Strategies for Sustainability of the Earth System by Peter A. Wilderer
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Strategies for Sustainability of the Earth System


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I IntroductionI1 Message from the Desk of the Bavarian State Minister of Environment and Consumer ProtectionI2 List of ContentI3 List of ContributorsI4 Editorial: A Journey through the Book
A General ThoughtsA1 The Anthropocene turns out to be a disaster for the Earth. Few options remain to change courseA2 The Systemic Risk Perspective: Social perception of uncertainty and tipping pointsA3 On Ecological EthicsA4 The Complexity Trap: Skepticism, Denialism and the Political Epistemology of Climate ScienceA5 Biodesign: Design & Medicine - a Philosophical ChallengeA6 Vulnerability is a Talent in the Ecological CrisisA7 How computable are Chaotic Dynamic Systems
B Ecology: A Key ResourceB1 The key resources water, soil and intact ecosystems: In which world do we want to live in the future?B2 Natural Ecosystems and Earth´s Habitability: Attempting a Cross-Disciplinary SynthesisB3 Resilience Thinking: Push-Start of a New Enlightenment in the light of the sustainability paradigmB4 Is the Global Economy Running a Pyramid Scheme?B5 Climate Positive, Sustainable Agriculture is a Possible Cornerstone for Public-Interest-Agrarian PoliciesB6 Bavaria in Transition: Changes in the Water Balance due to Man and NatureB7 A Discussion of Basic Notions
C The Human Health DimensionC1 Genetics, Neurostimulation and Robotics: Implications for the developing childC2 The Smartphone. Digital Reverse Transcriptase of Child Development. The new inner world of the outer world of the inner worldC3 Can Artificial Intelligence Improve our Health?C4 Allergy and CivilizationC5 Nutrition, Movement and EnvironmentC6 The future of cancer therapy with X-rays: Patient numbers, innovations, clinical trials and the problem of generating evidenceC7 Medicine and Senescense: An example of Earth by medical progressC8 Epigenetics won´t do Miracles: Some sobering remarks in response to Prof. Johannes Huber
D Towards a New EnlightenmentD1 New Enlightenment towards Methodological Cosmopolitanism and Cosmopolitan Democracy D2 A Different Look to Consumption: From quantitative to sustainable consumptionD3 Public Health: A political toolbox to reduce violation of EarthD4 Enlightenment 2.0: Towards responsible science in the AnthropoceneD5 Enlightenment 2.0? What we would have to change if we wanted to stayD6 The Fridays for Future PhenomenonD7 Empowering the Earth system by technology: Using thermodynamics of the Earth system to illustrate a possible sustainable future of the planet
E Last but not LeastE1 Editors Recommendations for ActionE2 Editors Index
About the Author:

Martin Grambow studied civil engineering at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). He is currently head of the Water Management Department in the Bavarian Ministry of the Environment and Consumer Protection (BayStMUV). His responsibilities include water laws and regulations, water monitoring and development, water supply and flood prevention. He represents Bavaria on national and international expert committees and heads the Danube River Basin Commission. Within the framework of a project entitled Technology Transfer Water (TTW), Professor Grambow encourages the use of German know-how in the field of water technology and water management in international projects around the world. He is Honorary Professor at TUM and teaches International Water Policy and Law, with a particular focus on the consequences of the Anthropocene for sustainable environmental policy.

Michael Molls was the chairholder and the director of the clinic for radiotherapy and radiation oncology at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) from 1992 to 2014. Further activities include his serving as a member of the Board of Management and the Supervisory Board at the TUM hospital "Rechts der Isar" and head of the Tumour Centre (Tumorzentrum) München of both Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) and TUM. He was particularly committed to process, result and structure quality of interdisciplinary oncology. He currently serves as the scientific director of the TUM Institute for Advanced Study, where he fosters the integration of medical research and sustainability.

Konrad Oexle heads the Neurogenetic Systems Analysis group at the Institute of Neurogenomics, Helmholtz Center Munich, the German Research Center for Environmental Health. He also is associated with the Institute of Human Genetics at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) where he is Adjunct Professor (apl). After medical school at the University of Freiburg, Germany, and a postdoc at the University of California, US, he started his career in clinical medicine as pediatrician and human geneticist. He then turned to science where his biomedical research interests address genetic, epigenetic and environmental causes of sleep disorders and neurological diseases.


Peter A. Wilderer received in 1965 the degree of Doctor of Engineering (Dr.-Ing.) in sanitary engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, and in 1976, he qualified for professorship (habilitation) in field of bio-process engineering. He has been professor at the University of Karlsruhe, the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in Germany, and he served as visiting professor at the University of California at Davis, USA, the Montana State University, USA, and the University of Queensland, Australia. In 2003, he received from the hands of the Swedish King the Stockholm Water Prize. In 2007, the Technical University of Munich honoured him with the title "Professor emeritus of excellence". In 2002, he founded the Institute of Advanced Studies on Sustainability of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, today known as International Expert Group for the Preservation of the Earth System (IESP), an open network of scientists and researchers, entrepreneurs, politicians and members of governmental and non-governmental institutions.



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  • ISBN-13: 9783030744571
  • Publisher: Springer International Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Springer
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 438
  • Series Title: Strategies for Sustainability
  • Weight: 906 gr
  • ISBN-10: 3030744574
  • Publisher Date: 11 Sep 2021
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 27 mm
  • Width: 156 mm


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