Earth System Analysis

1. Earth System Analysis - The Concept.- Discourse: Earth System Analysis - The Scope of the Challenge.- Commentary: Earth System Analysis - Explorations in a Research Frontier.- Commentary: Surprises in the Climate Change Course.- Commentary: Sustainable Development - Teleology and Ambiguity.- 2. Natural Dimensions.- 1: Ecology and the Earth System.- Commentary on "Ecology and the Earth System".- Commentary: Eco-System Modelling and the Social Sciences.- 2: Climate Change and Land Use: Global and Regional Analyses.- Commentary: On the Inconsistency at the Interface of Climate Impact Studies and Global Climate Simulations.- 3: Sustainable Development in Agricultural Landscapes.- Commentary on "Sustainable Development in Agricultural Landscapes".- Commentary: Towards a Socially Accepted, Sustainable Management of Agricultural Landscapes.- 3. Human Dimensions.- 1: Modelling Global Environmental Change: Improving Human Dimensions Components.- 2: Internationally Tradeable Emission Certificates - Efficiency and Equity in Linking Environmental Protection with Economic Development.- Commentary: Criteria for an Equitable Distribution of Internationally Tradeable Emission Certificates.- 3: New Models of Wealth.- Commentary on "New Models of Wealth".- Commentary on "New Models of Wealth".- 4: Urban Metabolism and Disaster Vulnerability in an Era.- 4. Integration for Sustainability.- 1: Multi-actor Optimization of Greenhouse Gas Emission Paths Using Coupled Integral Climate Response and Economic Models.- Commentary: Short Remarks on the Problem of Integrated Modelling.- Commentary: Global Environment and Society (GES) Models, a Problem of Multiple Control Theory.- 2: Global Change and Sustainable Development: Towards an Integrated Conceptual Model.-Commentary on "Global Change and Sustainable Development".- Commentary on "Global Change and Sustainable Development".- 3: From a Fictional Globe to Poetic Ecosystems: Modelling Human Interactions with the Environment.- Commentary

Prof. Dr. Hans J. Schellnhuber: Born in 1950 in Ortenburg (Germany). Training in physics and mathematics with a at the University of Regensburg. Doctorate in Theoretical Physics in 1980. Various periods of research abroad, in particular at several institutions of the University of California system (USA). Habilitation (German qualification for professorial status) in 1985, then Heisenberg Fellowship. 1991 Founding Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). 2001-2005 additional engagement as Research Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and Professor at the Environmental Sciences School of the University of East Anglia in Norwich (UK).2002 Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award; 2004 CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) awarded by Queen Elizabeth II. Elected Member of the Max Planck Society, the US National Academy of Sciences, the Leibniz-Sozietät, the Geological Society of London, and the International Research Society Sigma Xi. Ambassador for the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP). Active service on some dozen national and international panels for scientific strategies and policy advice on environment & development matters. Chief Government Advisor on climate and related issues for the German G8-EU twin presidency in 2007.