1 AUK ISMAIL-ZADEH ,2, TOM BEER3 1 International Institute of Earthquake Prediction Theory and Mathematical Geophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Warshavskoye shosse 79-2, Moscow 113556, Russia; e-mail: aismail@mitp.ru 2 Geophysikalisches Institut, Universittit Karlsruhe, Hertzstr. 16, Karlsruhe 76187, Germany; e-mail: Alik.Ismail-Zadeh@gpi.uni-karlsruhe.de 3 CSIRO Environmental Risk Network, CSIRO Atmospheric Research, Aspendale, Vic. 3195 Australia; e-mail: Tom.Beer@csiro.au The world faces major threats to the sustainability of our planet. These threats are accompanied by the immediate dangers of natural and man-made disasters. Our vulnerability to them is greatly magnified with each passing year undermining our ability to maintain a sustainable and productive world into the 21st Century and beyond. Both history and common sense teach us that science has a tremendous potential to find ways to cope with these threats. 1 The EUROSCIENCE working group "Science and Urgent Problems of Society" 2 and the IUGG Commission on Geophysical Risk and Sustainability were initiators of the EUROSCIENCE - IUGG Advanced Research Workshop "Science for Reduction of Risk and Sustainable Development of Society" sponsored by the NATO Science Program. The Workshop was held on 15-16 June 2002 in Budapest, Hungary. More than 40 participants from 17 countries took part in the Workshop. Talks and discussions addressed mainly the question of how science can help in reduction of risk and sustainable development of society.

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Talks.- The Globalisation of Risk in the XXIst Century.- Risk and Sustainability in Water Resources Management.- Aids to Decision-Making in Risk Management: Mobilisation of the Scientific Community to Improve Risk Management.- Science and Risk: Scientific Authority at Risk.- Basic Science for Prediction and Reduction of Geological Disasters.- Papers.- Environmental Risk and Sustainability.- Science for Risk Reduction and Sustainable Development: the Role of Law.- Sustainable Development and Risk Evaluation: Challenges and Possible New Methodologies.- On Predictability of Homicide Surges in Megacities.- Earthquakes and Megacities.- Case Studies.- Earth Sciences Contribution to the Sustainable Development of Ground Transportation Systems: Relevant Case Studies in Central Europe.- Modelling of Stress and Seismicity in the South-Eastern Carpathians: A Basis for Seismic Risk Estimation.- Earthquake Loss Estimation For India Based on Macroeconomic Indicators.- Monitors and Methods for Investigation of Submarine Landslides, Seawater Intrusion and Contaminated Groundwater Discharge as Coastal Hazards.- Risk of Collective Youth Violence in French Suburbs: A Clinical Scale of Evaluation, an Alert System.- Abstracts.- Lessons from Macrophagic Myofasciitis: Towards Definition of a Vaccine Adjuvant-Related Syndrome (abstract).- Flood Risk Management in the Upper Tisza Basin in Hungary: A System Analytical Approach (abstract).- Volcanoes and Cities (abstract).- Geo-Risk Management Practices in the Asia Pacific Region (abstract).- Values, Interests and Symbolic Politics in a Nuclear Waste Disposal Debate: About the Societal Dimensions of Risk Perception (abstract).- List of Contributors.- List of Reviewers.