The need to increase access to clean, efficient, affordable and reliable modern energy services for balancing the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable choices is nowadays worldwide recognized.

UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences

The book also highlights new initiatives and alliances such as the, the Green Development Initiative which aims to establish an area-based certified biodiversity unit, the ISEAL Alliance which is exploring the biodiversity dimensions of environmental and social certification schemes, the Malua BioBank in Malaysia, and Mission Markets which has established an e-platform for biodiversity deals.

FORBES: Making the economic case for business and biodiversity

At the international level, MOST has two current strategic priorities: social inclusion and the social dimensions of global environmental change.

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At the international level, MOST has currently two strategic priorities: social inclusion and the social dimensions of global environmental change.

UNESCO: CLACSO Conference debates state of the social sciences in Latin America and Caribbean | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

The Planet Under Pressure conference is organized by Diversitas, the International Programme of Biodiversity Science, the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change, and the World Climate Research Programme.

UNESCO: Planet under pressure: taking stock of scientific data

In a partnership with the Mountain Research Initiative (MRI) based in Berne (Switzerland), the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP), and the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), UNESCO is selecting biosphere reserve sites from each of the major mountainous regions of the world as the focus for this new global climate change monitoring programme.

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Understand the social, environmental, economic, legal and institutional dimensions of flood management in Pakistan, and as such the interdisciplinary nature of concept and to appreciate the possible contribution of each discipline.

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