News archive for UNESCO Chair: Sustainable heritage and environmental management

On December 5th, CeSAM and the UNESCO chair group organized a workshop for students and early career researchers - tying in with IPBES (Naturpanelet) holding a meeting in Bergen in the same week.

Agricultural activity in Norway has been decreasing since the 1950’s, leaving substantial areas of agricultural land abandoned. These lands are typically left to naturally regrow, or they are planted with Norwegian native tree species to mitigate atmospheric carbon. But how do these changes impact different ecosystem services? UNESCO Chair and CESAM affiliated researchers have investigated what... Read more

UiB's UNESCO Chair on Sustainable Heritage and Environmental Management - Nature and Culture was recently up for renewal, and four new years were granted on September 18. Professor Inger Elisabeth Måren (Department of Biological Sciences) continues as the chair holder.

This June MSc student Susanne Zazzera completed her thesis titled "Bumblebee communities in open and overgrown heathlands in Nordhordland UNESCO Biosphere, Vestland, Norway", which was supervised by UNESCO Chair Inger Måren, NIBIO researcher Bjørn Arild Hatteland, and PhD student Ieva Rozite-Arina. Susanne spent the summer of 2022 in Nordhordland's beautiful coastal heathlands collecting... Read more

Forskare från Universitetet i Bergen och Stockholm Resilience Centre är del av ett forskningssamarbete med biosfärområdena Kristianstad Vattenrike i södra Sverige och Nordhordland i västra Norge, samt den västnorska kommunen Alver. Syftet är att bättre förstå hur boende och besökare får nytta och gynnas av naturen i de två nordiska biosfärområdena.

1. juni arrangerte Nordhordland UNESCO biosfæreområde og UNESCO Chair-gruppen ved UiB Biosfæredagen - den første av sitt slag i Norge! Dagen hadde et fullspekket program fra morgen til kveld, med faglig innhold om pågående og avsluttet forskning i regionen, samt presentasjoner om spennende temaer innenfor relevante bærekraftutfordringer i Nordhordland.

The Norwegian World Heritage Forum 2023 is being held in Bergen on May 3-5. In connection to this, UNESCO Chair Inger Måren was recently interviewed about her work with Biosphere Reserves. Dr. Måren will also be giving a talk on her experiences with research in, with and for UNESCO Biosphere Reserves at the World Forum on May 5.

After dedicating most of the last six months of the project to conducting interviews, the CULTIVATE project partners finally met in person, this time on the Hiiumaa island in the West Estonian Archipelago – almost exactly a year since the first in-person meeting in Trebon in March 2022.