FYI...Stefanie
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Dear Colleagues,
A complete draft of the Science Plan for the SARCS Integrated Study:
<bold> Human Driving forces of Environmental Change in Southeast
Asia and the Implications for Sustainable Development
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is now available for comment and review at the URL:
http://www.dataserv.com.au/sarcsisp.html
A short abstract is given below.
Please send any comments and feedback on the Science Plan to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] by the 30 March 1998.
Hard copies have recently been posted to most people who have contacted
me before about the Integrated Study. If you would like to receive a
hard copy by post then please contact me.
Regards,
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<bold>Abstract
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For the past couple of decades, many parts of the Southeast Asia region
have undergone rapid social, economic and environmental transformations,
and more recently, economic problems. Industrialisation, urbanisation
and high rates of population and economic growth , together with the
ongoing modifications to coastal areas and tropical rainforests, make the
Southeast Asian region a 'hot spot' from both sustainable development and
global change perspectives. Both perspectives are inherently linked, and
their analyses need to be addressed as a set of integrated scientific and
socio-economic issues.
The issue of rapid regional environmental change, its causes and
consequences, in Southeast Asia offers a good opportunity for the
Southeast Asian Regional Committee for START (SARCS) to develop an
Integrated Study of the human driving forces and implications of
environmental change. The thrust of the Study is 'living with global
change' in a sustainable way, and focussing on the close interconnection
between sustainable (and unsustainable) development and global change
feed-backs.
The main goal of the SARCS Integrated Study, therefore, is to describe,
understand, integrate and predict large scale environmental changes, the
natural and socio-economic factors that drive them, and their
consequences for the sustainable development and management of the humid
tropical marine, coastal and terrestrial ecosystems of Southeast Asia,
with the primary focus on the coastal zones and continental shelf seas.
This goal encompasses the full range of processes which impact on the
coastal zone, including those which occur in terrestrial ecosystems
higher up the catchments. The Study's overall goal is also aimed at
contributing to an understanding of the role of Southeast Asia in the
Earth system.
The Integrated Study will be based on a co-ordinated set of experimental,
observational and modelling studies involving various ongoing and planned
regional research programmes. The study through focussing on priority
issues of the Southeast Asia region will contribute to the research
effort of the international global change research programmes. The
Science Plan aims to provide a well defined and scientifically rational
overall framework for the Study so that the large number of individual,
contributing studies can be designed and implemented in a co-ordinated
way to provide a coherent regional understanding.
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Dr. Louis Lebel
DATASERV
PO Box 26
Belconnen ACT 2616
AUSTRALIA
Fax: 61-2-6242-7351 Tel: 61-2-6242-7351
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
URL: http://www.dataserv.com.au/
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GCTE Impacts Centres Overall Coordinator:
http://www.bogor.indo.net.id/IC-SEA/
Southeast Asian Science Policy Advisory Network (SEA-SPAN)
http://www.bogor.indo.net.id/IC-SEA/SEA-SPAN/
Coordinator for the SARCS Integrated Study Science Plan
http://www.dataserv.com.au/sarcsisp.html
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Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker
Department of Resource Management
Lincoln University, Canterbury
PO Box 56
Aotearoa New Zealand
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fax: 64-03-325-3841
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