CONTENTS -- 1. OPENING SESSION -- Opening Speech -- Enrico Fermi -- Environmental Applications of Space Technology -- Update on BSE and Variant CJD -- 2. AIDS AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES - MEDICATION OR VACCINATION FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES -- Preventive HIV Vaccines. Current Status -- Therapeutic HIV Vaccines -- Scientific Networking in AIDS Control -- 3. MISSILE PROLIFERATION AND DEFENSE -- Erice Recommendations Unheeded by Washington and Moscow -- Transition from Adversarial to Cooperative Interaction -- Ballistic Missile Defense: A Risk for Stability and Incentive for New Arms Races? -- Reducing the Ballistic Missile Threat -- 4. TCHERNOBYL - MATHEMATICS AND DEMOCRACY -- Democracy and Mathematics in Lithuania -- 5. TRANSMISSIBLE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY -- BSE in Europe -- TSE's and the Dental Team -- 6. FLOODS AND EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS - COASTAL ZONE PROBLEMS -- From Toxic Algae to Climate Change: Impacts in the Coastal Zone -- The Black Sea Romanian Coastal Zone - A General Survey of the Erosion Process -- Causes and Consequences of Nutrient Overenrichment of Coastal Waters -- Trouble on the Edge: The Imperative of Integrated Coastal Zone Management -- 7. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES -- Science and Technology: Framework, Governance and Strategies to Benefit Society in Developing Countries -- A Project for Solar Energy as a Joint Effort of Western and Islam Countries -- After Globalization: Future Security in a Technology Rich World -- Compact Neutron Sources for Pure and Applied Science -- Building Integrated Decision Tools for Planetary Emergencies -- 8. WATER - TRANSBOUNDARY WATER CONFLICTS -- Water, Conflict and Cooperation.

Borders Crossing Borders: Efficiency and Equity Considerations of Groundwater Markets in the Ciudad Juarez/El Paso Region along the Mexico/United States Border -- 9. CLIMATIC CHANGES - GLOBAL MONITORING OF THE PLANET -- The Increasing Concentration of Atmospheric CO2: How Much, When and Why? -- Would Global Warming Result in a New Ice Age? -- The Policy Implications of International Treatment of Meterological Data and its Impact on Forecasts, Warnings and Commercial Weather Industry Development -- Long-Range Weather Prediction III: Miniaturized Distributed Sensors for Global Atmospheric Measurements -- 10. INFORMATION SECURITY -- International Information Security Challenges for Mankind in the XXI Century -- A Russian Concept for Ensuring Information Security -- Information Security Thinking: A Comparison of U.S., Russian and Chinese Concepts -- 11. POLLUTION IN THE CASPIAN SEA -- The Caspian Sea Observation and Forecasting System Project Plan -- Caspian Environmental Programme (CEP): Achievements and Challenges -- A Review of Caspian Sea Environment, Climate Variability and Air-Sea Interaction -- Pollution Impact to Sturgeon from Ural Delta, Kazakhstan -- Mathematical Modeling of Oil Pollution in the Northern Caspian Sea -- The Conditions of the Hazardous Management System in Azerbaijan -- 12. PERMANENT MONITORING PANEL REPORTS -- Combined Meeting of the Permanent Monitoring Panels on Water and Defence against Floods and Unexpected Meteorological Events -- Mother to Child Transmission of HIV - Antiretroviral Therapy and Therapeutic Vaccine: A Scientific and Community Challenge -- Summary of the Workshop on Geophysical and Geological Properties of NEOS: "Know Your Enemy" -- PMP Report: Missile Proliferation and Defense -- World Federation of Scientists Permanent Monitoring Panel on Information Security.

World Federation of Scientists Permanent Monitoring Panel on Pollution - 2001 Report -- Extending Activities of the World Federation of Scientists in Ukraine -- Permanent Monitoring Panel Report: Limits of Development and Sustainability -- World Federation of Scientists Permanent Monitoring Panel, Climate, Ozone, & Greenhouse Effect -- 13. TRANSMISSIBLE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY WORKSHOP -- Structural Variations of Abnormal Prion Protein in Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker Disease -- 14. AIDS AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES WORKSHOP -- Communication Strategy for the Introduction of Anti Retroviral Therapy: A Concept Paper -- 15. POLLUTION WORKSHOP -- Environmental Pollution in the Caspian Sea: Workshop Summary, Conclusions and Recommendations -- Oil and Gas Pollution of the Caspian Ecosystem in Kazakhstan -- Pollution Impact to Fish from North Caspian Sea -- Monitoring of Marine Pollution in the Northern Caspian Sea -- Seminar Participants.