Beschreibung
InhaltsangabeIntroduction.- The Anthropocene.- Sustainability Science.- What about complexity of Earth Systems?- Climate Change, New Weather Extremes and Climate Policy.- Assessing Humban Vulnerability to Global Climatic Change.- Fire Ecology of the Recent Anthropocene.- Disaster Prevention.- Energy in a Sustainable Development.- Joint Water Project.- Integrative Water Research.- Joint Carbon.- International Institutions and the Carbon Regime.- Global Environmental Change and Food Systems.- Food Security in South Asia.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
InhaltsangabeIntroduction: The Anthropocene.- 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?.- Global Change and Human Security.- 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.- Interfaces between Nature and Society.- Integrative Water Research: GLOWA Volta.- Carbon 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.- Scientific Challenges for Anthropogenic Research in the 21st Century: Problems of Scale.
