Women have a vital role in environmental management and development.

UNESCO: Education

UNESCO-Gas Natural Chair in Environmental Management and Sustainable Development (148) - Mohamed V University - established in 1997.

UNESCO: UNITWIN

Key to driving forward the delivery of MDGs in BiH will be two funding windows, one supporting the implementation of Local Environmental Action Plan priority projects at local level, and a second providing assistance for innovative proposals that link environmental management and poverty reduction, and provide lessons to inform further policy development at national level.

UNESCO: Water

Of the rest, 80% is earmarked for spending on education, health, rural development, infrastructure, environmental and water management, and 5% is to be spent in the oil-producing region.

ECONOMIST: Punting on a pipeline

Kitts-Nevis National MAB Committee has a key role and functions including, Advocacy and support of sustainable development, promotion and monitoring of scientific research, planning and management of Biosphere reserves, approval of Biosphere Reserve Proposals, capacity development of the local communities in resource management and environmental protection, the conservation of biological diversity.

UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences

Responsible development of nanotechnology requires an integrated, risk-management-based approach to environmental, health, and safety (EHS) research.

WHITEHOUSE: Office of Science and Technology Policy Blog

The principal aim of these policy instruments was to promote development, social empowerment (poverty alleviation) and environmental conservation through participatory or community-based management and exploitation or utilisation of forests and forest resources.

UNESCO: Community-Based Forestry Management Programme