CRRP

Climate change risk perceptions, vulnerability, and adaptation in high altitude farming regions of Hindu Kush Himalaya
Keywords:

Adaptive capacity · Climate-smart agriculture · Farm advisory · Livelihood · Mountains

Climate change risk perceptions, vulnerability, and adaptation in high altitude farming regions of Hindu Kush Himalaya

Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) is highly vulnerable to climate change, but there is the least understanding of the impacts of climate change. This study explored local climate change risk perceptions, vulnerability, and adaptive responses in the three HKH countries, Pakistan, Nepal, and Bhutan. For this purpose, 379 farm households from low, medium, and high elevations...

Asad, S.A., Abid, M., Ahmad, I., Thapa, G., & Dendup, T. (2023). Climate change risk perceptions, vulnerability, and adaptation in high altitude farming regions of Hindu Kush Himalaya. APN Science Bulletin, 13(1). doi:10.30852/sb.2023.2184

Factors influencing farmers’ climate change adaptation in Southeast Asia: A comparative study from Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia
Keywords:

Adaptation likelihood · Adaptive capacity · Climate change adaptation · Cross-country analysis · Farm households · Southeast Asia

Factors influencing farmers’ climate change adaptation in Southeast Asia: A comparative study from Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia

Southeast Asia is among the most climate-vulnerable regions in the world. Despite this, little is known about how climate change adaptation at the household level differs across countries in this geographic region. This cross-country study investigated factors influencing adopting three adaptation practices: growing climate-tolerant crops, intercropping, and switching to cash crops in some selected provinces...

Ha, T.M., Boulom, S., Yang, F., Voe, P., Dao, C.D., Le, T.T.L., ... Ha, A.D. (2023). Factors influencing farmers’ climate change adaptation in Southeast Asia: A comparative study from Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. APN Science Bulletin, 13(1). doi:10.30852/10.30852/sb.2023.2101/

Tracking influences of Asian urban greenhouse gas emissions for sustainability policies: Preliminary report
Keywords:

Asia · Greenhouse gas emissions · Low carbon policies · Urban energy use

Tracking influences of Asian urban greenhouse gas emissions for sustainability policies: Preliminary report

While nations have made commitments to address climate change, scholars estimate that even if these commitments are met, there remains an emissions gap between where we are and where we want to be to keep the globe under 1.5°C. Cities around the world are working to reduce this gap. Asian cities are large greenhouse gas...

Marcotullio, P., Deng, X., Li, Z., Gasparatos, A., Aleksejeva, J., Huang, S., ... Stretton, J. (2023). Tracking influences of Asian urban greenhouse gas emissions for sustainability policies: Preliminary report. APN Science Bulletin, 13(1). doi:10.30852/sb.2023.2106

Historical drought and its trend in South Asia: Spatial and temporal analysis 2000-2020
Keywords:

Drought severity index · Long-term drought analysis · Meteorological drought · MODIS

Historical drought and its trend in South Asia: Spatial and temporal analysis 2000-2020

Every year, South Asian countries suffer from declining agricultural outputs due to climate extremes such as floods and droughts. Recurrent droughts have depressed rural economies and enhanced widespread hunger and human migration to South Asian cities (Miyan, 2015). Due to climatic changes, the region is projected to experience rising temperatures and more frequent extreme weather...

Kafle, H., Khaitu, S., Gyawali, D., Shrestha, D., Koirala, D., Kamaruzzaman, M., ... Yamaguchi, Y. (2023). Historical drought and its trend in South Asia: Spatial and temporal analysis 2000-2020. APN Science Bulletin, 12(1). doi:10.30852/sb.2022.2022

Assessment of the feasibility of applying payment for forest ecosystem services in Vietnamese mangrove forests
Keywords:

Carbon mitigation · Co-benefits · Forest restoration · Mangrove forests · Vietnam

Assessment of the feasibility of applying payment for forest ecosystem services in Vietnamese mangrove forests

Mangroves can play a major role in efforts to mitigate climate change through two pathways. These are (1) carbon sequestration following reforestation of areas where mangroves previously existed, and (2) protection of existing carbon stores in intact mangrove forests. There is considerable international interest in carbon mitigation by governments and businesses as a way of...

Nguyen, T.H., Dell, B., & Harper, R.J. (2022). Assessment of the feasibility of applying payment for forest ecosystem services in Vietnamese mangrove forests. APN Science Bulletin, 12(1). doi:10.30852/sb.2022.2016

Climate change scenarios over Southeast Asia
Keywords:

Climate change · Global climate model (GCM) · Precipitation · Southeast Asia · Surface temperature · Weather research forecast (WRF)

Climate change scenarios over Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia is one of the world’s regions most vulnerable to climate change impacts with low-lying land, more severe floods and droughts, larger populations, higher dependency on agriculture for the economic sector, and low resilience of communities. Therefore, a study on how future climate change will affect this region has been conducted, and the results...

Sentian, J., Payus, C.M., Herman, F., & Kong, V.W.Y. (2022). Climate change scenarios over Southeast Asia. APN Science Bulletin, 12(1). doi:10.30852/sb.2022.1927

Smart city indicators: Towards exploring potential linkages to disaster resilience abilities
Keywords:

Assessment tools · Disaster resilience · Disasters · Index · Indicators · Smart city · Urban

Smart city indicators: Towards exploring potential linkages to disaster resilience abilities

Recent advances in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have transformed all aspects of human life. Enabled by these advances, over the past few decades, many smart city initiatives have been developed across the world. Subsequently, various efforts have been made to develop indicators and frameworks for the assessment of smart cities. Generally, smart cities are...

Sharifi, A. (2022). Smart city indicators: Towards exploring potential linkages to disaster resilience abilities. APN Science Bulletin, 12(1). doi:10.30852/sb.2022.1873

Impact of biomass burning sources during the high season on PM2.5 pollution observed at sampling sites in Hanoi, Vietnam and Chiang Rai, Thailand
Keywords:

Biomass burning sources · MODIS fire map · PM2.5 pollution · PMF receptor model · Southeast Asia

Impact of biomass burning sources during the high season on PM2.5 pollution observed at sampling sites in Hanoi, Vietnam and Chiang Rai, Thailand

This study aimed to assess PM2.5 concentration and the potential impacts of biomass burning sources on PM2.5 measured at the sampling sites in Hanoi, Vietnam and Chiang Rai, Thailand during the high season (from January to April) in 2021 in which intensive biomass burning activities occur in Southeast Asia (SEA) region. For this purpose, an...

Luong, N.D., Chuersuwan, N., Viet, H.T., & Trung, B.Q. (2022). Impact of biomass burning sources during the high season on PM2.5 pollution observed at sampling sites in Hanoi, Vietnam and Chiang Rai, Thailand. APN Science Bulletin, 12(1). doi:10.30852/sb.2022.1849

Microplastics pollution in selected rivers from Southeast Asia
Keywords:

Chao Phraya River · Citarum River · Microplastics · Saigon River

Microplastics pollution in selected rivers from Southeast Asia

Microplastics have been found in all hemispheres of the world. However, studies on microplastics are mainly conducted in Europe, North America, and East Asia. Few studies are reported in the Southeast Asian region, where a large number of plastic waste is disposed of improperly into the water. This study investigated the abundance and characteristics of...

Babel, S., Ta, A.T., Nguyen, T.P.L., Sembiring, E., Setiadi, T., & Sharp, A. (2022). Microplastics pollution in selected rivers from Southeast Asia. APN Science Bulletin, 12(1). doi:10.30852/sb.2022.1741

Policy gaps and needs analysis for the implementation of NDCs on adaptation and loss and damage in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka
Keywords:

Capacity building · Climate change · National Adaptation Plans · Nationally Determined Contributions · Sustainable Development Goals · United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

Policy gaps and needs analysis for the implementation of NDCs on adaptation and loss and damage in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka

The Paris Agreement requires Parties to prepare, communicate, and maintain successive Nationally Determined Contributions. Bangladesh , Nepal and Sri Lanka have submitted their NDCs which include mitigation as well as sector actions linked to adaptation and loss and damage. However, the countries face different faps and needs for the implementation of these commitments such as...

Wijenayake, V., Mombauer, D., Singh, P., & Nadiruzzaman, M. (2020). Policy gaps and needs analysis for the implementation of NDCs on adaptation and loss and damage in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. APN Science Bulletin, 10(1). doi:10.30852/sb.2020.1283