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Contents (partly): Part 1: Symposium (Makoto Numata: The OpeningAddress/ Elias Landolt: Ansprache des Sekretaers der IPE/ Kinji Hogetsu:Speech by Representative of Sponsoring Organization/ Heinz Ellenberg:Globale Umweltprobleme in vegetationsoekologischer Sicht/ H.I.H. PrinceHitachi: Message/ Seiki Watanabe: Opening Speech/ Yasushi Nakamura:Congratulatory Speech/ Hartmut Dierschke: Kurzer Bericht ueber dieInternationale Exkursion durch Mittel-Japan (2.-16. August 1984)/Kazuji Nagasu: The Greening of the City/ Heinrich Zoller: Zur Geschichteder Beziehungen zwischen Mensch und Natur/ Sandro Pignatti: TheRelationships between Natural Vegetation and Social System in theMediterranean Basin/ William S. Benninghoff: Imprints of QuaternaryHistory and Human Action on Northern Hemisphere Vegetation/ MakotoNumata: Zonation and Conservation of Vegetation and Related Problems inJapan/ Koji Ito: Modification of Forest Vegetation of Hokkaido withSpecial Attention to Sapporo City/ Hartmut Dierschke: Moeglichkeiten zurErstellung von Roten Listen der Pflanzengesellschaften als Grundlagefuer den Naturschutz/ Heinz Schlueter: Der Natuerlichkeitsgrad derVegetation als Kriterium der oekologischen Stabilitaet der Landschaft/etc.).