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Published: December 14, 2005

Global Change Newsletter No. 64


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Contents
Guest Editorial by Carlos Nobre

Science Features
The Global Nitrogen Cycle – How Is It Changing? by J. Galloway

A Successful Decade of East African Lake Research by T.C. Johnson, M.R. Talbot, and E.O. Odada

Stable Boundary Layers and Land Surface Climate by B. Holtslag

Centrefold
iLEAPS Science Plan and Implementation Strategy

Integration
Global Environmental Change and Earth Observation – An IGBP-ESA Initiative by S. Plummer and O. Arino

Sustainability or Collapse? – Society in the 21st Century by R. Costanza, W. Steffen, L. Graumlich, K. Hibbard, D. Schimel

Profile of a Scientist
Salvador Lluch-Cota

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