Coordination
Knowledge Networks

RIHN maintains a wide national and international research network, and utilizes various modes of collaboration with national and international research institutions.
In addition to establishing the MOUs necessary to facilitate research collaborations, RIHN also provides opportunity for overseas researchers to contribute directly to the
RIHN research community as either Invited Scholar or
Visiting Research Fellow.

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RIHN Invited Scholar Program & RIHN Visiting Research Fellow Program
Opportunities for Overseas Researchers to Spend Time at RIHN

RIHN has established two programs to enable overseas
researchers to spend several months at the Institute,engaging in research and interacting with other RIHN
researchers. The basic idea is that such visits benefit both
the researcher and the Institute. The programs are open to
researchers based outside of Japan (including those withJapanese nationality) and researchers based in Japan witha nationality other than Japanese. Candidates for bothschemes are selected competitively.

• The RIHN Invited Scholar Program enables overseas• The RIHN Visiting Research Fellow Program brings

researchers to spend between one and three months

overseas researchers to the Institute for periods of two to

at RIHN and to contribute to the development ofsix months to engage in specific research in the context

the Institute’s intellectual foundations and strategicof one of the RIHN Programs, Projects or RIHN Center

directions. Invited Scholars should be widely recognized

Divisions. Visiting Research Fellows are not employedin their fields and able to provide a strategic overview

by RIHN, but their travel, accommodation and dailyof the relevance of their disciplinary or interdisciplinary

expenses are covered by an allowance. Visiting Researchstudies to RIHN's engagement in global environmental

Fellows are selected based on applications from thestudies. Invited Scholars are selected based on

candidates themselves. RIHN faculty members act asnomination by RIHN faculty members who act as theirhosts during the stay and candidates are required tohost. Invited Scholars are employed by RIHN during

identify and consult with potential hosts before applying.

their stay and receive a stipend.

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Science Communication
As a national research institute, RIHN is expected to conduct exemplary science. It also must communicate its research
agenda and results to the public and contribute to public awareness and discussion of contemporary environmentalism.
A number of public symposia, seminar series, and publications are designed to reach specialist and general audiences.
Recent activities and publications include:

The Earth Forum Kyoto and the Earth Hall of Fame Kyoto Award
The Earth Forum Kyoto invites world-renowned experts andactivists to discuss the environmental and cultural bases ofmore responsible human societies. The Earth Hall of Fame
Kyoto Award is given to those who have made exemplarycontributions to the protection of the global environment.
Organizers of the event are the International Institute forAdvanced Studies, the Kyoto International ConferenceCenter, and RIHN.
The 2019 recipients of the Earth Hall of Fame Kyoto Award
were Ms. Mary Robinson (Former President of Ireland,
Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights) and IPCC
(Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change).

RIHN International Symposium
An annual symposium at RIHN exploring the key concepts
of RIHN Research Programs.

Fair Use of Multiple Resources in Cross-Scale Context
11-12 July 2019
Keynote Address
Steering toward Sustainability: Cross-scale Interactions,Behavioral Mechanisms, and the Idea of Optimality
Oran R. YOUNG (Bren School of Environmental Science &Management, University of California, Santa Barbara )Professor Oran R. Young, of Bren School of Environmental Science & Management,
University of California, Santa Barbara, giving the 2019 keynote speech.

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RIHN Public Seminars

RIHN Regional Community Seminars

Public seminars are held throughout the year at RIHN or in thecity center.

RIHN Regional Community Seminars take place in, andaddress specific environmental issues pertaining to, a particularpart of Japan.

Bon Apetit, Afrique!
Life/Gastronomic Worlds of Mali and Burkina Faso Make us
Think About Future of Our Region and Globe
21 June 2019

RIHN Seminars
This seminar series is oriented towards researchers at RIHN,
inviting a wide range of visiting scholars to present their mostcurrent research. Seminars in 2019 included:
Establishing, Quantifying and Monitoring Connectivity in
Hydrological Systems Using Stable Isotope
J. BOWEN, Professor, University of Utah
30 May 2019

How to Develop Business Models for Sustainable Society
18 July 2019, Graduate School / Faculty of Engineering,
Hokkaido University
Regional Revitalization Through GIAHS: Dialogue Between
Generations
12 November 2019, Morotsuka Junior High School, Miyazaki
Linking Ecosystem Networks with Fun for Nature Conservationand Social Bonding
22 December 2019, Lake Biwa Museum, Shiga
Sustainable Food and Agriculture can Open a New Future for
Kameoka City
19 January 2020, Galleria Kameoka, Kyoto

Using Plurisecular Trajectories of the Hydrosystems to Improve
River Management
David ESCHBACH, JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow / METIS Laboratory,
Sorbonne University
13 November 2019

Waterweed in Lake Biwa: Towards a Civic Participatory
Environmental Governance
8 February 2020, Collabo Shiga 21

Other Events
要申込み・先着 300 名
申込期間 2019 年

特別講演

4 月 2 日（火）〜 22 日（月）安成 哲三

総合地球環境学研究所 所長

パネルディスカッション１

世界の動きと日本の脱炭素化に向けたゆくえ
ファシリテーター〜1.5 度特別報告書を受けて〜

石川 智子

地球環境戦略研究機関
ナレッジマネージメント・連携担当ディレクター

ＩＰＣＣ第４９回総会京都市開催記念シンポジウム

脱炭素社会の実現に向けてパネルディスカッション 2

京都の挑戦

ゼロ

〜プロジェクト”０”への道〜

アフリカ食文化の深淵に迫る〜世界の動向と京都の挑戦〜

ファシリテーター

新川 達郎

2019

京のアジェンダ２１フォーラム代表
同志社大学大学院教授

門川 大作
京都市長

会場

13:10-14:00 佐藤 靖明
大阪産業大学

14:00-14:50 清水 貴夫

総合地球環境学研究所

14:50-15:10

5月11日（土）10:30 18:00

秀行
15:10-16:00 ノ高野
ンフィクション作家〜

京都大学

16:15-16:30 横山

名古屋大学

会場へは公共交通機関で御来場ください。

後援 : 外務省，京都府，京都商工会議所（予定）智講演②「西アフリカのランドスケープと食文化」
休憩
講演③「幻のバオバブ納豆を追え」

17:20-17:30 藤本 武
富山大学

この印刷物が不要になれば「雑がみ」として古紙回収等へ！

主催
共催

平成 31 年 3 月発行 京都市印刷物第 303277 号
京都市環境政策局地球温暖化対策室

Urban Land Teleconnection and Sustainability
アーバン・ランド・テレコネクションとサステナビリティ

Urban life today depends on the resources from far, and it is not suﬃcient to look only at the city and its underlying
issues in order to explore urban sustainability. New concepts and methodologies are required to accurately understandthe resource dependency, and such concepts called “Teleconnection” and “Telecoupling” have been proposed in recent
years. “Urban Land Connection” in particular focuses on land resources.
The FEAST Project of the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature has so far addressed the issue of resource
dependency from the perspective of food and ecological footprints of the local municipalities in Japan such as Kyoto. In
this seminar we welcome a research team led by Prof. Shu-Li Huang from National Taipei University, who is employing
diverse, cutting-edge approaches including “emergy” . We look forward to seeing you there!
現代の都市は遠方の資源に依存しており、都市のサステナビリティを考えるためには都市の内側だけを見ていては不十分です。都市外部との資源の依存関係を正確に理解するためには、新しい考え方や方法論が必要です。そこで近年、Teleconnection や Telecoupling という概念が提唱されています。
Urban Land Teleconnection は、そのうち特に土地資源に着目した概念です。
総合地球環境学研究所 FEAST プロジェクトでは、これまで、京都市をはじめとする日本の自治体の食とエコロジカル・フットプリントの観点から、この問題に取り組んできました。今回は、Emergy（エマジー）をはじめ、多様な新しいアプローチを用いている台湾の Prof. Shu-Li Huang ( 国立台北大学、
National Taipei University) らの研究チームをお迎えしてセミナーを開催します。関心のある幅広い皆様の参加をお待ちしています。

Land teleconnection, governance andurban sustainability projectIntroduction: Land teleconnections, governance andurban sustainability
Shu-Li Huang (National Taipei University)

コメント②
ディスカッション

16:30-17:20

主催 : 京都市
共催 : 環境省，京都大学，大学共同利用機関法人人間文化研究機構 総合地球環境学研究所，一般財団法人イクレイ日本，
公益財団法人京都市環境保全活動推進協会，公益財団法人地球環境戦略研究機関

開場 12:30
開演 13:00

講演①「アフリカにおけるバナナの食文化を考える」

16:00-16:15 重田 眞義 コメント①

国立京都国際会館 アネックスホール
地下鉄烏丸線「国際会館駅」から徒歩 5 分

日sun

ビ サコ 開会の挨拶
13:00-13:10 ウス
京都精華大学学長

ほか

クロージング
セッション

2019年

日時

12.1

閉会の挨拶

京都精華大学本館 H-417

ACCESS
叡山電車「京都精華大前」駅下車徒歩 1 分または京都市営
地下鉄「国際会館」駅から京都バスに乗り換え「京都精華大学前」バス停下車徒歩 3 分

×××

お車での来場はご遠慮くださいスクールバスは当日運休です食堂・コンビニは当日休業です

京都精華大学 アフリカ・アジア現代文化研究センター
科学研究費補助金（基盤研究（B））
「アフリカ食文化の新展開：食料主権論のために」、
総合地球環境学研究所「サニテーション価値連鎖の提案」プロジェクト

Seeing the knowledge

Environmental experience and the humanities

21 October 9:00-18:00 // 22 October 9:30-13:00 // 2019
Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
Kyoto, Japan
How to recognize, describe, and valorize
different forms of environmental
knowledge?

Organized by the RIHN Humanities for theEnvironment Feasibility Study, thisworkshop explores how humanistic
traditions of study can reveal the humanknowledge embedded and continually
recreated within material culture, cultural
practices, and landscapes.
The workshop asks of the descriptive forms
capable of conveying deep humanexperience of nature, and how these forms
can invigorate humanistic scholarship ofsustainable human-environmental
interactions for the future.

Land use, transportation and urban land
teleconnections

Yu-Hsin Tsai* (National Chengchi University), Shih-Liang Chan
(National Taipei University), and Shu-Li Huang

Urban sustainable economic development
considering land teleconnections

Tsung-Chen Lee*(National Taipei University) and Yessica C.Y.Chung(National Pingtung University of Science and Technology)

Material ﬂow analysis of agricultural products andurban land teleconnections

Ying-Chieh Lee*(Lee-Ming Institute of Technology), Shu-Li Huang,
and Chia-Tsung Yeh (National Taipei University)

2019 年 6 月 28 日（金）Friday, June 28, 2019

Ecological Footprint of Japanese city group and 47
prefectures
Katsunori Iha (Global Footprint Network)

Assessing impacts of sustainable consumption policy
on ecological footprint
Satoshi Kojima (Institute for Global Environmental Strategies)

Diversiﬁcation of urban diets and agricultural land
use changes through teleconnections
Kazuaki Tsuchiya (The University of Tokyo)

Land teleconnection, governance and urban sustainability project isunder a collaborative research initiative funded by the Ministry of Scienceand Technology of Taiwan, and explores the role of urban areas in global
systems and promote a sustainable future.
http://bit.ly/2WPrcI8
FEAST is an ongoing project of Research Institute for Humanity andNature, and takes a transdisciplinary approach to explicate the reality of,and potential for, sustainable agrifood transition.
https://feastproject.org/en/

13:00-16:30

日時 Date&Time

場所 Venue

総合地球環境学研究所
セミナー室 3＆4
Seminar Room 3&4,
Research Institutefor Humanity and Nature
英語 English

言語 Language
申込 Registration
問合せ Contact

参加申し込み不要

Invited speakers include:
Steven Hartman (Mälardalen U. Sweden)
Patrick Degeorges (U. of Lyon, France)
Yoann Moreau (Ecole des Mines, France)
Frederic Joulian (EHESS, France)
Masahiro Terada (RIHN, Japan)
Peter Matthews (Minpaku, Japan)
Anick Coudart (CNRS, France)

Guests welcome
RSVP: Daniel Niles

Organized with support of the Center for
Innovation in Traditional Industries, Seika
University; Kyoto University

No prior registration required.

FEAST プロジェクト / FEAST Project

feast@chikyu.ac.jp45

Environmental Isotope Study
As an Inter-University Research Institute Corporation, RIHN
maintains state-of-the-art laboratories, with a central emphasis
on stable-isotope analysis.
In 2012, RIHN established the “Environmental Isotope Study”
cooperative research program that promotes understandingof the utility of stable isotope analysis in contemporary
environmental studies and enables collaboration withresearchers from other universities and research institutes.
RIHN's laboratories are widely used by external researchersand students, and more than one hundred universities or

第9回

同位体環境学
シンポジウムresearch institutes within and outside of Japan have utilized
our up-to-date isotope research facilities so far. We hold an

9th Symposium on
Environmental Isotope Studyannual training course in August, and organize an annual

プログラム
9：30 - 9：35

受付 Registration
所長挨拶 Opening Remarks
安成 哲三（地球研）YASUNARI Tetsuzo（Director-General, RIHN）

9：35 - 9：45

「地球研における同位体環境学共同研究」

9：00 - 9：30

symposium on environmental isotope study in December

Current topics of Environmental Isotope Study in RIHN

陀安 一郎（地球研） TAYASU Ichiro（RIHN）

in order to create a national and international research

10：45 - 12：15

ポスター口頭発表 Poster flash talks（1）
ポスターセッション Poster session（1）12：15 - 13：15

昼食

13：15 - 13：45「リン循環を解明する新たなツール「リン酸 - 酸素安定同位体」：環境科学への応用と展望を探る」

9：45 - 10：45

network for the next generation and support environmental

2019

12/20

isotope studies around the world.

9：00 - 17：25

会場

From 2020, we started a follow-up project (Post Core Project)Fri

総合地球環境学研究所
主催

entitled “Applied research platform based on environmental

Lunch

Phosphate oxygen isotopes as a tool to trace P dynamics: perspectives inenvironmental sciences

奥田 昇（地球研） OKUDA Noboru（RIHN）
13：45 - 14：15「ダブルスパイク -TIMS 法を用いた Sr 安定同位体の高精度分析とその地球化学・考古科学への応用」
H i g h p re c i s i o n a n a l y s i s o f s t a b l e S r i s o t o p e s by DS -T I MS a n d i t sapplication to geochemical and archaeological sciences

若木 重行（海洋研究開発機構 高知コア研究所）

WAKAKI Shigeyuki（Kochi Institute for Core Sample Research, JAMSTEC）

14：30 - 15：30
15：45 - 17：15
17：15 - 17：25

ポスター口頭発表 Poster flash talks（2）ポスターセッション Poster session（2）
まとめ Summary

後援北海道大学 北方生物圏フィールド科学センター / 秋田大学 大学院国際資源学研究科 / 筑波大学下田臨海実験センター
東京大学総合研究博物館 / 名古屋大学 宇宙地球環境研究所 / 金沢大学 環日本海域環境研究センター
京都大学 生態学研究センター / 九州大学 農学部附属演習林 / 産業技術総合研究所 計量標準総合センター

お問い合わせ総合地球環境学研究所 研究基盤国際センター 計測・分析部門
Laboratory and Analysis Division of the RIHN Center, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature

海洋研究開発機構 高知コア研究所 /日本環境衛生センター アジア大気汚染研究センター / 農林水産消費安全技術センター
静岡県環境衛生科学研究所 / 山梨県忍野村 / 福井県大野市 / 愛媛県西条市
日本長期生態学研究ネットワーク（JaLTER）/ 全国大学演習林協議会

traceability” to apply the methodology to environmental
research, collaborating with various stakeholders.

Future Earth
RIHN hosts the Future Earth Asia Regional Center (http://www.
futureearth.org/asiacentre), that supports development of
Future Earth in the region, helps connect researchers and otherstakeholders, and facilitates the formation of regionally relevant
and credible governance structures for the initiative. The Centerhas convened a Regional Advisory Committee to accelerate
the regional development of Future Earth and collaborated

TERRA School participants on fieldwork in an organic farm in Kameoka December 2019.

in launching various Future Earth programs focused in Asia:
Monsoon Asia Integrated Research for Sustainability – Future
Earth (MAIRS-FE), Sustainability Initiative in the Marginal Seasof South and East Asia (SIMSEA) and Health Investigation and
Air Sensing for Asian Pollution (Hi-ASAP). The Center supports
the Knowledge-Action Network on “Systems of Sustainable
Consumption and Production” (http://www.futureearth.org/
future-earth-sscp) and hosts the TERRA School, a course on
Transdisciplinarity for Early careeR Researchers in Asia.

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Dynamic face-to-face interaction ofparticipants during the seminar on Why
Systems of Sustainable Consumption and
Production is essential to achieving the SDGs.
The session had virtual participation as well.
February 2020

Regional Centre for Future Earth in Asia Website
A map of the Future Earth Community in Asia
has been developed on the website.
This map shows people and institutions in theregion that are actively engaged in Future Earthactivities. (www.futureearth.org/asiacentre/)Environmental Education
This unit promotes environmental education for publicschool students from primary to secondary levels. It
coordinates school tours to RIHN, where students visit
laboratories and research project workspaces, and can speak
directly with lab technicians and scientists of many different
disciplines and specializations. It also conducts teachertraining activities in order to convey updated perspectives
and methods in environmental science.
The practice of environmental education also stimulates
RIHN to revisit its own practices in global environmental
science. Environmental education therefore plays animportant part in RIHN’s mission to work with different
social actors—from individual students and teachers, toentire schools and school districts, and beyond—to develop
knowledge that enhances public understanding of andengagement with the contemporary environment.

RIHN Open House
Each summer RIHN holds an annual Open House in which
RIHN research rooms and laboratories are opened to the
public. Research projects and Institute staff develop games
and exercises for both children and adults in order to invite
creative thought about contemporary environmental issues.
The RIHN Open House has proven particularly attractive tofamilies with young children, with up to 900 people fromthe surrounding community participating in an average
year.

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Ecohealth
New Development of Ecohealth Research in Asia
This project is a collaboration with the National Museum of

Through historical examination of concepts of health inEthnology and the National Institute of Japanese Literature,

East Asia and contemporary fieldwork in communities insupported by the National Institutes for the Humanities. It

Laos, China and Japan experiencing rapid demographic

adopts an Ecohealth approach that places human health inchange, the project aims to move beyond disease-oriented

a wider ecosystem context and explores the linkages among

understandings to a holistic and positive appreciation of

livelihoods, food and subsistence, ecological environment

health in specific contexts and places.

and demographic and social change in Asia.

2nd Asia Forum on Ecohealth Research(Organized by NIHU Multidisciplinary Collaborative Project Ecohealth Resarch, Hainan
Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Eco-health & Human Ecology
Committee, the Ecological Society of China in Hainkou City, China, Nov 2019)

Interactive Communication Initiative
This initiative aims at developing a new methodology

Such diverse modes of communication increase theof environmental studies based on interactive methods

sophistication and accessibility of RIHN’s transdisciplinaryof research visualization. For this purpose, this initiative

research dedicated to the co-creation of regionally- andsupports the translation of RIHN project research activities

culturally-sensitive societies closely linked to nature.

and outcomes into graphical forms and exhibitions.

A self-reflection of the activities of 'Dziko Langa', a child-youth sanitation club in Zambia, bydigital storytelling with youth members and a local artist. (October 2019).

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Serious Board Game Jam 2019 (September 2019), a two-day workshop to create board games
on dining with mixed teams of college students, creators, civic members, and researchers.

Collaboration
Research Areas

Inter-University
Research Institutes

Affiliate Organizations* Not incl. RIHN

*Not incl. RIHN

Humanities

Others57

15 2.1%8%Social Sciences

171
24%

85 12.1%

Foreign
Institutes

170

24.3%

Total

701

Total

701

NaturalSciences

peoplepeople473

67%

7 1.0%

PublicInstitutes

National
Universities

278

39.7%

PrivateUniversities

75

PrivateInstitutes

10.7%
Public Universities

41 5.8%30 4.3%*As of March 31st, 2020

Collaboration in Japan *As of April 1st, 2020
Research Institutions

Municipal Governments and Other Agencies

Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University

Saijo City, Ehime Prefecture

Doshisha University

Kyoto Municipal Science Center for Youth

Nagasaki University

Food and Agricultural Materials Inspection Center (FAMIC)

Kyoto Sangyo University

Ono City, Fukui Prefecture

Tottori University of Environmental Studies

Kameoka City, Kyoto Prefecture

Kyoto University

Kyoto Prefectural Hokuryo Senior High School

Center for Environmental Remote Sensing, Chiba University

Kyoto Prefectural Rakuhoku Senior High School

Institute of Nature and Environmental Technology, Kanazawa University

Miyazaki Prefecture

Faculty of Engineering, GI-CoRE, Faculty of Health Sciences, Research Faculty ofAgriculture, Hokkaido University

NHK Educational Corporation

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo

Kyoto City, ICLEI Japan, Kyoto Environmental Activities Association

Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University
Faculty of Collaborative Regional Innovation, Ehime University
Kyoto Seika University

Noshiro City, Akita Prefecture
Kyoto Institute, Library and Archives
Oshinomura, Yamanashi Prefecture

The Institute of Statistical Mathematics
Nara Women's University

International Collaboration*As of April 1st, 2020

AUSTRIAInternational Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

GERMANY
Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies

PHILIPPINES
University of the Philippines Diliman

BHUTAN
College of Natural Resources, Royal University of Bhutan

INDONESIA
Indonesian Institute of Sciences
Institut Teknologi Bandung
Research Center for Biology, Indonesian Institute of Sciences
The State University of Gorontalo
Universitas Riau
University of Lampung

SWEDENThe Sven Hedin Foundation

BURKINA FASO
l'Association des Jeunes pour la Protection de l'Environnement
et d’Elevage
CAMEROON
Association Tam-Tam Mobile
mutcareCHINA
East China Normal University
Eco-environmental Protection Institute, Shanghai Academy ofAgricultural Sciences
Hainan Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Peking University

LAOS
Lao Tropical and Public Health Institute, Ministry of Health
NETHERLANDS
Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht
University

THAILAND
Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Mahidol University
Rice Department, Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
University of California, Berkeley
ZAMBIA
University of Zambia

OMAN
Sultan Qaboos University

49Institutional Research Unit
The Institutional Research (IR) Unit supports thedissemination. Based on this, the IR Unit develops decision

RIHN Council of Research Strategy in developing andsupport tools for RIHN, analyzing current research trends

coordinating RIHN’s research, education, and coordinationand methods, and developing new research evaluation

strategies. The IR Unit collects and analyzes a wide range

indicators tailored to the evaluation of interdisciplinary andof data relating to research results, research quality,transdisciplinary research.

research organization, education and capacity building,contribution to society and international collaboration andPublic Relations Unit
The Public Relations (PR) Unit supports the dissemination

Unit also issues a range of publications including theand sharing of RIHN research results and information

RIHN Prospectus, Newsletter, and two book series, one forabout the Institute’s approach to research. In collaboration

specialized audiences and one for the general public. By

with RIHN researchers, it reaches out to the general public

fostering a lively two-way communication with the researchthrough events such as the Citizens’ Seminars, Regional

community and the general public, the PR Unit strives toCollaborations Seminars, and the RIHN Open House;

contribute to the crystallization of a RIHN identity and to

through the RIHN website and social media; and by issuing

the maintenance of an open institute.

press releases and organizing press conferences. The PR

International Publications Unit

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The International Publications Unit (IPU) supports planning

Editors in the journal Global Sustainability (Cambridgeand promoting RIHN non-Japanese language publications

University Press) and are responsible for the open-ended

that enhance RIHN's international presence and stature.

collection of “Humanities and Global Sustainability” in

RIHN has partnered with Springer Nature Publishers

the journal. The works of IPU bear out RIHN’s approachto establish the Global Environmental Studies bookto solution-oriented research, namely the transdisciplinary

series. Titles in the series reflect the full breadth of RIHN

study that helps transformation of human-environment

scholarship. IPU members are also involved as Section

interaction.

Above: OTANI Michitaka, Children in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Bottom: SHIMIZU Takao, Grain Warehouse, Burkina Faso

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