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International Seminar on Nuclear War and Planetary Emergencies : 38th session, "E. Majorana" Centre for Scientific Culture, Erice, Italy, 19-24 Aug. 2007 / edited by R. Ragaini.
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- Science and culture series (Singapore). Nuclear strategy and peace technology.
- Science and culture series (Singapore). Nuclear strategy and peace technology
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- English
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- 1 online resource (596 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Erice International Seminars are multidisciplinary seminars attended by over 100 eminent participants from all fields of science. Each year, a few scientific issues are selected and experts are invited to present contrasting views during the plenary multidisciplinary sessions of the seminar, followed by general debates. These sessions offer a unique opportunity for specialists to enlarge their vision of their related fields by being confronted with ideas and suggestions from high-level scientists in complementary domains of science. Associated workshops allow the experts to further refine
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- 1. Opening session. The International Seminars on Planetary Emergencies and associated meetings 38th session / Antonino Zichichi. Combating climate change: land use and biodiversity - Poland's point of view / Jan Szyszko. The role of stratospheric aerosols in antagonizing the global climate change / Yuri A. lzrael. From monitoring of CO[symbol] atmospheric concentrations to monitoring of global climatic change / Mikhail J. Antonovsky. Energy and environment: a challenge for the future / Giuseppe Vatinno. Acceptance of the Gian-Carlo Wick Gold Medal / Andr�e Martin. Meteorology and climate: problems and expectations / Antonino Zichichi
- 2. Energy & climate focus: managing climate change - introduction. Climate, energy and planetary emergency / William A. Sprigs and John S. Perry. Managing climate change / Arthur H. Rosenfeld. Plenary session: policy and potential for energy efficient buildings / Arthur H. Rosenfeld. 3. Energy & climate focus: managing climate change - climatology. Climate change: key conclusions from the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (IPCC-AR4) / Filippo Giorgi. Positive and negative feedbacks - how well are they modelled? / Inez Fung. Tipping points or gradual climate change? / Timothy M. Lenton
- 4. Energy & climate focus: managing climate change - mitigation of greenhouse gases. Climate change responses: mitigation - The IPCC Fourth Assessment Report / Peter Bosch. Energy transitions / lgor Bashmakov. Opportunities in the building sector: managing climate change / Arthur H. Rosenfeld and Patrick McAuliffe. Reducing the growth of motor vehicle CO[symbol] emissions through 2050: efficiency, low-emission fuels and advanced technologies / Carmen Difiglio. BIO-EPOCS Project / Andrea Contin. Cool urban surfaces and global warming / Arthur H. Rosenfeld and Hashem Akbari
- 5. Energy & climate focus: managing climate change - filling the gap: geo-engineering and adaptation. Geo-engineering: a possible insurance policy / Michael C. MacCracken. Climate engineering and planetary emergencies / Ken Caldeira. Adaptation: a natural strategy / William Fulkerson and Thomas J. Wilbanks
- 6. Energy & climate focus: managing climate change - summaries and debate. Summary of sessions 2 to 5 and comments / Richard Garwin
- 7. Missile proliferation and defense focus: U.S. missile defense shield. The 2007 Bush-Putin disagreement - some background on anti ballistic missile defense / Richard Wilson. Ballistic missile defense deployment to Poland and the Czech Republic / Richard L. Ganvin
- 8. Climate focus: theoretical alternatives to climate modeling. Theoretical alternatives to climate modeling: introductory remarks. Model limitations / Graeme L. Stephens. Scientific questions behind the arguments concerning the robustness of climate models / Garth W. Paltridge. A new dynamical mechanism for major climate shifts / Anastasios A. Tsonis
- 9. Global monitoring of the planet focus: the North Pole and life cycle nuclear energy environmental issues. Opening remarks / Arthur Nikolayevich Chilingarov. Understanding energy production environmental externalities a literature review from an engineering perspective / Frank L. Parker. Nuclear energy and radioactive waste disposal in the age of recycling / James L. Conca
- 10. Brain diseases focus: the crisis of losing minds the epidemic of Alzheimer's disease in the 21st century. How the brain changes in Alzheimer's disease / Bemardino Ghetti. Treatment and prevention of Alzheimer's disease: translating basic research findings / Steven T. DeKosky. Biological evidence for an interaction between AD and CVD: overview and 3 hypotheses / Charles DeCarli. The role of epidemiology in understanding Alzheimer's disease: the meaning of "risk" / Mary Ganguli. Alzheimer's disease: genetics to pathogenesis / John Hardy
- 11. Medicine and infectious diseases focus: infectious agents and cancer. Introductory remarks / Guy De Th�e. Introducing infectious agents and cancer session / Franco M. Buonaguro. Epidemiological aspects: worldwide burden size / Robert Newton. Infectious agents and cancer: pathogenesis / John L. Ziegler. Molecular links between inflammation and cancer / Massimo Locati. Cancer vaccines / Marc Girard. Developing countries intervention programs / Jacques-Francois Martin
- 12. WFS general meeting PMP reports - debate and conclusion. Permanent monitoring panel report on information security / Henning Wegener. Permanent monitoring panel on pollution / Lome Everett. Permanent monitoring panel on limits of development / Geraldo G. Serra. AIDS and infectious diseases PMP / Guy De Th�e. Recommendation to governments from the permanent monitoring panel on energy / Arthur H. Rosenfeld. Permanent monitoring panel on climate and greenhouse gases / William A. Sprigg. Mother and child permanent monitoring panel 2006-2007 activities / Nathalie Charpak. Permanent monitoring panel on terrorism / Ahmad Kamal
- 13. Brain and behavior workshop. Workshop agenda. Workshop participants
- 14. Energy-climate workshop. Recommendations. Workshop participants
- 15. Infectious diseases workshop. Workshop agenda. Workshop participants
- 16. Climate modeling workshop. Report on the workshop theoretical alternatives to climate modelling. Workshop paricipants
- 17. Information security workshop. Cyberwar or cyber-terrorism: the attack on Estonia / William A. Barletta. The situation of IT-security - a German perspective / Udo Helmbrecht. Security challenges arising from innovations in information and communication technologies (ICT) / Vladimir Britkov and Axel Lehmann. Workshop participants
- 18. Limits of development workshop. Workshop agenda. Limitations of development: climate change and the impact of rising sea levels on cities in the United States / Jesse D. Saginor and Christopher D. Ellis. Dealing with climate change: the Brazilian case / Geraldo G. Serra. Climate change - consequences for Europe / Hiltmar Schubert. Regional impacts of climate change and variability on West and Central African region / Mbareck Diop. Impact of global climate change over the territory of Argentina / Juan M. Borthagaray. Workshop participants
- 19. Seminar participants.
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- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
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- 9789812834645
- 9812834648
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