Earth System Engineering

It appears as if the Earth System, a most complex system controlled by a concert of physical, chemical, economic, social and even sentimental processes, is drifting away from conditions favourable for humankind to survive. Because being expelled from Earth is not in the interest of mankind, measures are to be taken, to secure our planet's habitability, now and in future. But what are the right decisions and actions to be made - when and where? Decision makers of today carry a tremendous and unprecedented responsibility for mankind on Earth. Science is obliged to make available and understandable the knowledge of the complex nature of the Earth system. Knowledge constitutes the very basis of decision making processes.

To address these issues a workshop will be organised on the 23rd of September at the premises of the Hanns Seidel Foundation in Wildbad-Kreuth to explore knowledge gaps which currently limit our understanding of the complexity of the Earth system, and to explore innovative means of channelling knowledge into the political and economic decision making processes.

Forty distinguished thinkers from all over the world were invited to put their heads together and find overarching answers to the question on how we, as a global society, should react on challenges posed on us by global warming and climate change, growth of urban areas and change of life styles, growing demand and limited supply of resources such as oil, gas, water and sanitation. Beyond that novel methods of knowledge transfer into the heads and minds of people, economic leaders and politicians are to be found so that wisdom does not only take hold in scientific publications but in our everyday decision making processes as well.

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