The largest Abbey of Europe goes to renewable energy The Loire Valley is an outstanding cultural landscape of great beauty, containing historic towns and villages, great architectural monuments, and cultivated lands formed by many centuries of interaction between their population and the physical environment, primarily the river
Read more →Towards a Model City in Sustainable Development The Palawan Biosphere Reserve is a cluster of islands composed of one long main island and smaller groups of islands around it. The 1,150,800 hectares of the biosphere reserve include the entire Province of Palawan Island, which is the westernmost
Read more →Geothermal and waste energy sources Ferrara, City of the Renaissance, and its Po Delta, with an area of 46,712 ha, was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1995. The humanist concept of the ‘ideal city’ came to life here in the neighbourhoods built from 1492 onwards
Read more →The City of Vienna’s Climate Protection Programme Vienna was developed from early Celtic and Roman settlements into a Medieval and Baroque city, the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It played an essential role as a leading European music centre, from the great age of Viennese Classicism through
Read more →Towards a Sustainable Energy City Edinburgh has been the Scottish capital since the 15th century. Its World Heritage Site comprises of two distinct areas: the Old Town, dominated by a medieval fortress; and the neoclassical New Town, whose development from the 18th century onwards had a far-reaching
Read more →A model for islands and dry coastal areas The entire island of Fuerteventura was declared a biosphere reserve in 2009. It is the most ancient of the Canary Islands, the most arid, and the closest to the African coast. It has a surface area of 1659 square
Read more →Green power and local ownership in action Situated at the coast of Mid Wales around the estuary of the Afon Dyfi, this biosphere reserve is representative of salt marshes, estuarine systems, farmland, woodland and moorland in the west of the United Kingdom. Biosffer Dyfi Biosphere consists of
Read more →Developing community-managed hydro schemes The Gunung Leuser biosphere reserve and national park covers a vast area of 1,094,692 ha of tropical rain forest in northern Sumatra. More than four million people live within or adjacent to the Gunung Leuser BR, with many different ethnic groups represented. Most
Read more →Providing energy access to remote rural communities In Latin America around 34.5 million people are excluded from the electricity service. The majority of them are living in poor, rural and isolated communities, such as the indigenous populations. They are not only excluded from access to the electric
Read more →Biogas and an innovative model of governance Located in the Ile de France region, some 70 km south-east of Paris, the “Fontainebleau – Gâtinais” biosphere reserve, has an area of 150,000 ha. The forest has been studied by well known naturalists (Linné, Jussieu and Buffon) since the
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