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    The Science and Culture Series — Nuclear Strategy and Peace Technology

    WATER — POLLUTION
    Proceedings of the International Seminar on Nuclear War and PlanetaryEmergencies — 25th Session
    Erice, Italy 19 - 24 August 2000

    edited by R Ragaini (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA)

    Full Title: Water — Pollution, Biotechnology — Transgenic Plant Vaccine, Energy, Black Sea Pollution, AIDS — Mother–Infant HIV Transmission, Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy, Limits of Development — Megacities, Missile Proliferation and Defense — Information Security, Cosmic Objects, Desertification, Carbon Sequestration and Sustainability, Climatic Changes, Global Monitoring of Planet, Mathematics and Democracy, Science and Journalism, Permanent Monitoring Panel Reports, Water for Megacities Workshop, Black Sea Workshop, Transgenic Plants Workshop, Research Resources Workshop, Mother–Infant HIV Transmission Workshop, Sequestration and Desertification Workshop, Focus Africa Workshop


    Contents:

    • Opening Session (T D Lee, K M B Siegbahn, A Zichichi, J K-C Ma, D Bodansky, R G Will, W P T James, C M Wilfert, A D Lopez & L G Everett)
    • Water — Pollution (A A Keller, S M Hassanizadeh & D I Norman)
    • Biotechnology — Transgenic Plant Vaccine (F Sala, R-X Fang, J-P Kraehenbuhl & C J Arntzen)
    • Energy (J Ongena, A Yu Gagarinski & Y P Huo)
    • Pollution — Black Sea (V I Mikhailov, I Salihoglu & K Thompson)
    • AIDS — Mother–Infant HIV Transmission (G de Thé, F Barre-Sinoussi, M F Rea, H Pratomo & L Wood)
    • Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy (P Brown & M Ricketts)
    • Limits of Development — Megacities (W J Cosgrove, K C Sivaramakrishnan, J M Borthagaray & G G Serra)
    • Missile Proliferation and Defense — Information Security (L Wood, V Tsigichko, A Kroutskikh, A Lehmann, A Piontkovsky & G Canavan)
    • Cosmic Objects (W F Huebner, A Cellino, A F Cheng & J M Greenberg)
    • Desertification, Carbon Sequestration and Sustainability (N J Rosenberg & L L Tiezen)
    • Climatic Changes — Cosmic Objects, Global Monitoring of Planet, Mathematics and Democracy, Science and Journalism (T Dyson, W M Washington, R Walgate, K C Sivaramakrishnan & D R O Morrison)
    • Permanent Monitoring Panel Reports (K M B Siegbahn, D Johnson, R Ragaini, Z Rudzikas, G Palshin, H Schubert, J Pozela & G de Thé)
    • Megacities Workshop — Water as a Limit to Development (W J Cosgrove, J M Borthagaray, A G Pozo, G G Serra, P F Ricci, K C Sivaramakrishnan, I A Amer & G O Rogers)
    • Workshop on Environmental Impacts of Oil Pollution in the Black Sea (R Ragaini, V Mikhailov, L Mirianashvili, I Salihoglu, K Thompson, E Okandan, D Dorogan & V Ragaini)
    • Transgenic Plants as Vaccines: Impact on Developing Countries Workshop (G Levi, C J Arntzen, M Pezzotti, J-P Kraehenbuhl, J K-C Ma, Z Eshhar, Z-K Xu, R-X Fang & F Sala)
    • Research Resources Workshop (W Sprigg, P Uhlir & G Tallia)
    • Mother–Infant HIV Transmission Workshop (G de Thé, C M Wilfert, H Pratomo, M F Rea, R Zetterström, D Birx & A Coutsoudis)
    • Linking the Conventions: Soil Carbon Sequestration and Desertification Control Workshop (L Olsson & P Bartel)
    • Limits of Development: Focus Africa (C A Reynolds, J F Kuka, M Farah & M Diop)


    Readership: Ecologists, meteorologists, biotechnologists, AIDS researchers, doctors, physicists and social scientists.

    704pp Pub. date: Jul 2001
    ISBN 978-981-02-4669-3
    981-02-4669-2
    US$173 / £128


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