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Earth System Analysis

Integrating Science for Sustainability

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  • © 1998

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Editors:
  1. Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber

    1. Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Potsdam, Germany

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  2. Volker Wenzel

    1. Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Potsdam, Germany

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  • Integrated representation of natural and social sciences
  • Reports open discussions on the impact of environmental management

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Table of contents (31 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXIX
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  2. Earth System Analysis — The Concept

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Discourse: Earth System Analysis — The Scope of the Challenge

      • H. J. Schellnhuber
      Pages 3-195

    3. Commentary: Earth System Analysis — Explorations in a Research Frontier

      • Peter Nijkamp
      Pages 196-205

    4. Commentary: Surprises in the Climate Change Course

      • G. S. Golitsyn
      Pages 206-209

    5. Commentary: Sustainable Development — Teleology and Ambiguity

      • Volker Wenzel
      Pages 210-215

  3. Natural Dimensions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 217-217
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    2. Ecology and the Earth System

      • Iain Colin Prentice
      Pages 219-240

    3. Commentary on “Ecology and the Earth System”

      • Gundolf H. Kohlmaier
      Pages 241-245

    4. Commentary: Eco-System Modelling and the Social Sciences

      • Urs Luterbacher, Ellen Wiegandt
      Pages 246-250

    5. Climate Change and Land Use: Global and Regional Analyses

      • M. L. Parry, C. Rosenzweig, J. E. Hossell, P. Jones, T. Rehmam, R. B. Tranter et al.
      Pages 251-272

    6. Commentary: On the Inconsistency at the Interface of Climate Impact Studies and Global Climate Simulations

      • Martin Claussen
      Pages 273-276

    7. Sustainable Development in Agricultural Landscapes

      • Heidrun Mühle
      Pages 277-287

    8. Commentary on “Sustainable Development in Agricultural Landscapes”

      • Siegfried Bauer
      Pages 288-294

    9. Commentary: Towards a Socially Accepted, Sustainable Management of Agricultural Landscapes

      • Felix Kienast
      Pages 295-299
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Potsdam, Germany

    Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber, Volker Wenzel

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Earth System Analysis

  • Book Subtitle: Integrating Science for Sustainability

  • Editors: Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber, Volker Wenzel

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-52354-0

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1998

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-52356-4Published: 01 July 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-52354-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIX, 530

  • Number of Illustrations: 46 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Environmental Economics, Monitoring/Environmental Analysis, Atmospheric Sciences, Earth Sciences, general

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