William Dunbar
Tokyo
William Dunbar is Communications Coordinator for the International Satoyama Initiative project at the United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS) in Tokyo, Japan. Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States, he went on to get a B.A. in anthropology from the Colorado College and an M.A. in Asian Languages and Cultures from the University of California, Los Angeles. He has lived in and around Tokyo for more than fifteen years, working in the academic, public and private sectors before joining the United Nations. His work with the Satoyama Initiative is primarily focused on resources management at the landscape level.
More by this author at The Nature of Cities
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From Biocultural Diversity to a Nature-Culture Alliance
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The Loneliness of the Protected Area: Biocultural Connectivity, Social Media, and Living in Harmony with Nature
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Thinking about a Landscape Approach to Revitalize the American Landscape
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Habitat III is finally a reality. From your perspective, what would be the single most important tangible outcome (not output) of the event—short or long term—and what will it take to achieve this outcome?
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What is the Meaning of a Potato? Cuisine as Language for Biocultural Connectivity
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Biocultural Diversity for Healthy Cities
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An explicitly urban Sustainable Development Goal has been adopted by the UN (#11). Now what? Where could it go wrong?
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Biocultural Diversity and the Diverse City: A Model for Linking Nature and Culture
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Taking “resilience” out of the realm of metaphor. How do you measure resilience in cities? How would you know if your city or your community was resilient?