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The joint German-Chinese research project SILUP (Sustainable Integrated Land Use Planning) aims in developing and implementing a strategy for sustainable land use planning in a rapidly developing study area south of Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China. Because of the rapid development of the site there is a high pressure for land to be transferred from agricultural use into industrial use. Sustain...

For more than six decades, UNESCO has dedicated itself to be the international agency leader in literacy, even though other aspects of educational development have received greater attention and resources by the broader international community. Resources for UNESCO’s literacy work have not increased, and its programmatic activities have been increasingly debated when seen in relationship to the...

UNESCO's Bioethics Programme was established in 1993. In twenty years it has adopted three international declarations, on the human genome (1997), human genetic data (2003) and bioethics (2005); produced reports on a wide range of bioethics issues; and developed capacity building and public education programmes in bioethics. Yet UNESCO has sometimes struggled to assert its authority in the wide...

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