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All of you have to attend the lecture (Tuesday, 11-13) and one seminar (Tuesday, 9-11)
The lecture series „Earth as a Complex System“ (Tuesday, 11-13) given by Wolfgang Lucht teaches on the following topics:
- Complexity and nonlinearity in the earth system (comprised of both natural and human systems) with relevance for the Anthropocene
- Insights into Earth system dynamics from earth history, i.a. geo-cybernetic feedbacks, destabilisation events, major system transitions, tipping points, evolutionary dynamics
- Analysis of the Anthropocene: human-environment co-evolution, earth system analysis, socio-ecological metabolism, planetary boundaries and their implications, sustainability science, control theory, sustainability governance, World-Earth modelling
There are two alternative accompanying parallel seminars on Tuesday, 9-11, by Dieter Gerten with a focus on the water cycle and land surface, and by Christoph Schneider with a focus on climate change and climate-system feedbacks and impacts. Within these seminars students present (ca. 30 min.) a selected topic.
Topics in either seminar are for example:
Water and land surface:
- Global water cycle and human impacts on it
- Interaction of vegetation and water
- Planetary boundaries of water and land use
- Water management, water culture, water ethics
- Global water cycle in the Anthropocene
- Safe operating space and planetary boundaries
- Planetary boundary for human freshwater use
- Global water saving opportunities
- Water conflicts
- Elements of a new water ethic
- Water and religion
Climate change and climate-system feedbacks and impacts
- Stability and variability of the Indian Monsoon System
- Sea level variability in past and future
- West Antarctic and Greenland Icesheets: before or beyond their points of no return?
- Urban climates and heat stress
- Air pollution and public health in metropolitan areas
- Climate hazards: extreme events in the atmosphere
- Effects of land use changes in the global climate system
- Downscaling and digging through the cascade of uncertainty in climate and climate impact modelling
- The UN Sustainable Development Goals and global climate policy
- Interference of climate and the energy sector
- Teleconnections in the climate system
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