The need to implement innovative approaches to sustainability is now more critical than ever. This discussion draws on parts of the puzzle that must be assembled to achieve integrated, cross-tenure and jurisdictional management of whole regions and their peoples for a sustainable future. A regional, landscape ecology approach helps us to move on from theory and historical lessons to boldly desi...

The biosphere reserve (BR), as conceived by UNESCO, is a permanent intervention towards sustainable development. With 727 BRs in 131 countries (Ã?sterreichisches MAB-Nationalkomitee 2021), this means interventions highly diverse environmental, economic, socio-cultural and institutional contexts. the MAB Strategy 2015â??2025, Lima Declaration 2016 Action Plan 2016â??2025, UNESCO should develop f...

Th e goal of this paper is the assessment of the impact of personal experience on visitors' perceptions of the environments of selected tourist attractions. Th e cognitive paradigm of environmental perception research was chosen and the Mehrabian-Russell general measure of information rate was used. Students from the University of South Bohemia from three diff erent study programmes (faculties)...

There has been significant interest in the values and benefits of early childhood nature experiences on children’s well-being development. One aspect studying exposure children to that requires more focus is role played by educators. In particular, there a need for environmental education training pre-service This study will explore use UNESCO Biosphere Reserve as an outdoor classroom professio...

Southern Africa. We assessed quantile mapping strengths and weaknesses in climate downscaling based on global models projections. An ensemble of methods is used: six using parametric transformations, three with non-parametric transformations one method theoretical distributions transformations. Seventeen indices related to precipitation are applied the locations 15 UNESCO biosphere reserves. Th...