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Record Nr.

UNINA9910298370003321

Titolo

Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker : A Pioneer on Environmental, Climate and Energy Policies / / edited by Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014

ISBN

3-319-03662-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 p.)

Collana

SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice, , 2194-3125 ; ; 28

Disciplina

363.73874561

Soggetti

Environmental management

Climate change

Energy policy

Energy and state

Environmental Management

Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts

Energy Policy, Economics and Management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

Autobiographical Sketch -- Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker’s Publications -- Modular University (1971) -- Contagious Knowledge: Contagion as a Quality Criterion for Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Science (1983) -- Editorial Note on “Integrated Application of Emerging and Traditional Technologies for Development” (1983) -- The Environmental Dimension of Biotechnology (1986) -- Not a Miracle Solution but Steps towards an Ecological Reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (1987) -- Earth Politics (selected pages, 1992) -- (with Jochen Jesinghaus): Ecological Tax Reform (selected pages, 1992) -- Sustainable Energy Policies: Political Engineering of a Long Lasting Consensus (1993).

Sommario/riassunto

On the occasion of the 75th birthday of Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker this unique anthology presents thought-provoking texts from 1970 to 2013, spanning several disciplines and combining science and practice. Among them are three Reports to the Club of Rome that Weizsäcker lead-authored, a new university curriculum system to promote interdisciplinary studies and a proposal for a five-fold increase in



resource productivity, which would make it possible to shut down nuclear and fossil power plants, avoiding dangerous climate change impacts. Weizsäcker is Co-President of the Club of Rome and Co-Chair of UNEP’s Resource Panel. He has served as a Professor of Biology, President of Kassel Univ., Director of the UN Centre for Science and Technology and of the Institute for European Environment Policy, President of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, as a Member of the Bundestag, as Chair of its Environment Committee and as Dean of the Bren School for Environmental Science and Management, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, USA.