Science International

A History of the International Council of Scientific Unions

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Science International is the history of a worldwide organization of scientists, now involving thousands of participants, which was started a century ago when a few visionaries founded the International Association of Academies (1899-1919). This was succeeded by an International Research Council, which, in 1932, became the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU). The initiative to have an international arena for scientists survived two global wars, as well as immense economic and social change in the twentieth century. This history describes how national academies and international unions of scientists from specific disciplines learned to work together, and shows how from these alliances sprang great co-operative projects such as the International Geophysical Year and the International Biological Programme, as well as the creation of a global scientific organization directed to the study of the entire planet and prospects for the human race.

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'Greenaway's book is a labour of love and will certainly be an eye-opener to any scientist who reads it closely. It portrays an organization which is itself a labour of love, created and nurtured by selfless well-wishers of the world's scientific enterprise. It is excellent value for money, and I commend it without reserve.' Robert Cahn, European Review

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Preface
List of illustrations
International Association of Academies (1899-1914)
International Research Council (1919-1931)
ICSU: beginning and establishment
ICSU development 1931-39
ICSU in war-time
A new beginning (1945)
ICSU in a post-war world
The free conduct of science
Living machinery: officers and staff
Growth: towards the global
ICSU in mid-century
IGY and its heritage
Data, data centres and CODATA
World projects and the environment
ICSU and UNESCO: making new bodies
Membership
Ringberg (1985) to Visegrad (1990): self-examination
The road to Rio and beyond
ICSU at the end of a century
Tables and charts
Additional reading list
Index.
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A History of the International Council of Scientific Unions

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