A Gift for a Millennium
Hiroshi Uchida
Meiying Zhu
Tarcisio Della Senta
The United Nations University is an autonomous academic institute which was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1975. The University carries out works on the pressing global problems of human survival development and welfare through a network of research and postgraduate training centers and cooperating institutions in both industrialized and developing countries.
Established in 1995, the UNU/Institute of Advanced studies (UNU/IAS) is an advanced research and education institution with a flexible and multi-thematic programme orientation concerned with the interactions of social and natural systems. For the initial years, the UNU/IAS programme is directed at sustainable development issues. To this end, the UNU/IAS is currently active in the following relevant areas of research and education: Eco-restructuring for Sustainable Development; Megacities and Urban Development; Multilateralism and Governance; and Science, Technology and Society.
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