Global Change in Latin America: A Regional Workshop on Collaborative Research in the Natural and Social Sciences

1992年底将举办一个讲习班， 来自拉丁美洲、加拿大的自然和社会科学家， 美国考虑进行综合研究的需要 全球变化对社会的潜在影响 以及国家和区域经济。 专题暂定 确定供讨论的问题包括：土地使用的变化， 其影响;沿海区的利用和管理;过去 环境和社会变化及其与过去 全球变化;全球变化的预测及其 影响社会和经济。 该研讨会将允许 及时确定人类最优先的议题 与全球变化有关的维度研究， 纳入美洲国家组织科学议程 全球变化研究所（IAI）。 车间 正在人的方面的主持下组织， 全球环境变化方案和 国际地圈生物圈计划。

A workshop will be convened in late 1992 to bring together natural and social scientists from Latin America, Canada, and the United States to consider needs for integrated research related to the potential impacts of global change on societies and on national and regional economies. Topics tentatively identified for discussion include: changes in land use and their impacts; coastal zone utilization and management; past environmental and social change and their linkages to past global change; and predictions of global change and their impact on societies and economies. The workshop will permit timely identification of topics of highest priority for human dimensions research related to global change which could be incorporated into the scientific agenda of the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI). The Workshop is being organized under the auspices of the Human Dimensions and Global Environmental Change Program (HDGECP) and the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (IGBP).