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...