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The Silver Jubilee of MAB and Its Revival

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Michel Batisse
Michel Batisse
Affiliation:
Senior Environmental Adviser, UNESCO, Division of Ecological Sciences, United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, 7 Place de Fontenoy, 75352 Paris 07-SP, France; President, Mediterranean Blue Plan
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The Biosphere Conference was organized by UNESCO and took place in September 1968, which was the first time that the word Biosphere became part of common, non-scientific language, and was the first intergovernmental conference on environmental problems. It sought to combine, effectively, conservation and the wise use of natural resources — thus advocating for the first time publicly the concept of ‘sustainable development’.

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Main Papers
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Environmental Conservation , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , Summer 1993 , pp. 107 - 112
Copyright
Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1993

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