Earth System Analysis: Integrating Science for Sustainability
edited by Hans Joachim Schellnhuber and Volker Wenzel
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 two 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.
Springer-Verlag
1998, 530 p., Euro 90.90
ISBN 3540580174
