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Chapter 1. Panorama: the earth system: analysis from science and the humanities.. 1. Understanding the earth system - from global change research to earth system science.. 2. Earth system analysis and management.. 3. The earth system: a physiological perspective.. 4. The earth system: an anthropogenic perspective.. 5. Man's place in nature - past and future.. Chapter 2. Focus: water in the earth system: availability, quality and allocation in cross-disciplinary perspectives.. 6. Global alteration of riverine geochemistry under human pressure.. 7. Integrated management of water resources.. 8. The challenge of global water management.. Chapter 3. Perspective: advancing our understanding: reductionist and/or integrationist approaches to earth system analysis.. 9. Understanding climate variability: a pre-requisite for predictions and climate change detection.. 10. Earth system models.. 11. Climate system and carbon cycle feedback.. 12. Global climate change and economic analysis.. 13. From nature-dominated to human-dominated environmental changes.. Chapter 4. Appendix: working group reports.. 14. Water quality and health risks.. 15. Urban thirst for water and priorities for action.. 16. Modeling water availability: scaling issues.. 17. Precipitation variability and food security.. 18. Interdisciplinary perspectives on freshwater: availability, quality, and allocation.. 19. Water deficiency and desertification.. Subject Index

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This volume includes revised versions of most of the presentations made at the International Conference «Understanding the Earth Sys­ tem: Compartments, Processes and Interactions" held on November 24-26, 1999 in Bonn. The Conference was organized by the German National Committee on Global Change Research as part of the Bonn Science Festival 1999-2000. The Bonn Science Festival (Wissen­ schaftsfestival Region Bonn) was organized and funded by sfg Strukturforderungsgesellschaft Bonn/Rhein-Siegl Ahrweiler mbH. The generous support for organizing the conference and printing this volume by sfg is gratefully acknowledged. Additional financial and organizational support for separate workshop sessions and publica­ tions have also been provided by the German Federal Ministry for Science and Research, BMBF and Germany's major research funding agency, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Inglés

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