Global Change, science and ICSU
Introduction 5
ICSU's role in international global change studies 7
Scientific Unions
The IAU and global change 11
IUBS and environmental sciences 13
Global Change and the geological sciences 17
The Ininternational Union of Geodesy and
Geophysics and global change research 20
Chemistry and the environment 23
Geography and the study of the environment 25
Interdisciplinary bodies
Global Change and relevant space observations 28
Antarctica's role in global change research 32
Global Change, the oceans and SCOR 34
A study of global change in the solar-terrestrial
system 38
Education in global change 44
The global change database project (GCDP):
A Data Project for the IGBP 46
CASAFA and global change 49
Coping with environmental global change: the role
of science and democracy 51
Development
The participation of developing countries in
global change activities 56
Zinbabwe's activities in the environment and
global change 58
Partners
Unesco's programmes related to environment and
global change 60
Environment research at the European Science
Foundation 65
A new program on global change launched by
the NATO Science Committee 68
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