International Seminar on Nuclear War and Planetary Emergencies : 25th session : "E. Majorana" Centre for Scientific Culture, Erice, Italy, 19-24 August, 2000 / series editor and chairman, A. Zichichi ; edited by R. Ragaini.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

International Seminar on Nuclear War and Planetary Emergencies, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Ragaini, Richard C.

Zichichi, Antonino.

Ettore Majorana International Centre for Scientific Culture.

Conference Name:

International Seminar on Nuclear War and Planetary Emergencies (25th : 2000 : Erice, Italy)

Series:

Science and culture series (Singapore). Nuclear strategy and peace technology.

Science and culture series. Nuclear strategy and peace technology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental sciences--Congresses.

Environmental sciences.

Human beings--Effect of environment on--Congresses.

Human beings.

Human ecology--Congresses.

Human ecology.

Nature--Effect of human beings on--Congresses.

Nature.

Physical Description:

xvii, 684 p. : ill., maps.

Place of Publication:

Singapore ; River Edge, N.J. : World Scientific, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 Workshop.

Contents:

1. Opening session. Planetary emergencies - The scientists' jubilee / T. D. Lee, K. M. B. Siegbahn, Antonino Zichichi

Potential for transgenic plants in vaccine production / Julian K.-C. Ma

Global energy problems and prospects / David Bodansky

Global malnutrition / W. Philip T. James

Mother to infant transmission of HIV: Successful interventions and implementation / Catherine M. Wilfert

The global burden of disease 1990-2020 / Alan D. Lopez

MTBE - The megacity public health debacle / Lome G. Everett

2. Water - Pollution. Cost benefit analysis for the use of MTBE and alternatives / Arturo A. Keller

Arsenic in groundwater: A worldwide threat to human health / S. Majid Hassanizadeh

Arsenic geochemistry and remediation using natural materials / David I. Norman

3. Biotechnology - Transgenic plant vaccine. Safety considerations when planning genetically modified plants that produce vaccines / Francesco Sala

Purified cholera toxin B subunit from transgenic tobacco plants possesses authentic antigenicity / Rong-Xiang Fang

Development of plant vaccines: The point of view of the mucosal immunologist / Jean-Pierre Kraehenbuhl

Plant-derived oral vaccines: From concept to clinical trials / Charles J. Arntzen

4. Energy. Status of magnetic fusion research / Jef Ongena

New trends in Russia's energy strategy / Andrei Yu Gagarinski

Energy problems and prospects of China / Huo Yu Ping

5. Pollution - Black Sea. Problems of control and rational uses of the Black Sea resources / Valery I. Mikhailov

The suboxic zone of the Black Sea / Ilkay Salihoglu

Building environmental coalitions and the Black Sea environmental initiative / Kay Thompson

6. AIDS - Mother-infant HIV transmission. The tragedy of the mother to infant transmission of HIV is preventable / Guy de The

HIV and infant feeding: Situation in Brazil / Marina Ferreira Rea

Mother to child transmission of HIV and plans for preventive interventions: The case of Indonesia / Hadi Pratomo

Toward pharmacological defeat of the third world HIV-1 pandemic / Lowell Wood

7. Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy. Iatrogenic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the year 2000 / Paul Brown

Infection control guidelines for TSEs in hospitals and home care settings / Maura Ricketts

8. Limits of development - Megacities. Megacities: Water as a limit to development / William J. Cosgrove

Delhi: A thirsty city by the river / K. C. Sivaramakrishnan

The question of water in metropolitan Buenos Aires / Juan Manuel Borthagaray

Sao Paulo: Water as a limit to development / Geraldo Gomes Serra

9. Missile proliferation and defense - Information security. Information challenges to security / Vitali Tsigichko

International information security challenges for mankind in the XXI century / Andrei Kroutskikh

Threats to information security by computer-based information hiding techniques / Axel Lehmann

New strategic environment and Russian military doctrine / Andrei Piontkovsky

Missile defense and proliferation / Gregory Canavan

10. Cosmic objects. NEOs: Physical properties / Walter F. Huebner ... [et al.]

11. Desertification, carbon sequestration and sustainability. Storing carbon in agricultural soils to help head-off global warming and to combat desertification / Norman J. Rosenberg

12. Climatic changes - Cosmic objects, global monitoring of planet, mathematics and democracy, science and journalism. Demographic change and world food demand and supply, some thoughts on sub-Saharan Africa, India and East Asia / Tim Dyson

The status of climate models and climate change simulations / Warren M. Washington

From Puztai to perfection: A necessary dream / Robert Walgate

Mathematics of Indian democracy / K. C. Sivaramakrishnan

Volcanoes, not Asteroids, caused mass extinctions killing dinosaurs, etc.: Explanation for earth's magnetic field reversals / Douglas R. O. Morrison.

13. Permanent monitoring panel reports. Report of the energy permanent monitoring panel / K. M. B. Siegbahn

Linking the conventions: Soil carbon sequestration and desertification control / Douglas Johnson

World federation of scientists permanent monitoring panel on pollution / Richard Ragaini

Progress report on the world federation of scientists activity in Lithuania / Zenonas Rudzikas

Extending the activities of the world federation of scientist in Ukraine / Gennady Palshin

Permanent monitoring panel report: Limits of development/sustainability / Hiltmar Schubert

Nuclear power plants in the next century / Juras Pozela

HIV/mother to child transmission / Guy de The

14. Megacities workshop - Water as a limit to development. Megacities: Water as a limit to development / William J. Cosgrove. The question of water in metropolitan Buenos Aires / Juan Manuel Borthagaray

Water use, abuse and waste: Limits to sustainable development in the metropolitan area of Mexico / Alberto Gonzalez Pozo

Global water quality, supply and demand: Implications for megacities / Paolo F. Ricci

Water resource management in the Texas megacity: A prima facie case for comprehensive resource management / George O. Rogers

15. Workshop on environmental impacts of oil pollution in the Black Sea. Environmental impacts of oil pollution in the Black Sea. Summary of the pollution permanent monitoring panel workshop / Richard Ragaini

Application of geoinformation systems for operative responding to oil spill accidents / Lado Mirianashvili

Black Sea environmental information center / Kay Thompson

Importance of assessment of oil pollution along Black Sea coast and Bosphorous Straight-Turkey / Ender Okandan

Oil pollution risk assessment in the Black Sea and the Romanian coastal waters / Dumitru Dorogan

Energetic consumption of different techniques used to purify water from 2-chlorophenol / Vittorio Ragaini

16. Transgenic plants as vaccines: Impact on developing countries workshop. Transgenic vaccines in plants - Prospects for global vaccinations / Giovanni Levi

Transgenic plants expressing human glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD65), a major autoantigen in type 1 diabetes mellitus / Mario Pezzotti

Potential for transgenic plants in vaccine production / Julian K-C. Ma

Genetically engineered therapeutic antibodies / Zelig Eshhar

Production of vaccine in plant expression of FMDV peptide vaccine in tobacco using a plant virus based vector / Zheng-Kai Xu

Safety considerations when planning genetically modified plants that produce vaccines / Francesco Sala

17. Research resources workshop. World federation of scientists permanent monitoring panel on climate, ozone & greenhouse effect / William Sprigg

Intellectual property rights in digital information in the developing world context: A science policy perspective / Paul Uhlir

Policy issues in the dissemination and use of meteorological data and related information / Glenn Tallia

18. Mother-infant HIV transmission workshop. The tragedy of the mother to infant transmission of HIV is preventable / Guy de The

Successful interventions to reduce perinatal transmission of HIV / Catherine M. Wilfert

Readiness of perinatal health care providers in dealing with mother-infant AIDS transmission: A case study in Indonesia / Hadi Pratomo

Breastfeeding and transmission of HIV / Rolf Zetterstrom

Utilizing the climate, water, development, and infectious diseases permanent monitoring panel to evaluate the cofactors fueling the HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa / Deborah Birx

Mother to child transmission - Perspectives from South Africa / Anna Coutsoudis

19. Linking the conventions: Soil carbon sequestration and desertification control workshop. Carbon sequestration to combat desertification - Potentials, perils and research needs / Lennart Olsson

Soil carbon sequestration in Africa / Paul Bartel

20. Limits of development: Focus Africa. Food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa due to HIV/AIDS / Curt A. Reynolds

Migration in Uganda: Measures government is taking to address rural-urban migration / Jane Frances Kuka

The impact on African economic development of orphans by AIDS in Africa: A case study of Uganda / Margaret Farah

Limits of development - Focus on Africa constraints and tendencies of rural development in Senegal / Mbareck Diop

21. Seminar participants.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786611948108

9781281948106

1281948101

9789812797001

9812797009