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... questions . How does the Earth System operate in the absence of significant human influence ? How can human - driven effects be discerned from those due to natural variability ? What are the implications of global change for human well ...
... questions . How does the Earth System operate in the absence of significant human influence ? How can human - driven effects be discerned from those due to natural variability ? What are the implications of global change for human well ...
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... questions should guide this science ? What new research strategies are required to deal with the complex nature of the Earth System ? What tools are needed to do the work ? Questions at the frontier The past decade of global change ...
... questions should guide this science ? What new research strategies are required to deal with the complex nature of the Earth System ? What tools are needed to do the work ? Questions at the frontier The past decade of global change ...
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... Questions 9. What are the principles for constructing " macroscopes " , i.e. , representations of the Earth System that aggregate away the details while retaining all systems - order items ? 10. What levels of complexity and resolution ...
... Questions 9. What are the principles for constructing " macroscopes " , i.e. , representations of the Earth System that aggregate away the details while retaining all systems - order items ? 10. What levels of complexity and resolution ...
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Planetary Machinery | 9 |
Reverberations of Change | 19 |
Towards Earth System Science and Global Sustainability | 32 |
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