Tapestry, a research project in India and Bangladesh on climate change

This project is a “Transformations to Sustainability (T2S)” research project. Kyoto University participated in the project as a joint research facility.
T2S is an international joint research program funded through NORFACE and Belmont Forum. It places the social sciences and humanities at the center of academic research on sustainability through international joint research. By gradually changing the scale and range of research plans in these fields, T2S contributes to the reconfiguration of domains of sustainability research.
In this project, we focused on boundary environments, which are considered to be most sensitive to the effects of uncertainty in climate change. We examined the extent to which government, happiness, identity and quality of life have to change in these regions for the sake of maintaining sustainability; whether these changes happen simultaneously in a variety of boundary-environment regions; and whether these changes lead to transformations in society at large. We conducted research activities focused on Mumbai, Sundarbans and Kutch, which are fragile coastal regions of India and Bangladesh.