Averting Disaster: Science for Peace in a Perilous Age : the Erice International Seminars on Nuclear War and Planetary Emergencies, from 1981 to 2008 - Couverture souple

 
9789814289405: Averting Disaster: Science for Peace in a Perilous Age : the Erice International Seminars on Nuclear War and Planetary Emergencies, from 1981 to 2008
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 981428940X ISBN 13 : 9789814289405
Editeur : World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, 2009

Synopsis

This is a book of testimonials from participants to the famous Erice International Seminars on Nuclear War and Planetary Emergencies. The Erice International Seminars with their multidisciplinary scientific audiences have addressed, since 1981, a long list of planetary problems and emergencies. This book describes one of the most exciting intellectual and political ventures of the later part of the 20th century, of the decades of the Cold War, a period of bristling East-West tension with the omnipresent possibility that its management might get out of hand, and a war of unimaginable proportion and potential damage eruption. The Erice International Seminars held in an idyllic setting of a small location in Western Sicily were the attempt to stem these perilous tides, and to put science at the service of political problem-solving in a new, open and interdisciplinary approach aimed, at the highest scientific level. Thousands of top-level scientists, the best in their respective fields, among them many Nobel Prize laureates, have participated in the Seminars and their interdisciplinary working groups as well as the Permanent Monitoring Panels, and have helped to generate a steady and influential flow of scientific insight. United in their work in a unique community of knowledge, wisdom and shared values, these eminent scientists testify, today, the importance and the impact of the Erice International Seminars during the last 28 years.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This is a book of testimonials from participants to the famous Erice International Seminars on Nuclear War and Planetary Emergencies. The Erice International Seminars with their multidisciplinary scientific audiences have addressed, since 1981, a long list of planetary problems and emergencies. This book describes one of the most exciting intellectual and political ventures of the later part of the 20th century, of the decades of the Cold War, a period of bristling East-West tension with the omnipresent possibility that its management might get out of hand, and a war of unimaginable proportion and potential damage eruption. The Erice International Seminars held in an idyllic setting of a small location in Western Sicily were the attempt to stem these perilous tides, and to put science at the service of political problem-solving in a new, open and interdisciplinary approach aimed, at the highest scientific level. Thousands of top-level scientists, the best in their respective fields, among them many Nobel Prize laureates, have participated in the Seminars and their interdisciplinary working groups as well as the Permanent Monitoring Panels, and have helped to generate a steady and influential flow of scientific insight. United in their work in a unique community of knowledge, wisdom and shared values, these eminent scientists testify, today, the importance and the impact of the Erice International Seminars during the last 28 years.

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Éditeur
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
981428940X
ISBN 13 
9789814289405
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
212
Éditeur
Barletta William A, Wegener Henning
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