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SCOPE-Zhongyu Environmental Awards The SCOPE-Zhongyu Environmental Awards is a 10-year programme inaugurated in 2010 to recognize and encourage outstanding scientists who have provided significant contributions and expert knowledge for regional and global syntheses, new research and policy approaches, and solutions to emerging environmental problems. SCOPE, the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment, is a knowledge network that is cross–sectoral, interdisciplinary and independent. Its growing membership reflects a broad base of expertise and outreach: scientific and technical research and assessment bodies, educational institutions, governmental, intergovernmental, nongovernmental and civil society organizations, and industry and the private sector. It maintains close working ties with intergovernmental organizations such as UNEP and UNESCO to develop the next generation of environmental assessments. The Zhongyu Environmental Technologies Corporation joined forces with SCOPE to sustain and guide the development of environmental science and technology and to foster cooperation in environmental protection and management strategies. The Lifetime Achievements Awards are presented every 2 years to distinguished individuals for significant contributions to environmental science, technological innovation or environmental engineering. Their research and their interaction with policy and development needs help shape environmentally sound strategies. Each year, the Young Scientists Awards acknowledge three researchers under the age of 45 who have developed innovative approaches, an outstanding publication record, and embody the next generation of scientific leadership through their capacity to address broad environmental issues. The Awards were first presented in October 2010, at the international conference ‘‘Urban futures and human and ecosystem well-being’’, held in Shanghai in conjunction with the World Exhibition. 2010 Lifetime Achievement Laureates Prof. Bedrich Moldan, Czech Republic For his achievements in the fields of biogeochemistry, atmospheric chemistry, and development of indicators of sustainability, as well as fostering the cooperation between the scientific community and policy makers as regards environmental issues. Prof. Chiu-Chung Young, Taiwan, China For his research achievements as regards soil environmental biogeochemistry and microbiology, and the development of remediation techniques to restore degraded soils. 2010 Young Scientist Laureates Environmental Sciences Dr. Tibor Eros, Hungaryprovided Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/envdev Environmental Development 2211-4645/$ - see front matter http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envdev.2012.05.012 Environmental Development 3 (2012) 184–185
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SCOPE-Zhongyu Environmental Awards
The SCOPE-Zhongyu Environmental Awards is a 10-year programme inaugurated in 2010 torecognize and encourage outstanding scientists who have provided significant contributions andexpert knowledge for regional and global syntheses, new research and policy approaches, andsolutions to emerging environmental problems.
SCOPE, the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment, is a knowledge network that iscross–sectoral, interdisciplinary and independent. Its growing membership reflects a broad base ofexpertise and outreach: scientific and technical research and assessment bodies, educationalinstitutions, governmental, intergovernmental, nongovernmental and civil society organizations, andindustry and the private sector. It maintains close working ties with intergovernmentalorganizations such as UNEP and UNESCO to develop the next generation of environmentalassessments.
The Zhongyu Environmental Technologies Corporation joined forces with SCOPE to sustain andguide the development of environmental science and technology and to foster cooperation inenvironmental protection and management strategies.
The Lifetime Achievements Awards are presented every 2 years to distinguished individuals forsignificant contributions to environmental science, technological innovation or environmentalengineering. Their research and their interaction with policy and development needs help shapeenvironmentally sound strategies.
Each year, the Young Scientists Awards acknowledge three researchers under the age of 45 whohave developed innovative approaches, an outstanding publication record, and embody the nextgeneration of scientific leadership through their capacity to address broad environmental issues.
The Awards were first presented in October 2010, at the international conference ‘‘Urban futuresand human and ecosystem well-being’’, held in Shanghai in conjunction with the World Exhibition.
2010 Lifetime Achievement Laureates
Prof. Bedrich Moldan, Czech RepublicFor his achievements in the fields of biogeochemistry, atmospheric chemistry, and development
of indicators of sustainability, as well as fostering the cooperation between the scientific communityand policy makers as regards environmental issues.
Prof. Chiu-Chung Young, Taiwan, ChinaFor his research achievements as regards soil environmental biogeochemistry and microbiology,
and the development of remediation techniques to restore degraded soils.
2010 Young Scientist LaureatesEnvironmental Sciences
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For his research on the ecology and conservation of aquatic ecosystems, and, in particular, hiscontribution to the development of biodiversity monitoring of freshwater habitats.
Environmental Management
Dra Rocio Diaz-Chavez, Mexico and the UKFor her role in the development and application of assurance and certification as a tool for
embedding science in the delivery of sustainable bioenergy systems
Environmental Technological Innovations
Dr. Mika Sillanpaa, FinlandFor his research leadership in environmental technology to address present water pollution
problem worldwide, especially with regard to wastewater treatment and reuse.
In its second year, the annual Young Scientists Awards were discerned at the first InternationalEnvironmental Forum held in Yixing, China in November 2011. This meeting brought togetherexperts and practitioners from around the world for interactive presentations, the 40th anniversaryof UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere Programme, and the launch of this journal.
2011 Young Scientist Laureates
Environmental Sciences
Dr. Jonathan Belmaker, IsraelFor his work on the relative influence of local and regional factors on processes that generate and
maintain biological diversity, addressing the gap between macroecological scales (100–200 km) andthe finer-scales where species interaction and conservation decisions take place.
Environmental Management
Dr. Felicia Wu, USAFor her work on environmental and occupational health, to provide the science necessary for
effective policy decisions in two major areas of research, with environmental mycotoxins beingcentral to both: aflatoxins and other agricultural mycotoxins, and indoor air pollution and childhoodasthma.
Environmental Technological Innovation
Professor An Taicheng, ChinaFor his work on the detection, environmental transportation and toxicity assessment, and
treatment of organic pollutants in water and air with photochemical and biological technologies.
Laureates of the 2012 edition of the SCOPE-Zhongyu Awards, both Lifetime Achievements andYoung Scientists, will be recorded in the next issue of Environmental Development in November.These outstanding individuals will take part in the 2nd Scope-Zhongyu Environmental Forum inTaiyuan, China next October. Its focus will be ‘‘New tools and instruments for the observation andmanagement of environmental development’’.
