Full Title: Water - Pollution, Biotechnology - Transgenic Plant Vaccine, Energy, Black Sea Pollution, AIDS - Mother-Infant HIV Transmission, Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy, Limits of Development - Megacities, Missile Proliferation and Defense - Information Security, Cosmic Objects, Desertification, Carbon Sequestration and Sustainability, Climatic Changes, Global Monitoring of Planet, Mathematics and Democracy, Science and Journalism, Permanent Monitoring Panel Reports, Water for Megacities Workshop, Black Sea Workshop, Transgenic Plants Workshop, Research Resources Workshop, Mother-Infant HIV Transmission Workshop, Sequestration and Desertification Workshop, Focus Africa WorkshopContents: Opening Session (T D Lee, K M B Siegbahn, A Zichichi, J K-C Ma, D Bodansky, R G Will, W P T James, C M Wilfert, A D Lopez & L G Everett)Water - Pollution (A A Keller, S M Hassanizadeh & D I Norman)Biotechnology - Transgenic Plant Vaccine (F Sala, R-X Fang, J-P Kraehenbuhl & C J Arntzen)Energy (J Ongena, A Yu Gagarinski & Y P Huo)Pollution - Black Sea (V I Mikhailov, I Salihoglu & K Thompson)AIDS - Mother-Infant HIV Transmission (G de Thé, F Barre-Sinoussi, M F Rea, H Pratomo & L Wood)Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy (P Brown & M Ricketts)Limits of Development - Megacities (W J Cosgrove, K C Sivaramakrishnan, J M Borthagaray & G G Serra)Missile Proliferation and Defense - Information Security (L Wood, V Tsigichko, A Kroutskikh, A Lehmann, A Piontkovsky & G Canavan)Cosmic Objects (W F Huebner, A Cellino, A F Cheng & J M Greenberg)Desertification, Carbon Sequestration and Sustainability (N J Rosenberg & L L Tiezen)Climatic Changes - Cosmic Objects, Global Monitoring of Planet, Mathematics and Democracy, Science and Journalism (T Dyson, W M Washington, R Walgate, K C Sivaramakrishnan & D R O Morrison)Permanent Monitoring Panel Reports (K M B Siegbahn, D Johnson, R Ragaini, Z Rudzikas, G Palshin, H Schubert, J Pozela & G de Thé)Megacities Workshop - Water as a Limit to Development (W J Cosgrove, J M Borthagaray, A G Pozo, G G Serra, P F Ricci, K C Sivaramakrishnan, I A Amer & G O Rogers)Workshop on Environmental Impacts of Oil Pollution in the Black Sea (R Ragaini, V Mikhailov, L Mirianashvili, I Salihoglu, K Thompson, E Okandan, D Dorogan & V Ragaini)Transgenic Plants as Vaccines: Impact on Developing Countries Workshop (G Levi, C J Arntzen, M Pezzotti, J-P Kraehenbuhl, J K-C Ma, Z Eshhar, Z-K Xu, R-X Fang & F Sala)Research Resources Workshop (W Sprigg, P Uhlir & G Tallia)Mother-Infant HIV Transmission Workshop (G de Thé, C M Wilfert, H Pratomo, M F Rea, R Zetterström, D Birx & A Coutsoudis)Linking the Conventions: Soil Carbon Sequestration and Desertification Control Workshop (L Olsson & P Bartel)Limits of Development: Focus Africa (C A Reynolds, J F Kuka, M Farah & M Diop)Readership: Ecologists, meteorologists, biotechnologists, AIDS researchers, doctors, physicists and social scientists.Key Features:The proceedings contain 100 papers which are well balanced between theory and experiment, and between general reviews and more detailed technical articles, thus giving a compact and rather general overview in the field
