This study examined the effect of sustainable forest management schemes on forest conservation using remote sensing data on forest change. We applied fixed effect models focusing on two major sustainable forest management schemes: the Forest Stewardship Council and the Programme for the...

Securing quantity of houses was the priority of housing policies in Japan since the World War II, but the policies have been shifted from quantity to quality in the 21st century, including promotion of long-life quality housing. Since then, various policy measures have been introduced in...

This study investigated how improvement in women's status affects the choice of contraceptive methods in Nepal. We regressed the choice of contraceptive methods on the variables of women's status and household characteristics by employing large-scale microdata representing over 12,000 married...

Edible bird’s nests (EBNs) have been traditionally produced in Southeast Asia and consumed in China. Indonesian farmers construct buildings for swiftlet birds and harvest their nests. EBNs are natural and sustainable farming products, while many other agricultural expansions rely on the...

This study examined which socio-economic drivers contributed to energy-related CO2 emissions in Japanese households in all 47 prefectures since 1990. We adopted the logarithmic mean Divisia index technique to decompose the prefectural trends in CO2 emissions during the period 1990-2013 into six...

In sub-Saharan African countries, exposure to air pollutants, such as particulate matter 2.5 (PM2.5), in the residential sector is a serious environmental issue, which causes health problems. Identifying the driving factors of such air pollutants is significant to formulate policies to reduce...