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International Seminar on Nuclear War and Planetary Emergencies : 27th session ..., "E. Majorana" Centre for Scientific Culture, Erice, Italy, 18-26 August 2002 /
This was the first of a number of seminars dealing with one of the most complex of the new challenges in the 21st century, which call for the participation of a broad range of experts. Eminent economists, decision-makers, defence specialists, political analysts and sociologists presented their views...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook |
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Singapore ; River Edge, N.J. :
World Scientific,
©2003.
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| Colección: | Science and culture series (Singapore). Nuclear strategy and peace technology.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Opening session. The cultural emergency / Tsung Dao Lee, Kai Siegbahn, Antonino Zichichi
- 2. Society and structures: historical perspectives
- culture and ideology. Smile and feel secure, god is with the believers: religion and the capacity for global terror / Eda Sagarra
- The culture of terrorism / Farhang Mehr
- Islam and modernity: ideology and violence in the Middle East / Kamran Talattof
- Violence and strategic choices: the case of Islamist militancy / Ibrahim Karawan
- 3. Society and structures: national and regional geopolitical issues. Confrontation and cooperation in South Asia / K.C. Sivaramakrishnan
- Neutrality and the Arab-Israeli conflict / Dan V. Segre
- Science and technology to advance regional security in the Middle East and Central Asia / Andrew F.B. Tompson [and others]
- High-tech terrorism
- a rapidly growing, global problem / Karl K. Rebane
- High-tech terrorism as an increasing global problem / Karl K. Rebane
- 4. Society and structures: globalisation
- economy and culture. Globalization and culture / Ahmad Kamal
- Defending against mass-casualty terrorism: technologies enabling strategy and tactics for robust defense / Lowell Wood
- Oil policies and terror: getting off oil / William Fulkerson
- Economic factors of conflict and violence: the economics of armed conflict / Peter Lock
- 5. Society and structures: human rights
- freedom and democracy debate. When is a superpower welcome? / William R. Shea
- How freely should money flow? / Alfred Grieder
- Combating terrorism: an event tree approach / Richard Wilson
- 6. Confrontations and countermeasures: present and future confrontations. Towards an unguided world? / Anatoly L. Adamishin
- Terrorism
- defining the problem, assessing the risk / Christopher Daase
- European security: new challenges and perspectives / Tutyana Purkhalina
- Small wars
- a challenge for future security / Wolfgang Müller-Seedorf
- War for water? Transboundary freshwaters: crisis and conflicts in the short future / André Beauchamp
- Limitations of international treaties on weapons of mass destruction
- escaping the prison of the past / Terence Taylor
- 7. Confrontations and countermeasures: psychology of terrorism. The psychology of terrorism: fanatical identities / Gretty M. Mirdal
- The psychology of terrorism / Ahmad Kamal.
- 8. Confrontations and countermeasures: defensive countermeasures. Nuclear and biological megaterrorism / Richard Garwin
- Has air power come of age? / Donald A. Yerxa
- Engaging the science community for homeland defense / William A. Barletta
- 9. Confrontations and countermeasures: preventive countermeasures. Literature is language struggling for more meaning (words to hurt and words to heal) / Josef Jarab
- Preventing terrorism
- from reactive to proactive strategies / Christopher Daase
- Role and significance of scientific component in the struggle against terrorism / Ashot Sarkisov
- Advances in biotechnology: safeguarding the opportunities and managing the risks / Terence Taylor
- 10. Science and technology: emergencies. Do we make ourselves? / Jürgen Mittelstrass
- Languages at risk / Alain Peyraube
- European science in a knowledge-based world (risks in a widening Europe in a narrowing world) / Norbert Kroo
- 11. Science and technology: pollution. Exposure to very low doses of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) during fetal life permanently alters brain development and behavior in animals and humans / Stefano Parmigiani [and others]
- Long term stewardship of radioactive and chemical contamination / Lorne Everett, Stephen Kowall
- 12. Science and technology: climate
- greenhouse effect. The carbon cycle and anthropogenic climate change / Pieter Tans
- The climate changes in China related to global warming / Huijin Wang [and others]
- Four billion years of the carbon cycle: what's the message for us? / Ján Veizer
- 13. Science and technology: desertification
- water pollution
- algal bloom. Sandy desertification in north China / Tao Wang
- The expanding global problem of harmful algal blooms / Donald M. Anderson
- Video conference / Edward Teller
- The impacts of harmful algal events / Micheal Ó. Cinnéide
- 14. Science and technology: brain and behaviour diseases. The human genome project: its impact on complex human disorders / P. Michael Conneally
- 15. The cultural emergency
- general debate and conclusions. Language, logic and science / Antonino Zichichi
- Society and Structures Working Group A: culture, ideology, human rights, freedom and democracy / William Shea
- Society and Structures Working Group B: economy, national and regional geopolitical issues / K.C. Sivaramakrishnan
- Confrontation and Countermeasures Working Group / R.A. Mason.
- 16. Permanent Monitoring Panel reports. Mother and Child Permanent Monitoring Panel: manifesto / Nathalie Charpak
- Report by Permanent Monitoring Panel on Missile Proliferation and Defense / Andrei Piontkovsky
- Limits of Development Permanent Monitoring Panel report / Hiltmar Schubert
- World Federation of Scientists/Permanent Monitoring Panel on Information Security / Henning Wegener
- Meeting of the Permanent Monitoring Panel on defense against floods and unexpected meteorological events / Robert Clark
- Water; climate; ozone and greenhouse effects; and desertification / Robert Clark
- Pollution Permanent Monitoring Panel / Richard Ragaini
- Report of the Energy Permanent Monitoring Panel / Kai Siegbahn
- Minutes of Desertification Permanent Monitoring Panel / Andrew Warren
- 17. Brain and behaviour diseases workshop. Unravelling the mysteries of schizophrenia: advances from genetic studies / Anne S. Bassett [and others]
- Genetics of substance dependence / C. Robert Cloninger
- Huntington disease and other CAG repeat disorders / P. Michael Conneally
- Dementia from brain vascular disease: the silent epidemic / Charles DeCarli
- Noncognitive symptoms of dementia: rigor and relevance / Marshal F. Folstein
- Can we find genes for common disorders? / Susan E. Folstein
- Neuropathology at the crossroads of neuropsychiatry and genetics: new insights into neuroserpin encephalopathy / Bernardino Ghetti [and others]
- The genetics and epidemiology of multiple sclerosis / Jonathan L. Haines
- Alzheimer disease: genes and environment; the value of international studies / Hugh C. Hendrie [and others]
- Genetics and the global health burden of mood disorders / Francis J. McMahon
- Violence and violent conflicts: views from affective neuroscience / Sergio Paradiso, Lauren Schrock
- The genetics of Alzheimer disease / Margaret A. Pericak-Vance
- Tau gene mutations in frontotemporal dementia and Parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 / Maria Grazia Spillantini
- Psychiatric disorders as vectors for HIV and other behaviorally transmitted infectious epidemics / Glenn J. Treisman
- Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and bovine spongiform encephalopathy: current status / R.G. Will
- Neuropsychiatric aspects of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease / R.G. Will, R.S.G. Knight, M.D. Spencer
- 18. Information Security Workshop. New forms of confrontation: cyber-terrorism and cyber-crime / Ahmad Kamal
- 19. Kangaroo Mother's Care Workshop. A tool for the follow-up of your Kangaroo Mother Care: baby from birth to one year of corrected age / Nathalie Charpak [and others].