Deutsches MAB-Nationalkomitee

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

Full of life : UNESCO biosphere reserves, model regions for sustainable development

Berlin

2005

3540200770

9783540200772

Abstract

Biosphere reserves serve in some ways as "living laboratories" for testing and demonstrating integrated management of land, water and biodiversity. With this publication the national MAB-committee of Germany gives a detailed presentation and description of the Biosphere Reserves of Germany

Foreword by the Director-General of UNESCO
Koichiro Matsuura

Foreword by the publisher

MAB - a programme over the course of time
Alfred Walter, Folkert Precht, Rolf-Dieter Preyer

World network of biosphere reserves
Jurgen Nauber

Biosphere reserves : model regions for the future
Harald Plachter, Lenelis Kruse-Graumann, Werner Schulz

The network of biosphere reserves in Germany
Dieter Mayerl

People and cultures in biosphere reserves
Lenelis Kruse-Graumann

From environmental education to learning for sustainability
Gertrud Hein, Lenelis Kruse-Graumann

Communication and cooperation
Karl-Heinz Erdmann, Uwe Brendle, Ariane Meier

Objectives and strategies for nature conservation
Michael Vogel

Cultural and natural landscapes and the new wilderness
Michael Succow

Cultural landscapes and biodiversity
Harald Plachter, Guido Puhlmann

Conserve diversity! : practical landscape management
Josef Goppel

The importance of nature rangers
Beate Blahy, Gertrud Hein

Sustainable economic development
Werner Schulz

Sustainable land management
Jurgen Rimpau

Sustainable forestry
Hermann Graf Hatzfeldt

Sustainable tourism development
Barbara Engels, Beate Job-Hoben

Environmental management in industry
Frauke Druckrey

Research and monitoring in biosphere reserves
Doris Pokorny, Lenelis Kruse-Graumann

Planning for biosphere reserves
Dieter Mayerl

Biosphere reserves in development cooperation
Monika Dittrich, Rolf-Peter Mack