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31-07-2009 (Brazil)-Partnerships for Sustainable Development between UNESCO MAB Programme and the UNESCO Chair on South-South Cooperation for Sustainable Development, Federal University of Para, Belem (Brazil)

The UNESCO Chair on South-South Cooperation for Sustainable Development has been designed to complement the relevant UNESCO programmes and actions, in particular the MAB Programme and its World Network of Biosphere Reserves, with special focus on the Amazon region.

The Chair on South-South Cooperation for Sustainable Development will serve as a catalyzing mechanism for initiatives within the framework of its mission and purpose.

The implementation means will include expert consultations, workshops and other types of meetings; training courses of several types; establishment of electronic fora through internet; desk studies; production of written syntheses such as peer-reviewed articles, proceedings, books, and technical reports.


The mission of the Chair on South-South Cooperation for Sustainable Development will be reached through five interrelated main activities:

  • To collaborate and facilitate for the implementation of the South-South Cooperation Programme on Environmentally Sound Socio-Economic Development in the Humid Tropics of UNESCO/UNU/TWAS, and the Division of Ecological and Earth Sciences of UNESCO in Paris.
  • To implement the activities of NAEA´s Research Group on Environment, Population and Development of the Amazon (MAPAZ).
  • To train graduate students on the course on Environment, Population and Development of the Graduate Programme on Sustainable Development of the Humid Tropics of NAEA/UFPA.
  • To create and implement a website of the Chair.
  • To produce joint scientific publications.




    • Contact
    Chairholder: Prof.Dr. Luis Aragon
    Universidade Federal do Pará Núcleo de Altos Estudos Amazônicos (NAEA)
    Campus Universitário do Guamá, 66.075-900 - Belém, Pará, Brasil
    Tel: (+55-91) 3201 7951/3201 7231
    Fax: (+55-91) 3201 7677
    E-mail: aragon_naea@ufpa.br      


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