In the 50 years since UNESCO Man and Biosphere Programme (MAB) was launched, 727 sites in 131 countries have gained status of biosphere reserve (BR). Golija-Studenica BR belongs to group BRs that been active for past 20 years. This is one most prominent protected areas first its kind Serbia. A balance between biodiversity conservation, as primary goal protection, promotion sustainable profitabl...

Arganeraie Biosphere Reserve (ABR) in Morocco was established 1998. Today the reserve covers 2.5 million hectares and more than 3 people and, as such, it has been a complex social-ecological system to govern. Authors draw on postnormal conservation science environmental governance studies investigate processes within ABR shed light their outcomes challenges date. First, authors analyse how Moro...

Parishan Lake has been selected by UNESCO as a biosphere reserve and was recorded as an international wetland in Ramsar convention in 1986. This region is located (29°31'N 51°48'E) at 820 m in Kazeroon, Fars province, south of Iran and is the largest freshwater lake in the country. Parishan Lake is extremely important for a wide variety of wintering waterfowl and also for breeding waterfowl, es...