Toolkit for the indicators of resilience in socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes

This toolkit provides practical guidance for making use of the “Indicators of Resilience in Socio-ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes (SEPLS)” in the field. The indicators are a tool for engaging local communities in adaptive management of the landscapes and seascapes in which they live. By using the tested methods presented in this toolkit, communities can increase their capacity to respond to social, economic, and environmental pressures and shocks, to improve their environmental and economic conditions, thus increasing the social and ecological resilience of their landscapes and seascapes, and ultimately make progress towards realizing a society in harmony with nature. The approach presented here is centred on holding participatory “assessment workshops”. These involve discussion and a scoring process for the set of twenty indicators designed to capture communities’ perceptions of factors affecting the resilience of their landscapes and seascapes. The participants in these workshops are members of the local community and stakeholders in the local area. Their participation allows them to evaluate current conditions across the landscape and identify and reach agreement on priority actions, contributing to enhanced communication among stakeholders and empowered local communities. Workshops may be planned and implemented by people from within or outside the community. The guidance provided in this toolkit is primarily intended for organizers and facilitators of resilience assessment workshops

産業自家発電のエネルギー効率と二酸化炭素排出率に関する研究

This study was intended to find the energy and environmental efficiencies of industrial power generation systems in Japan, based on the data of the Yearbook of the Current Survey of Energy Consumption, by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METD). Boiler-steam turbine systems account for the largest portion (73%) of the electricity produced on-site for factories\u27 power needs, and combined heat and power (CHP) systems (16%) follow them. The power efficiencies of boiler-steam turbine power generation systems installed in 9 types of industry are in a range of 26-44% (total average : 37%), and their CO_2 emission rates are in a wider rage of 0.47-1.19 CO_2-kg/kWh (total average : 0.66 CO_2-kg/kWh). Then, the total efficiencies of CHP systems are in a range of 34-77% (total average : 62%), and their C02 emission rates are in a rage of 0.62-1.18 CO_2-kg/kWh (total average : 0.72 CO_2-kg/kWh). These results indicated that industrial boiler-steam turbine systems were not so efficient in power generation, and had slightly larger CO_2 emission rates than ones of the public power generation companies. And also, although industrial CHP systems were made sure to be useful measures for the climate changes as a whole, certain types of industry with low heat-demands hardly achieved the high performance