Download e-book for iPad: Understanding the Earth System: Compartments, Processes and by Eckart Ehlers,Thomas Krafft

This quantity contains revised types of lots of the displays made on the overseas convention «Understanding the Earth Sys­ tem: booths, procedures and Interactions" hung on November 24-26, 1999 in Bonn. The convention used to be prepared via the German nationwide Committee on international swap study as a part of the Bonn technological know-how pageant 1999-2000. The Bonn technology competition (Wissen­ schaftsfestival quarter Bonn) was once prepared and funded by means of sfg Strukturforderungsgesellschaft Bonn/Rhein-Siegl Ahrweiler mbH. The beneficiant help for organizing the convention and printing this quantity by means of sfg is gratefully said. extra monetary and organizational aid for separate workshop periods and publica­ tions have additionally been supplied by means of the German Federal Ministry for technology and examine, BMBF and Germany's significant study investment company, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. The editors desire to gratefully recognize the assistance, recommendation and particularly endurance of a lot of persons who've contributed to this quantity. The contributions are meant to record the talk on an important problems with the rising inspiration of earth approach technological know-how and to stimulate the mandatory medical dialogue. whereas each attempt has been made at the a part of the editors to make sure consistency in termi­ nology, kind and techniques of citation, the range of participants has unavoidably ended in yes discrepancies. E. EHLERS Bonn, February 2001 T. KRAFFT Contents half I landscape: The Earth process: research from technological know-how and the arts bankruptcy 1 knowing the Earth approach - From international switch examine to Earth procedure technology . . . . . . . three E. EHLERS and T. KRAFFT bankruptcy 2 Earth approach research and administration. . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 17 . . .