The Dyfi Biosphere Partnership has established a Research sub group. It hopes to guide interactions between academics and the community, to promote collaboration and to encourage research that is relevant to the vision of the Biosphere.
In such an interesting area, people could be over-loaded by attention from researchers. Potential researchers have much to gain from formal association with, and approval from, the Dyfi Biosphere co-ordinators. This would include endorsement of their work, links into wider UNESCO structures and full co-operation from stakeholders and existing researchers. In return for this they would be required to:
Mike Bailey of the Countryside Council for Wales produced a bibliography to accompany the Dyfi Biosphere’s 2008 application to UNESCO.
The Higher Education establishments in the Dyfi Biosphere are Aberystwyth University and the Graduate School of the Environment (GSE) at the Centre for Alternative Technology. Courses at the latter are validated by the University of East London. The Dyfi Biosphere has established good contacts at the Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences and with the department for Continuing Education at Aberystwyth.
Dissertations carried out by Aberystwyth undergraduate students include
Mark Hebden's 2006 MA dissertation 'Environmentality: UNESCO Biosphere Reserves, and
the globalisation of environmental governance' was carried out at the Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences in Aberystwyth.
Relevant work from MSc students at GSE include a discussion of action planning in the Dyfi Biosphere and of the potential for renewable energy.
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