LATEST NEWS - July 2008
U-GEC Conference
International Forum of GEC and Land Use Change in Peri-Urban
Area: Dialogue and Experience of Asian Cities. November 29, 2008, National
Taipei University 
New Executive Director for ICSU
ICSU has announced the appointment of Professor Deliang Chen
as new Executive Director. He will take up the appointment on 1 February
2009, following the retirement of Professor Thomas Rosswall
UNESCO-SCOPE-UNEP
Policy Brief No. 6 Livestock in a Changing Landscape NEW
POST
International
Nitrogen Initiative – Dr Cheryl Palm has succeeded Dr
James N. Galloway as chairperson of the INI Steering Committee. Dr Reynaldo
Victoria follows Dr Luiz Martinelli as Director of the Regional Center
for Latin America.
The UNEP
Year Book 2008 (formerly the GEO Year Book) is the fifth annual
report on the changing environment produced by the United Nations Environment
Programme in collaboration with many world environmental experts. SCOPE
contributed the Emerging Challenges section “Methane from
the Arctic: Global Warming Wildcard”.
SCOPE Series
volumes 1-59 are available for download in the Online
Library
Nitrogen
Cycling - 4 special issues of Biogeochemistry now available
- SCOPE developed an international project on Nitrogen Transport and
Transformations, synthesizing detailed information on the nature of
the human alterations of the nitrogen cycle globally and at the scale
of large regions over 1994-2002 (chaired by R.W. Howarth and J.R. Freney).
