Scientific Issues of the Next Century: Convocation of World Academies

The role of the academies : an introduction / Cesare Maltoni -- The role of academies : a Swedish example / Staffan Helmfrid -- The role of academies today / Giovanni Battista Marini-Bettolo -- The direction of science : the role of the scientists and their academies / Jonathan Stone -- Promoting science education in the city's school : a role of the New York Academy of Sciences / Oakes Ames -- The role of the academies / Irving J. Selikoff -- The conservation of natural terrestrial ecosystems / Aristides de Azevedo Pacheco Leão -- Research on the global earth system / James C.I. Dooge -- Environmental pollution and its countermeasures in China / Zhang Shen and Tang Yijian -- The outlook for ecosystems in the century ahead / Michael McCloskey -- Ecosystems / David P. Rall -- Conclusions / Giorgio Ruffolo -- Low fertility in industrial countries : causes, consequences, policies / Roberto Bachi -- Individual programming of life events : a challenge for demographers in the twenty-first century / Jacques Légare and Nicole Marcil-Gratton -- Demographic challenges for the twenty-first century / Dirk J. van de Kaa -- The key scientific issue of the next century : the science of addiction / Takeshi Hirayama -- Uncertainties in the future of energy / Arnaldo Maria Angelini -- Some reflections on the management of energy resources / Radu Balescu -- Solution to global energy and ecology problems at the turn of the twenty-first century / Oleg M. Nefedov -- The problems of growing science in India and other developing countries. The role of the academies / Sivaraj S. Ramaseshan -- Science and technology as the bond of humanity / Pericles S. Theocaris -- Occupational health research in the process of industrialization in China / Fengsheng He -- The role of the medical academy / Dimitri Orlov -- Global impact of science and technological development / Joseph A. Mihursky -- Drifting on an ocean of information / Robert H. Reichardt -- The Academy of Sciences and the cultural heritage of Russia / Alexandr G. Chuchalin -- Biomedical science : some controversial issues / Anne McLaren -- Changed notions of cancer / Irving J. Selikoff -- Recent trends in cancer / John C. Bailar III -- On the role of science academies / Barbara J. Culliton -- AIDS and the future of science / Knut Ringen -- A writer looks to the close of the century / Francisco Ayala -- The humanities and the academy / Erik Dal -- The human factor in the defense of the environment / Paul Brodeur..