UNESCO Chair on Water, Energy and Disaster Management
Leader:Prof. Kaoru Takara (Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies in Human Survivability)
Leader in IAE:Prof. Hideaki Ohgaki
Project Period:FY2018 ‒ FY2022
This Chair WENDI aims to promote multi-disciplinary and holistic approach for research implementation, knowledge transfer and capacity building in the fields of water, energy, and disaster management and linkages to other sectors (food, forestry, biodiversity, climate change and data science). This is done by developing a comprehensive and trans-disciplinary Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) programme for graduate school level to establish ‘KU-Model of ESD’ and by providing unique international collaborative research using existing UNESCO-Sites including Geoparks, Biosphere Reserves and Cultural, Natural and Mixed World Heritage Sites as the application field. http://wendi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/index.html