he following members of the Canadian Global Change Program Research Panel (listed with their affiliations at the time) contributed to the development of this document. The Canadian Global Change Program would like to thank them for the generous amounts of time and energy they voluntarily gave to the Program and the issues.

Joseph Cihlar
Applications Division
Canada Centre for Remote Sensing

Ray Desjardins
Land Resources Research Centre
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Jules Dufour
Département des Sciences Humaines
Université du Québec à Chicoutimi

Fen Hampson
Norman Patterson School of International Affairs
Carleton University

John Last
Department of Epidemiology & Community Medicine
University of Ottawa

William Leiss
Research Department
Simon Fraser University

Gordon A. McBean
Department of Oceanography
University of British Columbia

Phil Merilees
Climate Research Branch
Atmospheric Environment Service

Peta J. Mudie
Department of Geology
Dalhousie University

W. Richard Peltier
Department of Physics
University of Toronto

Trevor Platt
Biological Oceanography Division
Bedford Institute of Oceanography

Anthony Reinsch
Canadian Energy Research Institute

John B. Robinson
Sustainable Development Research Institute
University of British Columbia

Nat Rutter
Department of Geology
University of Alberta

G.G.E. Scudder
Department of Zoology
University of British Columbia

Jennifer Shay
Department of Botany
University of Manitoba

Barry Smit
Department of Geography
University of Guelph

Jean-Guy Vaillancourt
Département de sociologie
Université de Montréal

Canadian Global Change Program Incidental Report Series No. IR95-3
© The Royal Society of Canada, 1995

This publication has been reviewed by the Research/Policy Committee of the Canadian Global Change Program. The opinions expressed are those of the author and not necessarily those of the Royal Society of Canada.