Publications

The COST program is a European program aiming to implement and improve cooperation between European research teams in the field of Science and Technique. Thanks to the efforts of our Belgian colleagues, a specific action devoted to Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (Action COST B14) was launched in December 1998. Nineteen European countries, members or associated to the European Union, participate.

Special Supplement on Weather, Climate and Farmers.

This special issue of Journal of Food and Nutrition Research comprises some contributions from the final meeting of COST 927 Action which was held in Smolenice, Slovakia in October 2008.

The main objective of COST 718 is to improve the meteorological applications to agriculture. To do this, it deals with three main topics: the availability of meteorological data from standard network, remote sensing and Numerical Weather Models, the application of models in the field of crop diseases, irrigation and climate change, and the diffusion to the farmers of the information through new technologies.

Major events of human prehistory such as the post-glacial recolonisation of Northern Europe and the spread of agriculture through the Mediterranean took place on landscapes that are now, at least partially, underwater. Large parts of this submerged terrain are accessible to divers and can be investigated archaeologically. Prehistoric underwater research has emerged in recent decades as a distinct sub-discipline, developing approaches and methodologies that can be applied in coastal regions worldwide. As a result there is growing awareness of the potential for underwater archaeology to transform our ideas about the course of prehistory. This volume examines existing practice and new developments in the field of submerged prehistoric landscape research. The 25 peer-reviewed contributions from leading authors cover the results of recent research on three continents and the application of methodologies and techniques for site discovery, investigation and interpretation.