Global Environmental Change: Challenges to Science and Society in Southeastern Europe
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 By Vesselin Alexandrov, Martin Felix Gajdusek
Publisher: Springer 2010 | 350 Pages | ISBN: 9048186943 | PDF | 5 MB
Publisher: Springer 2010 | 350 Pages | ISBN: 9048186943 | PDF | 5 MB
This book is the outcome of the conference “Global Environmental Change: Challenges to Science and Society in Southeastern Europe” organized by the Scientific Coordination Center for Global Change (SCCGC) at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences jointly with the Austrian Science and Research Liaison Offices Ljubljana and Sofia (ASO). The event was supported by the FederalMinistry of Science and Research of the Republic of Austria in the framework of its SEE sci- ence cooperation initiative. Sponsorship was also provided from the Knight-Staneva Foundation for Sustainability and Future Environments (USA) and the EC FP6 ADAGIO project (www.adagio-eu.org). The Conference celebrated the anniversary of the founding of the SCCGC in 1997 as National Coordination Center for Global Change (NCCGC). The idea for such a center evolved at the June 1997 Workshop “Global Change and Bulgaria” held in the American University in Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad, sponsored by the US 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, that workshop identified a number of research priorities and future strategies to be pursued. The workshop resulted in two publications, Globalnite promeni i Bulgaria1 and Global Change and Bulgaria.