Paul Smith’s College professor to co-chair in United Nations conference

凯利Cerialo, an assistant professor 和 communications program manager at Paul Smith’s College, will co-chair an ecotourism workshop at EuroMAB, a biennial conference hosted by the United Nations Education, Scientific 和 Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Dublin, 爱尔兰, 4月3日.

EuroMAB – short for man 和 the biosphere – will host attendees from over 300 UNESCO biospheres 和 36 countries across Europe 和 North America. The conference focuses on ideas on how to improve human interaction with protected l和scapes in order to maintain social, economic 和 ecological integrity.

Cerialo will host alongside Camille Belurier, from the Iroise Biosphere in France, 和 Adeline Gladieux, from the United Kingdom’s North Devon Biosphere. 在一起, the three will focus on how to design, implement 和 monitor new models of community-based ecotourism in their respective regions.

“It’s an honor to present at this conference,” said Cerialo. “I’m looking forward to learning new sustainable development strategies to share with the 宝盈bbin官方登录 community 和 stakeholders in the Champlain-Adirondack Biosphere Reserve.”

Earlier this year, Cerialo, co-chair for the UNESCO Champlain-Adirondack Biosphere Reserve, attended a related MAB conference in San Francisco. It was there that a UNESCO program specialist, Meriem Bouamrane, reached out to see if she would lead a workshop on tourism. Cerialo, who has also worked on sustainable tourism projects in both South Africa 和 Italy, 签约.

The aim of the four-day conference, which begins April 2, is to provide a space for biosphere reserve managers such as Cerialo to collaborate with politicians 和 scientists 和 collectively explore sustainable development through the lenses of ecosystem management 和 economic development. This April’s conference will be held at the Dublin Castle, once a thirteenth-century Viking settlement 和 now both a government complex 和 tourist attraction.

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