Transboundary Biosphere Reserves - Naturpark PfÃ¤lzerwald

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Acknowledgements Acknowledgements Special thanks go to the participants of the conference and in particular to the members of the different working groups which were formed at the Edesheim expert-workshop. Their active participation, constant commitment and mutual respect for their colleagues made the whole venue a real success. Thanks to the facilitators’ and translators’ high level of professionalism, the framework for the elaboration of good results was almost perfect. Additional thanks go to the dedicated staff of the ‘Biosphärenhaus Fischbach’, the ‘Naturerlebniszentrum Wappenschmiede’ and the Edesheim Castle. By providing for appropriate and decent conference- and workshop-facilities they created the best ambience for such an international event. Last but not least very special thanks go to all the supporters and donors who made the idea of a first international meeting on TBRs become reality, by means of generous sponsorship: • Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Consumer Protection of the Federal State of Rhineland-Palatinate/Germany, • The regional council of Région Alsace/France, • The regional council of Région Lorraine/France, • UNESCO-MAB, • German Commission for UNESCO, • LZU • Daimler-Chrysler, • Regio Pamina Werner F. Dexheimer, Managing Director of Naturpark Pfälzerwald Germany Marc Hoffsess, Managing Director of Parc Naturel Régional des Vosges du Nord France Transboundary Biosphere Reserve ‘Pfälzerwald/Vosges du Nord’ 5
Foreword Foreword How can we achieve a balance between the goals of conserving the planet’s biodiversity, promoting economic and social development and maintaining cultural values? Or put more simply: How can we really become more sustainable? This is not an easy question to answer. What is encouraging is that many pioneers, each in their own context and in all the corners of the world, have launched initiatives and are looking for viable solutions. Hannah Ahrendt once put it as follows: “What makes man a political being is his faculty to act. It enables him to get together with his peers, to act in concert, and to reach out for goals and enterprises that would never enter his mind, let alone the desires of his heart, had he not been given this gift-to embark on something new.” Indeed: we are at all times free to change the world and embark on something new. It is this that constitutes the formal task of politics. UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB) stands in this tradition. In a network of nearly 500 biosphere reserves worldwide, internationally recognised model regions for sustainable development, the prospects for achieving sustainable solutions are particularly good. Some of these regions extend across national borders. These transboundary biosphere reserves have become important testing grounds for improving intergovernmental cooperation and overcoming national egotisms and bureaucratic straightjackets, with the shared landscape acting as a natural bridge. Within the framework of UNESCO’s ‘Seville+5’ international expert meeting held in Pamplona in October 2000, representatives of these transboundary biosphere reserves (TBR) formed an ad hoc task force and drew up recommendations for future action. In line with the wishes of many TBRs and TBR initiatives to continue the exchange of experience begun in Pamplona, the two supporting organisations of the ‘Pfälzerwald/Vosges du Nord’ TBR, the ‘Verein Naturpark Pfälzerwald e.V.’ and SYCOPARC, took up this initiative in 2004. Supported by the ‘Landeszentrale für Umweltaufklärung’ (Rhineland-Palatinate State Office for Environmental Education) and the Ministry of Environment and Forestry of the Federal State of Rhineland-Palatinate, as well as UNESCO, experts from 24 nations came together again four years after Pamplona in the heart of the Franco-German ‘Pfälzerwald/Vosges du Nord’ biosphere reserve to discuss within the framework of the Wasgau Talks what has been implemented in the course of the past few years, what successes can be claimed and where an urgent need for future action still exists. In a subsequent expert workshop, recommendations for future development were adopted. I am delighted that the results of this first international transboundary biosphere reserve conference are documented in the present publication. I would like to extend my particular thanks to all the organisers. M. Conrad Minister of Environment, Forestry and Consumer Protection of Rhineland-Palatinate 6
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