RT null T1 Interactions of Biogeochemical Cycles in Aqueous Ecosystems Part 7 - Proceedings of a workshop arranged by the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) A1 United Nations Environment Programme, A2 Degens, Egon T. A2 Kempe, Stephen A2 Lein, Alla A2 Sorokin, Yuri K1 ecosystem K1 Russia K1 river K1 lake K1 marine area K1 carbon dioxide K1 Germany YR 1988 FD 1988 LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/29303 UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/29303 NO The SCOPE/UNEP International program of Studies on the Biogeochemical Cycles has four principal subjects: Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Carbon and Sulphur. The study is being undertaken to find the major complex interactions between the cycles of these substances. The purpose is to demonstrate the resulting overall limits, which govern our lives and the future of mankind. The emerging climate changes caused by the greenhouse effect make it increasingly clear that our Earth is an integrated system. But environmental systems can be stretched by mankind's actions to limits at which changes in them can occur rapidly and perhaps irreversibly. It is possible that some of nature's thresholds are already being crossed. DS UN Environment Document Repository RD Sep 21, 2026