Contents
1. Foreword / Klaus Wiegandt
2. Our planet: how much more can Earth take? / Jill Jäger, Ines Omann, Fritz Hinterberger
3. Climate change: the point of no return / Mojib Latif
4. Our threatened oceans / Stefan Rahmstorf, Katherine Richardson
5. Overcrowded world? The global population and international migration / Rainer Münz, Albert F. Reiterer
6. Feeding the planet: environmental protection through sustainable agriculture / Klaus Hahlbrock, Wolfgang Schuchert
7. The future of the resource water – revisited / Wolfram Mauser
8. They can’t put it back – Resource transition / Friedrich Schmidt-Bleek
9. How can we observe the planetary boundaries? Findings from the research project POLFREE / Bernd Meyer
10. Energy: the world’s race for resources in the twenty-first century / Hermann-Josef Wagner
11. The demise of diversity? / Josef H. Reichholf
12. The new plagues: pandemics and poverty in a globalised world / Stefan H.E. Kaufmann
13. Sustainable world politics / Harald Müller
14. A wake-up call to mobilise civil society / Klaus Wiegandt
Author biographies