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Intergenerational dialogue toward the Sustainable Development Goals in Hakusan Biosphere Reserve, Japan

Summer of 2022, then UNESCO Chair MSc student Erika Scheibe went on a study trip to UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Hakusan in Japan. Here, international and Japanese students met to learn and teach each other about ecology, culture and tradition in the Biosphere Reserve.

Landscape with a waterbody in front, surrounded by thick, dark green forest on the right. Behind the forest peaks mist-covered mountains. Half a rainbow is visible across the sky, framing the mountain tops.
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Erika Scheibe

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Published: 06.02.2024

The trip to Hakusan UNESCO Biosphere Reserve was organized by associate professor Aida Mammadova at Kanazawa University. It included students from Norway, Finland, Indonesia, Vietnam and Japan, with a main goal of discussing how to rebuild the relationship between nature and people - here in the setting of Hakusan Biosphere Reserve.

Read Erika's travel story from Hakusan, her insights and reflections on people-nature relationships in the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve at resilience.org (published 05.02.2024).