Mar. 5:Matsuda talks "On YNU UNESCO Chair Programme and ESD"
, at YNU ESD Study Meeting (online) (Japanese PDF) (English PDF video
25min.）
Organizations (draft)
Partners/Collaborators/Supporters
Projects
- The purpose of the Chair shall be to promote an integrated system of research, training, information and documentation on Education for Sustainable Development in Biosphere Reserves in support of the achievement of more sustainable societies. It will facilitate collaboration between high-level, internationally-recognized researchers and teaching staff of the University and other institutions in Japan, as well as elsewhere in the Asia and the Pacific region, and in other regions of the world.
With a view of facilitating interdisciplinary research on sustainable development issues and to provide sound bases for the management of Biosphere Reserves and the achievement of SDGs, in Japan and in the partner countries, the specific objectives of this Chair are to:
- investigate the mutually benefitting relationship between Biosphere Reserves
and the interconnected urban areas benefitting directly or indirectly from
the ecosystem services they provide;
- provide teaching materials and establish the “Minor Education Programme
for MAB/SDGs”;
- develop the “International Project-Based-Learning (PBL) Training Course
for MAB/SDGs” at the Yokohama National University, as a pilot education
programme- develop a network of learning sites within the Japanese Biosphere
Reserves Network as well as other networks related to partner universities
in Japan and in the region, and;
- cooperate closely with UNESCO and existing UNESCO Chairs on relevant programmes and activities.
- Summary for this proposal (PDF & Video
13min) (日本語 PDF & 動画, 14 min)
Related projects and activities:
- Leaflet of YNU
- YNU exchanged agreement with 140 universities, UNDP and UNHCR from 42 countries and regions (as of February 1, 2019).
- Activities on UNESCO Associated Schools at Kamakura Elementary School (English Report）and Kamakura Junior High School, affiliated with Faculty of Education at YNU. These schools have joined
the UNESCO Associated Schools Network (ASPNet) since 2012.
- International Branch of YNU (YNU Branch office at the University of Danang, Prince of Songkla University-YNU International Office ）
- The Port-City University League, (the secretariat is located at YNU)
- One of existing minor education programmes “Global Plus ONE”
- Syllabus of "Nature-oriented sustainable society with Biosphere Reserve and other
frames" by Prof. Sakai (Best Teacher Award of YNU in 2019) and draft syllabus of “MAB and SDGs”
- EABRN Biosphere Reserve Atlas Japan edited by Prof. Sakai's Lab
- Japan MAB Catalogue 2007, has issued as periodic review reports on four Japanese BRs supported
in part from the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (former YNU president
Kunio Suzuki)
- “An ESD Guidebook for Teachers Utilizing Biosphere reserves for sustainable society”, supported by a UNESCO Partnership Project in 2014 (Published on the
Ministry of Education website)
- Web site (http://mab.main.jp/) of the Japanese Coordinating Committee (JCC) for MAB, which is maintained
by the JCC secretariat placed in Prof. Sakai’s lab.
- “Japan InfoMAB”. The editorial office of newsletter “Japan InfoMAB” is in charge of Yokohama
National University (Suzuki Lab., Sakai Lab.) from the 21st issue in 1998
to the present.
- Co-organized side event “Symposium on Sustainable Development Education (ESD) and Japan's Initiatives
in UNESCO's Man and Biosphere (MAB) Programme” at CBD/COP10 in 2010
- Bachelor thesis and master thesis research with BRs as study site (supported
from Tadami BR Academic Research Grants since 2017)
- "Biosphere Reserves: Nature conservation fostered by local practices*” (eds. Matsuda et al. Kyoto University Academic Press) in 2019. We wrote
chapters on Biosphere Reserves in "Transformations of Social-Ecological Systems" (Sakai and Matsuda, eds. Sato et al. Springer 2018) and "UNESCO Biosphere Reserve" (Matsuda et al., eds. Price and Reed, Earthscan 2019), "Ecological Risk Management" (ed. H.Matsuda, Springer 2021).
- A NEXT URBAN LAB (NUL) for YNU students “UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere Programme Support Unit” established in 2019 (map)
- Project of Improving Living Conditions for Rural Women in Paraguay — JICA
Partnership Program—Spinning a Dream Together from Yokohama(YNU site)
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Update history since April 1
- Mar. 10: Add links to video of Mar.2,English PDF and rehearsal video of Mar5, PDF and video of Mar8,
video of Nov19.
- Mar. 7:Add line for "Project of Improving Living Conditions for Rural
Women in Paraguay" in Related projects.
- Mar. 5: Add line for the events for March 4 and the video of a part of the Part B.
- Feb 25: Add column for "About Us" and PDF for English explanation of this program.
- Feb. 22: Add lines for the events for March 2, March 4, April 7.
- Jan. 31: Add lines for the events scheduled for Jan.25, Jan. 26, Mar. 5 and May 19. Revise the URL for "Official site"
- Jan. 16： re-link to PDF & Video and PDF & 動画 for the explanation of the proposal.
- Jan. 5 2022: Video of Nov. 19 2021 was added.
- Dec. 24: Changed thoroughly
- April 1 2021: I added or revised linking ULR for new Leaflet of YNU, map of NUL, SATREPS Project. I also added link to Summary for this proposal, UNESCO Chair on Ocean Sustainability, Mitsutaku Makino, IOC at U. Tokyo, Japan-Kazakhstan Training Course of Kanazawa Universi
- The official report will be published within 1 year. (see the report for the 2020 event for IOC)
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, 30min.), 4 March 2022, Hormozgan Universtiy, Online