Earth System Analysis : Integrating Science for Sustainability

Volker Wenzel

ISBN 10: 3642523560 / ISBN 13: 9783642523564

Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012

Beschreibung

Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9783642523564

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Earth System Analysis : Integrating Science for Sustainability
• Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3642523560
• ISBN-13: 9783642523564
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 235B x 155 H x 31 T Millimeter Breite: 235 mm, Höhe: 155 mm, Tiefe: 31 mm
• Gewicht: 844 Gramm

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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.