Europe & North America

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland cooperates with the Natural Sciences in many fields, especially that of water-related issues and earth sciences.

The University of Dundee, in Scotland, hosts a Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science operating under the auspices of UNESCO. Many Hydrology for the Environment, Life and Policy programme (HELP) projects have been implemented throughout the United Kingdom, and the country’s continued support of the World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP) enabled the programme to increase its outreach in Africa. 

Below you can access the projects that are currently being implemented in the country within the framework of UNESCO’s Natural Sciences Sector.

Freshwater

- Hydrology for the Environment, Life and Policy programme (HELP) projects:

• Eden Basin
• Frome-Piddle Basin
• Tern Basin
• Welland Basin
• Oona/Blackwater Basin

- Northern European Flow Regimes from International Experimental and Network Data (FRIEND) More

- Hindu Kush HimalayanFlow Regimes from the International Experimental and Network Data (HKH FRIEND)

- IHP-HELP Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science More

People, Biodiversity and Ecology

- Biosphere Reserves (WNBRs)

Oceans

- Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission: Sub-Commission for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions (IOCARIBE)

- UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission’s Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning System programme (IOTWS)

Earth Sciences

- National Geoparks 

- Triassic Time and Trans-Panthalassan Correlations (IGCP, Project 467)

- Late Variscan terrestrial biotas and palaeoenvironments (IGCP, Project 469)

- GIS metallogeny of Central Asia (IGCP, Project 473)

- Images of the Earth’s crust and upper mantle (IGCP, Project 474)

- Deltas in the Monsoon Asia-Pacific region (DeltaMAP, IGCP, Project 475) 

- Sustainable Use of Platinum Group Elements (IGCP, Project 479)

- Structural and Tectonic Correlation across the Central Asia Orogenic Collage: Implications for Continental Growth and Intracontinental Deformation (IGCP, Project 480)

- Dating Caspian Sea Level Change (CASPAGE) (IGCP, Project 481)

- Cratons, Metacratons and mobile belts: Keys from the west African craton boundaries ; Eburnian versus Pan-African signarure, magmatic, tectonic and metallogenic implications (IGCP, Project 485)

- Au-Ag-telluride-selenide deposits (IGCP, Project 486)

- Geodynamics of the East African Rift System / Geophysical Characteristics and Evolution of the South-western Branch of the East African Rift System (IGCP, Project 482/489) 

- The role of Holocene environmental catastrophes in human history (IGCP, Project 490)

- Middle Palaeozoic vertebrate biogeography, palaeogeography and climate (IGCP, Project 491)

- Quaternary Land-Ocean Interactions (IGCP, Project 495)

- The Rheic Ocean: Its origin, evolution, and correlatives  (IGCP, Project 497)

- Devonian land-sea interaction: evolution of ecosystems and climate (IGCP, Project 499)

- Dryland Change: Past, Present, Future (ICGP, Project 500)

- Global Comparison of Volcanic-hosted Massive Sulphide Districts (IGCP, Project 502)

- Ordovician palaeogeography and palaeoclimate (IGCP, Project 503) 

- Marine and Non-marine Jurassic: Global correlation and major geological events (IGCP, Project 506)

- Palaeoproterozoic Supercontinents and Global Evolution (IGCP, Project 509)

- Global correlation of A-type granites and related rocks, their mineralization, and significance in lithospheric evolution (IGCP, Project 510)

- Submarine Mass Movements and their Consequences (IGCP, Project 511)

- Neoproterozoic Ice Ages (IGCP, Project 512)

- Karst Aquifers and Water Resources (IGCP, Project 513)

- Black Sea-Mediterranean Corridor during the last 30,000 years: Sea level change and human adaptation (IGCP, Project 521)

- Global Ground Water Network (GROWNET) (IGCP, Project 523) 

- Arc-Continent Collision (IGCP, Project 524)

- Rapid Environmental/Climate Change in the Cretaceous Greenhous World: Ocean-Land Interaction (IGCP, Project 555)

Sciences Policy and Sustainable Development

- Avicenna Virtual Campus (AVICENNA)

- Establishing Science and Technology Parks More

Natural Disaster Reduction

- Reducing Earthquake Losses in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (RELEMR) programme