Earth System Analysis: Integrating Science for Sustainability

Schellnhuber, Hans-Joachim (Editor)/ Wenzel, Volker (Editor)

ISBN 10: 3642523560 / ISBN 13: 9783642523564

Verlag: Springer Verlag, 2012

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reprint edition. 564 pages. 9.20x6.10x1.20 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Earth System Analysis: Integrating Science for Sustainability
• Verlag: Springer Verlag
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3642523560
• ISBN-13: 9783642523564
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: Brand New
• Gewicht: 0,75 Kilogramm

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Inhaltsangabe

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.