2.  Formation – 1969
 Type – International scientific non-governmental
organisation.(INGO)
 Head quarters – Paris
 Region served – Worldwide
 Official language – English
 Current President – Jon Samseth
 Parent organization – International Council for
Science
 Website – scopenvironment.org

3. HISTORY:
 SCOPE was established by the 10th meeting of the Executive
Committee of the International Council for Science in 1969.
 SCOPE's members include 38 national science academies and
research councils, and 22 international scientific unions.
 SCOPE exists primarily to develop scientific reviews of key
environmental issues around the themes of managing
societal and natural resources, ecosystem processes, and
biodiversity, health and environment.
 The SCOPE Series, more than 70 scientific monographs and
other imprint titles, as well as the UNESCO-SCOPE-UNEP
Policy Briefs convey the results of individual projects and
specific programmes.
 Through its continuing focus on emerging issues, SCOPE has
also supported the development of global environmental
programmes throughout the world.

4. MISSION:
Today, SCOPE experts interact in a worldwide
knowledge network that is cross-sectoral,
interdisciplinary and independent
 to identify and provide scientific analyses of emerging
environmental challenges and opportunities caused by
or impacting on humans and the environment;
 to review the current scientific understanding of
environmental issues and identify priorities for future
research;
 to address policy and development needs and to inform
options and recommendations for environmentally-
sound policy and management strategies.

5.  The 1998-2001 scientific program focuses on the
concepts and practices of sustainability. Projects are
organized under three clusters of closely related and
interactive studies:
Cluster 1:Managing Societal and Natural Resources
(MSNR)
Cluster 2:Ecosystem Processes and Biodiversity (EP&B)
Cluster 3:Health and Environment (H&E)

6. Managing Societal and Natural Resources (MSNR):
The first cluster projects are founded on scientific
research, but emphasize the application of this scientific
knowledge in developing options for practices and
policies leading to a more sustainable biosphere.
Projects include the following:
 Sustainable Biosphere Project
 Economy and environment
 Ecological engineering and ecosystem restoration
 Global Invasive Species Program (GISP)
 Earth system services and human population
 Environment in a Global Information Society (EGIS)

7.  The role of environmental sciences in agricultural
practice
 Urban waste management
 Material flow analysis
 Implications of aquaculture and mariculture on
biodiversity and ecosystem processes

8. Ecosystem Processes and Biodiversity (EP&B):
The second cluster of projects focuses on ecosystem
processes, how these processes operate and interact with
human activities, and the significance of biological
diversity in relation to ecosystem functioning. Projects
include the following:
 Groundwater contamination
 Nitrogen transport and transformation
 Earth surface processes, material use, and urban
development (ESPROMUD)
 Soils and sediments: biodiversity and ecosystem
functioning

9.  Dynamics of mixed tree/grass systems
 Behavior of large-scale ecosystems
 Use of stable isotopes to study biogeochemical cycles in
relation to global change
 Land-ocean nutrient fluxes: silica cycle
 Interactions of the major biogeochemical cycles
 Use of molecular biology in the study of environmental
issues

10. Health and Environment (H&E)
The third cluster projects develop methodologies for
assessing chemical risk to human and nonhuman
targets, and use case studies of environmental
contamination to assess the health and environmental
risks of specific chemicals. Projects include the
following:
 Methodologies of assessing exposure to combustion
products: particles and their semi volatile constituents
(SGOMSEC 14)
 Radioactivity from nuclear tests (RADTEST)
 Mercury transport and transformation

11.  Cadmium in the environment
 Radioactivity at nuclear sites (RADSITE)
 Vector-borne diseases and environmental change
 Endocrine disrupters/modulators