Natural Sciences
Specific Ecosystems
Ecosystems: acting for sustainable land-water-habitat management
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These pages provide an overview of strategies and projects undertaken by UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere Programme in a few significant ecosystems. These systems are all crucial for life: affecting important populations worldwide, they may be degraded, and direly needing improved scientific understanding and management.
The variety of life on Earth is disappearing at an increasing rate. The MAB Programme is an intergovernmental initiative originally created to set up the scientific basis for improving people's relationships with nature, linking the natural and social sciences. In particular, MAB aims at increasing our understanding on the structure, functioning and dynamics of ecosystems and people's roles therein. Assessing global change impacts on ecosystems and promoting appropriate management of freshwater resources in these systems have become key issues in recent years for the MAB Programme.
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