Lake Tana is one of the biosphere reserves in Ethiopia registered by United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Water hyacinth expanding lake owing to increased nutrient load from watershed. As efforts government alone could not bring anticipated change, local peoples’ engagement contribution are believed sustainably effectively manage watershed prevent weed’s s...

Ecosystem services (ESs) include the benefits people receive from ecosystems that support socio-economic requirements and human well-being. The Man Biosphere (MAB) programs are a scientific plan in African context is linked to governments attempts create systematic ground enhance relationship between individuals their environments. Using economic valuation methods, main objective of this study ...

Stakeholder participation in natural resource management has spread widely, even to nondemocracies, driven by expectations of beneficial outcomes such as multidirectional learning. However, can we expect participation to be equally effective in achieving multidirectional learning in democracies and nondemocracies? Unsurprisingly, previous studies indicate the relevance of power distribution for...

Rupert Maclean (Australia) Director, Section for Secondary Education at UNESCO, Paris, since April 2000, prior to which he was Chief of the Asia-Pacific Centre of Educational Innovation for Development (ACEID), UNESCO PROAP, Bangkok. Before joining UNESCO in 1992 he was for two years the UNESCO Chief Technical Advisor in Myanmar for a UNDP-funded project to strengthen and upgrade teacher educat...

Sustainability-oriented organizations have typically adopted governance approaches that undertake community participation and collaboration through multistakeholder arrangements. Documented challenges of this model are associated with collaboration and institutional capacity, and include reactive accountability structures, inability to reach consensus, funding limitations, and lack of innovatio...

A free Plain Language Summary can be found within the Supporting Information of this article. Today, we are facing global sustainability challenges that complex and interconnected. Human activities such as land-use change contributing to biodiversity crisis simultaneously impacting our own well-being. To address these challenges, need develop a holistic understanding multifunctional landscapes ...

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...