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SCOPE: The First Sixteen Years*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Gilbert F. White
Gilbert F. White
Affiliation:
President of SCOPE, 1976–82; Gustavson Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Geography, Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0482, USA.
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Understanding of processes of change in the global environment comes from analysis of evidence that spans the boundaries between nations and between disciplines. Scientists are obliged to work across those boundaries in a variety of ways if they are to arrive at reasonably accurate judgements as to what is known or not known about the alterations that are taking place in the air, water, soil, and biota, of the Earth. One of the devices which they have used since 1969 is the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE).

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , Spring 1987, pp. 7 - 13
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1987

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References

Scope Reports

Ecosystem Dynamics in Freshwater Wetlands and Shallow Water Bodies (1982). Centre of International Projects GKNT (SCOPE and UNEP), Moscow, USSR: 2 vols, 312 and 424 pp., illustr.Google Scholar
SCOPE 1: Global Environmental Monitoring (1971). SCOPE, Stockholm, Sweden: 68 pp. [Out of print.]Google Scholar
SCOPE 2: Man-made Lakes as Modified Ecosystems (1972). SCOPE, Paris, France: 76 pp., illustr.Google Scholar
SCOPE 3: Global Environmental Monitoring System (GEMS): Action Plan for Phase 1 (1973). SCOPE, Toronto, Canada: 132 pp. [Out of print.]Google Scholar
SCOPE 4: Environmental Sciences in Developing Countries (1974). Summary Reports and Recommendations of the SCOPE/UNEP Symposium on Environmental Sciences in Developing Countries, Nairobi, 11–23 February 1974. SCOPE/UNEP, Nairobi, Kenya: xi + 418 pp. [Out of print.]Google Scholar
SCOPE 5: Environmental Impact Assessment: Principles and Procedures (1975), 160 pp.; second edition, 1979, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, England, UK: xviii + 208 pp., illustr.Google Scholar
SCOPE 6: Environmental Pollutants: Selected A nalytical Methods (1975), Butterworths, London, England, UK: xi + 277 pp., illustr. [Out of print.]Google Scholar
SCOPE 7: Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Sulphur: Global Cycles (1975), Royal Swedish Academy, Stockholm, Sweden, Ecological Bulletin No. 22, 192 pp., illustr. [Out of print.]Google Scholar
SCOPE 8: Risk Assessment of Environmental Hazard (1978), xvii + 132 pp., illustr.Google Scholar
SCOPE 9: Simulation Modelling of Environmental Problems (1978), xvi + 128 pp., illustr.Google Scholar
SCOPE 10: Environmental Issues (1977), xviii + 242 pp., illustr.Google Scholar
SCOPE 11: Shelter Provision in Developing Countries (1978), xii + 112 pp.Google Scholar
SCOPE 12: Principles of Ecotoxicology (1979), xxii + 372 pp., illustr.Google Scholar
SCOPE 13: The Global Carbon Cycle (1979), xxxv + 528 pp., illustr.Google Scholar
SCOPE 14: Saharan Dust: Mobilization, Transport, Deposition (1979), xvii + 320 pp., illustr.Google Scholar
SCOPE 15: Environmental Risk Assessment (1980), xxiii + 184 pp., illustr.Google Scholar
SCOPE 16: Carbon Cycle Modelling (1981), xiv + 390 pp., illustr.Google Scholar
SCOPE 17: Some Perspectives of the Major Biogeochemical Cycles (1981), xiii + 175 pp., illustr.Google Scholar
SCOPE 18: The Role of Fire in Northern Circumpolar Ecosystems (1983), xxii + 322 pp., illustr.Google Scholar
SCOPE 19: The Global Biogeochemical Sulphur Cycle (1984), xxv + 470 pp., illustr.Google Scholar
SCOPE 20: Methods for Assessing the Effects of Chemicals on Reproductive Functions (SGOMSEC 1) (1983), xxv + 541 pp., illustr.Google Scholar
SCOPE 21: The Major Biogeochemical Cycles and Their Interactions (1983), xxi + 532 pp., illustr.Google Scholar
SCOPE 22: Effects of Pollutants at the Ecosystem Level (1984), xv + 443 pp., illustr.Google Scholar
SCOPE 23: The Role of Terrestrial Vegetation in the Global Carbon Cycle: Remote Sensing (1984), xvi + 247 pp., illustr.Google Scholar
SCOPE 24: Noise Pollution (1986), xix + 446 pp., illustr.Google Scholar
SCOPE 25: Appraisal of Tests to Predict the Environmental Behaviour of Chemicals (1985), xv + 380 pp., illustr.Google Scholar
SCOPE 26: Methods for Estimating Risk of Chemical Injury: Human and Non-human Biota and Ecosystems (SGOMSEC 2) (1986), xxxi + 680 pp., illustr.Google Scholar
SCOPE 27: Climate Impact Assessment (1985), xxiv + 625 pp., illustr.Google Scholar
SCOPE 28: Environmental Consequences of Nuclear War, Vol. I, Physical and Atmospheric Effects (1986), xi + 359 pp., illustr.Google Scholar
SCOPE 28: Environmental Consequences of Nuclear War, Vol. II, Ecological and Agricultural Effects (1985), xxxviii + 523 pp., illustr.Google Scholar
SCOPE 28: Environmental Consequences of Nuclear War, ‘Planet Earth in Jeopardy’. A semi-popular version of SCOPE 28 (1986), vii + 180 pp., illustr.Google Scholar
SCOPE 29: The Greenhouse Effect, Climatic Change and Ecosystems (1986), xxi + 541 pp., illustr.Google Scholar

(Joint MAB/SCOPE Publications.)

MAB 4: Dynamic Changes in Terrestrial Ecosystems: Patterns of Change, Techniques for Study and Applications to Management (1977), 30 pp.Google Scholar
MAB 5: Guidelines for Field Studies in Environmental Perception (1977), 117 pp., illustr.Google Scholar
MAB 8: Environmental Effects of Arid Land Irrigation in Developing Countries (1978), 67 pp., illustr.Google Scholar