In 1968, the first international conference on global biosphere protection, UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Conference for Rational Use and Conservation of the Biosphere, took place in Paris. The conference was a turning point in the establishment of international environmental politics. As one result of the conference, in 1970 UNESCO launched its “Man and the Biosphere Program” (MAB) to protect areas representing the central ecosystems of the planet as “biosphere reserves.”
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Further Readings:
- Caldwell, Lynton K. International Environmental Policy: From the Twentieth to the Twenty-First Century. 3rd ed. Revised and updated with the assistance of Paul Stanley Weiland. Durham: Duke University Press, 1996.
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