Festschrift zum 75. Geburtstag von Klaus Töpfer
In Dialogue with Klaus Töpfer
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Falk Schmidt (Hg.), Nick Nuttall (Hg.), Festschrift zum 75. Geburtstag von Klaus Töpfer (2014), oekom verlag, München, ISBN: 9783865816016
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Beschreibung / Abstract
Klaus Töpfer, Executive Director of the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) in Potsdam, former UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme as well as Minister for the Environment in Germany, turned 75 in 2013. His outstanding achievements inspired us to assemble this volume. Klaus Töpfer has been at the forefront of sustainability efforts for several decades, with a long track record of turning vision into reality, and a firm conviction that knowledge can be a crucial building block for transitions towards sustainability.
Our world is shaped, more than ever before, by human activities. The scope of technology, to systemically alter nature in ways impossible for previous generations to comprehend, requests and requires a new relationship with »planet Earth.« Such a relationship may speak, in the end, not just of profit and loss but also of a new meaning of wealth, including a sense of ethics, stewardship, and responsibility. For the time being, it seems paramount to face these new challenges, striving for new ways of understanding and, subsequently, new modes of response.
Our world is shaped, more than ever before, by human activities. The scope of technology, to systemically alter nature in ways impossible for previous generations to comprehend, requests and requires a new relationship with »planet Earth.« Such a relationship may speak, in the end, not just of profit and loss but also of a new meaning of wealth, including a sense of ethics, stewardship, and responsibility. For the time being, it seems paramount to face these new challenges, striving for new ways of understanding and, subsequently, new modes of response.
Beschreibung
Falk Schmidt is the Personal Assistant to Klaus Töpfer at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), in Potsdam. He has worked at the interface of science and policy for the past decade.
Nick Nuttall is currently Director of Communications at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, in Bonn. He was Klaus Töpfer's spokesperson and speechwriter at the UN Environment Programme from 2001 to 2006.
Nick Nuttall is currently Director of Communications at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, in Bonn. He was Klaus Töpfer's spokesperson and speechwriter at the UN Environment Programme from 2001 to 2006.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE WORLD
- Contents
- Ernst Th. Rietschel: Foreword
- Achim Steiner: Foreword
- Falk Schmidt, Nick Nuttall: Sustainable, Transformative, Democratic: Klaus Töpfer†™s Contributions for Transitions Towards Sustainability
- Governing Sustainability
- Paul J. Crutzen: The Anthropocene: When Humankind Overrides Nature – Atmospheric Chemistry, Biosphere, Climate in the Anthropocene
- Maheswar Rupakheti and Mark Lawrence: From Buddha Air to Dirty Air to Clean Air: The ABCs of South Asia
- Veerabhadran Ramanathan: The Two Worlds We Inhabit: The Top Four Billion (T4B) and the Bottom Three Billion (B3B)
- Hans Joachim Schellnhuber: Climate Change, the Monarch Butterfly, and Intergenerational Contracting
- Reinhard F. Hüttl: Caring for the "Skin of the Earth" †”Soils as a Critical Component of Global Development
- Joachim von Braun: Guiding Urban–Rural Linkages Toward Sustainable Development
- Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker: Klaus Töpfer at 75
- Mario Tobias: Translating Knowledge into Action: How Do Innovative Technologies Enable Sustainability?
- Matthias Kleiner, Caroline A. Lodemann: Science in Democracy†”Knowledge Exchange in an Informed Society
- Initiating Transitions
- Carlo Rubbia: Innovative Scientific and Technological Developments for a Coherent Energy Policy
- Laurence Tubiana, Andreas Rüdinger, Thomas Spencer: Evolution of the Energy Transition in Germany, France, and Europe: A Process in the Making
- Pekka Haavisto: Global Contract for Sustainability
- Klaus Milke and Christoph Bals: Acting–Negotiations–Alliances: The "Energiewende" in Germany and its Relevance to the Great Transformation and a Global Contract
- Karsten Sach: IRENA A Story of Conviction, Perseverance, and Transformation
- Manfred Konukiewitz: International Climate Finance for Developing Countries: The Green Climate Fund aims for Transformative Ambition
- Uwe Schneidewind and Mandy Singer-Brodowski: Enabling the Great Transformation: Transdisciplinarity as Individual and Institutional Challenge
- Günther Bachmann: Steam Engines, Renewable Energies & Co.
- Volker Hauff: Governance: The Deficit on the Way to Sustainability
- Addressing Diversity
- WAN Gang: Professor Klaus Töpfer: Promoter of Scientific Cooperation
- Fengting Li, Jiang Wu, Dahe Jiang, Dong Li, and Sun Jie: Professor Klaus Töpfer: Leading the Way to a Sustainable Future
- Juan Mayr Maldonado: Klaus Töpfer: A Visionary Leader, Charismatic, and Humanist
- Massoumeh Ebtekar: Klaus Töpfer: A Pioneer for the Environmental Dimension of Dialogue among Civilizations
- James Gustave Speth: New Economy Transformation: The Eight-fold Way
- Timothy E. Wirth: Klaus Töpfer at 75: Remarks of the Honoroble Timothy E. Wirth
- Ralf Fücks: End or Beginning?
- Angelika Zahrnt: On the Recapturing of Alternatives
- Claus Leggewie: Transnational Citizenship. Ideals and European Realities
- Ulrich Beck: Transformations of the Social and Political: Beyond Methodological Nationalism
- Authors