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Natural Sciences

Europe & North America

Spain

Spain
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  • Cabo de Gata Geopark, Spain

The considerable number of UNESCO Chairs in Spain, of which 20 are related to natural sciences, is testimony to the importance of the links between the country and UNESCO. Spain is very active in the earth sciences, as seen below.

It has a multitude of ecosystems in a surprisingly small space: mountains with year-round snow, the rather cool and rainy north, dry plains, rainy plains, near desert of the southeast, forests of all kinds.

There are 33 biosphere reserves currently listed with UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere programme (MAB) in Spain. The contrasts make water management and meeting water needs year-round in the driest areas all the more challenging in the country, which has developed a close relationship with the World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP) over the past years.

 

Freshwater

- World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP) case study in the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country More

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

 

People, Biodiversity and Ecology

- Global Change and Mountain Regions (GLOCHAMORE)

- Biosphere Reserves (WNBRs)

- UNESCO Chair ‘Earth as a global system’, established in 1999 at the Institute for Space Studies of Catalonia, Catalan Foundation for Research, Barcelona More

- UNESCO Chair in Environment and Sustainable Development, established in 1996 at the University of Barcelona More

- UNESCO Chair in Sustainable development and environmental education, established in 2004 at the Universidad del País Vasco, Bilbao More

- UNESCO Chair in Environmental Studies, established in 2001 at the King Juan Carlos University More

- UNESCO Chair in Environment and Sustainable Development, established in 1993 at the University of Salamanca More

- UNESCO Chair in Environmental Education, established in 1996 at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) More

 

Earth Sciences

- National Geoparks

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

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

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

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

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

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

- 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)

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

- 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)

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

- Ordovician palaeogeography and palaeoclimate (IGCP, Project 503)

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

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

- Hydrogeology, Hydrochemistry and Management of Coastal Aquifers on the Atlantic Coast of South America (IGCP, Project 519)

- Arc-Continent Collision (IGCP, Project 524)

- Subduction Zones of the Caribbean (IGCP, Project 546)

 

Basic Sciences

- UNESCO Chair on Numerical Methods in Engineering, established in 1989 at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia More

- UNESCO Chair in industrial and mining heritage, established in 2004 at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Madrid More

- UNESCO Chair Pere Durán Farell on Technology and Culture, established in 1999 at the Centre of Research for the History of Technology, Polytechnic University of Catalonia , Barcelona More

- UNESCO Chair in Bioethics, established in 2007 at the University of Barcelona More

- UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and society, established in 1999 at the University of Granada More

- UNESCO Chair in basic and experimental sciences, established in 1993 at the University of Salamanca More

- UNESCO Chair in Genetics and Behaviour, established in 1999 at the International University Menéndez Pelayo More

 

Science Policy and Sustainable Development

- Establishing Science and Technology Parks More

- UNESCO Chair in sustainable development, established in 1994 at the Centro Extremeño de Estudios y Cooperación con Iberoamérica (CEXECI), University of Extremadura, Cáceres More

- UNESCO Chair in Sustainable Development, established in 1991 at the University of Granada More

- UNESCO Chair in Planning, New Technologies and Sustainable Development, established in 1993 at the University of La Laguna within the framework of the ISA network More

- UNESCO International Chair/Network for a Sustainable Human Development, established in 1998 at the University of Girona More

- UNESCO Chair on Sustainable Development, established in 1996 at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia More

 

Coasts and Small Islands

- UNESCO Chair in Environmental and Marine Resources Management, established in 1991 at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria within the framework of the ISA Network More

- UNITWIN – The Wise Coastal Practices For Sustainable Human Development, Europe Region’ network (WICOP-EUROPE), established in 2002 at the University of Cádiz More

 

Natural Disaster Reduction

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

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