Argentina -- 1 Conversion & Environmental Conflict -- 2. The Conversion of the Military Industrial Complex in Progress in Argentina -- Egypt -- 3. Conversion as Conception Confusion -- France -- 4. Between Disarmament and Sovereignity? -- Germany -- 5. Sustainable Development - A Challenge for the World Economy -- 6. Armament Conversion -- 7.Technologies for Contaminated Military Sites -- 8.Utilization of Hardware: Options and Constraints -- 9. Dual Use Technologies -- 10.Strategie Concepts for Remediation of Soil Contamination -- 11.Proposal to Establish a Federal Agency for Baltic Sea Marine Environment Monitoring and Protection -- 12. Use of Remote-Sensing Methods -- 13. The Economic Costs of Peace -- 14. Political, Economic and Legal Conditions for the Process of Conversion of International Security Systems -- 15. Contaminated Sites in the Ownership of Federal Defense Forces -- 16. Conversion and Disposal of Explosives and Propellants -- 17. Disarmament Economy - A New Industrial Activity? -- 18. Federal Environmental Agency -- 19. Project-Oriented Environmental Management -- 20. Environmental Applications of Military Information and Communication Technologies -- Italy -- 21. From Military to Civilian Production -- Pakistan -- 22. Conversion Opportunities for Development and Environment -- Russia/CIS -- 23. Conversion as a Chance for Development and Environment -- 24. Defence Conversion in the Declining Economy -- 25. Problems and Possibilities of Technology Transfer -- 26. Specific Aspects of the Conversion Problem in the Evolving Russia -- 27. Some Military Production Conversion Aspects -- 28. Main Directions of Radio-Chemical Technology Conversion -- 29. Ecologically Sound Construction Technologies for the Russian Military -- 30. Pulsed Equipment - Problems of Conversion -- 31. Thermionic Energy Conversion -- United Kingdom -- 32. National Case Studies on Conversion -- U.N.O. -- 33. Macroeconomic and Environmental Effects of Military Conversion -- 34. Military Resources to the Environment -- 35. Technical Co-operation to Support the Conversion of Military to Civilian Industry -- U.S.A. -- 36. Debt Reduction in Exchange for Arms Conversion -- 37. Converting U.S. Science and Technology Resources to Civilian Use -- 38. Military Conversion and Economic Development: The China Case -- 39. Problems and Prospects of Conversion -- 40. Defense Industry Conversion -- 41. Soviet Resources in the Defence Sector -- 42. Successful Conversion Experiences -- 43. Environmental Dimensions of Disarmament and Conversion -- 44. Conversion and the Death of the Soviet Military-Industrial Complex -- 45. Technology Policy and Economic Conversion in the United States -- Annex -- List of authors.