Volume 15, Number 3 April-June 2000

To Be Or Not to Be, That is the Question

. . . For the Network Newsletter! Well, it’s a few years later since that plea for ideas about how to continue support for the newsletter. No quick-fix LET’S HEAR FROM YOU!! ideas were identified, but we managed to continue to produce the newsletter on a so-called “shoestring.” Here is another appeal to our readers to brainstorm about This newsletter depends on YOUR input. Please ways to keep the newsletter going. In the absence of a send relevant information that comes across your resolution, there will be one more newsletter after this desk, whether it is a news item, a meeting, job one, in July 2000. And then . . . no more. opening, or publication, to the address on the back cover. Information to be included in the next We here in ESIG have given this possible and likely newsletter must be received by 1 July 2000. future a great deal of thought. We could rationalize a decision to bring the Network Newsletter to an end: perhaps the Internet has replaced the need for it, and perhaps there are now numerous groups interested and involved in climate-society interactions and in climate and climate-related impact assessment. Editorial Perhaps we could just post it on the Internet, scale back To Be Or Not To Be: That is the Question the mailings, or charge for it. But many of the people we . . . For the Network Newsletter! want to reach are in the Third World and are without constant access to the Internet.

A couple of years ago, I wrote an editorial about the To those of us in ESIG who have worked on the Network Newsletter and issued a muted call for financial newsletter for years (D. Jan Stewart, Jan Hopper, support in order to keep the newsletter going. This Shirley Broach, Jennifer Oxelson, Rick Katz, Maria newsletter started in 1985 as the result of a Krenz, Tanja Butler, Vicki Holzhauer, Tanya Beck, and “Networkshop” to develop a network of individuals, myself), it will be the end of an era. Nevertheless, we groups, and agencies interested in climate-society owe it to the impacts community to make one last call for interactions. We were careful to make it a newsletter for ideas about how to keep the Network Newsletter alive. the community, using input from the community. We did not want to make it an ESIG or NCAR newsletter, and –Michael H. Glantz kept it as a low-budget production, devoid of gloss (other than that easy-to-recognize pink).

The initial funding of $30,000 came from the UN GECP FINDINGS RELEASED Environment Programme (UNEP) and NCAR. During the past few years, UNEP has fallen on hard times and The Economic and Social Research Council’s Global its support for the newsletter ended. ESIG has carried Environmental Change Programme (GECP) at the the ball with the help and understanding of NCAR. Much University of Sussex in Brighton, UK, was created in of the funding goes for postage. The newsletter has 1991 at the time of the diplomacy that led to the 1992 identified and built a community of interest in climate Earth Summit. It is now in its final year. In March 2000, impact assessment. This community can work with the three program summaries were released synthesizing atmospheric science community to better understand the main insights from the program’s work. Organized climate, climate impacts, forecasts, societal responses to around three themes (Risky Choices, Soft Disasters: forecasts, and the needs of users of those forecasts. Environmental Decision-Making under Uncertainty; Who Governs the Global Environment?; and Producing We started the Network Newsletter in the Dark Ages of Greener, Consuming Smarter), they are available on line the Internet. Few readers were on line, unlike today, a with a host of supporting materials, as well as in hard mere 15 years later. Our main goal was to continue to copy. These booklets are a key output from the produce the newsletter in hard copy and, much later, program. For more information, please contact the also as an electronic newsletter. We have kept it free of GECP Office, Mantell Building, University of Sussex, charge in order to assure that those who heard of it and Falmer, Brighton BN1 9RF; tel: 44-1273-678935; fax: 44- wanted to receive it could do so at no hardship to them, 1273-604483; email [email protected]. The Web site especially those subscribers in the Third World. is at wwww.gecko.ac.uk. (From Gecko. The final edition will be released in June 2000). Over the years, we have received lots of letters and emails in support of the newsletter. We’ve received input about papers, upcoming meetings, books, jobs and fellowship opportunities, articles, and so on. SPECIAL ISSUE OF OUR PLANET

The latest issue of Our Planet, the UNEP flagship magazine for environmentally sustainable development, covers many of the issues debated at the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of wild fauna and flora (CITES), which was convened in Nairobi, Kenya, in April 2000. Available on the Web, the magazine covers many of the issues debated and carries articles by several key figures, including an editorial by Klaus Töpfer (Executive Director of UNEP) and Willem Wijnstekers (Secretary- General of CITES). This special issue is on line at MSF AND THE ARAL SEA www.ourplanet.com or to be placed on the mailing list for hard copies, write to Mani Kebede, Circulation Manager, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is making a plea for Our Planet, UNEP, PO Box 30552, Nairobi, Kenya; tel: additional help for the 4 million people living in the area 2542-621234; fax 2542-623927; email surround the Aral Sea (called the “disaster zone”) who [email protected] have poor access to potable water. MSF is asking for particular help for those affected by the economic and environmental consequences of the drying up of the Aral GM WITHDRAWS FROM GCC Sea. MSF has been working in the area since 1998, providing medical assistance to the population and GM (General Motors), one of the world’s largest conducting research into the environmental factors automobile manufacturers, withdrew from the industry- affecting health. Ian Small, head of the MSF mission in based Global Climate Coalition (GCC), a group lobbying Uzbekistan, is asking for more NGOs (non-governmental against the ratification of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol to the organizations) to become involved. More details about UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Other the Aral Sea and MSF’s activities in the region can be corporations that have withdrawn from the GCC include, obtained from the MSF Web site at www.msf.org/ but are not limited to, Ford, DaimlerChrysler, Texaco, aralsea or contact MSF at their International Office, rue and Shell. British Petroleum withdrew in 1996. Although de la Tourelle, 39 - , Belgium 1040; tel: 32-2- the motives behind these withdrawals are not clear, 280-1881; fax: 32-2-280-0173; email msfh-tashkent@ given that the march toward acceptance of the Kyoto amsterdam.msf.org Protocol has slowed down considerably, the GCC stature as an effective anti-Kyoto lobby has been greatly weakened (From Nature, 404, p. 322).

REPORT ON INDONESIA FOREST AND LAND FIRES

An inter-agency report on Indonesia Forest and Land Fires and Proposals for Risk Reduction in Human Settlements was produced in October 1999 by the UN Centre for Human Settlements, with assistance from the UN Development Program in Jakarta, the UN Centre for Human Development in Nagoya, and the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center in Bangkok. The study was WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY sparked (pun intended) by the haze-producing fires in Indonesia during the 1997-98 El Niño event. The haze World Environment Day is commemorated each year on blanketed much of Southeast Asia and was blamed for 5 June. It is one of the principal vehicles through which ship collisions, airplane crashes, and a large increase in the United Nations Environment Programme stimulates respiratory problems. The report identifies strategic worldwide awareness of the environment and enhances action areas for the prevention of forest and land fires. political attention and, hopefully, action. This year’s For more information, please contact the Asian Disaster theme is 2000 The Environment Millennium: Time to Preparedness Center (ADPC), Asian Institute of Act. In many countries this observance provides an Technology, PO Box 4, Klong Luang, Pathumthani opportunity to sign or ratify international conventions and 12120, Thailand; tel: 5662-524-5378; fax: 662-524-5360; calls on everyone to demonstrate our commitment to email Kamal Kishore at [email protected] protecting the environment and to prevent future damage to our planet. For more information, please contact Tore J. Brevik, Director, Communications and tools and techniques to aid them in handling the Public Information, UNEP, PO Box 30552, Nairobi, challenges of dealing with coastal management. Since Kenya; tel: 254-2-623292; fax: 254-2-623927; email the first course in 1991, a total of 5 Institutes have taken [email protected] or see the Web site at www.unep.org/ place. SI-2000 is shaping up to be CRC’s most innovative course offered to date. It will be limited to 25 participants and will be held 29 May-23 June 2000 on the University of Rhode Island’s Bay Campus. For more POPULATION ACTION information and other inquiries, including those about INTERNATIONAL scholarships and other sources of funding for attendance at Summer Institute 2000, please contact CRC, Population Action International (PAI) has released a new University of Rhode Island Bay Campus, Narrangansett, report on population and critical natural resources, RI 02882 USA; tel: 1-401-874-6224; fax: 1-401-789- Nature’s Place: Human Population and the Future of 4670; email [email protected] or see the Web site at Biological Diversity by R.P. Concotta and R. Engelman www.crc.uri.edu/train/ (2000). The authors apply geographic information systems to the analysis of human population and species diversity. In cooperation with Conservation NOR’EASTER BIDS FAREWELL International (CI), they have estimated population density, size, and current growth in CI’s 25 biodiversity The Nor’Easter, the magazine of the Northeast Sea “hot spots” and its three tropical wilderness areas. This Grant Programs, has been published for more than ten publication is available free of charge for those in years. It has included topics on fisheries and fishery developing countries, and a $9 charge for those in management, habitat preservation, coastal hazards and industrialized countries. PAI has recently moved, hazard mitigation, water quality and monitoring, among please note the new contact information: Population many others. It has ceased being published in hard and Environment Program, PAI, 1300 19th St. NW, copy, but will maintain a Web site. A regional Web page Second Floor, Washington, DC 20036 USA; tel: 1-202- will be expanded to post news releases, updated 557-3400; fax: 1-202-728-4177; email [email protected] articles, fact sheets, and other materials from the or visit the Web site to download the report at Northeast Sea Grant programs. In addition, individual www.populationaction.org programs will continue to publish their newsletters and documents on this site. Contact Nor’Easter, University of Rhode Island, Rhode Island Sea Grant, INDIA’S CENTRE FOR Narrangansett, RI 02882-1197 USA; tel: 1-401-874- SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT 6842; email noreaster@gsosun1. gso.uri.edu or Web site seagrant.gso.uri.edu/region/ India’s Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) is an noreaster/noreaster.html to register for the Web version. effective environmental “think tank.” One of the key organizers of the CSE is Anil Agarwal, formerly of the Environment Liaison Centre International in Nairobi, CUBA’S PALEOCLIMATE Kenya. CSE has recently completed Green Politics: Global Environmental Negotiations, which provides an New data on the paleoclimate of Cuba has recently been analysis of important environment-related conventions collected by researchers from the Instituto de Geofisica y and institutions from their origins. It also examines the Astronomia at the Instituto de Geografia Tropical and the politics between rich and poor nations and how the Centro de Antropologia of the Cuban Ministerio para la stance of one country influences others. For a complete Ciencia Tecnologia y Medio Ambiente. Paleo- table of contents and an order form, see the Web site at temperature curves and the amount of precipitation www.oneworld.org/cse/html/eyou/eyou41.html or contact during the late Wisconsin glaciation were obtained from CSE at 41, Tughlakabad Institutional Area, New Delhi stalagmite isotopic analysis of cave walls. The Cuban 110062, India; tel: 91-11-608-1110; fax: 91-11-608-5869; climate map for the Late Wisconsin period was much email [email protected] improved. The lessening of winter temperatures and annual rains during the Little Ice Age (1500-1850) was documented using historical analysis, and the carbon SUMMER INSTITUTE content of Cuban soils was established. As a result, the IN COASTAL MANAGEMENT Cuban wetlands have worked as an important carbon sink since the Early Holocene. For more information, The Summer Institute in Coastal Management is a please contact Fernando Ortega, Centro de month-long intensive training for coastal management Antropologia, Havana, Cuba, email professions given by the Coastal Resources Center [email protected] or contact the Web site at (CRC) every two years. Participants and instructors www.cuba.cu (in Spanish). from all over the world attend, and participants learn offers a presentation and discussion of a topic drawn START’S METADATA SITE from the latest scientific studies of the global environment and its interaction with societal activities The Southeast Asia (SEA) START (SysTem for and the economy. The topics and speakers are selected Analysis, Research and Training) Regional Centre (RC) for their potential interest to a wide audience, and the is an organization at Chulalongkorn University in public is invited to attend. Within a few days of the Bangkok, Thailand. START is a global network to seminar, it is posted on line and is available for review. encourage multidisciplinary research on the interactions All five years of previous seminars are available as well. of human and environmental factors afffecting global For more information, please contact Anthony D. Socci, changes. SEA START RC was created to develop the Associate Director, USGCRP, 400 Virginia Ave. SW, capability to understand the integrated impacts of Suite 750, Washington, DC 20024 USA; tel: 1-202-314- present and future global changes in Southeast Asia. 2235; fax: 1-202-488-8681; email [email protected] SEA START DIF (Directory Interchange Format) was Web site: www.usgcrp.gov developed from NASA’s Global Change Master Directory (Web site: gcmd.nasa.gov). Through the search interfaces, the database may be easily searched; those CENTRAL EURASIAN with data can add a description of their data to the STUDIES SOCIETY Directory. The resulting metadata records provide information on the nature of the data (e.g., parameters The Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) would like measured, geographic location, time range) and where to invite scholars whose interests are in the study of the the data are stored. Use of the SEA START DIF is free history, languages, cultures, and modern states and of charge, and the staff is ready to answer any questions societies of the Turkic, Mongolian, Iranian, Caucasian, you might have. Comments and suggestions may be Tibetan and other peoples of the Black Sea region, the sent to the DIF Administrators, Southeast Asia START Crimea, the Caucasus, the Middle Volga region, and Regional alCentre, The Environment Research Institute, Central and Inner Asia and Siberia to join CESS. This Chulalongkorn University, Phyathai Rd., Patumwan, invitation is open to scholars from all countries. CESS Bangkok 10330, Thailand; tel: 662-218-8129; fax: 662- will facilitate interaction among senior established 255-4967; Web site dif.start.or th/dif/ or START at scholars and junior scholars and graduate students www.start.or.th through conferences and peer-reviewed publications. An Annual Meeting will be held in late September 2000. Those who are interested in participating in the PARTIAL SUPPORT FOR discussion of CESS’s goals and how to achieve them SCHOLARS VISITING HAWAII are encouraged to joint the Central-Asia-Inst-List, which will provide a forum for discussion. Send a subscribe message to C-A-I-L at owner-Central-Asia-Inst-List@ Global Environment and Energy in the Twenty-First fas.harvard.edu. To join CESS, register on line on the Century, a nonprofit organization based on Honolulu, Web site cess.uno.edu or contact Edward Lazzerini, Hawaii, can provide accommodation in Honolulu for a Professor of Central Eurasian History, University of New limited number of scholars interested in spending about Orleans, New Orleans, LA 70148 USA; tel: 1-504-280- a month in Hawaii working on issues of global climate 6886; fax: 1-504-280-5505; email [email protected] change, energy, water resources management, or technology transfer. This will mainly be of interests to persons on sabbatical leave from their home institutions, IDNDR ENDS: ISDR BEGINS or others whose salary and travel costs are being provided by other organizations. Interested persons are The International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction requested to contact Toufiq A. Siddiqi, President, Global (IDNDR) came to an end in December 1999. The Environment and Energy in the 21st Century (GEE-21), IDNDR is succeeded by a new program, the 1765 Ala Moan Blvd. #1189, Honolulu, HI 96815-1420 International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR). An USA; tel: 1-808-951-5672; fax: 1-808-394-0814; email Inter-Agency Task Force for Disaster Reduction is being [email protected] or see the Web site at set up and will serve as the main forum to implement the www.gee21.org ISDR. The Task Force is chaired by the UN’s Under- Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and the Director of the ISDR Secretariat acts as Secretary. The USGCRP SEMINAR SERIES Task Force convened its first meeting in Geneva at the end of April 2000. The main objective of the ISDR is to The USGCRP (US Global Change Research Program) enable communities to become resilient to natural has a seminar series designed to encourage hazards and is structured around four main themes for consideration of important research findings in the action: public awareness, community and public context of issues facing decisionmakers. Each session authorities commitment, disaster-resilient communities, and reduction of socioeconomic loss. A new Web site For more information, contact AFEJ at PO Box 20, will be launched soon and will be accessible through the Nugegoda 10250, Sri Lanka; tel: 94-1-827810; fax: 94-1- existing site, www.idndr.org. For more information about 826607; email [email protected] or visit the Web site at the ISDR, please contact the ISDR Secretariat at Palais www.oneworld.org/slejf des Nations, CH-1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland; tel: 41- 22-917-9711; fax: 41-22-917-9099; email [email protected] RUMBA

RUMBA (Regular Update on Methyl Bromide CENTURY’S TOP CLIMATE EVENTS Alternatives), sponsored by the UNEP DTIE (Division of RELEASED BY NOAA Technology, Industry, and Economics) OzonAction Programme, announced a page of Web links to assist Dozens of NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric countries in phasing out methyl bromide by deadlines Adminstration) scientists have released a listing of the defined by the Montreal Protocol. This list of links has top weather, water, and climate events of the twentieth been created to enable stakeholders to access century. The 1982-83 El Nino event made the list, with information about methyl bromide alternatives and to an estimated loss to the world economy of over USD$8- facilitate networking and collaboration for the phaseout 21 billion. The document may be downloaded by PDF of methyl bromide. Each Web link is accompanied by a (portable document format) from the NOAA Web page at short description of the focus of the sponsoring www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories/s334.htm or contact organization, as well as a brief list of features to assist in NOAA Weather Service Public Affairs, 1325 East-West finding and encouraging replacements to methyl Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910 USA; tel: 1-301-713- bromide. Please note that this resource has been 0622. designed to evolve. UNEP welcomes your input and suggestions. For more information, please contact the NOAA’s National Weather Service issues more than UENP DTIE OzonAction Programme at Tour Mirabeau, 734,000 weather forecasts, 850,000 river and flood 39-43 quai André Citroën, 75739 Paris, Cedex 15, forecasts, and between 45,000 and 50,000 potentially France; tel: 33-1-4437-1450; fax: 33-1-4437-1474; email live-saving severe weather warnings annually. [email protected] or visit the Web site at www.uneptie.org/ozat/links/mebr.html

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Visiting Scientist Appointments (VSPs) and the National Ice Center. The National Ice Center (NIC) has teamed with the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) to provide two visiting scientist appointments in the recently established Science and ASIA-PACIFIC FORUM OF Information Services Department at NIC. The overall ENVIRONMENTAL JOURNALISTS mission of the NIC, located in Suitland, Maryland, USA, is to provide assessments and predictions of global ice AFEJ (Asia-Pacific Forum of Environmental Journalists) conditions based primarily on remotely sensed data is a non-governmental organization dedicated to (www.natice. noaa.gov). The program offers visiting promoting education, understanding, and awareness of research appointments for up to three years, reviewed the environment through the honest and accurate annually. Qualified applicants will have a strong reporting of local, regional, and international background in remote sensing, ice modeling, or ice environment and development issues. It acts as the physics research. Application deadline is 15 July 2000. head of national environmental journalists forums of 37 Send application materials to UCAR Visiting Scientist countries in the Asia-Pacific region. Formed in 1988 at a Programs, PO Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000 USA. regional conference in Bangkok, Thailand, it was Questions on this or other VSPs can be directed to 1- organized by the UN Economic and Social Commission 303-497-8649 or send an email to [email protected]. Full for Asia and the Pacific. AFEJ also offers an annual text announcement and an on-line application are award, the AFEJ International Green Pen Award, to located at: www.vsp.ucar.edu UCAR is an Equal journalists who have made a significant contribution in Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer. promoting environmental journalism. This year’s award will be presented on World Environment Day, 5 June. COMPUTING/NETWORKING institutes and projects on climate change impacts on societies and ecosystems. Compared to ten years ago, the number of such sites has increased sharply. One The Pembina Institute, in cooperation with senior can find proposed impacts of climate change on various representatives of the Canadian government and 9 continents, countries, and economic sectors. Several of major corporations, launched a new mega-Web site. It these sites also focus on the impacts of climate features interactive tools to help people design and variability as well. There are numerous leads to relevant implement solutions that match each unique newsletters, articles, published and unpublished reports. circumstance. The Pembina Institute in an independent, Such a tour on the Web is well worth the time and effort nonprofit environmental policy analysis, public for those interested in various aspects of climate and education, and advocacy organization. The new Web climate-related impact assessment (–Editors). site is also supported by the Government of ’s Climate Change Action Fund, the Global Air Issues Branch of Environment Canada, and Canada’s Office of Energy Efficiency. Over the next three years, the site JOURNALS/NEWSLETTERS will expand to cover most major greenhouse-gas- OF INTEREST emitting sectors of the Canadian economy. 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The Experimental Long-Lead Forecast Bulletin is a site includes a vast array of data on freshwater issues, quarterly bulletin published by the Center for Ocean- including total renewable freshwater supplies by country, Land-Atmosphere Studies and is intended to present national desalination capacities, and estimates of global various long-lead experimental forecasts. The forecasts mortality and morbidity associated with water-related are mainly intended for the surface climate of the US, diseases. Suggestions for additions to the site would be but forecasts for other aspects of climate (such as greatly appreciated. If you wish to receive ENSO, hurricane season severity, or surface climate in announcements when the site is updated, please sign up other parts of the world) are also welcome. For more on the home page mailing list. For more information, th information, contact Ben Kirtman (editor), 4041 Powder contact Wil Burns, Pacific Institute, 654 13 St., Mill Rd., Suite 302, Calverton, MD 20705 USA, or email Preservation Park, Oakland, CA 94612 USA, tel:1- 510- [email protected] 251-1600; fax 1-510-251-2203; email [email protected] Global Climate Change Newsletter is published 24 times a year and reports on key events, happenings, As part of its contribution to the development of the research, and scientific findings occurring around the National Assessment of the Impacts of Climate world. For more information, contact Quelle-Wisstech Variability and Change in the United States, the Pacific Communications Co., PO Box 6591, Concord, NH Institute (see above) has also compiled a 03303-6591; tel:1-603-648-2629. comprehensive bibliography of the peer-reviewed literature on climate change and its effects on water Natural Hazards Review is the new American Society resources and water systems of the United States. of Civil Engineers (ASCE) quarterly journal that provides Among the categories to be included are: modeling innovative and practical solutions to the problems and analyses; regional impact assessments; responses of challenges faced by all sectors of the hazards specific river basins to changes in precipitation and community, including government, academia, the private runoff; theoretical studies on climate and water; sector, and nongovernmental organizations. Contact economic, social, and political impacts of climate change ASCE, Subscription Orders, PO Box 79342, Baltimore, on water systems, among others. The bibliography can MD 21279-0342; tel: 1-703-295-6300, or 1-800-548- be accessed at www.pacinst.org/CCBib.html – 2723 in the United States. Suggestions for additions or corrections should be directed to Beth Chalecki, [email protected] or The Samudra Report is a magazine of the ICSF contact the address above. (International Collective in Support of Fishworkers), a nongovernmental organization that works on issues of Typing in “climate impacts” into the search box on any of concern to fishworkers around the globe. It is published the Internet’s search engines yields a wide range of in India three times a year and contains timely articles on understanding; governments, capacity, land a variety of controversies, conflicts, and success stores management options, water management options, and that involve fishworkers and the fishing sector. The stakeholder participation. For more information about Report invites articles and comments. Several of the the workshops and recommendations, please contact most recent issues are available on line at www.icsf.net/ UNEP Communications and Public Information Branch, icsf/online.htm or write to ICSF, 27 College Rd., Chennai PO Box 30552, Nairobi, Kenya; fax: 254-2-623692; 600 006, India; tel: 91-44-827-5303; fax 91-44-825-4457; email [email protected] email [email protected] The Mid-Course Evaluation Meeting of the project, “Reducing the Impact of Environmental Emergencies through Early Warning and Preparedness: The Case of SUMMARIES OF the 1997-98 El Niño” was held 6-9 March 2000 in PAST MEETINGS Macau, China. This meeting was organized by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) for the team leaders of the 16 countries at the United More than 30 member countries of the Convention on Nations University’s IIST (International Institute for Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution met in Software Technology). Progress reports were given by Geneva from 3 August-3 September 1999. They the team leaders and a special session was held to reached an agreement on an innovative Protocol identify national needs with respect to capacity building. designed to combat pollutants causing high rates of A workshop summary report will be posted on the Web ground-level ozone, acid rain and saturation of rivers, site at www.esig.ucar.edu/un/ in the near future. For lakes and coastal areas. The new Protocol sets national more information, please contact Michael Glantz, NCAR, emission ceilings for sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, PO Box 3000, Boulder, CO USA 80307; tel: 1-303-497- ammonia and volatile organic compounds for 2010 and 8119; fax 1-303-497-8120; email [email protected] corresponding emission reduction targets by country for the 1990-2010 period. This session was followed up by Representatives of NGOs from Azerbaijan, Georgia, the third UN Environment Programme inter- Iran, Kazakhstan and Russia gathered 16-18 March governmental meeting on the elimination and/or 2000 in Baku, Azerbaijan at the seminar Public reduction of persistent organic pollutants. For more Environmental Monitoring in the Caspian Basin. The information, contact the Europe Information Service, seminar resulted in the creation of a monitoring network Avenue Ad. Lacomblé 66-B-1030, Brussels, Belgium; tel: and the adoption of a plan of action for an integrated, 32-2-737-7709; fax: 32-2-732-6757; email [email protected] or international program of public monitoring in the region. Web site a www.eis.be For full article description, see Environmental monitoring will take place at sites around also Europe Environment, 522 (Sept. 21, 1999):16-17. the Caspian as well as along the oil and gas transport routes in the region. Information on the activities of the A workshop on ENSO Impact on Water Resources in Caspian monitoring programs will be available to the the Pacific Region was held in Nadi, Fiji, 19-23 October public through a new Web site, CaspWatch. More 1999. This workshop was held in conjunction with the information is available from Jennifer Gable, 1601 SOPAC (South Pacific Applied Geoscience Connecticut Ave. NW, Suite 301, Washington, DC 20009 Commission) Annual Session at the Tanoa International USA; tel: 1-202-387-3032 or at Web site, www.isar.org; Hotel. The purpose of the workshop was to introduce fax: 1-202-667-3291. national water managers, disaster managers, and meteorological services to the use of climate information The Second World Water Forum and Ministerial and ENSO forecasting to develop response and Conference was held 17-22 March 2000 at The Hague, mitigation plans with the objective of reducing the impact The Netherlands. Hundreds of water specialists, of future droughts in the Pacific region. It was attended politicians, and top officials from across the globe by more than 80 participants from 23 countries in the attended. The Forum marks the conclusion of a long region. A workshop report (SOPAC Miscellaneous series of sessions, during which thousands of concerned Report 312) is available from SOPAC, Private Mail Bag, citizens addressed the water crisis that threatens General Post Office, Suva, Fiji; tel: 679-381-377; fax: human-kind every. The Ministerial Conference was held 679-370-040 or visit the Web site at www.sopac.org.fj in parallel to the Forum and aimed to mobilize political A workshop on Sustainability of Freshwater was held support into concrete action. For more information, 26-30 October 1999 at UNEP Headquarters in Nairobi, please contact the Second World Water Forum, c/o Kenya. Freshwater resources, and changes in those Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DML/PS), PO Box 20061, resources, is perhaps the single most important global 2500 EB The Hague, The Netherlands; tel 31-70-348- change issue in sub-Saharan Africa. Participants 5402; fax 31-70-348-6792, or email office@ identified six constraints or deficiencies that must be worldwaterforum.org. Web site: addressed by the scientific community: information and www.worldwaterforum.org The RCI Member Management Symposium XXI was The American Water Resources Association (AWRA) held 5-6 April 2000 in Maui, Hawaii. The symposium held its annual Spring Specialty Conference Water entitled “East Meets West: The Globalization of HPCC” Resources in Extreme Environments 30 April-4 May addressed the imperatives of globalization of HPCC 2000 in Anchorage, Alaska. Extremes, both high and (High Performance Computing and Communications) low, in air temperature, rainfall, snowfall, wind, relative and the forces propelling globalization. Sessions humidity, soil moisture, ground water, runoff, and included: challenges facing the globalization of HPCC; combinations of many of these are reflected in the emerging global HPCC applications; and fostering the hydrologic responses of watersheds. Extreme successful applications of HPCC. The RCI Weather, environments may be the most susceptible to a Ocean, Climate Special Interest Group was held prior to changing climate and as such deserve attention to the symposium on 2-4 April. Representatives from determine current conditions and potential changes. For major ocean modeling, climate modeling and weather the extensive list of more than 50 presentations given at forecasting centers from around the world met to discuss the conference, see the AWRA Web site www.awra.org/ status, plans and recent lessons learned. For more meetings/Alaska2000/ or contact Doug Kane, University information, contact RCI, 1301 E. 79th St., Suite 200, of Alaska-Fairbanks, Institute of Northern Engineering, Minneapolis, MN 55425 USA; tel: 1-952-858-8830; fax: Water and Environmental Research Center, Fairbanks, 1-952-858-8834; email [email protected] or Web site AK 99775-1760 USA; tel: 1-907-474-7808; fax: 1-907- at www.rciltd.com 474-7979; email: [email protected] or Mike Kowalski; fax: 1- 540-687-8395; email: [email protected] The International Symposium on Integrated Water Resources Management was held 9-12 April 2000 in Davis, California. The main objective of the symposium was to provide a forum for technical and non-technical ANNOUNCEMENTS OF personnel (hydrologists, engineers, economists, UPCOMING MEETINGS biologists, sociologists, lawyers, and others) to meet and discuss water resources related issues. Topics addressed include: systems thinking and water The Sixth International Conference on Remote resources (sustainable water resources management, Sensing for Marine and Coastal Environments will be water resources policy); innovative water resources held 1-3 May 2000 in Charleston, South Carolina. The management (co-management, adaptive management, three-day conference focuses on applying remote etc.); hydrologic extremes and related social issues sensing and advanced geospatial data and information (floods and droughts, coping with extremes, perception, techniques to solve real-world problems in marine and mitigation, involvement of people, risk and risk coastal environments as well as defining future management, water conflicts, etc.); water science and its directions and implementation strategies. Topics role in water management; integrated river basin include: natural resource management; coastal hazards; planning; and integrated management of water quality oceanographic applications/processes; new data and quantity with ecosystem protection. Contact Prof. sources, sensors, and measurement techniques; and Miguel Marino at UC-Davis, Davis, CA 95616 USA; tel: data management. Participants include ocean scientists 1-530-752-0684; fax: 1-530-752-5262; or email and engineers, marine and coastal planners, natural [email protected]; Web site resource managers, industry leaders, remote sensing www.cevs.ucdavis.edu/Cofred/Public/Aca/ specialists, local, state and federal agencies, and educators and students. Contact ERIM/Marine The International Research Institute (IRI) International Conference, PO Box 134008, Ann Arbor, MI 48113-4008 Forum on Climate Prediction, Agriculture and USA; tel: 1-734-994-1200 Ext. 3234; fax: 1-734-994- Development was held 26-28 April 2000 in Palisades, 5123; email wallman@ erim-int.com or Web, www.erim- New York. The forum agenda included: presenting int.com/CONF/marine/ MARINE.html advances in climate science and forecasting of large- scale climate variability impacts on global and regional Markets & Water: A Dialogue Between NGOs and food-producing systems; exploring connections between Governments will be held 11-14 May 2000 in Nukus, seasonal climate forecasting and agronomy, food Uzbekistan. The critical situation that has developed in production systems, economies, water resources, rural the Aral basin demands urgent measures. The development, and human health; and developing ways conference organizers consider that the establishment of to strengthen the IRI’s Agriculture Applications Program. an intergovernmental market for water in the Aral basin Researchers, decision and policy makers and agriculture will not only make it possible to solve ecological practitioners attended the meeting. Contact Ana problems but will also facilitate the economic integration Iglesias, PO Box 1000, Palisades, NY 10964-8000 USA; of the Central Asian republics (CARs) and facilitate fax: 1-914-365-8366; email [email protected] or sustainable development. The following themes will be Web site: iri.ldeo.columbia.edu/news/forum2000 addressed: what is the water market, its requirements and perspectives; examples and case studies of foreign meeting provides an outstanding opportunity for water market organizations; constraints on establishing a researchers, teachers, students, and consultants to water market in Central Asia and possible solutions; review the latest issues affecting the Earth, the planets, what are the possible outcomes of the meeting of and their environment in space. Contact the AGU ministers in Almaty; and what should be the NGO Meeting Department, 2000 Spring Meeting, 2000 Florida position at the Almaty meeting. For more information, Ave. NW, Washington, DC; tel: 1-202-462-6900; fax: 1- contact Ecostan News, 265 College St., 5S, New Haven, 202- 328-0566; e-mail [email protected]; web CT 06510 USA; tel: 1-203-789-0190; or in Tashkent at www.agu.org/meetings Mukimi St. 178, Suite 58, Tashkent, Uzbekistan 700003; tel: 9-9871-173-5540; email [email protected]/ ; The Eighth International Symposium on Society and Web, www.ecostan.org Resource Management will be held 17-22 June 2000 in Bellingham, Washington. The theme is “Transcending The Millennium Forum will be held 22-26 May 2000 at Boundaries: Natural Resource Management from the United Nations headquarters in New York. It will Summit to Sea.” The focus will be upon how social bring together civil society representatives from all over science research is being brought to bear upon the the world to consult about our future – the future of the exploration of boundary issues in resource management. peoples of the world – in relation to the great global The sub-themes are: crossing conceptual boundaries; challenges that must be confronted by the United crossing cultural boundaries; crossing political Nations in the 21st Century. The Millennium Forum will boundaries. For registration information, contact Diana assemble the innovative ideas and proposals of non- Bakkom, Eighth International Symposium, Western governmental organizations and civil society from all Washington University, Bellingham, WA 98225-9085 levels, seeking to create not only a new vision for the USA; fax: 1-360-650-6858; email diana.bakkom@ future but also an organizational structure whereby the wwu.edu. For program information, contact Anna Elliott, peoples of the world can participate effectively in global fax: 360-650-7702; email [email protected]; Web decision-making. The Forum will focus on six main sub- www.ac.wwu.edu/~issrm8th/ themes under the main theme of “The United Nations in the 21st Century”: peace, security and disarmament; the World Renewable Energy Congress VI will be held 1-7 eradication of poverty; human rights; sustainable July 2000 in Brighton, United Kingdom. The five main development and the environment; challenges of topics are: low energy architecture; photovoltaic globalization; and strengthening the UN and other technology; solar thermal applications; wind energy international organizations. Contact Techeste Adheron, generation; and biomass conversion. Related topics Millennium Forum, 866 UN Plaza, Suite 120, New York, cover energy and sustainability, politics and projects, NY 10017 USA; tel: 1-212-830-2522; fax: 1-212-803- and transportation and urban pollution. There will also 2561; email [email protected] or visit the Web site at be discussions about solar energy materials. Contact Ali www.millenniumforum.org Sayigh, Director General of WREN, 147 Hilmanton, Lower Earley, Reading RG6 4HN, UK; fax 44-118-961- In the Aftermath of Hurricane Floyd: Recovery in the 1365; email [email protected]; Coastal Plain will be held 24-26 May 2000 in Greenville, www.wrenuk.co.uk/ North Carolina. Presented by East Carolina University, this meeting will involve a critical examination of The Sixth International Conference on Air-Surface Hurricane Floyd, the resulting floods, and their impact on Exchange of Gases and Particles will be held 3-7 July eastern North Carolina. It will bring together policy 2000 in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom. This makers, research scientists, relief and recovery conference focuses on recent advances in specialists, officials from all levels of government, and understanding the processes governing the exchange of local citizens to address what can be done to mitigate gases and particles between the atmosphere and future loss of life and property in similar disasters. More terrestrial and aquatic surfaces and the representation of information is available from John R. Maiolo, Conference these processes in numerical models. The objectives of Chair, A-421 Brewster Building, Department of the meeting are: to bring together an international group Sociology, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC of scientists working on the land-atmosphere exchange 27858-4353; 1-252-328-4838; e-mail: maioloj@ of trace gases and particles; to provide the opportunity mail.ecu.edu for open debate over important advances in the science and areas of uncertainty; and to publish a set of papers American Geophysical Union (AGU) Spring Meeting from the conference. Session topics include: surface- will be held 30 May-3 June 2000 in Washington, DC. atmosphere fluxes of gaseous sulphur compounds; land- The theme for the meeting is "Integrative Solutions: A atmosphere exchange of oxidized nitrogen; land- Start for the New Millennium." The meeting will be atmosphere exchange of NH3; fluxes of photochemical organized according to interdisciplinary themes that will oxidants; volatile organic compounds; aerosols and bring together collaborators from a variety of different cloud droplets; wet deposition processes and cloud fields to discuss problems of common interest. This microphysics, effects of complex terrain and orography; and greenhouse gases. Contact: Conference Alberta T2P 2T9, Canada; email gdufour@ Secretariat, Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Bush Estate, globalcommunitywebnet.com Penicuik, Midlothian EH26 0QB, United Kingdom; email [email protected]; tel: 631-344-3100; fax: 631-344-2887; Fourth International Conference of Local Authorities Web site at www.nbu.ac.uk/biatex2/EdConf.htm Confronting Disasters and Emergencies (LACDE 4) will be held 27-30 August 2000 in Reykjavik, Iceland. The Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EER) The main theme of LACDE 4 is "The Linkage Between has announced that the Seventh National Conference Science and Local Authorities." Another significant on Earthquake Engineering will be held 21-25 July portion of the meeting will focus on partnerships and the 2000 in Boston. The theme of the conference is “Urban interaction between national, provincial, and state Earthquake Hazard.” Subject areas include earthquake governments and local authorities. The organizing response in dense urban environments, impact of committee is also developing a program of simultaneous earthquakes on businesses, building codes in the workshops covering various aspects of meteorological, eastern U.S., earthquake engineering practice geological, and technological disasters, as well as engineering seismology, geotechnical engineering, discussions on new technology in disaster forecasting, structural engineering, lifeline systems, design criteria lessons from past disasters, and communication and and methods, social issues, lessons from recent lifeline safety. Ministers, members of parliament, earthquakes, and issues in seismic awareness and municipal officials, scientists, and other professionals are education. If you are interested in participating in the invited to take part in the program. The official language planning effort, contact Andrea Dargush, tel: 716-645- will be English, but simultaneous translation will be 3391; fax: 716-645-3399; email dargush@ offered if warranted. More information is available from acsu.buffalo.edu or Web site at mceer.buffalo.edu the Union of Local Authorities in Israel, LACDE4, 3 Heftman St., Tel Aviv, Israel; tel: 972-3-695-5024; fax The Fifth International Conference on Greenhouse 972-3-691-6821; email: [email protected] or Gas Control Technologies will be held 13-16 August [email protected]; web www.samband.is/lacde or 2000 in the Cairns Convention Center, Cairns, Australia. www.ulai.org.il/f_lacde.htm This conference provides a forum for the discussion of the latest advances in the field of Greenhouse Gas The Second International Human Dimensions Control Technologies, including capture, storage, and Workshop: Human Dimensions Issues in the Coastal utilization. Other mitigation options also will be Zones will be held 10-22 September 2000 in , discussed, along with economic issues and political and Germany. This workshop will bring together 30 young social impacts. This conference strives to promote scientists from developing countries to focus on human international research and development collaborations dimensions issues in the coastal zone areas from a and to encourage an exchange of ideas on future variety of different perspectives and disciplines. The directions in this field. The conference will cover CO2 purposes of the workshop are: to provide younger capture and storage; other greenhouse gas emissions; researchers from developing countries with an intensive alternative energy carriers; putting options in context; learning experience; to expose them to the field of economics/life cycle assessments and energy modeling; Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change policy issues; and social/community issues. Contact the (GEC); and to integrate them into the international GEC GHGT-5 Secretariat, Colin Paulson, CSIRO Energy network. Applicants do not have to be experts in coastal Technology, PO Box 136, North Ryde, NSW 1670, zone issues but should be active researchers and have Australia; fax: 61-2-9490-8819; email a strong interest in human dimensions research. [email protected]; or visit the Web site at Applicants must currently be working in the field of www.ieagreen.org.uk/ghgt5.htm human dimensions of global environmental change, be 40 years or age or younger, have full working knowledge World Congress on Managing & Measuring of English, have completed university education Sustainable Development will be held 17-22 August (minimum Master’s degree), and have been working in 2000 in Kananaskis Village, Canada. Organized by the their field for a minimum of 3 years. Contact Ms. Ramine Society for World Sustainable Development and the Shaw at IHDP, Walter-Flex-Str. 3, D-53113 Bonn, Global Community Assessment Centre, the theme for Germany; fax: 49-228-739-054; email shaw.ihdp@uni- the conference is Global Community Action: Ensuring a bonn.de; web www.uni-bonn.de/ihdp/IHDW2000.htm Sound Future for Earth. The goal is to establish a global dialogue and avenue for interaction between those concerned with environment, people, economic IUCN’s World Conservation Congress will be held 4- development, and availability of resources through which 11 October 2000 in Amman, Jordan. This event will bring sound management policy solutions can be obtained. together State and non-governmental members, Contact Germain Dufour, Society for World Sustainable Commission networks and partners in order to set the Development, Suite 308, 920-9 Avenue SW, Calgary, Union’s focus for the first years of the new millennium. The theme of the congress is “ecospace”, a term indicating that environmental protection at various NEW PUBLICATIONS geographical scales is a prerequisite for the social, OF INTEREST economic, and even political security of people. Participation in the Congress is mainly by invitation from the IUCN. Non-member States and organizations with BOOKS which IUCN has formal working relationships may attend as observers at the invitation of the Director General. A Alston, J., P. Pardey, and V. Smith (Eds.), 1999: Paying limited number of interested members of the public may for Agricultural Productivity. The Johns Hopkins attend the Interactive Sessions 5-7 October. For more University Press, 2715 North Charles St., Baltimore, MD information, contact the Congress Unit, IUCN USA 21218-4363; tel: 410-516-6900. Multilateral Office, 1630 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20009-1053 USA; tel: 1-202-387-4826; Kondratyev, K., 1999: Ecodynamics and Geopolicy, email [email protected]; web: www.iucn.org Vol. 1: Global Problems. (In Russian) Contact Dr. Kirill Ya. Kondratyev, Research Centre for Ecological Safety, The First International Global Disaster Information Russian Academy of Sciences, Korpusnaya St., 18, Network (GDIN) Information Technology Exposition 197110 St. Petersburg, Russia; email: & Conference will be held 9-11 October 2000 in [email protected] Honolulu, Hawaii. The conference will be specifically targeted to meet the needs of participants in Kondratyev, K., 1998: Multidimensional Global government, business, and nonprofit sectors related to Change. Praxis Publishing Ltd., The White House, emergency management information technologies, their Eastergate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO20 6UR, UK. development, and operational use. This conference will bring together technology developers and service Kondratyev, K. and C. Varotsos, 2000: Atmospheric providers with operational users. The following goals will Ozone Variability: Implications for Climate Change, be addressed: build the capacity and capability for users Human Health and Ecosystems. Praxis Publishing to understand and apply emerging information Ltd., The White House, Eastergate, Chichester, West technologies; facilitate transactions among interested Sussex, PO20 6UR, UK. users in establishing regional information centers and networks; demonstrate the operational use of relevant Kondratyev, K. and A. Cracknell, 1998: Observing technologies and methods by sharing user experiences; Global Climate Change. Taylor & Francis, Rankine Rd, connect information technology/service providers with Basingstoke, Hants, RG24 8PR, UK; email: appropriate users within the emergency management [email protected] community; and explore successful methods of establishing organizational and institutional affiliations Koppel, T., 1999: Powering the Future: The Ballard leading to the effective use of information resources. Fuel Cell and the Race to Change the World. John Contact Peter Colin, ERIM International, PO Box Wiley & Sons, Inc., 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 134008, Ann Arbor, MI 48113-4008 USA; tel: 1-734-994- 10158-0012; tel: 212-850-6000; email: [email protected] 1200 Ext. 3234; fax: 1-734-994-5123; www.erim- int.com/CONF/conf.html IIRR (International Institute of Rural Reconstruction), 2000: A Sourcebook of Materials on Environmental SPARC (Stratospheric Processes and their Role in Health. Contact IIRR, Y.C. James Yen Centre, Silang, Climate) 2000 Congress will be held 6-10 November Cavite 4118, Philippines; fax: 63-46-414-2420; email: 2000 in Mar del Plata, Argentina. Sessions include: [email protected] Stratospheric processes and their role in climate; Stratospheric indicators of climate change; Modeling and Larson, E., 1999: Isaac’s Storm: A Man, A Time, and diagnosis of stratospheric effect on climate; UV the Deadliest Hurricane in History. San Diego, CA: observations and modeling; Special Associated Crown Publishers, 201 E. 50th St., New York, NY 10022. Workshop: Impacts of ultraviolet radiation (UVR). The special workshop will provide a unique opportunity for Lok, R. (Ed.), 1998: Huertos Caseros Tradicionales de understanding interactions between stratospheric América Central: Características, beneficios e processes and the impact of UVR on terrestrial and importanicia, desde un enfoque multidisciplinario. aquatic biota. Contact SPARC at Estacion de Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Fotobiologia Playa Union, Casilla de Correos No. 153, Enseñanza (CATIE). Available through Biblioteca 9100 Trelew, Chubut, Argentina; tel: 54-2965-498-019; Conmemorativa Orton (IICA/CATIE), CATIE 7170, email [email protected]; Web site at Turrialba, Costa Rica. Tel: 506-556-0501; email: www.sparc2000.at.fcen.uba.ar [email protected] NRC (National Research Council), 2000: Reconciling Fan, S., P. Hazell, and S. Thorat, 1999: Linkages Observations of Global Temperature Change. between Government Spending, Growth, and Contact National Academy Press, 2101 Constitution Poverty in Rural India, IFPRI (International Food Policy Ave., NW, Box 285, Washington, DC. 20055; web site: Research Institute), Research Report 110. Contact www.nap.edu IFPRI, 2033 K St. NW, Washington, DC 20006-1002; tel: 202-862-5600; web site: www.ifpri.org Roots, O., 1999: The Effect of Environmental Pollution on Human Health in the Baltic States: GHI (GeoHazards International) and IDNDR Assessment and Regional Differences. Tallinn, (International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction), Estonia. Contact Ott Roots, Ministry of the Environment, 2000: Seismic Risk Reduction: Comparative Study 10616 Tallinn, Mustamä tee Str. 33, Estonia. Tel: 372- on Understanding Urban Seismic Risk, final report of 656-6711; web site: helios.nlib.ee the UUSRAW (Understanding Urban Seismic Risk Around the World) project. For more information, Tenhunen, J.D. (Ed.), 1999: Integrating Hydrology, contact Cynthia Cardona, GeoHazards International, 200 Ecosystem Dynamics, and Bigeochemistry in Town and Country Vlg., Palo Alto, CA 94301 USA; tel: 1- Complex Landscapes. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 650-614-9050; email: [email protected] Distribution Center, 1 Wiley Dr., Somerset, NJ 08875- 1272; tel: 1- 732-469-4400; email: [email protected] Leemans, R. and R. Hootsmans, 2000: Assessing Ecosystem Vulnerability and Identifying Climate Protection Indicators, Final Report No. 410 200 039. REPORTS National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, P.O. Box 1, 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands; web Batjes, N., 1999: Management Options for Reducing site: www.nop.nl CO2-Concentrations in the Atmosphere by Increasing Carbon Sequestration in the Soil, Report Lok, R., 1998: Introducción a los Huertos Caseros No. 410 200 031. National Institute of Public Health and Tradicionales Tropicales. Colección Módulos de the Environment, P.O. Box 1, 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Enseñanza Agroforestal, Módulo de Enseñanza Netherlands; web site: www.nop.nl Agroforestal No. 3. Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE). Available through Boyd, C. and M. Haws, 1999: Good Management Biblioteca Conmemorativa Orton (IICA/CATIE), CATIE Practices (GMPs) to Reduce Environmental Impacts 7170, Turrialba, Costa Rica. Tel: 506-556-0501; email: and Improve Efficiency of Shrimp Aquaculture in [email protected] Latin America. Manuscript. University of Rhode Island, Coastal Resources Center, Narragansett, RI 02882. Tourre, Yves (Ed.), 1999: Applications of Climate Forecasting to Agriculture. Report number IRI-CR- Business Image Group and SPOT Image Corporation, 99/1, International Research Institute for Climate 1999: Satellite Imagery: An Objective Guide. Prediction, PO Box 1000, Palisades, NY 10964. Web: Available form IGBP Secretariat, The Royal Swedish iri.ldeo.columbia.edu/iri/programs/training/bamako1999 Academy of Sciences, Box 50005, S-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden; tel: 46-8-16-64-48; web site: www.igbp.kva.se/ Tourre, Yves (Ed.), 1999: Climate Prediction and Diseases/Health in Africa. Report number IRI-CR- CEOS (Committee on Earth Observation Satellites), 99/2, International Research Institute for Climate 1999: 1999 Consolidated Report. Available from Prediction, PO Box 1000, Palisades, NY 10964. Web: CEOS Secretariat, Ms. Leslie Charles, NASA CEOS iri.ldeo.columbia.edu/iri/programs/training/bamako1999 Point of Contact, NASA Headquarters, Code IY, 300 E. St., SW, Washington, DC 20546, or through the web UNEP DTIE (UN Environment Programme, Division of site: www.earth.nasa.gov/whatis/ceos/ Techology, Industry and Economics), 2000: Methyl CEOS_Report_99.pdf Bromide Phase-Out Strategies: A Global Compilation of Laws and Regulations. Contact UNEP Collomb, Jean-Gael et al., 2000: A First Look at DTIE, Tour Mirabeau, 39-43 Quai André Citroën, 75739 Logging in Gabon. For further information contact Paris, Cedex 15, France. Fax: 33-1-44-37-14-74; email: Valerie Sheehan, The World Resources Institute, 10 G [email protected] Street NE, Washington, DC 20002; tel: 202-729-7702; web site: www.wri.org/wri UNEP DTIE (UN Environment Programme, Division of Techology, Industry and Economics), 1999: Eliminating CRC (Coastal Resources Center), 1999: CRMII Annual Dependency on Halons: Self Help Guide for Low Report, No. 2213. University of Rhode Island, Coastal Volume Consuming Countries. To order, contact: SMI Resources Center, Narragansett, RI 02882. (Distribution Services) Ltd., PO Box 119 Stevenage, Hertfordshire SG1 4TP, UK; tel: 44-1438-748-844; web Bucher, E. and P. Huszar, 1999: Sustainable site: www.earthprint.com management of the Gran Chaco of South America: Ecological promise and economic constraints. Journal UNEP (UN Environment Programme)/WHO (World of Environmental Management, 57(2), 99-108. Health Organization), 1999: Identification of Priority Pollution Hot Spots and Sensitive Areas in the Diduck, A., 1999: Critical education in resource and Mediterranean, No. 124 of the series, Athens/MAP, in environmental management: Learning and French and English. For further information contact: empowerment for a sustainable future. Journal of Library, UNEP/MEDU, 48 Vassileos Konstantinou Ave, Environmental Management, 57(2), 85-97. 11635 Athens, Greece; tel: 30-1-72-73-118, or email: [email protected] Favis-Mortlock, D. and A.J.T. Guerra, 1999: The implications of GCM estimates of rainfall for future UN FAO (UN Food and Agriculture Organization), 1999: erosion risk: A case study from Brazil. Catena, 37(3/4), Food Supply Situation and Crop Prospects in Sub- 329-354. Saharan Africa, Report No. 3 Africa Report. Report is available on line at www.fao.org/giews/ or write to Abdur O’Lear, S., 1999: Networks of engagement: electronic Rashid, Chief, GIEWS, FAO, Rome, Italy. communication and grassroots environmental activism in Kaliningrad. Geografiska Annaler, 81, 165-178. van der Waals, J., S. Joosen, B. van Geleuken, M. Groenenberg, M. Kneepkens, and W. Vermeulen, 1999: O’Lear, S., 1999: Women’s marginalization, economic CO2 Reduction in Building Locations: A Survey and flows, and environmental degradation: A classroom Three Case Studies about the Role of Options for approach. Journal of Geography, 98, 295-301. CO2 Reduction in Planning Processes, Report No. 410 200 036. National Institute of Public Health and the Poveda, G. et al., 1999: Climate and ENSO variability Environment, P.O. Box 1, 3720 BA Bilthoven, The associated to malaria and dengue fever in Colombia. In: Netherlands; web site: www.nop.nl Report of the Tenth Symposium on Global Change Studies 1999, 79th American Meteorological Society WMO (World Meteorological Organization), 1999: meeting held in Dallas, TX, January 10-15, 1999, pp. Meeting of Experts on the Climate of the 20th 173-176. Century, WMO-TD No. 972. WMO, Case postale No 2300, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland. UCAR (University Corporation for Atmospheric Research)/SIRS Mandarin, Inc. (Social Issues Resources Series), 1999: Climate model predicts a ARTICLES warmer, maybe wetter future. SIRS, PO Box 272348, Boca Raton, FL 33427-2348. Science Now, 6(3), 1-4. Berri, G. and A. Flamenco, 1999: Seasonal volume Contact: www.sirs.com forecast of the Diamante River, Argentina, based on El Niño observations and predictions. Water Resources Wyman, R., 1998: Experimental assessment of Research, 35(12), 3803-3810. salamanders as predators of detrital food webs: Effects on invertebrates, decomposition and the carbon cycle. Brunn, S. and S. O’Lear, 1999: Research and Biodiversity and Conservation, 7, 641-650. communication in the ‘invisible college’ of the Human Dimensions of Global Change. Global Environmental Zeng, N., et al., 1999: Enhancement of interdecadal Change, 9, 285-301. climate variability in the Sahel by vegetation interaction. Science, 286, 1537-1540. The US Environmental Protection Agency has many innovative Web sites of interest to the general public. A few of their more interesting new sites are included below:

Concerned Citizens Page: www.epa.gov/ow/citizen.html

The Office of Water has updated and reorganized this page. It contains collections of sites with information to raise public awareness and encourage involvement in water quality and other environmental issues.

2000 Stratospheric Ozone Protection Awards: www.epa.gov/ozone/awards/00awards.html

The Stratospheric Protection Division invites nominations for the 2000 Stratospheric Ozone Protection Awards. This annual program was established in 1990 to recognize exceptional leadership, personal dedication, and technical achievements in eliminating ozone-depleting substances.

Innovations in Environment Management: www.epa.gov/reinvent/industry/index.htm

This report provides an overview of how EPA is working to make environmental programs work better and cost less. EPA hopes it will lead to more collaboration and more new ideas that are good for business, good for the environment, and good for the citizens that live and work in communities throughout the country.

* * * * * The Samudra Report recently had an article encouraging fishworker organizations to access the power of the Internet and increase their reach. Here are a few sites selected from the many in the article (Samudra, December 1999):

Coastal Communities Network of Nova Scotia: www.coastalcommunities.ns.ca

This Web site gives information on the local fishworkers, their social status, and role in the local economy, changes in the pattern of fish landings, as well as species data on yearly fish landings, quantities, and their value.

Gadus Association: www.home.istar.ca/~gadus/links.html#index

This site contains a compiled list of resources related to fisheries and fishworker organizations on the Web.

Confederaction Nacional de Pescadores Artesanales de Chile: www.conapach.cl (in Spanish)

This active site has links to many other sites, as well as documents on the campaigns against Individual Transferable Quotas and privatization of fisheries in Chile. Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations: www.pond.net/~pcffa

This active site is maintained by PCFFA, a politically active trade association of commercial fishermen on the west coast of the United States.

Maritime Fishermen’s Union: www3.nbnet.nb.ca/mfuupm/UPM

This site has a section which explains what the MFU has done for fishworkers and discusses local fisheries management, policies, fishing quotas and catches. In English with links to French and Spanish site.

Women’s Fisheries Network: web.mit.edu/seagrant/www/wfn.html

A national nonprofit network of women and men dedicated to educating members and non-members alike about issues confronting the commercial fishing and seafood industry.

* * * * * Sustainable Development Networking Programme: sdnp.delhi.nic.in

The UN Development Programme (UNDP) and Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) have worked in collaboration with India’s Ministry of Environment and Forests to launch this Web site.