Description: Global Environmental Change: Challenges to Science and Society in Southeastern Europe Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Selected Papers presented in the International Conference held 19-21 May 2008 in Sofia Bulgaria Author(s): Vesselin Alexandrov, Martin Felix Gajdusek, C. Gregory Knight, Antoaneta Yotova Format: Hardback Publisher: Springer, Netherlands Imprint: Springer ISBN-13: 9789048186945, 978-9048186945 Synopsis This book is the outcome of the conference "Global Environmental Change: Challenges to Science and Society in Southeastern Europe" organized by the Scienti c Coordination Center for Global Change (SCCGC) at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences jointly with the Austrian Science and Research Liaison Of cesLjubljanaandSo a(ASO).TheeventwassupportedbytheFederalMinistry ofScienceandResearchoftheRepublicofAustriaintheframeworkofitsSEEs- [url] Foundation for Sustainability and Future Environments (USA) and the EC FP6 ADAGIOproject([url] The Conference celebrated the anniversary of the founding of the SCCGC in 1997asNationalCoordinationCenterforGlobalChange(NCCGC).Theideafor suchacenterevolvedattheJune1997Workshop"GlobalChangeandBulgaria" heldintheAmericanUniversityinBulgaria,Blagoevgrad,sponsoredbytheUS National Science Foundation via the Center for Integrated Regional Assessment (CIRA) at the Pennsylvania State University. In examining the competencies Bulgarian scientists would bring to the study of climate change and its impacts, thatworkshopidenti edanumberofresearchprioritiesandfuturestrategiestobe pursued. The workshop resulted in two publications, Globalnite promeni i 1 2 B lgari andGlobalChangeandBulgaria. Themostimportantfuturestrategyfromthe1997Workshopwastheproposalto theleadershipoftheBulgarianAcademyofSciencesforformationoftheNCCGC, withtherecommendationthatitbeheadedbyAcademicianDimitarMishev,dir- toroftheAcademy'sSolar-TerrestrialIn uencesLaboratory,andmembershipfrom [url] being and operated under that title until the death of its president, Academician Mishev,in2003. [tel].So a:NationalCoordinationCenterforGlobalChange,BulgarianAcademyofSciences, 370 pp. (Todor Hristov, C. Gregory Knight, Dimitar Mishev, Marieta P. Staneva, editors; in Bulgarian).ISBN[tel]. [tel].So a:NationalCoordinationCenterforGlobalChange,BulgarianAcademyofSciences, 350+viiipp.([url] ISBN[tel]. v vi Preface Duringthatinterim,oneoftheresearchprioritieswasinitiated,namelyastudy ofthe[tel]Bulgariandroughtasananalogoffutureclimatechange,realized asaprojectcoordinatedinBulgariabyProfessorIvanRaevoftheForestResearch InstituteandintheUSbyC. GregoryKnightofthePennsylvaniaStateUniversity, [url] resultedintwobooks, Zasuxavaneto v B lgari : s vremenen analog za 3 klimatiqni promeni and Drought in Bulgaria: A Contemporary Analog of 4 ClimateChange. The NCCGC played an important role in the creation of the Industrial TransformationSciencePlanoftheInternationalHumanDimensionsProgramme in[tel].TheCentrealsoco-sponsoredaworkshoponIntegratedRegional Assessment of Climate Change held in Budapest in 1999 and hosted the So a workshoponHumanDimensionsofGlobalChangein2000.
Price: 142.93 GBP
Location: Aldershot
End Time: 2024-11-23T09:18:10.000Z
Shipping Cost: 39.66 GBP
Product Images
Item Specifics
Return postage will be paid by: Buyer
Returns Accepted: Returns Accepted
After receiving the item, your buyer should cancel the purchase within: 60 days
Return policy details:
Book Title: Global Environmental Change: Challenges to Science and Society...
Number of Pages: 278 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Global Environmental Change: Challenges to Science and Society in Southeastern Europe: Selected Papers presented in the International Conference held 19-21 May 2008 in Sofia Bulgaria
Publisher: Springer
Publication Year: 2010
Subject: Geography & Geosciences, Sustainability
Item Height: 240 mm
Item Weight: 1340 g
Type: Textbook
Author: C. Gregory Knight, Martin Felix Gajdusek, Antoaneta Yotova, Vesselin Alexandrov
Subject Area: Microbiology
Item Width: 160 mm
Format: Hardcover
