Science Policy: New Mechanisms for Scientific Collaboration between East and West

Front Matter....Pages i-xxxiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
New Russian Problems of International Scientific Collaboration....Pages 3-8
NATO International Scientific Exchange Programs....Pages 9-11
A Network of Research Centres in Siberia, as a Basis for Multi-Disciplinary International Scientific Collaboration....Pages 13-17
Science Policy: New Mechanisms for Scientific Collaboration Between East and West—UNESCO’s Role and Possible Contributions....Pages 19-26
Research Programs of the Council of Europe and Possible Ways of Collaboration with Scientists from Eastern Countries....Pages 27-30
East-West Scientific Collaboration—Some Ideas from the Laboratory....Pages 31-34
Front Matter....Pages 35-35
International Cooperation in Boreal Forests Study of Siberia....Pages 37-44
Global Change, the Global Boreal Forest, and Fire: Search for New Strategies in Science Policies and Research Mechanisms....Pages 45-61
Man-Made Closed Ecological Systems: Scientific and Applied Significance, and Prospects for International Collaboration....Pages 63-68
Genetic Effects of Radiation and other Man-Made Pollution in Siberia....Pages 69-80
Integrated Sustainable Development Methodology....Pages 81-86
Baikal International Centre for Ecological Research: Principles of Organization and First Scientific Results....Pages 89-100
A Brief Report of Japanese Activity for BICER Projects in 1993....Pages 101-106
Baikal Drilling Project: First Results and Prospects for Future Studies....Pages 107-116
The CASIMIR Project: A Joint Research Project on Rift Basin Geology between Siberia and Belgium....Pages 117-125
International Cooperation in the Framework of the Siberian Synchrotron Radiation Centre....Pages 129-140
International Centre for Catalyst Characterization and Testing: Two Years of Activity....Pages 141-152
Towards Sustainable Development: Contributions of the Boreskov Institute of Catalysis....Pages 153-157
Material Science Program of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences....Pages 159-162
The Conversion of Basic Chemical Technologies into the Solid State Processes....Pages 163-166
Front Matter....Pages 35-35
Space and Environmental Research at the SB RAS Facilities....Pages 167-176
Space Contamination and Ecological Problems....Pages 177-184
Cooperation in Environmental Flow Problems of Aerospace Science....Pages 185-192
Longterm Cooperation of SB RAS and Bruker-Spectrospin Group of Companies: Results and Prospects....Pages 193-196
International Cooperation in Studies of Economic Development of Siberia....Pages 199-208
The Baikal Region Social Ecology Issues....Pages 209-214
Perspectives and Preliminary Results of Archaeological Investigations of the South-Western Altai (the Ukok Plateau)....Pages 215-222
Some Aspects of Collaboration between the Royal Museums of Art and History of Belgium and Russian Colleagues in Archaeological and Art Historian Matters....Pages 223-224
Front Matter....Pages 225-225
Information Service for Scientific Programs in the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences....Pages 227-234
State and Perspectives of Cooperation of the Institutes of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences with Western Specialists in the Field of Geophysical Informatics....Pages 235-245
Interaction of Education and Science in SB RAS and International Collaboration in Education and Training of Junior Scientists....Pages 247-250
Back Matter....Pages 251-256