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Biogeochemistry of small catchments: a tool for environmental research I edited by Bedrich Moldan and Jiri Cerny p.
cm.(SCOPE; 51)
Summary of meeting held in Most, Czechoslovakia on
Nov. 1990.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-471-93723-1
I. Watersheds-Congresses.
2.Biogeochemistry-Congresses.
3. Water chemistry-Congresses.
I. Moldan, Bedfich.
II. terny,
Jiri V.
III. International Council of Scientific Unions.
Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment.
IV. United
Nations Environment Programme.
OB980.B545
1994
551.48--dc20
V. Series: SCOPE report; 51.
93-5685
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International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU)
Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE)
SCOPE is one of a number of committees established by the non-governmental group of scientific organizations, the International Council of Scientific Unions
(ICSU). The membership of the ICSU includes representatives from 93 National
Academies of Science, 23 International Unions and 29 other bodies called
Associates. To cover multidisciplinary activities which include the interests of several unions, ISCU has established 12 Scientific Committees, of which SCOPE is one. Currently representatives of 36 member countries and 22 Unions, Scientific
Committees and Associates participate in the work of SCOPE, which directs particular attention to the needs of developing countries. SCOPE was established in
1969 in response to the environmental concerns emerging at the time: ICSU recognized that many of these concerns required scientific inputs spanning several disciplines and ICSU Unions. SCOPE's first task was to prepare a report on Global
Environmental Monitoring (SCOPE I, 1971) for the UN Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment.
The mandate of SCOPE is to assemble, review, and assess the information available on man-made environmental changes and the effects of these changes on man; to assess and evaluate the methodologies of measurement of environmental parameters; to provide an intelligence service on current research; and by the recruitment of the best available scientific information and constructive thinking to establish itself as a corpus of informed advice for the benefit of centres of fundamental research and of organizations and agencies operationally engaged in studies of the environment.
SCOPE is governed by a General Assembly, which meets every three years.
Between such meetings its activities are directed by the Executive Committee.
R. E. Munn
Editor-in-Chief
SCOPE Publications
Executive Director: V. Plocq-Fichelet
Secretariat: 51 boulevard de Montmorency
75016 Paris, France