December 1999 by the FEEM and the
Venetian Institute for Arts and Sciences,
and the "Socio-economic assessments of
climate change in the Mediterranean:
Impacts, adaptation and mitigation co-
benefits" workshop organised in Milan
in February 2001, invited by the FEEM
INCO European programmes, START
and the FEEM. This book comprising an
introduction and four chapters (impacts;
vulnerability and adaptation; water
resources; land uses; coastal areas)
includes the essentials of the presenta-
tions of both workshops.
hence the significant contribution
brought by the MEDIAS network to the
scientific understanding of this area. As
written by Pr. Carlo Carraro in the pref-
ace of the second book: "The co-opera-
tion between the RICAMARE network
and the FEEM has been very fruitful".
And to pick up the idea expressed by
Prof. Lacaux in the introduction of the
current Newsletter, it is an original ser-
vice provided to its requesting parties.
The French physicist and the Italian
socio-economist invite us to carry on our
efforts to serve the scientific community
in charge of global change, environment
and sustainable development.
the FAO, while a better nutrition would allow
them to resist.
had set as a target to have this figure
decreased by half in 2015.
2006, within the 6
White Book outlines three scenarios of bud-
get trends at the European scale.
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