Change in Southeast Asia written by Asian Development Bank and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report provides a review of the economics of climate change in the Southeast Asia, with a particular focus on Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Viet Nam. It confirms that the region is highly vulnerable to climate change and demonstrates that a wide range of adaptation measures are already being applied. The report also shows that the region has a great potential to contribute to greenhouse gas emission reduction, and that the costs to the region and globally of taking no early action against climate change could be very high. The basic policy message is that efforts must be made to apply all feasible and economically viable adaptation and mitigation measures as key elements of a sustainable development strategy for Southeast Asia. It also argues that the current global economic crisis offers Southeast Asia an opportunity to start a transition towards a climate-resilient and low-carbon economy by introducing green stimulus programs that can simultaneously shore up economies, create jobs, reduce poverty, lower carbon emissions, and prepare for the worst effects of climate change.
Download or read book Handbook of Markets and Economies East Asia Southeast Asia Australia New Zealand written by Anthony Pecotich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 727 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: East and Southeast Asia is a vast and complex region. Its countries have a bewildering array of histories, demographics, economic structures, cultural backgrounds, and global marketing potential. This Handbook unravels the mystery. Each chapter is written by a country specialist and provides a thorough and up-to-date analysis of one of the ESEA countries. Each author follows a consistent model and covers geography and natural resources, the political system, the economic system, the social system, and the marketing environment. Complete chapters are devoted to: Australia, Brunei, Cambodia, China and Hong Kong, East Timor, Indonesia, Japan, Korea (North and South), Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Not just a review of current conditions, the Handbook offers prognoses for future marketing and commercial activity in each country. This definitive resource is generously illustrated with maps, figures, and tables, and includes comprehensive references and source materials for each country. It is an essential reference for students, researchers, and practitioners in the global economy.
Download or read book Renewable energy market analysis Southeast Asia written by International Renewable Energy Agency IRENA and published by International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This regional market analysis examines the challenges of economic and population growth, the need to boost energy supply, and growing environmental and energy security concerns.
Download or read book Financing the Ocean Back to Health in Southeast Asia written by Asian Development Bank and published by Asian Development Bank. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication provides an overview of the “blue economy” and emphasizes its significance for protecting the biodiversity of natural resources in Southeast Asia. The “blue economy” is defined as the sustainable use of ocean and coastal resources to drive economic growth and improve livelihoods, while protecting and nurturing marine ecosystems. In this publication, investment approaches, opportunities, and finance mechanisms that can promote and catalyze funds for a sustainable ocean economy are discussed. Multilateral and bilateral funding sources, a market-based approach, incentives, and regulations, among others, are presented. Also considered is the need to align these elements with a cohesive development framework for the blue economy.
Download or read book The Changing Face of Multinationals in Southeast Asia written by Tim G. Andrews and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how and why corporate strategy, structure and culture is continuing to change markedly in Southeast Asia.
Download or read book Market Research written by British Library and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 9th edition of Market Research lists all the market research reports from 14 top market reseach journals up to December 2000. All are available for free consultation in the British Library Business Information Service. Market research can be the most expensive type of business information to acquire and previous editions of the guide have been used by companies to find out what has been published, and in choosing which reports to refer to and buy. It lists over 8000 reports covering hundreds of industries from accountancy to the yoghurt industry. The guide includes a subject index with comprehensive cross-referencing and a geographic index to all reports concerning markets overseas.
Download or read book Meeting Asia s Infrastructure Needs written by Asian Development Bank and published by Asian Development Bank. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Infrastructure is essential for development. This report presents a snapshot of the current condition of developing Asia's infrastructure---defined here as transport, power, telecommunications, and water supply and sanitation. It examines how much the region has been investing in infrastructure and what will likely be needed through 2030. Finally, it analyzes the financial and institutional challenges that will shape future infrastructure investment and development.
Download or read book Business America written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Global Trends 2040 written by National Intelligence Council and published by Cosimo Reports. This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic marks the most significant, singular global disruption since World War II, with health, economic, political, and security implications that will ripple for years to come." -Global Trends 2040 (2021) Global Trends 2040-A More Contested World (2021), released by the US National Intelligence Council, is the latest report in its series of reports starting in 1997 about megatrends and the world's future. This report, strongly influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, paints a bleak picture of the future and describes a contested, fragmented and turbulent world. It specifically discusses the four main trends that will shape tomorrow's world: - Demographics-by 2040, 1.4 billion people will be added mostly in Africa and South Asia. - Economics-increased government debt and concentrated economic power will escalate problems for the poor and middleclass. - Climate-a hotter world will increase water, food, and health insecurity. - Technology-the emergence of new technologies could both solve and cause problems for human life. Students of trends, policymakers, entrepreneurs, academics, journalists and anyone eager for a glimpse into the next decades, will find this report, with colored graphs, essential reading.
Download or read book Mainstreaming agro ecology in Southeast Asian higher education for the Sustainable Development Goals Challenges opportunities and policy options written by Nelles, W., Ferrand, P. (eds.) and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2021-12-23 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This policy brief is one in a series led by Chulalongkorn University with support from the Office of the Higher Education Commission, Ministry of Education, Thailand, in partnership with FAO. The series was initiated to support the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Work Plan on Education, 2016–2020 implementation while Thailand was Chair of ASEAN in 2019 under the theme: “Advancing Partnership for Sustainability.” The Briefs offer critical interdisciplinary perspectives on agri-food systems from social and sustainability sciences. They are fully aligned with the regional initiative on Food System Transformation and are meant to support the work engaged with ASEAN. This brief focuses on the recent efforts that have aimed at documenting, analysing and supporting sustainable agri-food systems among Southeast Asian universities and colleges while achieving the SDGs through regional cooperation. It advocates that with greater support for institutional reforms based on five pillars – curricula, research, extension, policies, and sustainability assessments/reporting – more HEIs could collaborate with FAO and other agencies, regional organizations, governments and donors to scale-up AE innovations and alternatives.
Download or read book Implications of World Trade Organization Agreements for International Trade in Environmental Industries written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Founder s Mentality written by Chris Zook and published by Harvard Business Review Press. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Washington Post Bestseller Three Principles for Managing—and Avoiding—the Problems of Growth Why is profitable growth so hard to achieve and sustain? Most executives manage their companies as if the solution to that problem lies in the external environment: find an attractive market, formulate the right strategy, win new customers. But when Bain & Company’s Chris Zook and James Allen, authors of the bestselling Profit from the Core, researched this question, they found that when companies fail to achieve their growth targets, 90 percent of the time the root causes are internal, not external—increasing distance from the front lines, loss of accountability, proliferating processes and bureaucracy, to name only a few. What’s more, companies experience a set of predictable internal crises, at predictable stages, as they grow. Even for healthy companies, these crises, if not managed properly, stifle the ability to grow further—and can actively lead to decline. The key insight from Zook and Allen’s research is that managing these choke points requires a “founder’s mentality”—behaviors typically embodied by a bold, ambitious founder—to restore speed, focus, and connection to customers: • An insurgent’s clear mission and purpose • An unambiguous owner mindset • A relentless obsession with the front line Based on the authors’ decade-long study of companies in more than forty countries, The Founder’s Mentality demonstrates the strong relationship between these three traits in companies of all kinds—not just start-ups—and their ability to sustain performance. Through rich analysis and inspiring examples, this book shows how any leader—not only a founder—can instill and leverage a founder’s mentality throughout their organization and find lasting, profitable growth.
Download or read book Advancing East Asian Regionalism written by Melissa Curley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developments in East Asia have progressed rapidly in terms of regionalism since the 1997 crisis. The end of the Asian miracle called into question not only the capacity of regional states to meet the needs of their attendant peoples, but also challenged the viability of regional organizations, such as ASEAN, to adapt and respond to the changing circumstances. Advancing East Asian Regionalism looks at the ways in which ASEAN has expanded since the crisis, and evaluates the potential of East Asia to come together in a regional formation - one capable of representing the region as a whole - akin to the European Community. It draws upon the knowledge and perspectives of academics and policy makers actively engaged in the contradictory issues of regionalism. Coupling case study material on regionalism, institutions, and sectoral cooperation, with theoretical debates on regionalization, this book is an invaluable resource that pushes our understanding of East Asian regionalism forward.
Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Green Finance written by Othmar M. Lehner and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-08 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Green finance is heralded in theory and practice as the new panacea – the ideal way to support the green transition of businesses into more sustainable, environmentally responsible forms, by means of incentivized financial investments. This handbook brings together a variety of expert scholars with industry specialists to offer the most authoritative overview of green finance to date, presenting the current situation in the field. It focuses on green finance in a comprehensive way, discussing its characteristics, underlying principles, and mechanisms. The book carefully illuminates the issues surrounding green finance and delineates its boundaries, mapping out and displaying the disparate voices, traditions, and professional communities engaged in green and sustainable finance activities. Specifically, it examines the "environmental" in the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) measurements, while also discussing the interplay between each measurement. It develops a range of analytic approaches to the subject, both appreciative and critical, and synthesizes new theoretical constructs that make better sense of hybrid financial relationships. Furthermore, the handbook illustrates existing best practices and theories, and critically examines the gaps to derive the necessary future research questions. It highlights the essential issues and debates and provides a robust research agenda. As such, it helps to create an effective market for the various green financing instruments through clarification and standardization. This handbook will be the standard reference work for a broad audience, encompassing scholars, researchers, and students but also interested professionals, regulators, and policymakers wishing to orient themselves in a rapidly developing and increasingly topical field.
Download or read book Contract Farming of Swine in Southeast Asia as a Response to Changing Market Demand for Quality and Safety in Pork written by Marites Tiongco, Maria Angeles Catelo, and Ma. Lucila Lapar and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Implementing a Green Recovery in Southeast Asia written by Asian Development Bank and published by Asian Development Bank. This book was released on 2022-05-01 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report explains why Southeast Asian countries need to design pandemic recovery policies that hit both ambitious socioeconomic and environmental goals. The third in a four-part series, the report considers the impact of COVID-19 on Cambodia, Indonesia, Myanmar, the Philippines, and Thailand to show how a green recovery can help safeguard against future health crises. Analyzing areas including agriculture, cities, and oceans, the report lays out policy measures designed to identify, create, and finance green growth opportunities. It shows how COVID-19 has presented countries with a chance to hit the reset button and build a socially, economically, and environmentally resilient future.
Download or read book GBCE s Green Design Brief a holistic blueprint for human centered cost effective sustainable project concepts written by Armelle Le Bihan and published by GBCE PTE.LTD.. This book was released on with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As we are writing this, we are in the midst of unprecedented times. We, humans, have been hit by one of the biggest disruptions of our times which has put the world on hold and is shedding light on the way we live among ourselves and with the rest of living creatures. The world is redefining the way we will work, play and live and people are looking to placing health, safety, wellbeing and quality of life at the top of their priorities. At the same time, our planet’s health itself has never been put to such extreme stress. We’ve lost more than 50% of our biodiversity, hit this year again a temperature record and are counting more cities with unhealthy levels of PM2,5 by the minute. We are at a crossroad where we need to decide and act upon the future we want. Emerging countries in Asia have a unique opportunity to leapfrog to the green, smart and healthy cities of the future by starting to build them now while their major population centers are still growing fast. It is in our buildings, backbones to our societies and our human activities, that we can regenerate our living environment and build our resiliency to future challenges. This design brief was made to give building industry stakeholders guidelines for the design and retrofit of green, smart and healthy buildings in the Asia Pacific region. It is meant for project managers to learn about best practices and use practical guidelines to get started on the implementation of green features for projects across all industries such as hospitality, office, healthcare, retail, residential, industrial, cultural, educational projects. As engineers and consultants, our objective is to share our expertise of sustainable building design to help bring up high performance buildings that promote people’s wellbeing while preserving the planet. Here you will find market insights, a business case for green buildings focused on Southeast Asian countries, introduction to green building design concepts, presentation and comparison of several environmental standards and certifications, guidelines for integrating green features to your project, and a showcase of 10 green and smart innovations to implement in your next development or facility. We hope that you will find in these pages the means to take off your next development project and to push it further towards the sustainable, resilient, healthy and smart places that people expect. PART 1: See how buildings are a fundamental solution for climate adaptation and mitigation/ decarbonizing our economy and key to the liveability of our cities in the region. PART 2: Capture the evidence supporting the business case for smart green and healthy buildings. Recognize the many value propositions of sustainable buildings from lower operating costs, improved occupants health and productivity, increased asset value, increased return on investment. PART 3: Understand how climatic conditions play a role in designing responsible, performant and fit for purpose projects. PART 4: Grasp the underlying principles, process behind people centered, bioclimatic concepts. bioclimatic architecture, designing with nature, integrative process, multidisciplinary team PART 5: Understand how certifications compare and what they mean for your next project With all the green building certifications out there, it can be hard to find your way around. Have you ever wondered how different are certifications, what are their areas of focus, how suitable they are for your project and ultimately which certification you should go for? We’ve compiled a synthesized description of 4 most commonly used certifications in Thailand, their process, performance rating system and how they compare so you can better set a direction for your project. PART 6: Measure the performance of your project with key design metrics for comfort, health, energy efficiency and water conservation. Design metrics, health, comfort, energy, water We have developed a set of pillars which cover all fundamentals of integrated sustainability and will bring meaningful and impactful results to your project. PART 7: Apply technical recommendations early into your design concepts to ensure your project’s sustainability results. Technical guidelines Things to look after at the onset of a project that will ensure your project’s on the right track to reach high performance standards. PART 8: Explore/Discover efficient, green features that will support your building’s sustainability performance to implement in your next project.
