Regional issues related with global change in the mediterranean basin

Editorial

• The Mediterranean under the threat global change : consolidating the regional network

Mediterranean strategic themes

• START activities and plans in the Mediterranean region
• A LUCC network in the Mediterranean
• Adrar : Association for Research on Climate and Environment International scientific Forum

Mediterranean general themes

• The North Atlantic Oscillation and the Artic Oscillation
• PAP/MAP-UNEP : Activities in soil conservation in the Méditerranean
• Changes suffered by the Mediterranean rangelands in the recent past : ICARDA's experience
• Climate changes in the Mediterranean region : physical aspects and effects on agriculture in the Mediterranean region
• Emerging landscapes : landuse as a non-linear response to climatic forcing
• Water and forests
  Are forests a tool for water management ?

MEDIAS Network organisms

• CIHEAM : Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Méditerranéennes
  
• FEEM : The Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei
  
• AERC : Arid Ecosystems Research Centre - Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  
• IRA : The Institute of Arid Regions
  
• ICARDA : International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas
  
• AEGEAN : The University of the Aegean
  
• IMS/METU : Erdemli, Turkey
  

Projects

• Multilateral environmental agreements : a new joint EARSel/ISPRS initiative
  
• CarboEurope : Understanding and quantifying the carbon balance of Europe
  

Systems

• ENVISAT is now orbiting and observing our environment
  
• An new generation satellite : Spot 5 in orbit
  
• ISIS : Access for European scientists to Spot satellite imagery
  
• Jason-1 : A promising future for space-based ocean altimetry
  
• NESDIS : A strategic plan for the new millenium
  

Colloques

• An open symposium in «change and sustainability of pastoral land use systems in temperate and central Asia» - Ulaan-Baatar (Mongolia) - June 28 - July 1, 2001

News

• UNFCCC, 6th PCRDT, ESA, GMES, UN...