MAB in the mountains of Europe and the former Soviet Union

This Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB) Digest provides an overview of scientific activities undertaken within MAB Project 6, whose focus is on mountain areas. It considers MAB activities in the mountains of nine European countries -- Austria, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, and Switzerland -- and the former USSR. It is in these countries that the majority of MAB activities in European mountain areas have been conducted. This overview is based on the analysis of published and unpublished documents, and interviews and field visits in the ten countries in 1992 and 1993. For more detail about the organization, content, and implications of the research described in this document, as well as a comparative evaluation of MAB activities in the mountains of Europe and the former USSR, the reader is encouraged to read the book by Price