Environmental Education Experiences in Biosphere Reserves of Perú

This book is part of an important process of reflection and systematization on behalf of the biosphere reserves of Peru to expound their long history of environmental education.
Taking as a landmark the IV World Congress of Biosphere Reserves, to be held in March 2016 in Lima, various institutions and entities involved and interested in environmental education in Peru have wished to participate in this process. Besides the immediate result, reflected in this book, the enormous potential of biosphere reserves to be authentic educational laboratories is glimpsed.
Environmental education as a tool that generates ability to analyse with foundations the reality and propose solutions to problems
collaboratively, is also a means to enhance resilience among the population and awareness of their role in the proper conservation and management of their environment.
The Man of the Biosphere (MAB) programme began in 1971, and has been supporting the creation of participatory spaces for conservation
for 45 years and today is a global network in 120 countries, consisting of 651 biosphere reserves, including 15 transnational
areas. The objective of the MAB programme and of the biosphere reserves is to promote development based on scientific knowledge and the inhabitant populations, to be inclusive, equitable and sustainable in order to improve the lives of people and ensure management resources for better conservation.
Therefore, the Biosphere Reserves are ideal places to test sustainable means of livelihoods and imagine synergies between participation, management and education.
Likewise, the MAB programme encourages he exchange of information between biosphere reserves, boosting reproducible results and sharing successes in networks.