Members of the scaphidiine tribe Scaphisomatini collected recently in Tianmushan Biosphere Reserve (Zhejiang) and Wuyishan National Nature (part Reserve, Fujian), China, are studied. Two species, Scaphisoma krali Löbl, sp. nov. sekerkai nov., described from Wuyishan. Baeocera franzi (Löbl, 1973) mutator 2000 recorded for first time Zhejiang province, binhanum (Pic, 1922) Scaphoxium intermedium ...

An increasingly utilized strategy for expanding conservation in the developing world has been the promotion of protected areas that supersede national borders. Alternatively known as transfrontier biosphere reserves, transfrontier or transboundary conservation areas, or Peace Parks, these protected areas are aggressively advanced by conservation agencies for their purported ecological and econo...

We engaged in cooperative research with fishers and stakeholders to characterize the fine-scale, spatio-temporal characteristics of spawning behavior in an aggregating marine fish (Cynoscion othonopterus: Sciaenidae) and coincident activities of its commercial fishery in the Upper Gulf of California. Approximately 1.5-1.8 million fish are harvested annually from spawning aggregations of C. otho...

Protected areas (PAs) and payments for ecosystem services (PES) are key global land conservation policies, yet there are few empirical comparisons of their impacts. We study how PAs and PES affected forest conservation, poverty reduction and population change at the locality level in Mexico in the past decade. We find that both generated an approximately 20% reduction in expected forest cover l...

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Hamburg REPORT The UNESCO Institute for Education. Hamburg, isa legally independent entity. While the programmes of the Institute are established along the lines laid down by the General Conference of UNESCO, the publications of the Institute are issued under its sole responsibility; UNESCO is not responsible for their contents. The points of view, selection of facts, and opinions expressed are...

The development of the Information Society results in an ever increasing demand for environmental information exchange. To the best of the author's knowledge, there are not many studies concerning environmental information networks. The data collected in this way (e.g. BRIM or the systems owned by National Parks) did not respond fully to the users needs. For these reasons, the author has undert...

The 1st World Congress on Transdisciplinarity was held near Lisbon from 2-6 November 1994. The event was organized with the support of the Portuguese National Commission of UNESCO, the Transdisciplinarity Study Group for UNESCO, and the International University of Lisbon, under the auspices of the Centre International de Recherches et d'Etudes Transdisciplinaires (CIRET, Paris). UNESCO, the Cou...