Europe & North America

Finland

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Projects dealing with rural waste management and recycling, collecting and processing of wild and cultivated berries and herbs, and using cattle in landscape management have been initiated in the North Karelian Biosphere Reserves, one of Finland’s 2 biosphere reserves.

The country is also involved in a great many earth science projects, ranging from the formation of Palaeoproterozoic supercontinents to the study of the Black Sea corridor. Below you can access the projects that are currently being implemented in the country within the framework of UNESCO’s Natural Sciences Sector.

Freshwater

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

People, Biodiversity and Ecology

- Biosphere Reserves (WNBRs)

Earth Sciences

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

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

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

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

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

- Ordovician palaeogeography and palaeoclimate (IGCP, Project 503) 

-  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)

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

Sciences Policy and Sustainable Development

- Establishing Science and Technology Parks More