This paper addresses the question of environmental change in Amazônia, by looking at the experiences of the large-scale biosphere-atmosphere (LBA) experiment in the Amazon, and three other enterprises-the extractive reserves, the Pilot Programme to Conserve the Brazilian Rain Forest (PPG7) and ecological-economic zoning-that address questions of sustainable development in the region. The LBA ex...

The article contains a brief overview of joint research activities (done using GIS methods) in the East European chain of valuable areas of the world connecting five countries: Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Ukraine. Mentioned territories are currently under focus of such international organizations as Man and Biosphere UNESCO, which are performing some initiatives in this region. The firs...

The Urdinbide road tunnel goes through the Autzagane aquifer. This important aquifer is located within hydrogeological area of Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve, one most biosphere reserves in Iberian Peninsula, and it also used as a source drinking water for some urban areas municipality Amorebieta-Etxano. construction could pose potential risk to normal functioning aquifer, so its design included sp...

This article uses remote sensing and spatial modeling to quantify and analyze land change in Mexico’s largest protected area, the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve. Change trajectories are identified within distinct property regimes and between the Reserve’s core and buffer zones. A parcel-level spatial econometric model identifies the driving forces of land use change in two communities located along...

Much of the research concerning biosphere reserves has focused on problems of ecosystem management and biodiversity conservation rather than the preservation of an ecosystem in which humans play an int egral part. Local people often oppose such protected areas because traditional economic and subsistence opportunities will be lost. Thus, there exists a tension between globalised conservation ef...