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  Biosphere reserves in Asia and the Pacific

Lalit Kapur Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change E-mail:  l.kapur@nic.in MAB National Committee   Biosphere reserves There are 12  biosphere reserves in India: Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve Designated in 2000 Periodic reviews: 2012 Gulf of Mannar Biosphere Reserve Designated in 2001 Periodic reviews: 2013 Sunderban Biosphere Reserve Designated in 2001 Periodic reviews: 2013 Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve Designated in 2004 Periodic reviews: / Nokrek Biosphere Reserve Designated in 2009 Periodic reviews: / Pachmarhi Biosphere Reserve Designated in 2009 Periodic reviews: / Similipal Biosphere Reserve Designated in 2009 Periodic reviews: / Achanakmar - Amarkantak Biosphere Reserve Designated in 2012 Periodic reviews: / Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve Designated in 2013 Periodic reviews: / Agasthyamala Biosphere Reserve Designated in 2016 Periodic reviews: / Khangchendzonga Biosphere Reserve Designated in 2018 Periodic reviews: / Panna Biosphere Reserve Designated in 2018 Periodic reviews: /   Indonesia Focal point for biosphere reserves: Prof. (...) Roman Jashenko Chairman Institute of Zoology E-mail: rjashenko@kazmab.kz MAB National Committee   Biosphere reserves There are 13  biosphere reserves in Kazakhstan: Korgalzhyn Biosphere Reserve Designated in 2012 Periodic reviews: / Alakol Biosphere Reserve Designated in 2013 Periodic reviews: / Ak-Zhayik Biosphere Reserve Designated in 2014 Periodic reviews: / Katon-Karagay Biosphere Reserve Designated in 2014 (since 2017 Transboundary Great Altay BR with Russian Federation) Periodic reviews: / Aksu-Zhabagly Biosphere Reserve Designated in 2015 Periodic reviews: / Bersakelmes Biosphere Reserve Designated in 2016 Periodic reviews: / Altyn Emel Biosphere Reserve Designated in 2017 Periodic reviews: / Karatau Biosphere Reserve Designated in 2017 Periodic reviews: / Charyn Biosphere Reserve Designated in 2018 Periodic reviews: / Zhongar Biosphere Reserve Designated in 2018 Periodic reviews: / Almaty Biosphere Reserve Designated in 2020 Periodic reviews: / West Altai Biosphere Reserve Designated in 2020 Periodic reviews: / Kolsai Kolderi Biosphere Reserve Designated in 2021 Periodic reviews: /   Kiribati MAB Focal point: Ms. (...) Nguyen Van Hien Biosphere reserves There are 11  biosphere reserve in Vietnam: Can Gio Mangrove Biosphere Reserve Designated in 2000 Periodic reviews: 2011 Dong Nai Biosphere Reserve Designated in 2001 (former Cat Tien, extended in 2011) Periodic reviews: 2011 Cat Ba Biosphere Reserve Designated in 2004 Periodic reviews: 2015 Red River Delta Biosphere Reserve Designated in 2004 Periodic reviews: / Kien Gian Biosphere Reserve Designated in 2006 Periodic reviews: / Western Nghe An Biosphere Reserve Designated in 2007 Periodic reviews: / Cu Lao Cham - Hoi An Biosphere Reserve Designated in 2009 Periodic reviews: / Mui Ca Mau Biosphere Reserve Designated in 2009 Periodic reviews: / Langbiang Biosphere Reserve Designated in 2015 Periodic reviews: / Nui Chua Biosphere Reserve Designated in 2021 Periodic reviews: / Kon ha Nung Biosphere Reserve Designated in 2021 Periodic reviews: /   Vanuatu MAB Focal point: Mr.

Score: 475521.4 - https://en.unesco.org/biosphere/aspac

  Interview - Beijing | Creative Cities Network

Since 2010, Beijing Municipal Government has issued more than 50 policies to promote the development of the design industry, and produced the “Beijing City of Design Development Plan (2012-2020)”.   (...) Through holding events such as the China Red Star Design Award and Beijing Design Week, it has strengthened the design cooperation with domestic and international cities. (...) The 100,000m2 City of Design building has been put into use. China’s first design market has been opened, and its first 3D printing experience pavilion has been established.

Score: 475458.06 - https://en.unesco.org/creative-cities/node/195

  Wendy Gunn | UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab

This requires: • a diversity of multidisciplinary teams working on interdisciplinary research projects focusing on collaborative design in design engineering related to sustainability in health care. • local, national, and international research projects engaging patients, healthcare professionals and staff, NGOs, hospital and company partners in co-design and co-creation sustainable design engineering processes and practices. • application of research findings within the designing of product, service, and system, from conceptualization through to implementation. (...) I have developed research insights into how collaborative design processes work in engineering design as well as how anthropology can play an important role in design, whether in healthcare settings or architecture. (...) I address key challenges in conducting interdisciplinary research with multidisciplinary design teams engaged with issues of sustainability in collaborative design processes and practices in engineering design.

Score: 475334.57 - https://en.unesco.org/inclusivepolicylab/users/wendy-gunn

  Wendy Gunn | UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab

This requires: • a diversity of multidisciplinary teams working on interdisciplinary research projects focusing on collaborative design in design engineering related to sustainability in health care. • local, national, and international research projects engaging patients, healthcare professionals and staff, NGOs, hospital and company partners in co-design and co-creation sustainable design engineering processes and practices. • application of research findings within the designing of product, service, and system, from conceptualization through to implementation. (...) I have developed research insights into how collaborative design processes work in engineering design as well as how anthropology can play an important role in design, whether in healthcare settings or architecture. (...) I address key challenges in conducting interdisciplinary research with multidisciplinary design teams engaged with issues of sustainability in collaborative design processes and practices in engineering design.

Score: 475334.57 - http://en.unesco.org/inclusivepolicylab/user/7417

  Wendy Gunn | UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab

This requires: • a diversity of multidisciplinary teams working on interdisciplinary research projects focusing on collaborative design in design engineering related to sustainability in health care. • local, national, and international research projects engaging patients, healthcare professionals and staff, NGOs, hospital and company partners in co-design and co-creation sustainable design engineering processes and practices. • application of research findings within the designing of product, service, and system, from conceptualization through to implementation. (...) I have developed research insights into how collaborative design processes work in engineering design as well as how anthropology can play an important role in design, whether in healthcare settings or architecture. (...) I address key challenges in conducting interdisciplinary research with multidisciplinary design teams engaged with issues of sustainability in collaborative design processes and practices in engineering design.

Score: 475334.57 - http://en.unesco.org/inclusivepolicylab/users/wendy-gunn

  Wendy Gunn | UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab

This requires: • a diversity of multidisciplinary teams working on interdisciplinary research projects focusing on collaborative design in design engineering related to sustainability in health care. • local, national, and international research projects engaging patients, healthcare professionals and staff, NGOs, hospital and company partners in co-design and co-creation sustainable design engineering processes and practices. • application of research findings within the designing of product, service, and system, from conceptualization through to implementation. (...) I have developed research insights into how collaborative design processes work in engineering design as well as how anthropology can play an important role in design, whether in healthcare settings or architecture. (...) I address key challenges in conducting interdisciplinary research with multidisciplinary design teams engaged with issues of sustainability in collaborative design processes and practices in engineering design.

Score: 475334.57 - https://en.unesco.org/inclusivepolicylab/user/7417

  1 A BILL for AN ACT

Right to protection 6. (1) The right to layout-design protection: (a) shall belong to the creator of the layout-design; (b) may be assigned or transferred by succession; or (c) where several persons have jointly created a layout-design, the right shall belong to them jointly. (2) Where the layout-design has been created in execution of a commission or an employment contract, the right to layout-design protection shall belong, in the absence of contractual provisions to the contrary, to the person who commissioned the work or to the employer. (3) Protection under this Act shall not be available for layout-designs which have been commercially exploited, anywhere in the world, for more than two year prior to the commencement of this Act. (...) Commencement and 8. (1) Protection of a layout-design under this Act shall duration of protection commence - (a) on the date of the first commercial exploitation, anywhere in the world, of the layout-design by, or with the consent of, the right holder, provided an application for protection is filed by the right holder with the Registrar within the time limit referred to in section 4(2); or (b) on the filing date accorded to the application for the registration of the layout-design filed by the right holder, if the layout-design has not been previously exploited commercially anywhere in the world. (2) Protection of a layout-design under this Act shall terminate at the end of 10 years after the date of commencement of protection. (...) Registration 10. (1) The Registrar shall maintain a register (the "Register of Layout-Designs") in which he shall, for reach protected layout-design, enter all the information required to be recorded as provided for in this Act. (2) Where the application complies with the requirements of section 9, the Registrar shall register the layout-design in the Register of Layout- Designs without examination of the originality of the layout-design, the applicant's entitlement to protection or the correctness of the facts stated in the application. (3) The Register of Layout-Designs shall contain the number, title, filing date and, where indicated in the application under section 9(2)(d), the date of first commercial exploitation, anywhere in the world, of the layout- 6 design as well as the name and address of the right holder and other prescribed particulars. (4) Any person may consult the Register of Layout-Designs and obtain extracts therefrom, subject to the payment of the prescribed fee. (5) The fact of the registration of a layout-design shall be published in the Gazette.

Score: 475277.83 - https://www.wto.org/english/th..._e/ton_e/WTACCTON4A3_LEG_3.pdf

  1 A BILL for AN ACT

Right to protection 6. (1) The right to layout-design protection: (a) shall belong to the creator of the layout-design; (b) may be assigned or transferred by succession; or (c) where several persons have jointly created a layout-design, the right shall belong to them jointly. (2) Where the layout-design has been created in execution of a commission or an employment contract, the right to layout-design protection shall belong, in the absence of contractual provisions to the contrary, to the person who commissioned the work or to the employer. (3) Protection under this Act shall not be available for layout-designs which have been commercially exploited, anywhere in the world, for more than two year prior to the commencement of this Act. (...) Commencement and 8. (1) Protection of a layout-design under this Act shall duration of protection commence - (a) on the date of the first commercial exploitation, anywhere in the world, of the layout-design by, or with the consent of, the right holder, provided an application for protection is filed by the right holder with the Registrar within the time limit referred to in section 4(2); or (b) on the filing date accorded to the application for the registration of the layout-design filed by the right holder, if the layout-design has not been previously exploited commercially anywhere in the world. (2) Protection of a layout-design under this Act shall terminate at the end of 10 years after the date of commencement of protection. (...) Registration 10. (1) The Registrar shall maintain a register (the "Register of Layout-Designs") in which he shall, for reach protected layout-design, enter all the information required to be recorded as provided for in this Act. (2) Where the application complies with the requirements of section 9, the Registrar shall register the layout-design in the Register of Layout- Designs without examination of the originality of the layout-design, the applicant's entitlement to protection or the correctness of the facts stated in the application. (3) The Register of Layout-Designs shall contain the number, title, filing date and, where indicated in the application under section 9(2)(d), the date of first commercial exploitation, anywhere in the world, of the layout- design as well as the name and address of the right holder and other prescribed particulars. 6 (4) Any person may consult the Register of Layout-Designs and obtain extracts therefrom, subject to the payment of the prescribed fee. (5) The fact of the registration of a layout-design shall be published in the Gazette.

Score: 475277.83 - https://www.wto.org/english/th..._e/ton_e/WTACCTON5A1_LEG_4.pdf

  Biosphere reserves in Europe & North America

Marianne Popp Faculty of Life Sciences, Univeristy of Vienna   Biosphere reserves There are 4  biosphere reserves in Austria: Grosses Walsertal Biosphere Reserve Designated in 2000 Periodic reviews: 2011 Wienerwald Biosphere Reserve Designated in 2005 Periodic reviews: 2016 Salzburger Lungau & Kärtner Nockberg Biosphere Reserve Designated in 2012 Periodic reviews: / Lower Mura Valley Biosphere Reserve Designated in 2019 Periodic reviews: / Five-country Biosphere Reserve Mura-Drava-Danube (Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Serbia, Slovenia) Designated in 2021   Azerbaijan MAB Focal point: Mr. (...) Vladimir Vladimirov Institute of biodiversity and ecosystem investigations Bulgarian Academy of Sciences E-mail: vdvlad@bio.bas.bg MAB National Committee   Biosphere reserves There are 10  biosphere reserves in Bulgaria: Alibotouch Biosphere Reserve Designated in 1977 Periodic reviews: 2016 < Doupki-Djindjiritza Biosphere Reserve Designated in 1977 Periodic reviews: 2016 Mantaritza Biosphere Reserve Designated in 1977 Periodic reviews: 2016 Uzunbudzhak Biosphere Reserve Designated in 1977 (extended in 2017) Periodic reviews: 2016 Parangalitza Biosphere Reserve Designated in 1977 Periodic reviews: 2016 Srébarna Biosphere Reserve Designated in 1977 (extended in 2017) Periodic reviews: 2016 Tchervenata Sténa Biosphere Reserve Designated in 1977 (extended in 2017) Periodic reviews: 2016 Central Balkan Biosphere Reserve Designated in 2017 (encompasses the former Steneto, Tsaritchina, Djendema and Boitine BR's) Periodic reviews: /   Canada Focal point for biosphere reserves: Eleanor Haine Bennett Programme Officer, Natural Sciences Canadian Commission for UNESCO E-mail: eleanor-haine-bennett@ccunesco.ca MAB National Committee Mauren Reed E-mail:  mgr774@mail.usask.ca   Debbie Pella Keen E-mail:  dpellakeen@vianet.ca   Rebecca Hurwiz E-mail:  rebecca@clayoquotbiosphere.org   Larry McDermott E-mail:  larryplentycanada@gmail.com   Sébastien Goupil E-mail:  sebastien.goupil@unesco.ca   Biosphere reserves There are 19  biosphere reserves in Canada: Mont Saint Hilaire Biosphere Reserve Designated in 1978 Periodic reviews: 1998 and 2009 Waterton Biosphere Reserve Designated in 1979 Periodic reviews: 1998 and 2009 Long Point Biosphere Reserve Designated in 1986 Periodic reviews: 2001 and 2012 Riding Mountain Biosphere Reserve Designated in 1986 Periodic reviews: 2001 and 2013 Charlevoix Biosphere Reserve Designated in 1988 Periodic reviews: 2003 and 2015 Niagara Escarpment Biosphere Reserve Designated in 1990 Periodic reviews: 2002 and 2014 Clayoquot Sound Biosphere Reserve Designated in 2000 Periodic reviews: 2011 Redberry Lake Biosphere Reserve Designated in 2000 Periodic reviews: 2012 Lac Saint Pierre Biosphere Reserve Designated in 2000 Periodic reviews: 2012 Mount Arrowsmith Biosphere Reserve Designated in 2000 Periodic reviews: 2011 South West Nova Biosphere Reserve Designated in 2001 Periodic reviews: 2012 Thousand Islands - Frontenac Arch Biosphere Reserve Designated in 2002 (extended in 2007) Periodic reviews: 2018 Georgian Bay Littoral Biosphere Reserve Designated in 2004 Periodic reviews: 2016 Manicouagan Uapishka Biosphere Reserve Designated in 2007 Periodic reviews: 2018 Fundy Biosphere Reserve Designated in 2007 Periodic reviews: 2018 Bras d'Or Lake Biosphere Reserve Designated in 2011 Periodic reviews: / Beaver Hills Biosphere Reserve Designated in 2016 Periodic reviews: / Tsá Tué Biosphere Reserve Designated in 2016 Periodic reviews: / Átl' k a7tsem/Howe Sound Biosphere Reserve Designated in 2021 Periodic reviews: /   Croatia Focal point for biosphere reserves: Ms. (...) Nicole Spundflasch Vice-President of NABU 8 (Nature And Biodiversity Conservation Union), freelance planner   Biosphere reserves There are 16  biosphere reserves in Germany: Flusslandschaft Elbe Biosphere Reserve Designated in 1979 (extended in 1997) Periodic reviews: 2002, 2009 and 2018 Thüringen Forest Biosphere Reserve Designated in 1979 (extended in 1987 and 1990; extended and renamed in 2018) Periodic reviews: 2002 and 2012 Berchtesgadener Land Biosphere Reserve Designated in 1990 (extended and renamed in 2010) Periodic reviews: 2003 and 2013 Schorfheide-Chorin Biosphere Reserve Designated in 1990 Periodic reviews: 2003 and 2013 Wadden Sea and Hallig Islands of Schleswig-Holstein Biosphere Reserve Designated in 1990 (extended in 2004) Periodic reviews: 2006 and 2015 Spreewald Biosphere Reserve Designated in 1991 Periodic reviews: 2003 and 2013 South-East Rügen Biosphere Reserve Designated in 1991 Periodic reviews: 2004 and 2014 Rhön Biosphere Reserve Designated in 1991 Periodic reviews: 2004 and 2014 Waddensea of Lower Saxony Biosphere Reserve Designated in 1992 Periodic reviews: 2006 and 2015 Waddensea of Hamburg Biosphere Reserve Designated in 1992 Periodic reviews: 2006 and 2015 Oberlausitzer Heide and Teichlandschaft Biosphere Reserve Designated in 1996 Periodic reviews: 2007 and 2017 Vosges du Nord/Pfälzerwald Biosphere Reserve Designated in 1998 (Transboundary BR with France) Periodic reviews: 2004 and 2014 (national report), 2011 (joint report) Schaalsee Biosphere Reserve Designated in 2000 Periodic reviews: 2012 Bliesgau Biosphere Reserve Designated in 2009 Periodic reviews: / Schwabian Alps Biosphere Reserve Designated in 2009 Periodic reviews: / Black Forest Biosphere Reserve Designated in 2017 Periodic reviews: /   Greece Focal point for biosphere reserves: Prof.

Score: 475153.1 - https://en.unesco.org/biosphere/eu-na

  Winners of the 2015 edition of Shenzhen Design Award for Young Talents | Creative Cities Network

This year’s competition was themed “Transformation: the Mission of Design” and invited designers under 35 years old, and architects under 40 years old, to join in.   Coming from various design backgrounds, young designers submitted design entries ranging from product design to architectural design.   (...) When: 18 Jun 2020 Know more Designing Common Ground | 11th International Design Biennial of Saint-Etienne About: The International Design Biennial of Saint-Etienne will be...

Score: 475125.73 - https://en.unesco.org/creative...hen-design-award-young-talents