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Horst J. Neugebauer
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Institut für Geodynamik, Universität Bonn, Bonn
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Clemens Simmer
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Meteorologisches Institut der Universität Bonn, Bonn
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages I-XIII
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Scale Concepts in Geosciences
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Multi-Scale Representation of Data
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- Thomas Gerstner, Hans-Peter Helfrich, Angela Kunoth
Pages 69-88
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- Andre Braunmandl, Thomas Canarius, Hans-Peter Helfrich
Pages 89-101
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- Martin Breunig, Armin B. Cremers, Serge Shumilov, Jörg Siebeck
Pages 103-117
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Scale Problems in Physical Process Models
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Front Matter
Pages 121-122
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- Thomas Gerstner, Frank Kiefer, Angela Kunoth
Pages 123-134
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- Thomas Canarius, Hans-Peter Helfrich, G. W. Brümmer
Pages 135-143
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- Matthias Raschendorfer, Clemens Simmer, Patrick Gross
Pages 167-185
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- Günther Heinemann, Christoph Reudenbach
Pages 186-198
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- Stefan Hergarten, Markus Hinterkausen, Michael Küpper
Pages 199-213
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- Markus Mendel, Stefan Hergarten, Horst J. Neugebauer
Pages 215-232
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Scale-Related Approaches to Geo-Processes
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Front Matter
Pages 235-236
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About this book
In many aspects science becomes conducted nowadays through technology and preferential criteria of economy. Thus investigation and knowledge is evidently linked to a speci?c purpose. Especially Earth science is confronted with two major human perspectives concerning our natural environment:sustainability of resources and assessment of risks. Both aspects are expressing urgent needs of the living society, but in the same way those needs are addressing a long lasting fundamental challenge which has so far not been met. Following on the patterns of economy and technology, the key is presumed to be found through a devel- mentoffeasibleconceptsforamanagement ofbothournaturalenvironmentand in one or the other way the realm of life. Although new techniques for obser- tion and analysis led to an increase of rather speci?c knowledge about particular phenomena, yet we fail now even more frequently to avoid unforeseen impli- tions and sudden changes of a situation. Obviously the improved technological tools and the assigned expectations on a management of nature still exceed our traditional scienti?c experience and accumulated competence. Earth- and Life- Sciences are nowadays exceedingly faced with the puzzling nature of an almost boundless network of relations, i. e. , the complexity of phenomena with respect to their variability. The disciplinary notations and their particular approaches arethusnolongeraccountingsu?cientlyfortherecordedcontextofphenomena, for their permanent variability and their unpredictable implications. The large environmental changes of glacial climatic cycles, for instance, demonstrate this complexity of such a typical phenomenology.
Editors and Affiliations
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Institut für Geodynamik, Universität Bonn, Bonn
Horst J. Neugebauer
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Meteorologisches Institut der Universität Bonn, Bonn
Clemens Simmer
