Dynamics of Multiscale Earth Systems PDF

In many aspects science becomes conducted nowadays through technology and preferential criteria of economy.

Thus investigation and knowledge is evidently linked to a speci?c purpose.

Especially Earth science is confronted with two major human perspectives concerning our natural environment:sustainability of resources and assessment of risks.

Both aspects are expressing urgent needs of the living society, but in the same way those needs are addressing a long lasting fundamental challenge which has so far not been met.

Following on the patterns of economy and technology, the key is presumed to be found through a devel- mentoffeasibleconceptsforamanagement ofbothournaturalenvironmentand in one or the other way the realm of life.

Although new techniques for obser- tion and analysis led to an increase of rather speci?c knowledge about particular phenomena, yet we fail now even more frequently to avoid unforeseen impli- tions and sudden changes of a situation.

Obviously the improved technological tools and the assigned expectations on a management of nature still exceed our traditional scienti?c experience and accumulated competence.

Earth- and Life- Sciences are nowadays exceedingly faced with the puzzling nature of an almost boundless network of relations, i. e. , the complexity of phenomena with respect to their variability.

The disciplinary notations and their particular approaches arethusnolongeraccountingsu?cientlyfortherecordedcontextofphenomena, for their permanent variability and their unpredictable implications.

The large environmental changes of glacial climatic cycles, for instance, demonstrate this complexity of such a typical phenomenology.