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Climate and Development

Climate Change and Variability and the Resulting Social, Economic and Technological Implications

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1990

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Editors:
  1. H.-J. Karpe

    1. INFU Institut für Umweltschutz, Universität Dortmund, Dortmund 50, Deutschland

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  2. D. Otten

    1. DII, Deutsches Institut zur Erforschung der Informationsgesellschaft, Universität Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Deutschland

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  3. Sergio C. Trinidade

    1. UNCSTD, United Nations, New York, USA

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Table of contents (36 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIV
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  2. Overview: Report of the Hamburg Congress

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Overview: Report of the Hamburg Congress

      • H.-J. Karpe, D. Otten, Sergio C. Trinidade
      Pages 3-14

  3. The Larger Perspectives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. Message of the UN Secretary-General

      • H.-J. Karpe, D. Otten, Sergio C. Trinidade
      Pages 17-18

    3. Opening Speech

      • Henning Vorscherau
      Pages 19-21

    4. Opening Lecture Climate, Society and the Historical Development

      • Willy Brandt
      Pages 22-29

    5. Opening Speech

      • H. Riesenhuber
      Pages 30-39

    6. Statement

      • Wolfgang Gröbel
      Pages 40-42

    7. Environmental Degradation-a Threat to Development

      • Ola Ullsten
      Pages 43-49

    8. Possible Policies and Options in the European Community to Respond to Climatic Changes

      • Beate Weber
      Pages 50-53

    9. Political Perception of Climate Change: Still Chalk on the White Wall?

      • Klaus Michael Meyer-Abich
      Pages 54-59

    10. Climate Change - Its Political Challenge to the International Community

      • Lutz Baehr
      Pages 60-63

  4. The Scientists’ Perceptions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65
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    2. Climate and Development: Scientific Efforts and Assessment — The State of the Art

      • Klaus Hasselmann
      Pages 67-122

    3. Programmes and Co-operation in Climate Research - a Means to the Understanding of the Climate System as a Requirement to Cope with the Climate Issue

      • W. Böhme
      Pages 123-140

    4. To Limit and to Adjust: Some Human Dimensons of Global Climate Change

      • Ivan Burton
      Pages 141-151

    5. Some Strategies of Response in Agriculture to Changes of Climate

      • Martin Parry, Timothy Carter
      Pages 152-172

    6. Climate Variability, Climate Change and the Development Process in Sub-Saharan Africa

      • Michael H. Glantz
      Pages 173-192

    7. Modelling the Climatic Effects of Trace Gases: Reduction Strategy and Options for a LowRisk Policy

      • Wilfrid Bach
      Pages 193-218
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The Hamburg Congress on Climate and Development was conceived as a response to the worldwide interest on issues of climatic change and variability. It was intended as an interdisciplinary forum to bring together differing perceptions in a face to face dialogue. Even though concern over climate change has been on the international agenda of international interest became evident in the for over a decade, a new surge wake of two recent events. One was the widespread support received by the 1987 Brundtland Commission Report, Our Common Future, and the other was the 1988 Montreal Protocol on substances that deplete the ozone layer. Although the problem of the ozone layer related to a single category of sub­ stances (CFCs), it took many years and a dramatk discovery of the ozone hole in Antarctica to allow for a breakthrough leading to an international agreement. The problems associated with climatic change and variability are much more com­ plex and pervasive than those of the ozone layer, and a much wider range of national and international issues are involved. The discussions in the 1988 session of the General Assembly of the United Nations revealed a surge of interest and growing awareness of the international community of the issues involved. Before that, the June 1988Toronto Conference on "The Changing Atmosphere: Implications for Global Security" was a signifi­ cant effort in forging a consensus on desirable targets for global action.

Editors and Affiliations

  • INFU Institut für Umweltschutz, Universität Dortmund, Dortmund 50, Deutschland

    H.-J. Karpe

  • DII, Deutsches Institut zur Erforschung der Informationsgesellschaft, Universität Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Deutschland

    D. Otten

  • UNCSTD, United Nations, New York, USA

    Sergio C. Trinidade

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