Europe & North America

Greece

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• Psiloritis Geopark, Greece

Greece is mainly involved in initiatives that concern freshwater, earth sciences or natural disaster reduction.

It is participating in the Internationally Shared Aquifers Resources Management Programme (ISARM) in the Balkans. ISARM, recognizing the regional importance of groundwater resources, aims to compile a world inventory of transboundary aquifers and develop wise practices and guidance tools concerning shared groundwater resources management through a network of experts and specialists.

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 (HELP) project in the Mesta-Nestos basin (Bulgaria/Greece) More

- Internationally Shared Aquifers Resources Management Programme (ISARM) in the Balkans

- Alpine and Mediterranean Flow Regimes from International Experimental and Network Data (AMHY FRIEND)

- UNESCO Chair/International Network of Water-Environment Centres for the Balkans on Sustainable Management of Water and Conflict Resolution, established in 2003 at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece More

People, Biodiversity and Ecology

- Biosphere Reserves (WNBRs)

Earth Sciences

- National Geoparks

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

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

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

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

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

- Coastal vulnerability related to sea level change (IGCP, Project 515)

- 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

Natural Disaster Reduction

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

- UNESCO Chair on Natural Hazards in the Geosphere, the Hydrosphere and the Atmosphere, established in 2007 at the National Observatory of Athens More