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Product Description: The book addresses a weakness of current methodologies used in extreme value assessment, i.e. the assumption of stationarity, which is not given in reality. With respect to this issue a lot of new developed technologies are presented, i...read more

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9783642148620 | Springer Verlag, September 29, 2010, cover price $199.00

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9783642422607 | Springer Verlag, September 29, 2014, cover price $199.00 | About this edition: The book addresses a weakness of current methodologies used in extreme value assessment, i.

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Product Description:  This book tackles these questions by applying advanced methods from statistical physics and related fields to all types of non-linear dynamics prone to disaster. It gives readers an insight into the problems of catastrophes and is one of the first books on the theories of disaster...read more
By Armin Bunde (editor), Jurgen Kropp (editor) and Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber (editor)

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9783540413240 | Springer Verlag, October 1, 2002, cover price $159.00 | About this edition:  This book tackles these questions by applying advanced methods from statistical physics and related fields to all types of non-linear dynamics prone to disaster.

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9783642625312 | Reprint edition (Springer Verlag, October 6, 2012), cover price $129.00 | About this edition:  This book tackles these questions by applying advanced methods from statistical physics and related fields to all types of non-linear dynamics prone to disaster.

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Product Description: Ein aktueller Statusreport, der die Zusammenhänge des globalen Wandels am Beispiel der südlichen Nord- und Ostsee aufzeigt.
By Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber (editor) and Horst Sterr (editor)

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9780387559254 | Springer Verlag, May 1, 1993, cover price $48.95

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9783642777776 | Springer Verlag, July 31, 2012, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: Ein aktueller Statusreport, der die Zusammenhänge des globalen Wandels am Beispiel der südlichen Nord- und Ostsee aufzeigt.

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Product Description: The impacts of climate change are already being observed in a variety of sectors and there is greater clarity that these changes are being caused by human activities, mainly through release of greenhouse gases. In 2005 the UK Government hosted the Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change conference to take an in-depth look at the scientific issues associated with climate change...read more
By Wolfgang Cramer (editor), Nebojsa Nakicenovic (editor), Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber (editor), Tom Wigley (editor) and Gary Yohe (editor)

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9780521864718 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, March 31, 2006), cover price $155.00 | About this edition: The impacts of climate change are already being observed in a variety of sectors and there is greater clarity that these changes are being caused by human activities, mainly through release of greenhouse gases.

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Product Description: 'The publication of World in Transition: Towards Sustainable Energy Systems is timely indeed. The World Summit on Sustainable Development gave great prominence to this challenge, but failed to agree on a quantitative, time-bound target for the introduction of renewable energy sources...read more

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9781853838828 | Routledge, June 30, 2004, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: 'The publication of World in Transition: Towards Sustainable Energy Systems is timely indeed.

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Product Description: International institutions and structures are crucial to the management of the global environment. The present arrangements are failing to cope adequately with the scale of the task and the demands placed on them, and alternatives are urgently needed...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781853838521 | Routledge, February 1, 2002, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: International institutions and structures are crucial to the management of the global environment.

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Product Description: * Comprehensive assessment from the leading German environmental scientists of the state of the world's living resources or biosphere * Covers all aspects of the subject: biodiversity and genetic diversity, landscape and ecosystems, its role in the Earth's system and human impacts on it* Reviews global policies and research strategies on the biosphere and advocates urgent policy actions* A major, authoritative contribution to environmental science and policyBiodiversity- the planet's natural capital- is undergoing a dramatic collapse: its " Sixth Extinction"...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781853838026 | Earthscan / James & James, June 1, 2001, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: * Comprehensive assessment from the leading German environmental scientists of the state of the world's living resources or biosphere * Covers all aspects of the subject: biodiversity and genetic diversity, landscape and ecosystems, its role in the Earth's system and human impacts on it* Reviews global policies and research strategies on the biosphere and advocates urgent policy actions* A major, authoritative contribution to environmental science and policyBiodiversity- the planet's natural capital- is undergoing a dramatic collapse: its " Sixth Extinction".

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Product Description: This overview of the state of the art of research in an exciting field mainly emphasizes the development of a semiclassical formalism that allows one to incorporate the effect of dissipation and decoherence in a precise, yet tractable way into the quantum mechanics of classically chaotic systems...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9783540580171 | Springer Verlag, October 1, 1998, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: This overview of the state of the art of research in an exciting field mainly emphasizes the development of a semiclassical formalism that allows one to incorporate the effect of dissipation and decoherence in a precise, yet tractable way into the quantum mechanics of classically chaotic systems.

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