By Professor Jean-Patrick Connerade (auth.), Tom Beer, Alik Ismail-Zadeh (eds.)
ISBN-10: 1402014473
ISBN-13: 9781402014475
ISBN-10: 9401001677
ISBN-13: 9789401001670
1 AUK ISMAIL-ZADEH ,2, TOM BEER3 1 foreign Institute of Earthquake Prediction thought and Mathematical Geophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Warshavskoye shosse 79-2, Moscow 113556, Russia; email: aismail@mitp.ru 2 Geophysikalisches Institut, Universittit Karlsruhe, Hertzstr. sixteen, Karlsruhe 76187, Germany; email: Alik.Ismail-Zadeh@gpi.uni-karlsruhe.de three CSIRO Environmental probability community, CSIRO Atmospheric study, Aspendale, Vic. 3195 Australia; electronic mail: Tom.Beer@csiro.au the realm faces significant threats to the sustainability of our planet. those threats are observed by way of the speedy risks of ordinary and man-made failures. Our vulnerability to them is vastly magnified with each one passing yr undermining our skill to take care of a sustainable and effective global into the twenty first Century and past. either historical past and customary feel educate us that technology has a massive capability to discover how you can take care of those threats. 1 The EUROSCIENCE operating team "Science and pressing difficulties of Society" 2 and the IUGG fee on Geophysical danger and Sustainability have been initiators of the EUROSCIENCE - IUGG complex examine Workshop "Science for aid of threat and Sustainable improvement of Society" backed via the NATO technology application. The Workshop used to be hung on 15-16 June 2002 in Budapest, Hungary. greater than forty contributors from 17 nations took half within the Workshop. Talks and discussions addressed frequently the query of ways technology might help in aid of hazard and sustainable improvement of society.
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143, 438-453. ca/rnirrors/mitp. BEER CSIRO Environmental Risk Network, CSIRO Atmospheric Research, Aspendale, Vic. 3195 AUSTRALIA 1. Introduction In 1999 the State of the Future Project of the United Nations University started a study on Environmental Security. The results of this study are documented in Glenn and Gordon [1-4]. The first issue that arose involved definition. What is environmental security? It became clear that people (and governments) understood the term to mean three very different things.
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