Overview
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Roland Paepe
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Earth Technology Institute, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Belgian Geological Survey, Brussels, Belgium
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Rhodes W. Fairbridge
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GSFC Institute for Space Studies, NASA, New York, USA
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Saskia Jelgersma
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Geological Survey of the Netherlands, Haarlem, The Netherlands
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Table of contents (42 chapters)
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Greenhouse Effects
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- Michael R. Rampino, Robert Etkins
Pages 3-20
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- A. Berger, TH. Fichefet, H. Gallee, I. Marsiat, CH. Tricot, J. P. van Ypersele
Pages 85-107
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Sea Level
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Front Matter
Pages 115-115
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- Rhodes W. Fairbridge, Saskia Jelgersma
Pages 117-143
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Drought and Water Deficiency
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Front Matter
Pages 183-183
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- Liu Tungsheng, Han Jiamao
Pages 217-224
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- Roland Paepe, Elfi Van Overloop
Pages 253-280
About this book
Shortly after the creation of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Free University Brussels) in 1970, currently labelled as VUB, a Department of Quaternary Geology was installed within the Faculty of Science in 1974. At the beginning it dealt mainly with the study of periglacial loess deposits of the Pleistocene Glacial Period in Central Belgium and with coastal deposits in relation to sea level rise during the warm Holocene period covering the last 10,000 years, in which the dawn of civilization took place step by step. Today the same research teams widen their scope of interest: they are presently studying the loess plateau in the People's Republic of China and the world-wide problems associated with sea level rise, coastal erosion being one of the most devastating natural hazards. More and more emphasis is put on problems concerning environmental engineering and those dealing with global change. Since 1975 UNESCO sponsored a number of symposia of the International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA), whose secretariat was located on the VUB Campus grounds from 1973 to 1982. In 1981 the Applied Geology Department ofthe Faculty of Applied Sciences was created. The NATO-Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) , organized in Fuerteventura (Canary Islands, Spain) in March 1989 was a climax of this series of Global Change gatherings. As Rector of the VUB, I am satisfied that the VUB, through its Earth Technology Institute, of both USA and Belgium could cooperate with NATO and the National Science Foundations in cosponsoring such an initiative.
Editors and Affiliations
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Earth Technology Institute, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Belgian Geological Survey, Brussels, Belgium
Roland Paepe
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GSFC Institute for Space Studies, NASA, New York, USA
Rhodes W. Fairbridge
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Geological Survey of the Netherlands, Haarlem, The Netherlands
Saskia Jelgersma
About the editors
Professor Rhodes W. Fairbridge is emeritus Professor of Geology at Columbia University and is now visiting scientist at the Goddard Institute of Space Studies (NASA, NY). He has edited more that two dozen encyclopedias and authored more than three-hundred scientific publications.
