Global Environmental Change: Challenges to Science and Society in Southeastern Europe
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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

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


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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- encecooperationinitiative.SponsorshipwasalsoprovidedfromtheKnight-Staneva Foundation for Sustainability and Future Environments (USA) and the EC FP6 ADAGIOproject(www.adagio-eu.org). 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 avarietyofinstitutesandotherorganizations.InJuly1997,theNCCGCcameinto being and operated under that title until the death of its president, Academician Mishev,in2003. 1 1999.So a:NationalCoordinationCenterforGlobalChange,BulgarianAcademyofSciences, 370 pp. (Todor Hristov, C. Gregory Knight, Dimitar Mishev, Marieta P. Staneva, editors; in Bulgarian).ISBN954-90485-1-9. 2 2000.So a:NationalCoordinationCenterforGlobalChange,BulgarianAcademyofSciences, 350+viiipp.(MarietaP.Staneva,C.GregoryKnight,TodorN.Hristov,DimitarMishev,editors). ISBN954-90485-2-7. v vi Preface Duringthatinterim,oneoftheresearchprioritieswasinitiated,namelyastudy ofthe1982-1994Bulgariandroughtasananalogoffutureclimatechange,realized asaprojectcoordinatedinBulgariabyProfessorIvanRaevoftheForestResearch InstituteandintheUSbyC. GregoryKnightofthePennsylvaniaStateUniversity, withfundingfromtheUSNationalScienceFoundationviaCIRA.Thatprojectalso 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 in1998-1999.TheCentrealsoco-sponsoredaworkshoponIntegratedRegional Assessment of Climate Change held in Budapest in 1999 and hosted the So a workshoponHumanDimensionsofGlobalChangein2000.

Table of Contents:
KEYNOTES.- Weather and Climate – Difficult Science Problems.- Climate Change and the Balkans: Real Concern or “Useless Arithmetic”.- Global Environmental Change and Related Impacts.- Science, Society and Action.- GLOBAL CHANGE AND CLIMATE CHANGE IN SEE.- Climate Modelling Beyond the Complexity: Challenges in Model-Building.- Changes in Different Type of Clouds in South-Eastern Europe in Association with Climate Change.- Research on 21st Century Climate Change in the Republic of Macedonia.- The Impact of Climate Change on the Precipitation Regime in Bosnia and Herzegovina.- Climatological Analysis of the Synoptic Situations Causing Torrential Precipitation Events in Bulgaria over the Period 1961–2007.- ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS.- A Summary of Sector and Region Specific Economic Impact and Vulnerability Assessments by Case Study in Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary.- Cecilia – EC FP6 Project on the Assessment of Climate Change Impacts in Central and Eastern Europe.- Vulnerabilities and Adaptation Options of European Agriculture.- Projection of Climate Change for South East Europe and Related Impacts.- Forests in Serbia as Factor of Soil and Water Protection Against Degradation in the Conditions of Global Climate Changes.- IMPACTS ON SOCIETY AND ECONOMY.- Impacts of Climate Change on Tourism.- The Social Impact of Heavy Rains in Albania.- Effects of Chronic Exposure to Urban Air Pollution on Red Blood Cells in Children.- Moldovia’s Challenge in the Face of Surface Water Resource Changes.- Long-Term Trends of Lead-210 Concentrations in the Ground-Level Air in Finland and Bulgaria.- FROM GLOBAL TO LOCAL AND VICE VERSA.- Drought Management Centre for South Eastern Europe.- The Role of Local Communities in Revising National Action Programs to Mitigate Drought, and Preventand Combat Desertification: Lessons from Romania.- Strengthening Capacities in Western Balkan Countries to Address Environmental Problems Through Remediation of High Priority Hot Spots.- Pilot Training Programme for Integration of Global Environmental Concerns into the Regional and Spatial Planning Process in Bulgaria.


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  • ISBN-13: 9789048186945
  • Publisher: Springer
  • Publisher Imprint: Springer
  • Height: 240 mm
  • No of Pages: 278
  • Returnable: Y
  • Width: 160 mm
  • ISBN-10: 9048186943
  • Publisher Date: 05 Jun 2010
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Selected Papers presented in the International Conference held 19-21 May 2008 in Sofia Bulgaria


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