International Seminar on Nuclear War and Planetary Emergencies : 25th session : "E. Majorana" Centre for Scientific Culture, Erice, Italy, 19-24 August,2000 / ed. by R. Ragaini.

1. Opening session -- 2. Water, pollution -- 3. Biotechnology, transgenic plant vaccine -- 4. Energy -- 4. Pollution, Black Sea -- 6. AIDS, mother-infant HIV transmission -- 7. Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy -- 8. Limits ofdevelopment, megacities -- 9. Missile proliferation and defense, information security -- 10. Cosmic objects -- 11. Desertification, Carbon sequestration and sustainability -- 12. Climatic changes, cosmic objects, global monitoring of planet, mathematics and democracy, science and journalism -- 13. Permanent monitoringpanel reports --14. Megacities workshop, water as a limit to development -- 15.Workshop on environmental impacts of oil pollution in the Black sea -- 16. Transgenic plants as vaccines, impact on developing countries workshop -- 17. Research resources workshop -- 18. Mother-infant HIV transmission workshop -- 19. Linking the conventions: soil carbon sequestration and desertification control workshop -- 20. Limits of development, focus Africa.