Earth system science in the anthropocene

✍ Scribed by Eckart Ehlers, Thomas Krafft

• Publisher: Birkhäuser
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 273
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 emerging necessities in Global Environmental Change research, and a collection of suggestions for its future evolution.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
List of Contributors......Page 8
Acronyms......Page 11
1. Introduction: The Anthropocene......Page 14
1.0 Global Change Research in the Anthropocene: Introductory Remarks......Page 15
1.1 Managing Global Change: Earth System Science in the Anthropocene......Page 17
1.2 The “Anthropocene”......Page 25
1.3 Sustainability Science......Page 31
1.4 What about Complexity of Earth Systems?......Page 39
2. Global Change and Human Security......Page 51
2.1 Climate Change, New Weather Extremes and Climate Policy......Page 52
2.2 Assessing Human Vulnerability to Global Climatic Change......Page 62
2.3 Fire Ecology of the Recent Anthropocene......Page 73
2.4 Disaster Prevention......Page 96
2.5 Global Environmental Change and Human Health......Page 121
2.6 Urban Disasters as Indicators of Global Environmental Change: Assessing Functional Varieties of Vulnerability......Page 143
2.7 Energy in a Sustainable Development Perspective......Page 161
3. Interfaces between Nature and Society......Page 175
3.1 Integrative Water Research: GLOWA Volta......Page 176
3.2.1 Carbon Cycle Research as a Challenge of the Anthropocene......Page 194
3.2.2 International Institutions and the Carbon Regime......Page 210
3.3.1 Global Environmental Change and Food Systems GECAFS: A new interdisciplinary research project......Page 224
3.3.2 Food Security in South Asia......Page 236
4. Scientific Challenges for Anthropogenic Research in the 21[sup(st)] Century......Page 254
4.1 Scientific Challenges for Anthropogenic Research in the 21[sup(st)] Century: Problems of Scale......Page 255
D......Page 269
G......Page 270
L......Page 271
S......Page 272
Y......Page 273