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Palazzo Zorzi, Castello 4930
30122 Venice (Italy)
tel. + 39 041 2601511
fax: + 39 041 5289995
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PEOPLE & NATURE
UNESCO Office in Venice's action in particular through the Man & the Biosphere Programme (MAB)
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Biosphere reserves put into practice the ecosystem approach: a strategy for the integrated management of land, water and biodiversity that promotes conservation and sustainable use in an equitable way, with the full involvement of local people. The approach was adopted by the Convention on Biological Diversity Conference of the Parties in 2000.
The complex geo-political scenarios offered by the emerging transition economies in Europe is still a very conflicting one, and apparently sensitive to additional 'elements of rigidity' in the strategic planning processes. In particular for South-Eastern European countries, natural resources management - in a broad sense - is becoming more and more a strategic issue, both for the domestic socio-economic planning - in the attempt of reconciling protection issues with urgent development demands - and for the international visibility and negotiation processes.
In the view of contributing to the launching of new BRs (including Transboundary BRs), as well as to a better functioning of the existing ones, which could be used by SEE countries as reference sites in order to promote sustainable development (in particular in the fields of biodiversity conservation and eco-tourism) and cooperation in the region, a long-term effort has been undertaken by UNESCO Office in Venice so to be in position to finalise specific strategies and implementation tools to reinforce the Programme in the area during the next biennium.
Related themes :
|RAISING AWARENESS & PROMOTING THE MAB BR MODEL|
|SUSTAINABLE TOURISM DEVELOPMENT|
|EDUCATION & SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT|
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Sustainable Tourism Development in UNESCO Designated Sites in South Eastern Europe - Podgorica and Zabljak, Durmitor National Park (NP) - Montenegro 03-05-2009 - 08-05-2009
Forwarding the concept of sustainable tourism development and encouraging national and local authorities, the private tourism sector and NGOs to engage in the implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity Guidelines on Biodiversity and Tourism development |
Education for Sustainable Development in MAB Biosphere Reserves - Lavrion (Greece) 22-06-2009 - 24-06-2009
International Training Workshop. To inform, exchange views and train on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) staff of MAB Biosphere Reserves (MAB BRs), as well as bodies of other kind of designated areas (Protected Areas - PAs), in charge of educational activities in their area |
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GEORGIA
MAB National Committee (hosted) |
ECNC
European Centre for Nature Conservation |
ETC NPB
European Topic Centre on Nature Protection and Biodiversity |
EU - Environment
European Union : Activities of the European Union in the environmental field |
EuroMAB Network
The EuroMAB Network, founded in 1987, covers 30 countries in Europe and North America and is the largest of the MAB Networks, with a vast diversity of socio-economic and ecological conditions, cultural backgrounds and languages. |
REC
Regional Environmental Center |
SECI
Southeast European Cooperative Initiative |
SEE-ECN
South East European Educational Cooperation Network |
UNIADRION
UniAdrion-Virtual University of the Adriatic-Ionian Basin |
WC/WB SEE
European Commission / World Bank Joint Office for South East Europe |
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MAB COMMITTEES
Search MAB National Committees in the European region per country |
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