Permafrost Response on Economic Development, Environmental Security and Natural Resources

Cyclic Evolution of Man and Permafrost: The Role of Permafrost on Societal Environment.- Main Results of Earth Cryosphere Studies and Sustainable Development.- Permafrost in a Changing Environment.- Terrestrial and Offshore Permafrost Evolution of the Laptev Sea Region during the Last Pleistocene-Holocene Glacial-Eustatic Cycle.- A Circumarctic Map of Perennially Frozen Deposits and Ground Ice.- Geocryological Mapping Of Arctic Shelves.- Study of Arctic Ecosystems Within the Framework of "Loira Project".- Offshore Permafrost for Oil and Gas field Development.- The Cryolithozone Of The Shelf Of Darents And Kara Sea.- Evolution of the Cryolithozone in the Pleistocene and Holocene.- Permafrost Equivalents from Boreal to Tropical Zones.- Permafrost during the Pleistocene in North West and Central Europe.- European Permafrost at the LGM- and at Its Maximal Extent.- Permafrost Extent at the Last Glacial Maximum and at the Holocene Optimum. The Climex Map.- Sequence of Glaciations and Permafrost Events.- A Pleistocene Rock-Glacier above Lake Teletskoye Lake. An Indicator of Permafrost.- Permafrost Investigations in the Italian Mountains: The State of the Art.- Response of the Permafrost to Contemporary and Expected Climate Change.- Effect of Permafrost Changes on Economic Development, Environmental Security and Natural Resource Potential in Alaska.- Permafrost: Changes and Impacts.- Geothermal Studies of Permafrost Response to Global Natural Changes.- Changes in Permafrost Landscapes under Global Change.- Climatic Warming and Permafrost.- Methodological Principles of Forecasting Interaction between Engineering Structures and Environment in the Permafrost Zone.- Factor of Start Conditions by Site Selection for Underground Disposal of Nuclear Materials in Northwest Russia.-Geocryological Processes and Management Principles under Changing Climate and Human Activities.- Problems of Permafrost Engineering as Related to Global Climate Warming.- Some Prospects for Heat Pump Applications in Permafrost Engineering.- Program for International Cooperation in Permafrost Engineering.- Basis for and Development of IcePE Information System in Domains of Glaciology, Ice and Permafrost Engineering.- Recommendations for Foundations and Bases Built on Frozen Soils.- Gas Hydrates in Permafrost.- Methane Distribution in Permafrost: Evidence for an Interpore Pressure Methane Hydrate.- The Problem of the Emission of Deep-Buried Gases to the Atmosphere.- Flux of Methane from North Siberian Aquatic Systems: Influence on Atmospheric Methane.- Micro-Organisms and Biomarkers in Permafrost.- Ecology of Psychrophilic and Psychrotropic Micro-Organisms in Cold and Frozen Soils.- Significance to Astrobiology of Micro-Organisms in Permafrost and Ice.- Patterned Ground as an Evidence of Water on Mars.- Russian National Geocryological Database and a Strategy for Its Development.- The Proposed International Permafrost Monitoring Network and Service.- V: Panel Discussions, Conclusive Reports and Recommendations of the Plenary Session.