Public health in Thailand: Emerging focus on non‐communicable diseases

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Environmental assessment schemes for non-domestic building refurbishment in the Malaysian context

The increase in global warming, energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions has gained attention in various regions. In Malaysia, the government announced a voluntary commitment to reduce 40% of CO 2 emissions by 2020 and to refurbish 100 government buildings. Existing buildings make a large contribution to energy consumption and CO 2 emissions, therefore refurbishing existing buildings is an essential strategy to achieve the commitment. There is no single assessment scheme for building refurbishment in Malaysia and hence, this study aims to develop a comprehensive list of assessment themes and sub-themes for building refurbishment purposes. It examines and compares 10 assessment schemes from various countries: BREEAM, LEED, CASBEE, BEAM Plus, GBLS, Green Star, HQE, Green Mark, GBI and MyCrest. The findings revealed fourteen themes that were considered for assessment: management, sustainable site, transport, indoor environmental quality (IEQ), water, waste, material, energy, pollution, innovation, economic, social, culture and quality of services. Energy and IEQ are dominant themes in all assessment schemes. Most of the schemes are considered relatively weak in evaluating economic and social aspects, in comparison to environmental aspects. The assessment of quality of services is overlooked in most of the schemes, including GBI and MyCrest in Malaysia. Outcomes from this paper will form the baseline for a new environmental assessment scheme that aimed at non-domestic building refurbishments in Malaysia. A new model is proposed for the development of an environmental assessment scheme in the further stage

Institutional relations in development

노트 : Reading materials for the KDI/ESCAP Joint Semina

CBMS Network Updates, Vol 9, No 2, March 2012

The CBMS Network Updates is the quarterly newsletter of the CBMS Network of the PEP Project.While it is important to identify the vulnerability of a particular area to calamity, it is also crucial to assess the community capacity to bounce back. The main topic of this newsletter update is the “Climate Change Vulnerability Index” applied in relation to data from the Province of Marinduque (Philippines), as well as the “Adaptive Capacity Index.” Other articles focus on conferences and meetings of community-based monitoring system (CBMS) networks

CBMS Network Updates, Vol 8, No 4, September 2011

In most low-income countries, income is hard to measure. Moreover, many households consume from their own production. This situation makes it difficult to use income as a measure for identifying poor households. This newsletter shows development of a new targeting indicator, which provides an econometric method for targeting low-income and vulnerable groups (Philippines) so that social assistance benefits can reach them. The newsletter also includes articles on a community-based monitoring system (CBMS) in Haiti as well as other CBMS projects, workshops and meetings

CBMS Network Updates, Volume 8, No 3, June 2011

The community-based monitoring system (CBMS) Network started the initiative titled “Monitoring and Mitigating the Impact on Poverty of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC)” to monitor the impact of the GFC on poverty in selected developing countries in Asia, Africa and South America. This newsletter focuses on effects in Kenya. Data from the CBMS were recognized in Nigeria as a major planning information tool that assists local governments in improving the welfare status of the community of Edem. Shorter articles focus on the subject of child labour, as well as other locales where CBMS projects have been implemented

CBMS Network Updates, Vol 9, No 1, December 2011

This newsletter focuses on affects of the global financial crisis (GFC) on livelihoods, health and food security in Pekalongan City (Indonesia) with data drawn from the Community-Based Monitoring System (CBMS) Census (2009). The Principal Component Analysis (PCA) method is used to develop groups of households and their welfare, based on the variance of their socioeconomic background. The PCA method develops an artificial index that can be applied depending on the set of variables. Other updates include a CBMS study on flooding in the Philippines; a collaboration between a CBMS-Burkina Faso Team and international NGO in capacity building; and a CBMS team in Peru