Asia & the Pacific

Viet Nam

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• Aquaculture at Cat Ba biosphere reserve, Viet Nam

The country hosts a UNESCO National Office in Hanoi.

There are currently 5 Biosphere Reserves in Vietnam, where sustainable development, conservation and cultural socio-economic activities in sylvo-forestry and fishery management systems can be tested, refined, demonstrated and implemented.

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

Freshwater

- Water Programme for Africa, Arid and Water Scarce Zones (WPA)

- Asian Pacific Flow Regimes from the International Experimental and Network Data (Asian Pacific FRIEND)

People, Biodiversity and Ecology

- Biosphere Reserves (WNBRs)

Oceans

- Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/PTWS)

Earth Sciences

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

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

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

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

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

Sciences Policy and Sustainable Development

- Establishing Science and Technology Parks More

Local and Indigenous Knowledge Systems

- Once protected, then promoted and now obsolete: The changing status of knowledge of Azolla in Viet Nam More