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

This volume contains the proceedings of the 32nd International Seminar on Nuclear War and Planetary Emergencies, which was attended by global leaders in their scientific fields, advisors to presidents, defence secretaries, and high-level diplomats. Readers are invited to participate in the fascinating debate on the wide range of subjects covered including migration, global warming, pollution, the cultural planetary emergency, AIDS and infectious diseases, water conflicts and energy.

The proceedings have been selected for coverage in:

• Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings® (ISTP® / ISI Proceedings)

• Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings (ISTP CDROM version / ISI Proceedings)

• Index to Social Sciences & Humanities Proceedings® (ISSHP® / ISI Proceedings)

• Index to Social Sciences & Humanities Proceedings (ISSHP CDROM version / ISI Proceedings)

• CC Proceedings — Engineering & Physical Sciences

• CC Proceedings — Biomedical, Biological & Agricultural Sciences

• Limits of Development: Migration:
  • Migration and Cyberspace (A Kamal)
  • Migration From and Within Asia (K C Sivamarakrishnan)
• Climatology: Global Warming:
  • Simple Climate Models (T M L Wigley)
  • Energy and Electricity Considerations — Global Warming Perspectives (H Khatib)
• Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy: Prions:
  • Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease and Blood Transfusion (R G Will)
  • BSE in North America (M N Ricketts)
• The Cultural Emergency: Information and Communications — Environment:
  • Innovations in Information and Communications Technologies: Benefits and Threats (A Lehmann)
• Cosmic Objects:
  • Asteroid Deflection: Hopes and Fears (R L Schweickart)
  • The Near-Earth Object Impact Hazard: Space Mission Priorities for Risk Assessment and Reduction (A W Harris)
• AIDS and Infectious Diseases: Ethics in Medicine:
  • Limiting Access to Dangerous Pathogens — The Need for International Cooperation (D Buriot)
  • Legal Measures to Prevent Bio-crimes (B Kellman)
• Water and Pollution:
  • Overview of the Hydrological Cycle and its Connection to Climate: Droughts and Floods (S Sorooshian)
  • Agrarian Transformation and Shifts in Water Requirements in Rural Iran: A Case Study (A I Ajami)
  • Sustainable Water Resource Management and the Role of Isotope Techniques (P Aggarwal)
• Permanent Monitoring Panels Meetings and Reports:
  • Implications of Climate Variability and Change: A Policy Maker's Summary (W A Sprigg)
  • Sustainable Nuclear Energy — Some Reasons for Optimism (R Wilson)
  • West African Point of View on Migration (M Diop)
  • Quality of Health Care Assurance: The Kangaroo Mother Care Program Experience (J G Ruiz)
  • Risk Analysis Permanent Monitoring Panel (T Taylor)
• Global Biosecurity Workshop:
  • The Bio-Science Dilemma — Precious Opportunities and Dire Threats (B Kellman)
• Cosmic Objects Workshop:
  • Detection of Transient Phenomena on Planetary Bodies (M Di Martino)
  • Proposed Ground-Based Experiments for Asteroid Seismology (R Goldstein)
  • and other papers