Earth System Science in the Anthropocene Emerging Issues and Problems /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Ehlers, Eckart. (Editor), Krafft, Thomas. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2006.
Edition:1st ed. 2006.
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/b137853
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: 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.