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“PRIMA Learning” jellyfish workshop in Cape Town in February 2023 (23.02.2023)
Carl on board
Carl completes his Master degree (13.02.2023)
Carl was a visiting student at the HypOnFjordFish project from the Freie University, Berlin. He has been studying the effects of hypoxia on mesopelagic crustaceans
Karen with her supervisors and online examiner
Karen completes her Master degree (09.02.2023)
Karen has been studying the distribution and diet of two small sharks, the velvet belly and blackmouth catshark, in west Norwegian fjords.
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Day Zero: Pathways to participatory research and knowledge co-production: notes from the ‘field’ (07.02.2023)
Join members of the UNESCO Chair Group and the Centre for Sustainable Area Management (CeSAM) for a workshop on participatory research during Day Zero, February 8th 2023.
areal view of the amazin
Human impacts outpace natural processes in the Amazon (03.02.2023)
A new review in Science reveals the quick and accumulating impacts of humans in the Amazon – and nature will likely not be able to keep up. This new paper developed by CESAM member Suzette Flantua reveals the magnitude of the drivers of deforestation and degradation in the Amazon and lists the transformative policy actions needed to safeguard the region and consequently global climate.
Øivind Andersen defending his thesis
Øivind completes his Master degree (01.02.2023)
Øivind has been studying the effect of the parasitic copepod Sarcotretes scopeli on its mesopelagic fish host.
Kunming-Montreal deal summary
Cheat sheet to the Kunming-Montréal Global Biodiversity Framework (25.01.2023)
In December 2022, two years after it was planned, 196 nations signed on to the historic Kunming-Montréal Global Biodiversity Framework (KM-GBF).
Cranes in an agricultural landscape
Identifying optimal land use strategies for rural communities (24.01.2023)
A new approach developed by the group of CESAM member Peter Manning uses a mixture of natural and social science methods to identify the land-use strategies that work best for the multiple stakeholder groups that use them.
Landscape
PhD position in plant ecology announced (18.01.2023)
Do you have a Master’s degree in Plant Ecology or similar, and are you interested in alpine ecology, climate change, alien species, and functional ecology? The Between the Fjords research group is hiring a PhD student for 3 year to work with us in the RangeX project.
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New PhD position at Department of Government (05.01.2023)
We are hiring!
Ipbes at COP15
It’s a Deal! (05.01.2023)
On December 19th, the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) was adopted at the United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP15) in Montreal. A landmark deal for conservation and management of nature and protection of biodiversity worldwide, this framework sets ambitious goals for how humanity should move forward to achieve the Convention of Biodiversity’s Vision “Living in Harmony... Read more
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The UNESCO Chair group contributes to COP15 discussions on the Convention on Biological Diversity (19.12.2022)
As the negotiations in Montreal draw to a close, headlines are announcing the big Targets agreed to by nearly 200 countries pledging to put a stop to biodiversity loss.
bile av elv i Amazonas med grønt frodig landskap rundt
Human impact destroying the Amazon ecosystems faster than ever (25.11.2022)
A new Science paper shows that human-caused changes to Amazonian ecosystems are hundreds to thousands of times faster than those of natural climatic and geological processes.
Screenshot showing participants of the digital meeting
First Nordic UNESCO Chair Meeting (23.11.2022)
November 17 2022 the first ever Nordic UNESCO Chair meeting was held. 11 chairholders met over Teams, representing four different countries: Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland.
Flyer for the meeting
Plastic and plastic additives – impacts on human and environmental health (13.10.2022)
In collaboration with the Norwegian Society of Pharmacology and Toxicology (NSFT), the Plastics Network organizes the meeting “Plastic and plastic additives – impacts on human and environmental health” November 11th in Bergen.
Kale farmer at Full Belly Farm, Northern California
Examining impacts and responses to COVID-19 pandemic in the agri-food sector in USA, China and Norway (05.10.2022)
This paper, led by Inger Måren and published in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems in June 2022, offers a unique insight into the global nature of the COVID-19 pandemic by examining impacts and responses in the small farm sector within three very distinct contexts: the United States/California, EU/Norway, and China.
Overview photo of Kristianstad vattenrike. Partly flooded wetlands. Water with water lilly leaves in the front, surorunded by wetlands with overgrown with sedges and willow. City of Kristianstad in the background.
Visiting Vattenriket BR in Southern Sweden (28.09.2022)
The BIOSPHERE project aims to strengthen social-ecological resilience in peri-urban and rural Norway, and in this project members of the UNESCO Chair group at UiB work together with partners from Nordhordland Biosphere Reserve and Alver municipality. The partners recently visited Kristianstad Vattenrike, Sweden's oldest biosphere reserve, to learn from their experiences of collaboration between... Read more
Hildegunn Opdal, Katja Malmborg, Kari E. Natland og Alicia Barraclogh
EuroMAB 2022 in Nockberge Biosphere park, Austria (26.09.2022)
Members of the UNESCO Chair team and representatives from Nordhordland Biosphere Reserve recently participated in the EuroMAB 2022 conference - "Tying cultures. Crossboarder cooperation between societies and generations."

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