Scotland Establishes First UNESCO Chair
Scotland has established its first ever UNESCO Chair at Perth College, part of the UHI Millennium Institute. The Chair focuses on Sustainable Mountain Development and Professor Martin Price has been appointed as Chairholder. It is the twelfth UNESCO Chair to be created in the UK.
Mountains cover 24% of the Earth’s land surface; 26% of the global population lives in and around mountains, which provide vital goods and services to more than half of humankind. The new UNESCO Chair contributes to sustainable mountain development, which concerns both mountain regions and populations living downstream or otherwise dependent on these regions in various ways. A particular focus is on mountain biosphere reserves and their sustainable development in the context of global change.
Learn more about the UNESCO Chair in Sustainable Mountain Development here.
Written: 25/03/2009 , last modified: 25/03/2009
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