News archive for UNESCO Chair: Sustainable heritage and environmental management
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
October 16-17, 2023, partners of the new NFR funded project ACTIONABLE all met in person in Nordhordland UNESCO Biosphere. The project is led by Dr. Alicia D. Barraclough, researcher under the UiB UNESCO Chair for Sustainable Heritage and Environmental Management.
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.
Morgane Kerdoncuff has investigated the effect of prescribed burning on beetle diversity in coastal heathlands by comparing active beetle assemblages between newly burned patches and patches of mature stands. The study was recently published in Biodiversity and Conservation, and is part of Morgane's PhD thesis on the TradMod-project.
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
A new paper by the UNESCO Chair group looks back at half a century of experiences in The World Network of Biosphere Reserves (WNBR), of UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere Programme. The paper helps distil key learnings emerging from the implementation of WNBR and how these could accelerate our learning for sustainability worldwide. Led by Alicia Barraclough, it was written through a collaboration... 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.
On May 16 BIO held its annual Student Poster Symposium, inviting students from seven different courses to present their work and exhibit posters. One of the courses participating in the poster symposium was SDG215: Life on Land, taught by Inger Måren.
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.
On June 1st, UiB's UNESCO Group and Nordhordland UNESCO Biosphere Reserve is arranging the BIOSPHERE DAY in Knarvik, Nordhordland. UNESCO Group members will present current and previous scientific projects from the region, and share reuslts and insights. The event is open to the public.
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.
PhD candidate Jarrod Cusens, connected to the UNESCO Chair and CESAM, is defending his thesis "Mapping the Connections" on Monday April 24.
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.
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.
Gjennom høsten 2022 har UNESCO Chair Inger Måren gjennomført vandreintervjuer med innbyggere i Nordhordland som en del av EU-prosjektet CULTIVATE (Co-creating cultural narratives for sustainable rural development) - ett intervju fra hver av de 11 opprinnelige kommunene i Nordhordland UNESCO biosfæreområde. Sentralt i disse intervjuene står intervjuobjektenes forhold til landskap og kulturarv i... Read more
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.
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