Biosphere Reserves and Sustainable Development Goals 1

Biosphere Reserves and Sustainable Development Goals 1
Author: Angela Barthes
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2024-02-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1394275781

Since 1971, UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme has embraced a number of principles that link the political, scientific and academic spheres. Biosphere Reserves and Sustainable Development Goals 1 presents these areas as privileged spaces for experimenting with operating methods specific to cross-cutting objectives and issues. These areas encourage the development of interdisciplinary research, supported by a worldwide network to disseminate experience, approaches and knowhow. The various global and local political scales are linked here, with different consequences for the reconfiguration of local political arenas, for specific modes of development linked to a renewed relationship with knowledge, powers and institutions, and for renewed relationships between the worlds of science, education and territorial governance.

Biosphere Reserves and Sustainable Development Goals 2

Biosphere Reserves and Sustainable Development Goals 2
Author: Bruno Romagny
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2024-04-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1786308428

Since 1971, UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme has embraced a number of principles that link the political, scientific and academic spheres. Biosphere Reserves and Sustainable Development Goals 2 is a reminder of the fundamental issues involved in governance. The diversity and multiplicity of stakeholders, and the complexity of the interplay between them, as well as their organization, are decisive factors in the proper management of resources and territories. The book also presents a number of case studies demonstrating that, between the strong development aspirations of their populations, the impact of human activities and the need to conserve their biological heritage, the biosphere reserves of the southern Mediterranean are facing major issues: agricultural pollution, forest fires, water use in a context of climate change, etc.

Adaptive Co-Management

Adaptive Co-Management
Author: Derek Armitage
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2010-10-01
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0774859725

In Canada and around the world, new concerns with adaptive processes, feedback learning, and flexible partnerships are reshaping environmental governance. Meanwhile, ideas about collaboration and learning are converging around the idea of adaptive co-management. This book provides a comprehensive synthesis of the core concepts, strategies, and tools in this emerging field, informed by a diverse group of researchers and practitioners with over two decades of experience. It also offers a diverse set of case studies that reveal the challenges and implications of adaptive co-management thinking.

Sustainable Development Goals

Sustainable Development Goals
Author: Pia Katila
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 653
Release: 2019-12-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1108486991

A global assessment of potential and anticipated impacts of efforts to achieve the SDGs on forests and related socio-economic systems. This title is available as Open Access via Cambridge Core.

The Biosphere

The Biosphere
Author: Natarajan Ishwaran
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2012-03-14
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9535102923

In this book entitled "The Biosphere", researchers from all regions of the world report on their findings to explore the origins, evolution, ecosystems and resource utilization patterns of the biosphere. Some describe the complexities and challenges that humanity faces in its efforts to experiment and establish a new partnership with nature in places designated as biosphere reserves by UNESCO under its Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme. At the dawn of the 21st century humanity is ever more aware and conscious of the adverse consequences that it has brought upon global climate change and biodiversity loss. We are at a critical moment of reflection and action to work out a new compact with the biosphere that sustains our own wellbeing and that of our planetary companions. This book is a modest attempt to enrich and enable that special moment and its march ahead in human history.

Parks and Protected Areas

Parks and Protected Areas
Author: Glen Hvenegaard
Publisher: MDPI
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2021-09-03
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3036510729

Parks and protected areas provide important services to nature and society. Park managers make difficult decisions to achieve their diverse mandates, and need current, relevant, and rigorous information. However, effective use of research provided by social scientists, natural scientists, local people, or Indigenous people is an ongoing challenge. Through case studies, this book examines knowledge mobilization in parks and protected areas, with a focus on successes and failures, barriers and enablers, diverse theoretical frameworks, and structural innovations. This book embraces the generation and use of knowledge, especially natural science, social science, local knowledge, and Indigenous knowledge, in relation to policy, planning, and management of parks and protected areas.