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Published: December 1, 2007

Global Change Newsletter No. 70

Biofuels, nitrogen, earth system governance, and the effects of global change on Egypt are the main topics of IGBP’s December 2007 Global Change NewsLetter. In the cover story, Weber A. N. do Amaral and Catarina Pezzo of the Brazilian Center for Biofuels, University of Sao Paulo – Brazil, call for a consistent scientific framework to inform policies that maximise the positive potential of biofuels and minimise their negative impacts.

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Contents
Guest Editorial by M. Lahsen

Science Features
Mapping a Course for Biofuels: Science-informed Policy Needed by W. A. N. do Amaral and C. Pezzo

IGBP and the Nitrogen Cycle: An Earth Systems Approach by K. Hibbard and K. Noone

Earth System Governance as a Crosscutting Theme of Global Change Research by F. Biermann

National Committee Science
Environmental Consequences of Global Change in Egypt by M. Saber

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