From Nature Conservation to Sustainable Development

Abstract

This paper presents the author’s vision about some essential results of many years international cooperation in the environmental sciences and practice development in the Baltic countries and regions, including Kaliningrad District of Russian Federation. First interest would be given to a long-term and very successful International cooperative projects, integrated in “The Baltic University Programme” (BUP), which was coordinated by Uppsala University, Sweden. Short description of some important series of courses, which was formed by participants, would be presented. For Would Climate Research Programme was organized project “Baltic Sea Experiment” with our participations and presentation of papers about climate change in Kaliningrad District and their consequences for agriculture. The study also pays special attention to annual German–Russian Days in Kaliningrad with connection to international programme “Man and Biosphere” and development of biosphere reserves between Russia, Lithuania, and Poland. Finally, author suggest some tasks for students about modernization traditional curriculum schemes.