Earth System Science in the Anthropocene: Emerging Issues and Problems

Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Global Change Research in the Anthropocene: Introductory Remarks....Pages 3-4
Managing Global Change: Earth System Science in the Anthropocene....Pages 5-12
The “Anthropocene”....Pages 13-18
Sustainability Science....Pages 19-26
What about Complexity of Earth Systems?....Pages 27-38
Front Matter....Pages 39-39
Climate Change, New Weather Extremes and Climate Policy....Pages 41-50
Assessing Human Vulnerability to Global Climatic Change....Pages 51-61
Fire Ecology of the Recent Anthropocene....Pages 63-85
Disaster Prevention....Pages 87-111
Global Environmental Change and Human Health....Pages 113-134
Urban Disasters as Indicators of Global Environmental Change: Assessing Functional Varieties of Vulnerability....Pages 135-152
Energy in a Sustainable Development Perspective....Pages 153-166
Front Matter....Pages 167-167
Integrative Water Research: GLOWA Volta....Pages 169-186
Carbon Cycle Research as a Challenge of the Anthropocene....Pages 187-202
International Institutions and the Carbon Regime....Pages 203-216
Global Environmental Change and Food Systems GECAFS: A new interdisciplinary research project....Pages 217-228
Food Security in South Asia....Pages 229-246
Front Matter....Pages 247-247
Scientific Challenges for Anthropogenic Research in the 21 st Century: Problems of Scale....Pages 249-262