Publication Date:
2023-07-18
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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.
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Ernst Th. Rietschel - Foreword page 9Achim Steiner – Foreword page 11Falk Schmidt, Nick Nuttall - Sustainable, Transformative, Democratic: Klaus Töpfer’s Contributions for Transitions Towards Sustainability page 13Paul J. Crutzen - The Anthropocene: When Humankind Overrides Nature page 21Maheswar Rupakheti and Mark Lawrence - From Buddha Air to Dirty Air to Clean Air: The ABCs of South Asia page 29Veerabhadran Ramanathan - The Two Worlds We Inhabit: The Top Four Billion (T4B) and the Bottom Three Billion (B3B) page 41Hans Joachim Schellnhuber - Climate Change, the Monarch Butterfly, and Intergenerational Contracting page 51Reinhard F. Hüttl - Caring for the ‘Skin of the Earth’—Soils as a Critical Component of Global Development page 61Joachim von Braun - Guiding Urban–Rural Linkages Toward Sustainable Development page 75Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker - Klaus Töpfer at 75 page 97Mario Tobias - Translating Knowledge into Action: How Do Innovative Technologies Enable Sustainability? page 103Matthias Kleiner, Caroline A. Lodemann - Science in Democracy—Knowledge Exchange in an Informed Society page 111Carlo Rubbia - Innovative Scientific and Technological Developments for a Coherent Energy Policy page 123Laurence Tubiana, Andreas Rüdinger, Thomas Spencer - Evolution of the Energy Transition in Germany, France, and Europe: A Process in the Making page 127Pekka Haavisto - Global Contract for Sustainability page 141Klaus Milke and Christoph Bals - Acting–Negotiations–Alliances: The ‘Energiewende’ in Germany and its Relevance to the Great Transformation and a Global Contract page 147Karsten Sach - IRENA – A Story of Conviction, Perseverance, and Transformation page 159Manfred Konukiewitz - International Climate Finance for Developing Countries: The Green Climate Fund aims for Transformative Ambition page 173Uwe Schneidewind and Mandy Singer-Brodowski - Enabling the Great Transformation: Transdisciplinarity as Individual and Institutional Challenge page 189Günther Bachmann - Steam Engines, Renewable Energies & Co. page 201Volker Hauff - Governance: The Deficit on the Way to Sustainability page 221WAN Gang - Professor Klaus Töpfer: Promoter of Scientific Cooperation page 233Fengting Li, Jiang Wu, Dahe Jiang,Dong Li, and Sun Jie - Professor Klaus Töpfer: Leading the Way to a Sustainable Future page 237Juan Mayr Maldonado - Klaus Töpfer: A Visionary Leader, Charismatic, and Humanist page 243Massoumeh Ebtekar - Klaus Töpfer: A Pioneer for the Environmental Dimension of Dialogue among Civilizations page 253James Gustave Speth - New Economy Transformation: The Eight-fold Way page 257Timothy E. Wirth - Klaus Töpfer at 75: Remarks of the Honoroble Timothy E. Wirth page 263Ralf Fücks - End or Beginning? page 271Angelika Zahrnt - On the Recapturing of Alternatives page 275Claus Leggewie - Transnational Citizenship. Ideals and European Citizenship: Legal and Cultural Dimensions page 285Ulrich Beck - Transformations of the Social and Political: Beyond Methodological Nationalism page 297Authors page 309
Language:
English
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info:eu-repo/semantics/book
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