Earth System Analysis
ISBN:
978-3-642-52356-4
Auflage:
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998
Verlag:
Springer Berlin
Land des Verlags:
Deutschland
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.07.2012
Herausgeber:
Format:
Softcover
Seitenanzahl:
530
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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.
