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4. Compilation of international policies and frameworks related to blue carbon and
a case study of the application and implementation thereof (carbon offset credit)
in Japan
We hope that this book will provide readers with a comprehensive and up-to-date
understanding of the state-of-the-art science, technology, and policies related to
blue carbon. We believe that publication of this book is timely because the Paris
Agreement calls for initiation of climate change measures in 2020 and many countries have pledged in their NDCs to utilize SCEs as described above.
We anticipate that the audience of this book will be broad and will include professionals (e.g., managers and policymakers in local and national governments, conservationists, engineers involved with dredging companies, costal environmental
consultancies, NPOs, and NGOs), academics (coastal ecologists, biogeochemists,
fisheries scientists, civil engineers, and climate scientists), and all levels of students
and educators from undergraduates to university faculty.
Acknowledgments
We thank Drs. Miyajima and Tokoro for their help in reviewing several chapters. We
also thank the editors of Springer Nature (Ms. Mei Hann Lee and Ms. Sivachandran
Ravanan) for their help and encouragement and ELSS, Inc., for English language
editing. This book was supported in part by the Environment Research and
Technology Development Fund (Strategic R&D Area Project [S-14 and S-15] and
2-1712) of the Ministry of the Environment, Japan; Canon Foundation grant;
Grants-in-Aid (KAKENHI, nos. 24656316, 26630251, 15K18145, 24760430,
15K18146, 18H04156) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science; JSTJICA SATREPS project BlueCARES; National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC),
Department of Space, India; grant for the Survey and Facilities of Ports from the
Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Japan; and a Grant-in-Aid
for the Promotion of Global Warming Countermeasures from the Fisheries Agency
of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Japan.
Yokosuka, Japan
Tomohiro Kuwae
Hiroshima, Japan
Masakazu Hori
Preface
4. Compilation of international policies and frameworks related to blue carbon and
a case study of the application and implementation thereof (carbon offset credit)
in Japan
We hope that this book will provide readers with a comprehensive and up-to-date
understanding of the state-of-the-art science, technology, and policies related to
blue carbon. We believe that publication of this book is timely because the Paris
Agreement calls for initiation of climate change measures in 2020 and many countries have pledged in their NDCs to utilize SCEs as described above.
We anticipate that the audience of this book will be broad and will include professionals (e.g., managers and policymakers in local and national governments, conservationists, engineers involved with dredging companies, costal environmental
consultancies, NPOs, and NGOs), academics (coastal ecologists, biogeochemists,
fisheries scientists, civil engineers, and climate scientists), and all levels of students
and educators from undergraduates to university faculty.
Acknowledgments
We thank Drs. Miyajima and Tokoro for their help in reviewing several chapters. We
also thank the editors of Springer Nature (Ms. Mei Hann Lee and Ms. Sivachandran
Ravanan) for their help and encouragement and ELSS, Inc., for English language
editing. This book was supported in part by the Environment Research and
Technology Development Fund (Strategic R&D Area Project [S-14 and S-15] and
2-1712) of the Ministry of the Environment, Japan; Canon Foundation grant;
Grants-in-Aid (KAKENHI, nos. 24656316, 26630251, 15K18145, 24760430,
15K18146, 18H04156) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science; JSTJICA SATREPS project BlueCARES; National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC),
Department of Space, India; grant for the Survey and Facilities of Ports from the
Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Japan; and a Grant-in-Aid
for the Promotion of Global Warming Countermeasures from the Fisheries Agency
of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Japan.
Yokosuka, Japan
Tomohiro Kuwae
Hiroshima, Japan
Masakazu Hori
Preface