Overview
- 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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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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Table of contents (40 papers)
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Front Matter
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Opening
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Front Matter
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Achievements and Challenges
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Front Matter
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Food, Land, Water, and Oceans
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Out of Breath: Air Quality in the 21st Century
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Managing Planetary Metabolism? The Global Carbon Cycle
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Summary: Global Change and the Challenge for the Future
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Advances in Understanding
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Global Biogeochemistry: Understanding the Metabolic System of the Planet
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Land-Ocean Interactions: Regional-Global Linkages
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Reviews
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."
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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
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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