Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber

Stefan Rahmstorf

Der Klimawandel ist - nicht zuletzt nach der Katastrophe von New Orleans - in aller Munde. Angesichts seiner einschneidenden und globalen Bedeutung für Natur und Zivilisation ist das kein Wunder. Doch was ist eigentlich unter Klimawandel zu verstehen, und welche Faktoren sind für das Klima verantwortlich? Zwei renommierte Klimaforscher geben einen kompakten und verständlichen Überblick über den derzeitigen Stand unseres Wissens und zeigen Lösungswege auf.

Diagnose, Prognose, Therapie

Der Klimawandel

Jürgen Kropp

The book addresses a weakness of current methodologies used in extreme value assessment, i.e. the assumption of stationarity, which is not given in reality. With respect to this issue a lot of new developed technologies are presented, i.e. influence of trends vs. internal correlations, quantitative uncertainty assessments, etc. The book not only focuses on artificial time series data, but has a close link to empirical measurements, in order to make the suggested methodologies applicable for practitioners in water management and meteorology.

Disruptive Events and Trends in Climate and Hydrology

In Extremis

Armin Bunde

This book tackles these questions by applying advanced methods from statistical physics and related fields to all types of non-linear dynamics prone to disaster. It gives readers an insight into the problems of catastrophes and is one of the first books on the theories of disaster. Based on physical and mathematical theories, the general principles of disaster appearance are explained.

Climate Disruptions, Heart Attacks, and Market Crashes

The Science of Disasters

Katherine Richardson

Will Steffen

Frank Oldfield

Regina Angelina Sanderson

Peter D. Tyson

Jill Jäger

Pamela A. Matson

Berrien Moore III

Billie L. Turner

Robert J. Wasson

Global Change and the Earth System describes what is known about the Earth system and the impact of changes caused by humans. It considers the consequences of these changes with respect to the stability of the Earth system and the well-being of humankind; as well as exploring future paths towards Earth-system science in support of global sustainability. The results presented here are based on 10 years of research on global change by many of the world's most eminent scholars. This valuable volume achieves a new level of integration and interdisciplinarity in treating global change.

A Planet Under Pressure

Global Change and the Earth System

Wissenschaftlicher Beirat der Bundesregierung Globale Umweltveränderungen (Germany)

German Advisory Council on Global Change

Towards Sustainable Energy Systems

World in Transition

Volker Wenzel

Since this new science is of an unprecedented interdisciplinary nature, the book does not merely take stock of its numerous ingredients, but also delivers their multifaceted integration. The resulting master paradigm - the co-evolution of nature and anthroposphere within a geo-cybernetic continuum of processes - is based on a structured manifold of partial paradigms with their specific ranges. Most importantly, this serves the scientific foundation of a meaningful, safe and efficient environment and development management for solving the most burning questions concerning humankind and its natural environment. The more concrete elucidation of the natural and human dimensions, as well as various attempts and instruments of integration are represented in the different parts of the book, while the didactic quality is heightened by many allegoric illustrations.

Integrating Science for Sustainability

Earth System Analysis

Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber

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