New UNU-IAS TKI/UNESCO Visiting Professor
UNU-IAS TKI news release, 21 September 2010
YOKOHAMA, JAPAN: Prof. Dipak Gyawali, former Minister of Water Resources of Nepal, will take up his duty as a UNU-IAS TKI/UNESCO Visiting Professor on Water and Cultural Diversity on 12 October 2010. The Professorship will be hosted by the United Nations University – Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS) in Yokohama, Japan, as part of the UNU-IAS Traditional Knowledge Water Project and the UNESCO International Hydrological Programme project on Water and Cultural Diversity. The Professor will be providing concrete advice on how the importance of the links between water, cultural diversity, traditional knowledge, and global environmental changes can be better recognized in water management and policies. Read the news release …
