Promote principles and ethical norms to guide scientific and technological development and social transformation;
Improve human security by better management of the environment and social change
Enhance scientific, technical and human capacities to participate in the emerging knowledge societies.
Coasts & Small Islands
UNESCO encourages wise coastal practices for sustainable human development, articulating the voices of small islands. Indigenous knowledge is of particular interest in mobilising equitable resource governance
People & Nature
UNESCO’s Programme on Man and the Biosphere (MAB) develops the basis, within the natural and the social sciences, for the sustainable use and conservation of biological diversity, and for the improvement of the relationship between people and their environment globally.
Science Education
UNESCO promotes university partnerships sciences in order to contribute towards industrial, economic and social development with particular reference to developing countries and countries with economies in transition.
Training and research initiatives in Science for the Caribbean 11 Apr 2005 The Barbados Coastal Zone Unit, the UWI Cave Hill campus and CARISCIENCE have cooperated to organize a workshop to be held on the campus during the week of 11 - 15 April 2005.
