Climate Change, Energy Use, and Sustainability

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Special Presentations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Global Warming and Water Resources—From Basic Science to Environmental Studies

      • Syukuro Manabe

      Pages 3-21

   3. Factor 5: Towards an Affluent Society with Least Use of Resources

      • Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker

      Pages 23-49

   4. Energy and the Use of Nuclear Power

      • Hans-Peter Dürr

      Pages 51-66

   5. Politics in Global Change: A Threat Called Global Warming

      • Shohei Yonemoto

      Pages 67-89

3. Panel Discussion

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91

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   2. Considering Sustainable Society After the Great East Japan Earthquake

      • Yoshitsugu Hayashi, Tetsuzo Yasunari, Hiroshi Kanzawa, Hirokazu Kato

      Pages 93-102

4. Back Matter

   Pages 103-115

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This book is an outcome of the symposium “Towards Earth Friendly Use of Resources and Energy,” organized by the Nagoya University Center of Excellence Program “From Earth System Science to Basic and Clinical Environmental Studies” and presents papers by four eminent researchers. 1) Syukuro Manabe, who was honored in 2008 by the Earth Hall of Fame Kyoto, together with Ms. Maathai and Ms. Brundtland, describes the mechanisms of extreme weather, drought, and flood that were caused by climate change due to CO₂ emissions. 2) Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, co-chair of the Club of Rome, describes “Factor 4 and 5” concepts such as technological progress and redesigning socioeconomic systems, e.g. taxation, and stresses the importance of humanity. 3) Hans-Peter Dürr, ex-president of the Max Planck Physics Institute as a successor of Heisenberg, explains the mechanism of a living Earth sustained by accumulated energy resources provided by the sun. He clarifies a point on preserving the dynamic stability of minerals and life on Earth. 4) Shohei Yonemoto, a well-known political scientist focusing on sustainability, explains environmental politics and why the IPCC and UNFCCC framework were established based on precaution principles. He puts forward a new concept called futurology, which considers population and food problems from a Malthusian standpoint and incorporates them into issues such as climate change and natural disasters. This book is written and based on a very simple but concrete idea and provides the readers with a chance to consider the shape of future Earth.

• Ernst Ulrich von Weizsaecker
• Future Earth
• Global Warming
• Hans-Peter Duerr
• Shohei Yonemoto
• Shukro Manabe
• Sustainable Development
• Sustainable Society
• Great East Japan Earthquake
• Climate change management

• GRAD SCH OF ENVI STUD, C1-2(651), NAGOYA UNIV GRAD SCH OF ENVI STUD, C1-2(651), Nagoya, Japan

  YOSHITSUGU HAYASHI

• Nature(RIHN), Research Institute for Humanity and Nature(RIHN), Kyoto, Japan

  Tetsuzo Yasunari

• Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya, Japan

  Hiroshi Kanzawa, Hirokazu Kato

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