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Challenges of a Changing Earth

Proceedings of the Global Change Open Science Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 10–13 July 2001

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  • © 2002

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Editors:
  1. Will Steffen

    1. International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden

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  2. Jill Jäger

    1. International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change, Bonn, Germany

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  3. David J. Carson

    1. World Climate Research Programme, World Meteorological Organization, Geneva 2, Switzerland

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  4. Clare Bradshaw

    1. International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden

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  • Collection of papers from leading scientists from the international global environmental change programmes
  • Spans the range of disciplines involved in global change research (climate sciences, biogeochemistry, ecology, social sciences)
  • Captures the mix of disciplinary and more integrative research that will typify future Earth System science

Part of the book series: Global Change - The IGBP Series (GLOBALCHANGE)

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Table of contents (40 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVI
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  2. Opening

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Opening Address

      • Jan Pronk
      Pages 3-5

    3. Challenges of a Changing Earth

      • Berrien Moore III
      Pages 7-17

  3. Achievements and Challenges

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    3. Out of Breath: Air Quality in the 21st Century

      1. Atmospheric Chemistry in the “Anthropocene”
        • Paul J. Crutzen
        Pages 45-48
      2. Fires, Haze and Acid Rain: The Social and Political Framework of Air Pollution in ASEAN and Asia
        • Simon S. C. Tay
        Pages 49-55

    4. Managing Planetary Metabolism? The Global Carbon Cycle

      1. Carbon and the Science-Policy Nexus: The Kyoto Challenge
        • Robert T. Watson, Ian R. Noble
        Pages 57-64
      2. Industry Response to the CO2 Challenge
        • Charles C. Nicholson
        Pages 65-71

    5. Summary: Global Change and the Challenge for the Future

      1. Global Change and the Challenge for the Future
        • Peter Tyson
        Pages 73-73

  4. Advances in Understanding

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75
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    2. Global Biogeochemistry: Understanding the Metabolic System of the Planet

      1. Ocean Biogeochemistry: A Sea of Change
        • David M. Karl
        Pages 77-80
      2. The Past, Present and Future of Carbon on Land
        • Robert (Bob) J. Scholes
        Pages 81-85
      3. Can New Institutions Solve Atmospheric Problems? Confronting Acid Rain, Ozone Depletion and Climate Change
        • Oran R. Young
        Pages 87-91
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About this book

This volume is based on plenary presentations from Challenges of a Changing Earth, a Global Change Open Science Conference held in Amsterdam, The Neth- lands, in July 2001. The meeting brought together about 1400 scientists from 105 co- tries around the world to describe, discuss and debate the latest scientific - derstanding of natural and human-driven changes to our planet. It examined the effects of these changes on our societies and our lives, and explored what the future might hold. The presentations drew upon global change science from an exceptionally wide range of disciplines and approaches. Issues of societal importance – the food system, air quality, the carbon cycle, and water resources – were highlighted from both policy and science perspectives. Many of the talks presented the exciting scientific advances of the past decade of international research on global change. Several challenged the scientific community in the future. What are the visionary and creative new approaches needed for studying a complex planetary system in which human activities are in- mately interwoven with natural processes? This volume aims to capture the timeliness and excitement of the science p- sented in Amsterdam. The plenary speakers were given a daunting task: to reproduce their presentations in a way that delivers their scientific messages accurately and in sufficient detail but at the same time reaches a very broad audience well beyond their own disciplines. Furthermore, they were required to do this in just a few pages.

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Praise for Will Steffen's, Challenges of a Changing Earth

American Meteorological Society

"This book presents a state-of-the-science overview of global change and its consequences for human societies. It highlights four areas of critical importance: food, water resources, air quality, and the carbon cycle. From both science and policy prespectives; discusses the new scientific approaches needed to study the Earth system in the future; and summarizes recent advances in understanding in global change science."

Editors and Affiliations

  • International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden

    Will Steffen, Clare Bradshaw

  • International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change, Bonn, Germany

    Jill Jäger

  • World Climate Research Programme, World Meteorological Organization, Geneva 2, Switzerland

    David J. Carson

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Challenges of a Changing Earth

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the Global Change Open Science Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 10–13 July 2001

  • Editors: Will Steffen, Jill Jäger, David J. Carson, Clare Bradshaw

  • Series Title: Global Change - The IGBP Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19016-2

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2002

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-43308-8Published: 08 October 2002

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-62407-0Published: 13 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-19016-2Published: 02 February 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1619-2435

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 216

  • Topics: Environment, general, Atmospheric Sciences, Geoecology/Natural Processes, Nature Conservation, Ecology

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