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).

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