This study analyzes whether biosphere reserves (BR) and geoparks (GP) can serve as platforms to contribute education for sustainable development by integrating local authorities communities into the educational process. For two years, we conducted integrated course named “UNESCO Biosphere Reserves Geoparks”, with a total number of 143 students. The curriculum was carefully designed together gov...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role landscape’s cultural values in practical work biosphere reserves and identify what opportunities there are increase awareness knowledge about these values. draws upon data collected a Swedish reserve, including survey residents, interviews with public officials involved heritage management, an analysis documents produced by Biosphere Reserve ...

Although floristic lists for a large sample of U.S. reserves have 5-25% introduced species, most introductions are confined to drastically disturbed areas and pose little or no threat to native ecosystems. A survey of Biosphere Reserves of the United States suggests that many reserves have only very minor problems or no problems at all with introduced plant species. Problems with invasive intro...