News archive for UNESCO Chair: Sustainable heritage and environmental management

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."