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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 (Paperback, 2010 ed.)
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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 (Paperback, 2010 ed.)
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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.
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