About ICSU inside front cover
Meeting Reports
Electronic Publishing in Science 1
Assessment of ICSU 3
Officers' Meeting 3
All European Academies (ALLEA) 3
Second Meeting of the Scientific
Committee on Water Research (SCOWAR) 4
Dakar Working Group on Food Security
for the 21st Century 5
Spotlights on Science
Catalyst Role of Scientific Projects to the
Decadeon Natural Disasters Reduction:
A brief review of ICSU's spearhead projects 7
Megascience Forum 10
Supporting Global Environmental
Protection: The Global Environment
Facility 11
The Interacademy Panel on International
Issues 16
The Declaration of Inuyama 17
Human Gene Therapy 18
SCOPE Oceans Assessment 19
International Human Dimensions
Programme on Global Environmental
Change (IHDP) 20
Honours for ICSU General Committee
Members 20
Tyler Prize 21
Looking Ahead
25th ICSU General Assembley 21
Getting to Know
International Society of Soil Science
(ISSS): A new Union Member of ICSU 23
Science and Technology for Development
Inauguration of the International
Secretariat Builading in Madras 25
New Members of COSTED-IBN
Executive Committee 26
What about Electronic Publishing in
Developing Countries 29
News in Brief 30
Future Meetings 33
Publications News 34
Obituaries 35
Calendar of Meetings 36
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