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IGM/10/10
SPG/10/10
This review meeting in Beijing received financial support from the START Regional
Center for Temperate East Asia (START TEA-RC) and the International START
Secretariat. In attendance were the International START Secretariat Director and
Deputy Director, ICSU Vice-President, SCOPE Editor-in-Chief, Director of Department
of High and New Technology Industrialisation of MOST, Deputy Director of Bureau of
Resources and Environment of CAS, Lead Authors of the APN/SCOPE/ START Book in
China and START TEA-RC researchers.
To meet the original design of the APN/SCOPE/START rapid assessment project,
each chapter initially focused on major progress related to “what we know”. The
main scientific issues needed to be addressed, i.e., “what we do not know, but need
to know”.
As Part I of the APN/SCOPE/START Rapid Assessment Project, this workshop has
been a good experience for follow-up activities in two other regions. Moreover,
based on the current process summarised by this Beijing Workshop, the MAIRS East
Asia Rapid Assessment Workshop will convene on 6-8 October, 2004, in Hangzhou.
4-6 August, 2004. The 4th International Symposium on the Tibetan Plateau.
Lhasa, Tibet, China
The symposium was facilitated by the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, the
Chinese Academy of Sciences (ITP, CAS), the Bureau of Sciences and Technology,
the Tibet Autonomous Region and, the P. R. China and China Society on the Tibetan
Plateau (CSTP).
The China State Key Project on Fundamental Research Planning “Formation and
Evolution of Tibetan Plateau with its Environment and Resource Effects,” which has
been in operation since 1998, has already made great progress in fundamental
theories and practical applications including: continental collision dynamics, plateau
uplifting and abrupt environmental changes, ecology system of the plateau and
global change, epigenetic processes of the plateau and their interaction mechanisms
and, regional sustainable development on the plateau, etc. Internationally, Tibetan
plateau research has been continuously developed and strengthened. It is, from a
series of joint projects, based upon regional integrated investigations, developed as
a scientific field with synthetic characters. This symposium provided a forum for
scientists, interested in Tibetan plateau research, to strengthen the exchanges of
achievements made thus far and to promote further research cooperation and
improvement, in the quality of research.
6-8 October, 2004. Workshop on APN/START/SCOPE Rapid Assessment of
Global Environmental Change in East Asia. Hangzhou, China
The Workshop, jointly supported by the APN, START funding from IGBP/ICSU, the
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the Chinese Association of Science and
Technology (CAST) and IGAC, was held in Hangzhou, China, 6-8 October, 2004.
The workshop was attended by lead authors of the APN/START/SCOPE East Asia
Rapid Assessment Book, Monsoon Asia Integrated Regional Study (MAIRS) SSC
members, scientists and experts in related areas, representatives from supported
international organisations, and TEACOM members. Prof. Guo Huadong, the
Secretary General and Director of Bureau of International Cooperation, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Prof. Shao Liqin, Director of Department of High and New
Technology Industrialisation, The Ministry of Science and Technology, Prof. Peter
Tyson, Vice-president of ICSU, Prof. Roland Fuchs and Prof. Hassan Virji, Director
and Deputy Director of International START Secretariat, Prof. Mike MacCracken,
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