Reproduced,
with permission, from: Canadian Global Change Program. 1993. Canadian involvement
in international global change activities : A compendium. Draft. Ottawa: Royal
Society of Canada.
the CANADIAN GLOBAL CHANGE PROGRAM
of THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA
with the assistance of
the Physical and Chemical Sciences Directorate,
Department of Fisheries and Oceans.
Ottawa, Canada
1993
FINLAND
In 1989, the Ministry of Environment determined that a large scale multi-disciplinary national research programme on climate change should be initiated. The Finnish Research Programme on Climate Change (SILMU) was established in 1990, and at present more than 60 individual research projects have been included in the programme, ranging from atmospheric chemistry to sociology. The research activities that comprises SILMU are grouped into four interdisciplinary subprogrammes: atmosphere, waters, terrestrial ecosystems and human interactions.
Markku Kanninen Project Manager The Finnish Research Programme on Climate Change The Academy of Finland P.O. Box 57 SF-00551 Helsinki FINLAND tel: +358-0-774881 fax: +358-0-77488 299 Internet: SILMU@AKA.FI
The national programs are funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and focus on topics of regional importance. They initiate new research activities on one hand and intensive multidisciplinary collaboration on the other.
The PPE is funded for the first phase from 1993 to 1995 by about 40 million sfr. It is a coordinated effort on environmental topics of national interest. The PPE integrates activities between natural sciences, engineering, the humanities, social sciences and economics into various modules: environmental dynamics, biogeochemical processes and cycles, biodiversity, environmental awareness and activity, environmental economics, environmental technology, and development and the environment. Besides the regional focus of the program, Switzerland shares responsibility for European and global environmental problems as a whole. As a part of this effort, the last module of the PPE represents a collaboration with the Third World through joint projects.
The National Program for Climate Change and Natural Disasters NFP-31 has a fixed duration of five years (1992 to 1997) and is funded by 20 million sfr. The emphasis is on climatic aspects of global change and on natural disasters with special emphasis on the alpine region.
ProClim-Forum for Climate and Global Change is a program-independent office funded by the academy of sciences. It encourages multidisciplinary national and international research through workshops and conferences on one side and through coordination of existing and new long term projects on the other. ProClim aims to interlink projects on a voluntary basis and based on common interests. For this purpose it maintains an extensive database on global change relevant research projects in Switzerland including information about their international collaborations. It offers its services to researchers and programs in Switzerland and abroad.
Rudolf Haeberli Priority Programme Environment Swiss National Science Foundation Laenggass-Strasse 23 CH-3012 Bern SWITZERLAND tel: +41(0) 31 302 55 77 fax: +41(0) 31 302 55 20 email:PPEPLl@CUMULI.vmsmail.ethz.ch Mr Ulrich Roth National Program for Climate and Natural Disasters Swiss Natonal Science Foundation Sigmaplan AG Zahringerstr. 61 CH-3012 Bern SWITZERLAND tel: +41 (0)31 301 23 65 fax: +41(0)31 302 61 55 email:N31PL@cumuli.vmsmail.ethz.ch Mr Christoph Ritz ProClim-Forum for Climate and Global Change Barenplatz 2 P.O. Box 7613 CH-3001 Bern SWITZERLAND tel: +41 (0)31 312 21 14 fax: +41 (0)31 312 55 37 Email: ProClim@ubevax.unibe.ch
