Earth System Analysis: Integrating Science for Sustainability

Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber (Curatore)

Volker Wenzel (Curatore)

Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG, 2012

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.

• Curatore: Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber, Volker Wenzel
• Editore: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
• Anno: 2012
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 530 p.
• Dimensioni: 235 x 155 mm
• EAN: 9783642523564

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