Bouncing Back from Disaster – Working with Nature to Create a Brighter Future for the Urato Islands

Описание: This video captures a portrait of people engaged in community recovery featuring the abundant nature of satoyama and satoumi on and around the Urato Islands, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. Satoyama and satoumi are Japanese words that indicate a landscape (satoyama) or seascape (satoumi) comprising a mosaic of different land and sea uses and habitats formed and developed through human interaction with nature.

While challenges to the islands’ communities such as the aging and waning rural population have come to the fore in the last few decades, the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami exacerbated the situation at an unprecedented pace. Due to this challenge, satoyama and satoumi in the Urato Islands have been pushed to the limit.

The United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS) has initiated a project in collaboration with Tohoku University that aims to revitalize satoyama and satoumi in the islands’ communities utilizing the concept of the Satoyama Initiative. For more information on the Satoyama Initiative, please visit: http://satoyama-initiative.org

The production of this video was made with financial contributions from the “Ink Cartridge Satogaeri Project”. For details on this project, please visit: http:// http://www.inksatogaeri.jp/.

In addition to this video, please also see the related videos at the links below (Japanese language only):

Urato, Home of Oysters –    • 浦戸、牡蠣のふるさと  

Urato, Beautiful Islands –    • 浦戸、美しい島々