Ensuring climate information guides long-term development

Ensuring the long-term sustainability of fishery

1. Japan is an island with approximately 70% of land covered by mountain forests and where arable space is limited. Fishing communities are located in all coastal areas nationwide. Food resources from the ocean have historically played a significant role in the Japanese diet. Even today, around 40% of protein consumed by Japanese people comes from sea food. 2 Ensuring the long-term sustainabili...

Mainstreaming Adaptation to Climate Change into Official Development Assistance: Integration of Long-term Climate Concerns and Short-term Development Needs

One of the key responses to integrating long-term climate change concerns into shortand medium-term development policy decisions in vulnerable developing countries is to mainstream measures for adaptation and adaptive capacity into official development assistance (ODA). However, mainstreaming as a policy practice has been strongly contested in the broader climate and development debate. One rea...

Evaluation: measuring performance, ensuring competence, achieving long-term excellence.

THE education of medical students, residents, and practicing physicians is necessary to achieve high-quality health care. For this education to be effective, it must begin with a clear delineation of the goals that learners need to achieve. Evaluation of their subsequent mastery of these goals is an essential element of the educational process. In 1999, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Me...

In pursuit of long-term care: ensuring access, coverage, quality.

Introduction P roviding accessible, affordable, and high-quality long-term care services to an aging population presents a growing challenge to long-term care providers. As the oldest members of the baby boom generation approach retirement, federal and state policymakers are exploring policies to care for the increasing number of elderly and to finance expanding long-term care needs. Other conc...

Long-term Emissions and Climate Stabilization Scenarios