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Champions of Change: Empowering Bamboo for a better Future
Dedicated volunteers steer the World Bamboo Organization. The Ambassadors work independently but are connected as a team, and we collaborate to expand the potential of our actions and our mission.
Shozo Shibata
Japan
Botany and forest ecology
Dr. Shozo Shibata is a professor emeritus at Kyoto University, Japan, and serves as the president and schoolmaster of Awaji Landscape Planning and Horticulture Academy in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. He is also a board director of the General Incorporated Association Japan Bamboo Society. Dr. Shibata spent 35 years at Kyoto University, teaching at the Graduate School of Agriculture, the Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, and the Field Science Research and Education Center.
With over 45 years of research expertise, Dr. Shibata specializes in bamboo, landscape architecture, landscape ecology, and forestry, particularly in Southeast Asia. His bamboo research focuses on bamboo flowering ecology, greening technology, and bamboo forest management. He was a pioneer in bamboo research, presenting his work at the 4th World Bamboo Congress in Minamata, Japan, in 1992. He has lectured globally, including in China, India, Indonesia, Italy, Korea, Mexico, Taiwan, and Thailand.
Currently, Dr. Shibata is a World Bamboo Ambassador for the World Bamboo Organization and a representative of the Japan Bamboo Society, where he focuses on evaluating the environmental functions of bamboo, exploring new industrial uses for bamboo, developing bamboo forest management systems, and supporting bamboo material processing technologies.
Publications: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4531-3935
