Earth System Science in the Anthropocene
This work provides an in-depth perspective and update on special topics in Global Environmental Change in relation to Human Security. It offers an overview of new Joint Projects of the four International Global Change Programmmes and on research efforts in Germany. It is also an up-to-date report on...
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| Format: | Edited Volume |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
2006
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| Series: | SpringerLink Bücher
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| Volumes / Articles: | Show Volumes / Articles. |
| DOI: | 10.1007/b137853 |
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| Online Access: | Verlag, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1007/b137853 Resolving-System, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b137853 Cover: https://swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz264345754cov.jpg Inhaltstext: https://swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz118296213vlg.htm Verlag, Inhaltsverzeichnis: http://d-nb.info/975231766/04 Verlag, Inhaltstext: http://deposit.dnb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2647417&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm 
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| Author Notes: | edited by Eckart Ehlers, Thomas Krafft |
Table of Contents:
- Global Change Research in the Anthropocene: Introductory Remarks; Managing Global Change: Earth System Science in the Anthropocene; The "Anthropocene"; Sustainability Science; What about Complexity of Earth Systems?; Climate Change, New Weather Extremes and Climate Policy; Assessing Human Vulnerability to Global Climatic Change; Fire Ecology of the Recent Anthropocene; Disaster Prevention; Global Environmental Change and Human Health; Urban Disasters as Indicators of Global Environmental Change: Assessing Functional Varieties of Vulnerability; Energy in a Sustainable Development Perspective
- Integrative Water Research: GLOWA VoltaCarbon Cycle Research as a Challenge of the Anthropocene; International Institutions and the Carbon Regime; Global Environmental Change and Food Systems GECAFS: A new interdisciplinary research project; Food Security in South Asia; Scientific Challenges for Anthropogenic Research in the 21st Century: Problems of Scale