The NATO Advanced Research Workshop, "Effective Scientific Communication
Related to Recent Challenges and Activities in the Military Sector," was
the result of close collaboration between defense and environmental
officials in the United States and the Slovak Republic. It was
recognized that effective solutions to environmental problems are
achieved through the proper application of science, including the
communications and the social sciences. Workshop was co-directed by
Messrs. Ronald A. Kreizenbeck of US EPA and Lubomir Kusnír of Slovak
Ministry of Defense. Workshop topics were grouped into five major topic
areas including 1) Environmental Policy Perspectives, 2) Environmental
Management Systems and Public Participation, 3) Environmental Security,
4) Environmental Decision Support, and 5) Protection of Nature and
Natural Systems. Delegates from nineteen countries assembled to explore
these topics at the Hotel Danube in Bratislava from April 22-26, 2003. A
total of forty six delegates were in attendance, twenty from NATO
countries and twenty six from Partners for Peace countries. The final
program included technical sessions using a presentation and dialog
format, work groups, field trips, and networking sessions. There were
twenty nine technical presentations divided into seven sessions, and
these form the basis for these proceedings. xiii Acknowledgments The
organizers of this Advanced Research Workshop acknowledge the support of
two major financial sponsors, the NATO Science Programme and the U. S.
Department of Defense (USDOD) under the Partners for Peace Program
(PfP).