Abstract—The article is devoted to the polarized landscape concept (also known as biosphere concept), developed by author in 1970. The socioeconomic conditions for implementation of conceptual project are considered, well changes these factors and corresponding fundamental concepts over past half century. It demonstrated how ideal model territorial structure cultural related lifestyle its creat...

Ecosystem services (ESs) include the benefits people receive from ecosystems that support socio-economic requirements and human well-being. The Man Biosphere (MAB) programs are a scientific plan in African context is linked to governments attempts create systematic ground enhance relationship between individuals their environments. Using economic valuation methods, main objective of this study ...

Stakeholder participation in natural resource management has spread widely, even to nondemocracies, driven by expectations of beneficial outcomes such as multidirectional learning. However, can we expect participation to be equally effective in achieving multidirectional learning in democracies and nondemocracies? Unsurprisingly, previous studies indicate the relevance of power distribution for...

Sustainability-oriented organizations have typically adopted governance approaches that undertake community participation and collaboration through multistakeholder arrangements. Documented challenges of this model are associated with collaboration and institutional capacity, and include reactive accountability structures, inability to reach consensus, funding limitations, and lack of innovatio...

The MAB programme is an intergovernmental scientific that aims to establish a basis for enhancing the relationship between people and their environments. It combines natural social sciences with view improving human livelihoods safeguarding managed ecosystems, thus promoting innovative approaches economic development are socially culturally appropriate environmentally sustainable. Vietnam natio...