Earth System Analysis : Integrating Science for Sustainability

edited by Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber, Volker Wenzel

As humanity approaches the 3rd millennium, the sustainability of our present way of life becomes more and more questionable. New paradigms for the long-term coevolution of nature and civilization are urgently needed in order to avoid intolerable and irreversible modifications of our planetary environment. Earth System Analysis is a new scientific enterprise that tries to perceive the earth as a whole, a unique system which is to be analyzed with methods ranging from nonlinear dynamics to macroeconomic modelling. This book, resulting from an international symposium organized by the Potsdam Institute, has 2 aims: first, to integrate contributions from leading researchers and scholars from around the world to provide a multifaceted perspective of what Earth System Analysis is all about, and second, to outline the scope of the scientific challenge and elaborate the general formalism for a well-defined transdisciplinary discourse on this most fascinating issue

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Alternative title:	Complemented Results of a Symposium Organized by the Potsdam Institute (PIK)
Year of publication:	1998
Other Persons:	Schellnhuber, Hans-Joachim (ed.) ; Wenzel, Volker (ed.)
Publisher:	Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Subject:	Nachhaltige Entwicklung \| Sustainable development \| Welt \| World

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (XXIX, 530p. 92 illus., 44 illus. in color) online resource
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	1. Earth System Analysis - The ConceptDiscourse: Earth System Analysis - The Scope of the Challenge -- Commentary: Earth System Analysis - Explorations in a Research Frontier -- Commentary: Surprises in the Climate Change Course -- Commentary: Sustainable Development - Teleology and Ambiguity -- 2. Natural Dimensions -- 1: Ecology and the Earth System -- Commentary on “Ecology and the Earth System” -- Commentary: Eco-System Modelling and the Social Sciences -- 2: Climate Change and Land Use: Global and Regional Analyses -- Commentary: On the Inconsistency at the Interface of Climate Impact Studies and Global Climate Simulations -- 3: Sustainable Development in Agricultural Landscapes -- Commentary on “Sustainable Development in Agricultural Landscapes” -- Commentary: Towards a Socially Accepted, Sustainable Management of Agricultural Landscapes -- 3. Human Dimensions -- 1: Modelling Global Environmental Change: Improving Human Dimensions Components -- 2: Internationally Tradeable Emission Certificates - Efficiency and Equity in Linking Environmental Protection with Economic Development -- Commentary: Criteria for an Equitable Distribution of Internationally Tradeable Emission Certificates -- 3: New Models of Wealth -- Commentary on “New Models of Wealth” -- Commentary on “New Models of Wealth” -- 4: Urban Metabolism and Disaster Vulnerability in an Era -- 4. Integration for Sustainability -- 1: Multi-actor Optimization of Greenhouse Gas Emission Paths Using Coupled Integral Climate Response and Economic Models -- Commentary: Short Remarks on the Problem of Integrated Modelling -- Commentary: Global Environment and Society (GES) Models, a Problem of Multiple Control Theory -- 2: Global Change and Sustainable Development: Towards an Integrated Conceptual Model -- Commentary on “Global Change and Sustainable Development” -- Commentary on “Global Change and Sustainable Development” -- 3: From a Fictional Globe to Poetic Ecosystems: Modelling Human Interactions with the Environment -- Commentary on “Modelling Human Interactions with the Environment” -- Commentary on “Modelling Human Interactions with the Environment” -- 4: Is Global Modelling Feasible? -- Commentary on “Is Global Modelling Feasible?” -- Commentary on “Is Global Modelling Feasible?” -- Register of Persons.
ISBN:	978-3-642-52354-0 ; 978-3-642-52356-4
Other identifiers:	10.1007/978-3-642-52354-0 [DOI]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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