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Professors Mary Peat and Ian Johnston. With this year’s Proceedings we begin a new tradition: that of Open Source publishing. Furthermore, the submission, reviewing and publication processes have all been handled by an online system. We would like to thank all involved for their patience as we have worked

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systems, livelihoods and lifestyles. Society must now find ways to simultaneously protect the planet’s bounty and safeguard social equity and well-being for all. In this urgent quest, social science knowledge is indispensable for understanding the causes and consequences of global environmental change

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is a specialized agency of the United Nations created in 1948 with the primary responsibility for interna-tional health matters and public health. The WHO Regional Oce for Europe is one of six regional oces throughout the world, each with its own programme geared to the particular health conditions of the countries it serves.

Executive summary DESCRIPTION OF THE DELIVERABLE CONTENT AND PURPOSE (MAX 1 PAGE) SPICE (Service Platform for Innovative Communication Environment) is a Framework 6 research project that aims at the design of an innovative technological infrastructure for the creation and delivery of ICT services (hereinafter “service platform”). The service platform will support the creation, deployment and delivery of various services in the information society. The service platform will also be used to deploy and commercialise new communication services or to distribute (enriched) content. The service platform’s added value lies in the distribution of information that has been adapted to a specific user’s needs. This means that the service platform needs to learn about the user’s needs and requirements in the first place, notably by collecting and processing the data that are relevant for the user’s situation. The information and service can then be tailored to meet the user’s needs and requirements and be offered to the user by means of the service platform. Two legal aspects seem to be particularly relevant for the functioning of the service

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