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The process of creating
Biosphere Reserves
An evaluation of experiences from implementation
processes in five Swedish Biosphere Reserves
EMIL SANDSTRÖM OCH ANNA OLSSON
rEport 6563
SWEDISH EPA
isbn 978-91-620-6563-8
issn 0282-7298
The authors assume sole
responsibility for the contents
of this report, which
therefore cannot be cited
as representing the views
of the Swedish EPA.
In 2012 Sweden was granted its fifth Biosphere Reserve. The
Swedish Environmental Protection Agency has supported the
work with Biosphere Reserves since 2002.
The aim is to support and encourage locally anchored work
with long term sustainable development within a limited number
of selected areas.
The Biosphere Reserve is a model area for a mode of
working that supplements other support and controls available,
to achieve environmental quality goals and long-term sustainable
development. The Reserves’ role, through coordinated
planning and collaboration, is first and foremost to combine
the conservation of certain valuable core areas with usage,
within larger areas. In so much as all five previous candidate
Reserves have now been designated as Biosphere Reserves it is
important to learn lessons from the implementation processes
through which they have gone.
Compiled and analysed in the report, are the experiences
and processes in the achieving of Biosphere status in Sweden’s
five Biosphere Reserves. This evaluation is a part of the Swedish
Environmental Protection Agency’s long-term objective to
disseminate experiences, good practices and functional methods
for cooperation and sustainable management of natural
resources. The report does not necessarily express the Swedish
Environmental Protection Agency’s position. The author is
responsible for the content and references the report.
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