Strategies for Sustainability of the Earth System

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

Author: Peter A. Wilderer
Publisher: Springer
Published: 09/22/2022
Pages: 462
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.49lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.98d
ISBN: 9783030744601