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...

Aim: Morocco has implemented several strategies and rules for saving biodiversity safeguarding natural territorial riches in protected regions since the release of Vizier Decree on January 19, 1942. Within this context, UNESCO MAB designation encourages creativity World Network Biosphere Reserves. However, its goal reconciling protection resource management order to generate sustainable develop...

The argan tree is a slow growing tree exclusively endemic in the dry lowlands of Southwest Morocco. The argan forest constitutes a long time ignored specific biotope that has been declared a Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO in 1998. The argan forest is particularly fragile to climate change. Forecasts show annual precipitation levels and prolonged drought periods that could severely threaten the fut...