教科文组织的人与生物圈计划(MAB)于1971年启动。它属于政府间科学计划,旨在为改善人与环境的关系奠定科学基础。 人与生物圈计划的工作契合国际发展议程,解决各种生态系统中的科学、环境、社会和发展问题所带来的挑战。这些生态系统囊括了山地、海洋、沿海和岛屿、热带森林、干旱带和城市地区等各种类型。 人与生物圈计划综合运用自然科学、社会科学、经济学和教育来改善人类生计,加强各种惠益的公平分享,保护自然和人工生态系统,从而促进以适合当地社会和文化的、环境上可持续的创新方法推动经济发展。 人与生物圈计划为在研究与发展、能力建设和网络建设方面开展合作提供了一个独特平台,通过这个平台可以就三个相互关联的问题,即生物多样性丧失、气候变化和可持续发展, 交流信息、知识和经验。它不仅有助于更好地了解环境,而且还促进科学和科学家更多地参与制定明智利用生物多样性的政策。

Launched in 1971, UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB) is an Intergovernmental Scientific Programme that aims to establish a scientific basis for the improvement of relationships between people and their environments.

MAB’s work engages fully with the international development agenda–specially with the Sustainable Development Goals and the Post 2015 Development Agenda– and addresses challenges linked to scientific, environmental, societal and development issues in diverse ecosystems; from mountain regions to marine, coastal and island areas; from tropical forests to drylands and urban areas. MAB combines the natural and social sciences, economics and education to improve human livelihoods and the equitable sharing of benefits, and to safeguard natural and managed ecosystems, thus promoting innovative approaches to economic development that are socially and culturally appropriate, and environmentally sustainable.